July/August 2014 Newsletter
Summer has come and as it is in the tropics, summer brings us rain. Our rainy season started early this year with our first rains coming the end of May. For the next 4 months we will have rain almost every day, which brings life to a dry and thirsty land. In the same way the rain of the Holy Spirit bring life to dry and thirsty souls. That rain has to be constant or one will dry out and become unfruitful.
SCHOOL: The 14th of July we had our graduation for our two schools. We were blessed to have around 40 students this year in the schools, which is the largest school population we have ever had. We are believing that the next school year, which starts the 18th of August, we will even have more students. The next hurdle that we have to jump is the building of more facilities. With 50 students we will have our present buildings full to capacity and to grow we will need to have new classrooms. When that time comes the Lord will undertake as He always has and we will not be lacking in anything as His Word promises us.
BUILDING: Construction on the grounds has not stopped. As we mentioned in our last newsletter, we completed the other half of our basketball court at the school. Now we can play basketball games as well as playing other sports. Shortly after finishing that we started the building of a new wing for our Guava factory so that we can increase our production. That is what the Bible is all about, INCREASE. The church has to increase. Our faith has to increase, as does our walk with God. We are trying to move from being a small home factory to become a regular industrial factory. We have been blessed with some Government scholarships and grants to produce new products in our factory as well as equipping it with new equipment. We continue to look for a distributor for our products in Canada and in the USA. We know that this venture will not only be a blessing to create jobs but also in create income for our ministry as well as the other ministries we sow into.
VISITATION: Now that Philip and Lucy don´t have the obligation to be in classes every week at the school, time has been taken to visit some of the churches outside our State, churches that we give spiritual covering to. Philip spent a weekend with Stephen (a 12 hour bus ride going and another 12 coming home) for their anniversary service the first week in July. Another weekend was spent in the State of Michoacan visiting pastor Rito Leon and his congregation. The end of August we will be holding our annual ministerial reunion as we meet with pastors from 4 Mexican States that are part of our ministerial fellowship. Even though the main area of our labor is in our home State we are finding the need to travel more in Mexico as new churches are being birthed.
Thank you for your prayers for Lucy. On the 16th of July she had her second operation and she is doing very well. The doctor thinks that she still will need a third operation but we will leave that in God's hands. Dad (David Tolman) is doing well also. On the 1st of July we celebrated his 82nd birthday. We had a party for him at his home and we all had a great time with some of the family and friends.
Thank you for your prayers. Your monthly support is much needed. We pray the abundant blessings of the Lord Jesus Christ over your lives.
Philip, Lucy, & Vanessa Tolman
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