Update June 26

Greetings and Blessings in Jesus.

"For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." Psalm 84.11

This has been a rather "ordinary" week. The regular meetings and activities and services. We did have people come to the Lord at Angulo, Tepic and in some of the cells and missions. We are using Bible storytelling in our smaller meetings - missions and cells. It has proven very effective. And people are responding. Some of those who made decisions made them as the result of hearing a Bible story.

Linda is better. She had several visitors this past week. She hasn't been up to that before now! She's feeling better and looking better - but still has a way to go to "normal." Than you so much for your prayers for her.

Our Tapatio Center pastor, Miguel Espidio has 4 cell groups in a far corner of Guadalajara. One of the cell leaders donated a lot and another new sister is selling the lot next to that one for $3000 (which has been paid already.) The third lot is for the regular price of $9000 USD. These lots are 25' by 65'. The three together are enough for our next church building. Your prayers are appreciated for the supply of the $9,000 still needed.

The Puerto Vallarta Center is celebrating their 6th anniversary this Sunday. Next Sunday the Angulo Center here in Guadalajara (mother church) will celebrate 37 years! More about that next time.

Thank you for your prayers and encouraging messages. What a blessing you are to us here.

Have a wonderful and exciting day in Father's House wherever you are tomorrow.

In Him,
Roger & Linda

Update June 19

Greetings and Grace blessings in Jesus.

"The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands." Ps 138.8

Linda is slightly better. We claimed the above verse for her total healing as we had devotions together this morning. Thank you for prayers. Please don't quit.

Three people came to the Lord in Angulo last Sunday. I don't have the other reports yet.

Happy Father's day all you fathers. God bless you!

I am sending along part 5 of the San Isidro story. I have been encouraged by positive comments concerning my rustic efforts at putting these things down.

Have a glorious time in His house tomorrow worshiping Him.

In Jesus,
Roger & Linda

Update June 12

Greetings and blessing in Jesus.

"And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me." Luke 9.23

I was impressed with the disciple's response to Jesus' call (Mat.4) He said, "Follow Me and I will make you become fishers of men." And they left all immediately and followed Him. They didn't ask "Where", "Why", "For how long" - they just began to follow Him. That's the same kind of response He expects from us today!

I didn't get my update out yesterday - a powerful wind storm followed by a terrible electrical storm knocked out all electrical power. The rainy season has begun here! A good change (cooler) in climate with some undesireable side effects.

We had a good week with Paul and Teresa Koehler learning more about Storying (Bible story telling.) Paul ministered 9 times while here and they were both a blessing. We had a good regional pastors' meeting last Monday. And a powerful youth meeting Saturday. Then three days of workshop meetings on Tuesday through Thursday.

Three people prayed for salvation at Angulo in the service. One of our young pastors, Octavio, was sharing a Bible story with a lady. She accepted the Lord as a result. Others had similar testimonies to share.

I appreciate your prayers for Linda. She is a little better, but still not well. No pain at present, but also no energy or strength. Thanks for praying for her...us.

I am sending along another episode in the series of our time in San Isidro.

In His Grace,
Roger & Linda

Update June 5

" I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth." Psalm 34.1

Greetings and Blessings from Mexico!

This will be a short one - got back from grand daughter's wedding and some preaching appointments - Linda really under the weather - so been getting ready for this weekend and next week amidst doctor's visits and lab tests. Pray for her, please.

Paul and Theresa Koehler are with us for a few days - we are finding out all we can about Bible story telling from them. We aren't letting them have a vacation.

Both of them ministered to the monthly Youth meeting Saturday night and Paul ministered in three of our area churches today.

Tomorrow they will minister morning and evening to our pastors from five states at our quarterly meeting.

Tuesday through Thursday they will minister in workshops for our folks to learn to be better stortytellers.

Please pray for them and these activities - and for our travling pastors.

Six people prayed for salvation last Sunday at the Angulo church downtown Guadalajara. Two more prayed in our "Estadio" mission and another man prayed at the Tepic missions.

I am attaching a short chapter of our first year in Mexico along with this. As the Psalmist said, "God has done great things for us, whereof we are glad!"

Your prayers are so important and so much a reason for the blessings God is pouring out on us here in Mexico.

God bless you!

In Him,
Roger & Linda West

Update May 29

Blessings and Choice Greetings in Jesus.

"Shout praises to the LORD! Our God is kind, and it is right and good to sing praises to him." Psalm 147.1 We have so many reasons to shout and praise the Lord.

Linda and I are in Dallas for three more days. Tonight we celebrate the wedding of our greand daughter Tanya West and her fiancee Jonathan Lance. Everyone is escited...and maybe a little nervous.

Last week in Guadalajara 6 people came to the Lord at the Angulo church. Two more prayed for salvation at the Tepic mission and 276 young people celebrated a united service, where others came to Jesus for salvation. Shout praises to our God!

Linda has been a little slow this week - but seems to be doing better over all. But please keep her in your prayers. Especially that she will have the strength for the trip back to Guadalajara on Tuesday.

I am sending along this months' Good News from Mexico letter as an attachment.

