WAKETHESILENCE in Guatemala!

Biltmore Baptist Church has a sister church in Guatemala that they send mission groups to several times a year. Pastor Misael, the senior pastor of this church, sent a request to WAKETHESILENCE Ministries in February.

It is a privilege to write to you all and be able to great you from the bottom of my heart. In God, we share the same faith, communion, fellowship, vision and mission. So, all together we honor his holy name. I worked in the Facultad Teológico Evangélica in the area of music, teaching music on weekends with the vision of honoring our Lord in a great way. This year, we have 46 students already registered in four different areas including Comitancillo, Sipacapa, San Miguel and Ixtaguacan. By doing all these, it has encouraged me to prepare more in music. This year, I started to study in the evangelical conservatory NEW SONG in Guatemala city. They are the only ones that offered me this option to study one weekend every month. Normally it would be every weekend. So, I travel once a month to study 4 hours to the city. It is also urgent to have my driver’s license, type "C", so I can drive to teach classes once a week in each of these communities already mentioned. All these seem to me difficult to achieve, but I am convinced, I know, that with your prayers our God will provide this resources to achieve my goals.

Thank you so much and may God bless you.

Misael Salvador Crisóstomo

We were so excited to help Pastor Misael, and we were able to provide the money for his classes and for his driver's license. We hope to keep you updated on how the classes are going for him and what he is learning. In March, a team from Biltmore Baptist went to Guatemala to help with needs there. Sam McLamb, a WAKETHESILENCE board member and Single Adult Pastor at Biltmore, was able to present the money to Pastor Misael from our ministry. Before the team left for this mission trip, Sam received a request from Pastor Misael's church for guitar strings. These strings were donated to WAKETHESILENCE Ministries, so they were able to present these also! Here are a few pictures for you to enjoy!

Biltmore Baptist's sister church in Guatemala

Worshiping our Lord!

Sam McLamb and Pastor Misael

Pastor Pier and Pastor Misael

Thank you for your continued prayers for WAKETHESILENCE Ministries as we see God working in wonderful and amazing ways!!

Update

I am sorry it has been so long since we have updated this blog, but we have been very busy trying to get the ministry up and running! I am happy to report that we are now incorporated, and we have our application in to the IRS for tax-exempt status approval. We are praying that it is approved quickly! We wanted to tell you about some people that we have been able to help through WAKETHESILENCE Ministries. Our good friends and missionaries in Southeast Asia expressed a need for an electric acoustic guitar and a sound system. They needed this to expand their worship ministry in and around the area they are living. They have been using music to minister to the people in the community, and this has been such a powerful tool. Yet, their sound only reaches so far, and many people are missing out. With this new equipment they have the capability to reach the ears of more people, attracting them to the gospel. Fortunately, a guitar was donated, and a portable sound system was purchased for these missionaries! See their picture below....


Prayer Points:

• Please pray that our application moves at warp speed through the IRS channels. :)
• Please pray that people are moved to give instruments, equipment and/or monetary donations to WAKETHESILENCE Ministries.
• Please pray for those receiving these donations...that they will be blessed beyond measure, and that as a result of their time of worshiping through music that many people will be drawn to our Lord Jesus.
  
• And last (but DEFINITELY not least), please pray that we seek His face in every decision that is made within this ministry...and that we will never stray from His perfect will.

Thank you!!!!!