Prayers Answered!
Greetings! I realize that we have not done much blogging in many months, but we have some wonderful news of advancement on both ministries that we supervise: Church planting in the Amazon of Peru and New Life Children’s Home Ministries. We started more than 30 years ago evangelizing and planting churches along the Amazon and tributaries of that very unreached area of Peru. We were able to establish many young leaders to begin a small group in their villages and leadership in the home church in Iquitos, that was implemented with a simple training system to support these leaders and monitor their progress.
In about 2006, Annette’s parents were ready to retire from the orphanage that they had established near Tegucigalpa, Honduras. They began their ministry after retirement age, and at 80 years old, they began calling on us to take over for them. After a 5 year process, we visited the orphanage and spent much time praying about whether we should take on that ministry. Even though we were still in charge of the river ministry, we began a 3 year agenda of establishing some important things with the leaders in Peru. Finally, we moved to Honduras in September 2011 to take over completely the ministries of New Life in Honduras.
After a very rich, eventful and very challenging ten years in Honduras, we were able to restructure many things, such as establish the children and youth, developing our staff and administration and much rebuilding of facilities and programs. During the 14 years that we directed the Children’s Home, we went back to Peru a minimum of once a year for a week or more to hold our annual conferences upriver in Santa Clotilde and back in Iquitos, to teach and encourage the leaders and believers. During those years, we established a training system for the city and river leaders which provided Biblical teaching, and gave them materials to use for teaching their church groups.
After restructuring the Christian School and other things at New Life in Honduras, like hiring and training our present administrators, Martin and Dulce, we began to seriously ask God for someone to come onboard to help us with fund raising and administrative responsibilities. Someone who would eventually take most of the load to allow us to dedicate more time to our ministry in Peru that needed taking to the next level.
We praise the Lord that He has heard our prayers and sent us Rosemarie Korthos, a longtime friend and minister, together with her son Aaron and his wife, Sabrina, to join us. Rosie is now accepted by the board and assumes the role of “MISSIONARY ASSISTANT DIRECTOR” to help us and be trained in the particulars of the work in Honduras. We are SUPER excited to have her on board! We’re in the process of familiarization with the cultural and local ministerial issues that can help her greatly in the future! We’re also very blessed with her son and daughter-in-law who will eventually be part of the team. She is already a great asset to the New Life ministry helping with accounting, communications and sponsorship.
Meanwhile, back in Peru this year, we have been able to spend more time working on taking things with the river ministry to another level. For all these years of supporting and training our church leaders along the rivers, our influence has been almost exclusively through the visits that we could make to see them in their villages, and their travels to the conferences to be trained and have fellowship. Little by little, and sporadically, we had cellphone contact, sat-phone sometimes, and more recently some internet connection, but not conducive to a good DISCIPLING process. So this conference in January 2026, in Santa Clotilde, we were able to connect most of our ZONE LEADERS to internet, WhatsApp and Google Classroom because of the advancement of Starlink satelite internet that has become prevalent in Peru in the remote areas. This is HUGE ADVANCEMENT and things are accelerating with the next level of discipleship to the other villages with each Zone leader. We expect to advance quickly as we get more people connected to the internet training and discipleship. We also have a good friend and co-minister working with us in discipleship and training in this internet world. We Praise our Wonderfull Lord for these advancements and THANK ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND SUPPORT!
updating bible schools
So things change and get rearranged. Sometimes we move forward or think that we are, only to find out that sometimes we have to return to the basics and/or other options. So goes the Bible Training that we are working towards getting to all the churches that we have raised up and are working with. Here are some updates with regards to bible training…
In June 2023, AFCMITC/IVBC planted in Cuzco, Peru with Willy and Jessica Mont’s Ministry in the mountains of Peru. We are excited that they are beginning to study using the video materials that we have from AFCM and some courses from Victory Church in Tulsa. We have an agreement with Victory and AFCM to use these great material especially because they are ready to go in Spanish.
AFCMITC/IVBC is funcioning at a church “Discipulos de Cristo” with AFCM members Ronal and Maggie in Huancayo, Peru also in the mountains. They been advancing through the curses that I (Ron) sent them a couple of years ago.
I am still working with Pastor Omar from Limon, Costa Rica, as he is planning his Bible Training for his people who are both Spanish and English speakers. This is slowly moving along but nothing sure yet as his requirements are varied and complicated.
Unfortunately, we have not had great success with the Smart TV’s we handed out to 16 village churches along the Amazon and Tributaries. Many of the TV’s have been ruined with the poor electricity, humidity, constant moving of the equipment and other reasons. It hurts my heart to know of that investment not working well, partly because it is VERY hard to get the locals to be faithful to scheduled meetings to do the Bible School. They often need to go fishing, hunting or some other way to live or support their families. In Cuzco, Pastor Willy Mont is doing the ITC individually as they have time, but the advantage there is that they all have power and computers. SOOOOOOOO…..
We are using small booklets that we call “Extension Bible School” comprised of simple teachings filled with scriptures and explanations that the leaders of each village can study and meditate on, and later be teaching to the group of believers that attend their meetings in each village. Some of the titles that we are using so far are: The Happy Family, The Holy Spirit, Foundations of the Faith, Dominion of the Believer, This New Life, Time With God, and many other titles that we are working on to get them a well rounded Biblical Foundation. Our NEED RIGHT NOW is funding to enable our leaders in Peru to get these materials reproduced and out to each of the churches. If you would like to help financially, please use the ‘partner with us‘ button to donate and earmark it FOR JUNGLE BIBLE MATERIALS. Thank you!
Amazing Things Happening
IQUITOS FAMILY REUNION
Pastors Dana Nile and Bernie Samples will be joining us the second week of March for our annual Family Reunion in Iquitos, Peru. We are expecting around 50 river and city leaders to join us for New Vision for 2020. We will keep you updated on the meetings and results as we get closer to the date. Please pray for this event and for total provision to cover expenses of feeding the leaders for 4 days during the conference.
RIVER SEMINAR REPORTS
Pastor Warring has taken two trips on the river this year to encourage the churches and hold Word Seminars. Here are some results of the last trip:
Santa Cruz, Napo River
75 people accepted Christ
20 were water baptized
San Isidro, lower Amazon River
18 Received Christ
13 we’re reconciled back to Christ
6 evident healings
ITC SPANISH BIBLE SCHOOLS
We´re excited to announce that we have funds to start 10 new Bible Schools. This will be our main goal while in Peru this time. A huge Thank you to Pastor Mark and Brenda Thomas for purchasing 5 of these Bible Schools!! We will announce each Bible school as they are purchased and installed. Please pray that all of the equipment will be available to purchase at the original price we estimated and that set up in each village be done effectively.
We thank God upon every remembrance of you in our prayers!!
Reaching the nations for Christ!
Ron and Annette Thiesen