Have a blessed day in Father's House tomorrow somewhere, and a thankful Memorial Day on Monday.

Again, thank you for your prayers for us and the ministry.

In Him,

Roger and Linda

Update May 15

Greetings and blessings in Jesus.

A short report today. Getting ready for th services tomorrow and a mid-week trip to Texas for our grand daughters wedding. (She graduated today from SMU.)

Pray for Linda's strength for the trip. It's a close call - whether she has the strength - but her grandmother's is pushing her. We discovered that she is very anemic.

We had 3 saved at the youth meeting and one after the service Sunday. Our Tapatio Center team is preparing for an evangelistic outreach in Ocotlán. (A city 60 miles away where the work is being reestablished after a pastor fell. Please pray for that effort.)

Our Puerto Vallarta Center recently celebrated a water baptismal service. Pics below. Today our team from the Tabachines Center is helping the fifth Titus 2 session in Tepic.

I got an email from one of my ministry sons - hadn't heard from him for a long time. He reports he is carrying on the work in one of the villages we worked many years ago.

Good news from all around. praise the Lord.

Urgent prayer request - one of our dear pastor friends and his wife asked us to get you to pray. Lety is dealing with breast cancer, and right in the midst of that the doctors discovered a tumor in her right lung - a very aggressive form of cancer. Please pray for her healing.

God bless you. Have a great time with God's folks in His House tomorrow.

In Him,

Roger & Linda

Update May 1

Greetings and blessing from central Mexico.

Well, we have already spent April – and the third part of another year! I am cncerned that we know why the Lord has us here, and that we are busily focused on that.

“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” (KJV)
“Teach us to use wisely all the time we have.” (CEV)

In 1967 we planted our first congregation here in Mexico – in the state of Nuevo León (where so much of the drug related violence is going on now.) Chano Flores and his wife, Isidra have been the faithful leaders of the work there over the last 44 years. The congregation has grown and they have planted a daughter church in a nearby village.

Chano travels all over that area, ministering to different pastors and their congregations. It is a very risky business, but he is diligent in carrying out his calling. Would you please pray for his safety as he comes and goes?

Linda is better in many ways – but still cannot seem to gain weight and still has very limited energy level. Thank you for your prayers for her, as well.

The husband of one of the ladies taking the Titus 2 course in Tepic came to the Lord last Sunday.

On Wednesday Rosalba is undergoing a rather extensive abdominal surgery. She is the wife of our youth pastor, Octavio Nava. Your prayers are needed and appreciated.

I am attaching a short article concerning our call and work in Mexico. I send it as a thankful testimony of the Lord’s faithfulness and goodness.

Have a wonderful day in Father’s House on Sunday.

And, again – thanks for your prayers for all of us here.

In Him,

Roger & Linda

Update April 24

Greetings from Guadalajara - the city of the Holy Spirit!

"Why do you seek the living One among the dead?... He is not here, but He has risen." Lk 24.5-6

Isn't is a grand thing that we celebrate? Jesus, our Savior and Lord, Conqueror of death and Giver of Life! Of course we celebrate that reality every day that we live! And never forget that we have a Heavenly calling and divine commission to take that message to the nations.

Last week 2 people came to the Lord in the Estadio mission. In Tepic the fourth Titus 2 session was given. 50 women were present. God is doing a wonderful work in the hearts of those ladies through these studies. Tepic is a center of violence in the Mexican drug war - yet the church moves forward in faith and victory.

We are going through some "rough stuff" in the work here at the moment. Its not really something we can share - but would request your prayers for victory.

I am sending along our April Good News from Mexico prayer letter. This would be Vol 45, No. 4. We praise the Lord for you, your prayers and support and your friendship and love. You help keep us here, sharing the wonderful and powerful Gospel of the Kingdom in Mexico and beyond.

Have a joyful thankful and worshipful Resurrection Sunday.

In Him,

Roger and Linda

Update April 17

Greetings and Blessings from Mexico.

It is "Holy Week" here (Semana Santa) and multitudes of people are heading for the beaches. Which means the cities are quieter, the air cleaner, and the streets clear of traffic congestion. For my money, all that is better than the crowded beach covered with people. This is also a very religious time in Mexico - and a time when people can be reached for the Lord. Pray with us that it will be a fruitful time.

One of our pastors ministered to an uncle on his death-bed this week. He prayed to receive the Lord, as did several others in the family. 2 people prayed for salvation at Tepic, also.

Speaking of Tepic, (and many other Mexican cities) - the kidnapping and killing continues. In many of these places pastors and ministers (Rehab centers, etc) are the targets.

Last Sunday a pastor in Michoacán state was taken from his pulpit during the service and kidnapped. One of our own young ladies in the Angulo church was kidnapped 3 weeks ago. The kidnappers asked an astronomical amount of money to get her back. When the father said he didn't have it, they threatened to kill her. But prayer prevailed, and after several days she was released. Please pray for the release of the Michoacán pastor, too. He is Josué Ramírez Santiago.

We are reopening the work in the city of Ocotlán this Sunday. The former pastor fell into sin and the recovery period has been painful, but we are ready to move forward again there. Your prayers for that ministry are appreciated.

