Are You Praying?

I hope you are praying a lot for our Chayahuita brothers and sisters. There is a lot of spiritual opposition right now. The conference revived many spiritually and the enemy doesn’t like that at all.

We had heard in Palmiche about people being accused of being witches and then being killed. Elio Soliz was just at the house and was saying that is only getting worse. His former brother in law (from his deceased wife) was killed after being accused. Also there is a former pastor from Nueva Vida who had moved away and taken a second wife in another community that they are saying is a witch and even knows the chants, so there may be some truth in the accusation. Elio is also being accused of paying a witch for revenge for the death of his brother in law which is the furthest thing from the truth. He actually confronted the accuser recently. Pray for truth to prevail in all this chaos.

We also ask for you to pray for the Chayahuita pastors. They are going through some tough spiritual struggles. We have heard of at least 3 spiritual leaders that have fallen into a sinful behavior. One left the ministry altogether, one is being disciplined, and the other we just heard about and we are not sure what the future will hold for him.

On a more positive note, this year at the conference there were a few new villages that attended. One of the ones represented was Santa Maria. This was a catholic stronghold and they threatened evangelicals that stepped inside their community. A pastor, Dionisio Huazanga, felt that God was calling him to go there at any cost. He went and has led at least 5 people to the Lord. These attended and were baptized. He continues to visit and share the Gospel no matter what may happen to him.