20/02/2025
SHARING A SPECIAL NEED
Our ministry as a local church
Let me give you some background. DM2 ministries (Disciple making ministries) operates for several years in the US and Canada. One of their missionaries, John Wry and his family, came down to Bolivia in 2022 to start a discipleship training Center here in Cochabamba. One of our church members, now a pastor, was a student there in 2022. That is how we got to know this ministry. In 2023, our local church "Yo Soy" started running the first year of the CC3D (Training Center to disciple, develop and disperse). There were 10 students that year. Last year (2024) was the second year in which our local church Yo Soy is running this program. There were 17 students. This year, 2025, we have 6 students at the moment and are expecting to have more joining us before the end of February.
We have been truly blessed! It has been through the deep study of Scriptures, from Genesis to Revelation, verse by verse, that we have been discipled these past few years, getting to know the sufficiency of the work of Christ in the Cross and getting to know Him. The power of Christ enough for our salvation (justification) and enough for how we live our Christian lives once saved (santification). Realizing how much we have been given in Christ and the riches of His grace, we have experienced so many spiritual blessings as we have learned, and keep learning, to walk by faith. We rejoice to be part of this ministry as a local church and to witness other believers become disciples, and get fully trained to disciple others as well. We firmly believe God is building His church through discipleship. Therefore, we are just instruments in His hands. It is all by grace.
Sadly, we don't have a place of our own yet. So, we rent a place where students can live and study. They study from 8 am to 5 pm, Monday to Friday from February to October. Then, during November, they visit some churches in the country to share some of what they have been learning. They usually graduate last week of November. This year, we found a great house to rent, and we will be having our church services and activities there as well. The teachers (our pastors and full time missionaries) don't get paid for this ministry. Therefore, students pay only to cover for their main needs: food, book, Wifi,etc.
We want to raise support to cover this year's house rent in order to reduce students' payments, and also to be able to serve more effectively without having to worry month after month how to make ends meet.
Would you like to be a part of God's work through this ministry and help us raise this support? It would make a huge difference and we would be eternally thankful.
If so, you can make any donations through Kate Finnamore Leffew using Venmo, Zelle or PayPal. Kate is coming down to Bolivia in 2 weeks and will be able to bring down the money collected until then.
Thank you very much in advance!