God bless you. May the Holy Spirit make Jesus real in every service where the Word is preached - and may God's richest blessings be yours.

In Him,
Roger & Linda

Update April 10

Greetings and Multiplied blessings,

"Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied" Jude 2

I just got back early this morning from San Diego, CA where I attended the military funeral service for my dad. I met my sisters in San Diego, and together with my dad's wife, daughter-in-law and a bunch of Wests I hadn't known before we attended the service. He was buried at the Fort Rosecrans Military Cemetary beside my little brother who died in 1957 . There are over 100,000 veterans buried at Rosecrans.

We had 2 pray for salvation at Angulo Sunday, 2 more in the youth meeting and one at the Tepic mission.

I was in a pastors' meeting on Tuesday. One of the pastors came up to me and introduced himself - he had been one of our "problem" kids in Sunday School in the early days of our work in Guadalajara. He said I was always on his case, trying to make him behave in the services. He is now pastoring a church here in Guadalajara. Praise the Lord for how He works in the lives of people.

Linda and I are praying this Sunday through Wednesday for the Pensacola area missions conferences. We cannot be there this year - wish we could, but our prayers are with all there for a tremendous anointing and outpouring of thre Spirit of missions.

I pray the Lord bless you in His House tomorrow with that abundance of mercy, peace and love.

In Him,

Roger & Linda

Update April 3

Greetings and Grace Blessings in Jesus.

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has crowned us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ" (Ehp 1.3 - Weymouth)

Last Sunday one person came to the Lord at Angulo and another at the Estadio mission service. We baptized three ladies in water, also. We are already through one quarter of 2011! 44 people have come to the altar at Angulo this year, so far this year. Praise God for each one. Yet...still so many unreached. The words of Jesus continue to be true - The Harvest is great, the laborers few.

We have 3 groups of INSTE students studying and preparing for service, plus another group in the ISOM video school. The urgency for laborers is great!

God answers prayer! (Well, you alrady knew that.) Several people we have prayed together for have been healed, or their condition greatly improved, In one case a pastor's young daughter was released by her kidnappers. Bro Adrie, Christian musician from Holland, found his case less dangerous and more treatable than at first thought to be.

Linda is continuing to improve in her health. She is much better this week. Still short on stamina....and needs to gain some weight! (Don't you and I wish WE had that problem?)

And the Lord has provided the Honda vehicle Linda and I have been praying for. That is, Linda and I along with you (since I mentioned the request a few months back.) Praise the Lord.

For us personally, for the work of the ministry and for Mexico and its present turmoil - thank you for your prayers. So important. So powerful. We appreciate them so much!

Have a wonderful day in Father's House tomorrow where you are - and may the Harvest continue and increase everywhere.

In His Love,

Roger & Linda

Update February 27

Greetings to you from “South of the Border Down Mexico Way”,

The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth. Psalm 115 14-15

I am writing this around recording Agua Viva programs for next month. Linda and I are flying to Dallas on March 2 for the annual MRC board meeting there. By the way you can check out our (still under construction) new web page at http://mrcintl.org/ under our new image name of Master’s Resourcing Commission. And we are making it possible to donate to us and the other MRC missionaries via PayPal.

Linda is getting better right along – this trip is a test run. I personally believe she’s going so she can see great grandbabies as much as to be at the board meeting. But who can blame her? Thanks for your prayers for her.

And thanks for all the prayers for Doris – Pastor Nicanor’s daughter. The doctors are absolutely amazed. God did a MAJOR miracle in healing her broken body. She’s home with her husband and kids now – I talked to her this morning. She’s up and about...not bedfast. Truly astounding.

We had 2 pray for salvation last Sunday and 5 received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. We also dedicated five babies to the Lord.

We would appreciate your prayers for us on this trip to Dallas, for the board meeting itself, a safe trip up and back and for Linda’s strength. Your prayers have been so effective! James 5.16 is working.

Have a wonderful and EXCITING day in the Lord’s House tomorrow.

In Him,

Roger & Linda

Update February 20

Greetings and Blessings,

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
Jer 33.3,6

Thank you for your prayers!

1. Linda's surgery was completetly successful. She spent one night in the hospital, and has done very well since the operation.

2. Doris has made miraculous progress since the terrible car accident. She was in ICU for 2 days before anything could be started in the way of treatment. She was operated on to move broken ribs away from vital organs they were presurring. The doctors are amazed at her progress. God answered prayer!

We had 6 people pray for salvation last week at the Angulo church. 2 in the service and 4 young people at their banquet.Pastor Osvaldo at the El Salto church reported 8 new decisions and the Pastor Rigo at Mérida reported a series of asthma healings there, as well as new people coming to the Lord.

Your prayers are so valuable, essential! So much of what God does here, we know, is because people like you are praying for us and the ministry. Thank you.

In your prayers please remember to pray about the violence of the drug cartels and the gangsters here in Mexico. Another warning has been issued by the Mexican Consulate here concerning all of that.

Have an exciting worship experience in Father's House with His other kids tomorrow.

In Him,

Roger & Linda

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