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Missionaries in Training

1/23/2024

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LIGHT and student missionaries in training:

While it is certainly a goal of ours to prepare our students for life after they finish school, our greatest hope is that they will leave Eben-Ezer with a relationship with God and a desire to serve Him. We pray that each of them will want to serve in some capacity as missionaries.

This month (January), Instituto Quebrada Leon (IQL), a fellow mission project here in Bolivia, is hosting a month long training program called LIGHT. LIGHT stands for “Lay Institute for Global Health Training”. During this program, attendees will learn how to “share the light of Gods love through ministering to the needs of humanity.”.

We are blessed to know that four of our students, two current and two recent graduates, are attending the LIGHT program and are enthusiastic about what they are learning. Two are there as a result of a recent mission trip they went on as part of the Eben-Ezer team. They were able to help with health evangelism during that trip and talk with former staff from IQL and chose to attend based on their experiences and conversations. Praise the Lord for always knowing what we need and when!

We also have several other former students who are doing mission work in some way.

  1. One former student is currently enrolled in and preparing to begin the physical therapy program at a college in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She plans to use her training to serve as a missionary and help those who are suffering physically while she also ministers to them spiritually. She just finished a year of missionary training and is excited to take this next step! She is currently colporting to earn money for school.
  2. We have another former student working as a colporteur in Paraguay.
  3. We have a former student preparing to attend he MOVE (Missions, Outreach, Vocational and Evangelism) program, a missionary training program. We have another who is hoping to attend MOVE, as well.
  4. Two of our recent graduates have chosen to are serving at a mission project here in Bolivia.
  5. One former student wants to go to medical school in order to serve as a medical missionary. She is currently praying for the funds to go to school. She is also considering first attending the MOVE program to get training in evangelism and some vocational training.

Each of these students has a story. Most of them have experienced trauma in their lives from things like abuse (physical, emotional and/or sexual), loss of a parent (or both) either through death or abandonment and more. We are so proud of each of them and we know that God has walked alongside them, and at times He has carried them, to this point and that He will continue to be right there with them as they follow His lead.

Please help us to pray for our students who are attending LIGHT and for the rest of OUR kids who have chosen to co-labor with Jesus by being His hands and feet here on earth.

“Medical missionary work brings to humanity the gospel of release from suffering. It is the pioneer work of the gospel. It is the gospel practiced, the compassion of Christ revealed. Of this work there is great need, and the world is open for it. God grant that the importance of medical missionary work shall be understood, and that new fields may be immediately entered.” CME7.4


Si bien es cierto que uno de nuestros objetivos es preparar a nuestros estudiantes para la vida después de terminar la escuela, nuestra mayor esperanza es que salgan de Eben-Ezer con una relación con Dios y el deseo de servirle. Oramos para que cada uno de ellos quiera servir en alguna capacidad como misioneros.

Este mes (Enero), el Instituto Quebrada Leon (IQL), un proyecto misionero compañero aquí en Bolivia, es anfitrión de un programa de entrenamiento de un mes llamado LUZ. LIGHT significa "Instituto Laico para la Formación en Salud Global". Durante este programa, los asistentes aprenderán a "compartir la luz del amor de Dios a través de ministrar a las necesidades de la humanidad".

Tenemos la bendición de saber que cuatro de nuestros estudiantes, dos actuales y dos recién graduados, asisten al programa LIGHT y están entusiasmados con lo que están aprendiendo. Dos están allí como resultado de un reciente viaje misionero en el que participaron como parte del equipo de Eben-Ezer. Ellos fueron capaces de ayudar con la evangelización de la salud durante ese viaje y hablar con el personal anterior de IQL y decidió asistir sobre la base de sus experiencias y conversaciones. ¡Alabado sea el Señor por saber siempre lo que necesitamos y cuándo!

También tenemos varios otros ex alumnos que están haciendo trabajo misionero de alguna manera.
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  1. Una ex alumna está actualmente matriculada y preparándose para comenzar el programa de terapia física en una universidad en Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Ella planea usar su entrenamiento para servir como misionera y ayudar a aquellos que están sufriendo físicamente mientras ella también les ministra espiritualmente. Acaba de terminar un año de entrenamiento misionero y está emocionada de dar el siguiente paso. Actualmente está trabajando para ganar dinero para la escuela.
  2. Tenemos otro ex alumno trabajando como colportor en Paraguay.
  3. Tenemos un ex alumno preparándose para asistir al programa MOVE (Misiones, Alcance, Vocación y Evangelización), un programa de capacitación misionera. Tenemos otro que espera asistir también a MOVE.
  4. Dos de nuestros graduados recientes han elegido servir en un proyecto misionero aquí en Bolivia.
  5. Una ex-alumna quiere ir a la escuela de medicina para servir como misionera médica. Ella está orando por los fondos para ir a la escuela. También está considerando asistir primero al programa MOVE para obtener capacitación en evangelismo y formación profesional.

Cada uno de estos estudiantes tiene una historia. La mayoría de ellos han sufrido traumas en sus vidas, como abusos (físicos, emocionales y/o sexuales), la pérdida de uno de sus padres (o de ambos), ya sea por muerte o abandono, y mucho más. Estamos muy orgullosos de cada uno de ellos y sabemos que Dios ha caminado a su lado, y a veces los ha llevado, hasta este punto y que continuará estando a su lado mientras siguen su ejemplo.

Por favor ayúdenos a orar por nuestros estudiantes que asisten a LIGHT y por el resto de NUESTROS niños que han elegido colaborar con Jesús siendo Sus manos y pies aquí en la tierra.

"La obra médica misionera lleva a la humanidad el evangelio de la liberación del sufrimiento. Es la obra pionera del Evangelio. Es el evangelio practicado, la compasión de Cristo revelada. Esta obra es muy necesaria y el mundo está abierto a ella. Dios quiera que se comprenda la importancia de la obra médica misionera, y que se pueda entrar inmediatamente en nuevos campos." CME7.4
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Eben-Ezer, a member of Outpost Centers International, opened in February of 2019 and is a place where children and young people can come as they are and experience the healing of Christ’s love.
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