Dear brethren in Christ,

May the Lord of all Love and Consolation be with you all.   We have experienced so many natural disasters in Mexico that all seems unbelievable and apocalyptic.  My family and I had visited some of those areas where disasters have occurred in Mexico.  Desolation and death prevails now in these areas.  There is no doubt that the Lord is coming soon!

The fact that I am involved in the ministry means heavy loads of work and being busy all the time.  Evangelism has been our mainly focus lately.  Also, we have been very busy with the teaching and preaching.  Besides, I have been involved in helping the sick and needy.  There have been days in which I do not eat all day but until night, and only supper.  However, this morning, I was able to have breakfast.  I had two quesadillas, one made with picadillo and the other one with squash flowers.  But, this evening, at 7:00, on my way to my office from a work meeting down town Mexico City, I started feeling weak, riding the subway.  I felt so thirsty that I decided to get off.  I went to a little restaurant and had dinner.  Afterwards, I felt relieved and strong again.  Now, I am writing this report.

During October we had 28 baptisms.  Most of these people are young, in between 17 and 32 years old.  Most of them decided to get baptized after finishing our lesson entitled “The Beginning of the Spiritual Life.”  This study deals with baptism.  Also, as a result of handing out a tract entitled “How to Heal a Sick Heart”, we had 2,070 new students enroll in our Bible Correspondence Courses.  The quantity of tracts we handed on the streets were 10,000.  It was a lot of work, but the results are so great!

Our brethren and Bible Students in the States of Tabasco, Chiapas, Veracruz, and Oaxaca have suffered many loses due to the heavy rains.  They lost almost everything.  They lost their crops, cattle, homes, and all.  People are still living on their roofs, with relatives, in shelters, and some have moved out.  We have received phone calls every day requesting prayers to heal their sadness, pain, lost, and so on.  Some have not eaten for a whole week already.  It is painful to hear them so desperate and in great need.  I am encouraging our brethren to help at this time of need.  It is so great to see our brethren helping.  Most of our brethren suffering will have to start from nothing again.  Please pray a lot for them!

Due to the material lost, many stopped to think on their lives.  At the Jail in Teziutlán, State of Puebla, they are requesting 270 Bible Courses for the inmates.  They are requesting our prayers, as they are terrified by so much pain and sadness from the people who lost everything.  Now, the inmates are considering their own standing before the Lord.

Just recently, we noticed that our Bible Lessons were deleted from our web page.  The thousands of students we have on the internet started calling us asking for the courses.  Some one, who did not like our courses, went in and deleted them all.  We thank the Lord that Alejandro González up loaded them again.  Many times we had our course on baptism deleted before, but this time some one deleted all of our lessons.

I am so glad and grateful to Southeast Christian Church at Parker, Colorado, as they are donating the money needed for our first Christian Camp in Cuba.  I have shared the good news with our brethren in Cuba already.  They responded with great joy and tears of happiness.  They are so happy and will experience the meeting of many Christians in one place at the same time.  They thank you and send their warm tropical love and greetings.  They are also praying for you all!

With all of my heart, I thank you for your thoughts and prayers on our behalf.  God bless you for your efforts in helping us spread the Gospel all over.

IMMERSIONS. I had two meetings (on 18.10.2007 and 20.10.2007) in Simferopol (Crimea, Ukraine) with E. Filipyeva - the chairwoman of the "Aibolit" charity foundation to work with the convicts, prisoners, etc. She had a problem in her work, saying that she and her co-workers did not feel the Spiritual basis for their work. I explained to her, that "other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ" (1 Cor., 3:11); and that to be also in His resurrection one must be immersed into His death (Rom., 6:3-5). Thus, it is necessary to preach Christ to the people, whom "Aibolit" is working with and to immerse them. The Lord Jesus has given Filipyeva and her co-workers the wisdom to understand the significance of the immersion. During our last meeting she informed me, that "Aibolit" had begun the immersions: a medical doctor to serve in the prison camp near Kerch had been immersed into the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit by the "Aibolit" ministers.