21st Century Nicodemus

Dear ones, I am glad to share with you about Manuel, and I am so thankful to our God for the grace showed to him from heaven. Arriving to the next-to-the-last chapter of the book ("The Stranger"), Manuel closed it and looked into my eyes and he told me with tears in his eyes: “Pastor, I can’t wait until the end of the book to tell you that I am a new man. I do really confess Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour. I now understand that He is the only way to God and Heaven.” Then he prayed alone in his own words, giving thanks to God for salvation through Jesus Christ.
I have to confess that in our 16 years in Uruguay, and maybe in our whole ministry, this is the first conversion of that kind: Seeing an old man (77) coming to Jesus in such a way. Like a little boy.
Since then, Manuel has greatly changed. His wife called me to tell me about that. Life at home changed 100%. Not only that; Manuel wants to come to enjoy each Lord’s day and also talked about being baptized!
He began to read his Bible and he began to understand what he must do as a new believer.
I want to give the glory to our God and also want to give thanks to everyone who has been praying for Manuel.
Now, Manuel thinks that his wife (Dora) is not ready for heaven although she’s the one who was coming to church! So, please, pray as Manuel wants to begin reading "The Stranger" to her in the following days.
May God receive all the glory for His work and for His wonderful salvation.

Some News for October

We appreciate your prayers for:
1. A new Bible Study with the Stranger that I began yesterday (October 11th) with the Padron family
2. My wife and one of the ladies of the church are going every Tuesday to discipleship a lady (Griselda) who needs your prayers because she has an unsaved husband who is doing her life an impossible one.
3. Pray for a young lady who has been left by her husband and is suffering a lot because of that situation. Her name is Marina.
4. Pray for our church, we are giving steps in order to have a new pastor.

The Stranger with the Finozzi family

I am also doing The Stranger with the Finozzi family. They are very excited about the study. Pray that the Lord would confirm in them His work. They assume that they know Christ, but I pray that they would see this in the following weeks as we move forward with the Bible Study.

The Stranger with Manuel

As I posted the other day, I am visiting some people that are not coming to church but are opening their houses to recieve this wonderful evangelistc-discipleship book.
This is Manuel. He's 77 years old and I began to visit him one month and a half ago. Manuel could be my father, because of his age. My father, who is now with the Lord would have Manuel's age. So we have a good relationship. Manuel wanted to know about the Bible before he die. He found The Stranger a wonderful book to know more about the Bible. When we arrived at the story of the sin of Adam and Eve, Manuel wept as he understood about the real cause of the problems of the world and his own life. I visit Manuel twice a week. Pray for him.

The Stranger

Two years ago, I recieved a training on the book called "The Stranger" from a dear couple and friends that are ministering in Ontario, Canada. They sent to us 10 copies of this wonderful book (www.goodseed.com) to be used with different people. Well, now I began as my friend Colby did (see The Holmes Site in the links), with some new Bible Studies (3 in total) with about 8 people. This post is for you to know about it. You will have some pictures of the Bible Studies soon.

Everybody's wondering?

Maybe. What is happening with thedaglios.com? Well, nothing special at all. Just a lack of perseverance. Thanks God, He is not like us!
Since our last post, nothing happened with Luis Miguel. I kept on visiting him but, to my surprise, he began to go to a former pentecostal church. So, that was a sad new for us and I stop visiting him. That is the true. I know he is now working in several places trying to recover lost time. I am not saying that I am not going to see him anymore, but for now, I am waiting to see what is going to happen.
Thats all for now regarding Luis Miguel.

Update - Luis Miguel

Today I brought Luis Miguel to his house. He's happy to be there again. As you can see in the picture, he and his family live in very poor conditions. We pray that God would open their hearts to the Gospel and that all the kindness shown toward them would turn into glory to our God if they find mercy in His sight. Continue to pray for them, especially for Luis Miguel's recovery and for the future time when we will be ministering to him and his family while taking him to the hospital for post-surgery care.