December Update from Dan Giles Jr.

Hello friends and family,

Thank you so much for your prayer support. We really appreciate you!!!

About a month ago we were thinking that it was time to go back to the United States and start again with our life. We wanted to provide some stability for our two daughters. At the same time we received a called from Pastor Todd Shierkolk to stay and help with the youth. After praying for a long time we felt God's direction to stay and serve the Lord here in Jerez.

We agreed to stay for another two years. Please pray that the Lord will use us in those two years. We have many ideas of things we would like to do.

We want to start a young mom's ministry, Vacation Bible School in the summer and one night of prayer and worship in the church during the week.

Since we are staying for two more years, we need our own place to live. We have been living with Dan and Debbie because we never thought that we were going to stay more than a few months, but since we are staying, we would need our own place. That means that we have to start all over again, but we trust that God will provide everything that we need. We would like to be able to bring our things here since most of our belongings are in Wisconsin, so please pray that God would provide our financial needs.

Prayer requests:

• That God would provide all of our financial needs according to His will.
• A home for our family.
• That we can bring our things to Jerez.
• That God will use us these two years.
• Health and happiness for our family.

Praises:

• A young lady from the church (Nena) repented from living in sin with a man, and came back to Christ and to the church. Pray for her faith and her 4 children.
• Abril and Cesar (a young couple from our church) are growing spiritually greatly. Cesar is encouraging the family every day to read the Bible and pray.
• Bety (a young mom from the church) is really opening up to the Lord and to us, for the first time ever in 5 years.
• Almost the whole youth group comes on Sundays to church. Before they weren't even allowed to come to the youth group, and now they come to everything. The youth group now is in charge of cleaning the church every Saturday. We are so exited to see them grow. Praise the Lord.

We believe that we will soon have a revival in the church, and that God is about to save more people in Jerez. Please pray that we can listen to God's voice when He talks to us.

Thank you so much for your prayer support.

In Him,

Dan, Marcela, Ari, and Andy Giles
P.S. See more updates at gilesupdate.blogspot.com