News and Updates from EFM Missionaries
As I write I am in Trenton, NJ, accompanying EFM’s Guatemalan congregation as they “estrenar” (use for the first time) their new worship facility. It’s a rented hall at one end of a large church. The entire church and hall used to be a Jewish synagogue, was sold to a Baptist congregation, which lost it, and was later sold to another Baptist group. The part of the building our group is in used to be a combo gym and auditorium for the Jewish school.
Our group has grown in four years from about a dozen, meeting in an apartment living room; to about twenty, meeting in a home; to the rental of a store front, where the group enlarged to over sixty and couldn’t fit any more; to this new facility where they can easily seat 300 people and park a lot of cars. I’m looking forward to the day when this hall is filled, too. However, the way the pastor talks, it may not get that big. The group may split into smaller ones to plant churches in other parts of town that will make an even larger fellowship of Hispanic believers in Trenton. May it be so!
I was surprised on Thursday night, Nov. 15, by the visit of three Guatemalan friends whom I hadn’t seen for at least twenty-five years. Two of them were students in the Bible institute when my wife and I were there, and it was really great to make contact with them again.