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Happy New Year to one and all

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I have always loved New Year’s day. It seems like you get a whole new calendar and a complete set of different opportunities. The old is gone and the new is in. Here we are in 2010. That is wonderful.

I hope that God uses you more and blesses you far greater this year than He ever has before. I hope your surrender and yieldness is greater this year than it ever has been before. We are one year closer to when He will return or we will go to Him.

There is no time to waste. I hope you will take seriously the fact that God has given you another year that you can use to honor and glorify Him.

I want to challenge all of you that read this blog to read your Bible through from cover to cover this year. Start in Genesis. Read just 4 chapters a day. At the end of this year we will recognize all of you that have read the Bible through in a special service at Vision.

You just have to be diligent and disciplined and you can get it done. I will remind you during the year and I will read it through more than once with all of you.

Today read Genesis 1-4 and learn about the creation and how God started it all and His relationship with the first human beings.

Miguel Murillo’s prayer letter

January 1, 2010 in Ministry with 0 Comments

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Arequipa, 17 December 2009

Dear Brothers in Christ,

It is a privilege to be able to address you, knowing your love, missions and dedicated service to many other brothers and sisters.

I accepted Christ in 1991, the next year I started my preparation at “Seminario Bautista Macedonia” (Macedonia Baptist College). In 1993 I helped a Mexican missionary to start a new work, where I worked until 1997. That same year I returned to my local church, Hunter Baptist Church. Place where I worked as co-pastor until the year 2002. Right after that I assumed the entire pastorate of this church. In the year 2005 we started Smyrna Baptist Church, and between both of them we have a Sunday attendance of approximately 400 people.

I have been teaching at Macedonia Baptist College since 1996, institution which I have also been Principal at the last five years. Moreover, we manage a Christian School with Hunter Church, having an attendance of 80 students between elementary, middle and high School.

This coming year, for strategic reasons, I will be making some changes in the ministry that I have been developing. After working for 16 years as assistant Pastor and Pastor I have finally decided to continue serving our Lord but as a missionary in my own country. I have the objective of opening more churches and train more fellows for the service of the Lord. After talking to the leaders and other men of the churches I pastorate, they have accepted my decision knowing I will fulfill my work from those same churches. For this will be the base I will use to help other churches.

This week I have been accepted at “Vision Baptist Missions International”, which is directed by Austin Gardner. All this fills me with gratitude and joy and a greater commitment to continue opening local churches in Peru and South America. Also, with the years I have come to learn that the local church is the hope of the entire world.

This December 30th (God willing) is my 16th marriage anniversary. My wife Liz and my children, Andrea (14), Miguel (10) and Gaby(6) have been with me throughout my career, and I just couldn’t imagine my life without them. I ask for your prayers on behalf of my family.

The next six weeks we will be having the following events, for which I also ask for your prayers:

- End of the Christian school year, on Monday December 21st.

- Camp for pastors in Ite (Tacna) from December 28th to 30th.

- New Year’s Eve at Hunter and Smyrna on December 31st.

- Classes for pastors at our College on January 5-6 and 26-27, 2010.

- Congress for ladies at Macedonia College, from January 12th to 15th 2010.

Our plans for next year include:

- The opening of two churches (one of them before March 2010).

- Send three students of Macedonia College and Hunter Baptist Church to do practical work for two months in Lima.

- Increase the number of college students to 60.

- Initiate infrastructure improvements for our Christian school.

- Being in different churches for 12 weeks in a year, teaching, preaching and involving fellows in the Lord’s work.

- Come to an average attendance of 450 people between the two churches where I will keep working.

It is always a pleasure to stay in touch with you. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Blessing and best regards,

Miguel Murillo