November-December 2021 Newsletter

For Everything There Is A Time

We have God’s promises and God’s timing. When we move in God’s timing His promises will always be
fulfilled. In our weekly church services, we now have our auditoriums filled to capacity. We have most of the members back in services and they have a hunger for the Word of God. A virtual church does not function as a church. We still film our virtual services but for the body to be able to minister to its self we have to be together. Along with the crowds we also have new believers that once again are coming into the churches. In November we had 2 baptism services with a total of 11 being baptized, The church needs to continue to grow as it moves forward.

The second weekend of November the pastor’s wives organized a Women’s conference in Tepic. We had over 300 women in attendance but more than the attendance was the fact that over 15 churches in the city participated. Together with the conference we also held a children’s day so that the mothers could attend the conference. Agustin and Damara organized the children's activity while Lucy was one of the organizers of the conference. This is the third women’s conference that we have helped organize and each one has been a blessing to the women that attend.

At the end of August, we started our school year in our Christian schools. Enrollment was down at the beginning even though our students were back in the classroom. As the school year progressed we had more students come and now our primary school has close to 20 students while in our secondary school, we are still struggling with enrollment. All of our students at this level are boys and most with low academic achievement. This is part of our ministry to them. Only 2 all of our students come from Christian homes so our daily devotionals reach a very open group.

In our leaders' meeting in the month of September, we felt that it was time for the churches to start doing aggressive evangelism. At that time we had no special plan but we wrote down where we needed to go as we prayed to God for a plan to reach the lost. Since then the Lord has literally dropped on our laps a whole outreach program that has come from different sources. We start in December with a 3-day outdoor evangelistic campaign along with 30 other pastors from our area. In January we will systematically start to place a bible in each home of the city of Tepic and also in the surrounding towns. In 5 years our plan is to give away 40,000 Bibles which the churches here will be paying for. We have also recontacted with the Jesus Film Project (we worked with them in 2001 and did over 1,500 projections in one month State-wide). They now have over 150 movies, videos and video clips in Spanish to use in small groups for evangelism. The year 2022 is going to be very busy.

At this time of Thanksgiving and the coming Christmas season, we pray that the blessings of our Lord Jesus Christ will be upon your families and your homes. We have so much to be thankful for. Just with the birth of the Son of God to bring salvation would be more than enough but aside from that, we have been blessed with abundance. As you get ready to give this season, if God lays on your heart to help in the upcoming projects we have please do so, We have students to sponsor, Bibles to give away as well as our own personal expenses to cover as we work with the churches here. Also if someone wants to come and teach English as a ministry for 3 to 6 months we have an opening for you.

We bless you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.


Philip, Lucy, & Vanessa Tolman