September/ October 2013 Newsletter
In our last newsletter we mentioned that we were in the process of stretching our tent cords as we had felt that God was telling us to do so. Well the result is more work as growing takes work. Here are some of the doors that have been opened to us.
My daughter and son-in-law took the decision, as of the 31st of August, to dedicate themselves to full time ministry. For the last years they have ministered on a part time basis with the praise team, in the youth ministry as well has pastoring in a small town church. As full time ministers they will be opening our 8th church. We have the inauguration Saturday the 5th of October. The church is being planted in a government housing project in the city of Tepic where the government has built over 10,000 homes for low-income families. There are no evangelical churches in the area to reach these people. Please pray for Agustin and Damara as they have taken this step of faith believing that the Lord will supply all of their physical needs.
In 2009 we started a small factory with only 2 workers to work on a food concept of guava sauce (like an apple sauce made from tropical guava fruit). In the following years we have worked on perfecting our products and opening a new market for selling these products in our spare time. This year we won a project with government financing to change our factory from a homemade product into an industrial project. This year we were GIVEN just over one million pesos ($85,000 dollars) to invest in the factory, for equipment and labor. The only thing that we need to do now is invest 40% more of our own money as a matching investment. Over the next 2 years we can ask for up to $500,000 dollars free if we can match our 40% extra each year. To be able to do this we are looking for two types of people. We need people who want to invest in the company and become partners. The second type of person we need are people who want to buy selling rights to our product for different areas in Canada and the USA. If you are interested in investing or you know someone that is, please contact us.
Our third area of expansion is an evangelism project that we will be carried out in all our State of Nayarit and we are on the organizing committee. Our State is divided into 20 townships. In the months of October through December we will be holding an outdoor evangelism crusade in each of the townships and then on the 27th of December we will be joining together with Christians from the whole State for an outdoor service and time of prayer in the State capital. The work is not only the crusades but also the programming of the different churches joining together to make this happen. The permits and that other logistics are also time consuming. The whole purpose of this event is to reach the lost and a benefit we will reap is more unity among the churches.
We appreciate your prayers as we continue to fulfill the calling that God has put on our lives. We don’t want to be unfaithful stewards who do only what they are told. We want to do more. Blessings in Jesus name.
Philip, Lucy, Simri & Vanessa Tolman
PS Please note our new web page www.shmin.org
