Dear Family & Friends,
Greetings to you in the love of Jesus Lord! We pray that this letter find you blessed and prospering: spirit, soul, & body for the glory of Jesus!
It never ceases to amaze us how the Lord brings specific individuals to the Point of Blessings Rehab in Punitáqui during this construction time. Our new groundskeeper is Percy, Sis Eliana’s only sibling. A few years back, he was shot and nearly died. During that time, Percy surrendered his life to Jesus & changes began taking place. But later when he returned to work in the grape fields, the temptation of both alcohol and drugs was too much. Not too long ago, he went with his nephew to the Rehab to spend a few days, and there the presence of the Lord overwhelmed him. He is now working at the Rehab and day-by-day his life is changing as he is being restored.
Isidro & his family live upstairs at the Lily of Ovalle Church. Though both a good & a godly man, but Isidro struggled to find permanent work to supply for his family’s needs. For years he worked in agriculture, but being such a good-hearted person, supervisors would take advantage of him, working him long & hard, but undercutting his pay. Out of desperation, he left his family without money to travel out of town to find work. He found good job, but 14 hrs away by bus, that required him to be absent from his family for 3 wks, as well as away from spiritual responsibilities. He prayed & asked the Lord: If another door of employment would not open by a certain day, he would accept the out-of-town job as God’s will for him & his family. Immediately a stable job opened in Ovalle allowed him time to be home & also minister the Word.
Two months later, with gratitude of heart, Isidro sowed a financial seed, above and beyond his normal tithe. The following month, he received an unexpected check from someone in his past for the exact amount of his gratitude offering.
The viña cell group that he and his wife oversee had been praying for the salvation of Erica. One day before arriving to visit her, Isidro asked the Lord to give him the precise words that would penetrate her hard heart. When he & his wife arrived, she was not receptive until Isidro began speaking about how the Lord healed a woman with an issue of blood for 12 yrs. She began crying: she also had been sick with the same disease for 6 months. As they prayed for her, Erica surrendered her life to Jesus. She has recently started coming to church, and is a totally different person!
Thank you for standing with us in this ministry for you are a very important instrument in this work. Your faithful prayers, financial gifts, and words of love & encouragement to us have been a vital source of strength to us & this work. We pray God’s best over you and your family in Jesus’ Name!
In His vineyard together for His honor & glory,
Sid & Kathy Luke