Prestoncrest Missions

Heiderich News Brief - November, 2007

Family Institute of Latin America Website

Happy Thanksgiving!

We pray all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends. We spent the holiday with friends at the beach in Florianópolis and had a restful time of remembering God’s great blessings on us and this ministry during 2007.

Curitiba News:

We held our last Servant’s Retreat for the year 2007 on Oct. 19-20 with the couples who are serving the Curitiba church as leaders. The retreat was dedicated to thanksgiving and gratitude for the blessings God has granted this church in the past year. The participants wrote thank you letters to their spouses and shared with each other admiration for the work each had done this year. Jerry is teaching Interpersonal Relationships at the Bible Institute and continues to mentor the men from the last class who are working full time as evangelists.

Travel News:

At the end of October Jerry made a 10-day trip to the US to speak at the World Mission Workshop at Oklahoma Christian. He spoke about how our training at ACU in counseling and marriage therapy has lead us to greater evangelism, church planting and leadership development in a cross-cultural setting. His class was packed and he was able to see many friends and ex-Brazilian missionaries. While in the US he met with several people at ACU and spent some time with Kristofer, Angela and Joel.

While Jerry was in the US, Gail traveled with 20 other women from the Curitiba church to the annual Women’s Conference in São Paulo. There she counseled with six women from different cities in Brazil and helped to lead the worship time. There are always many visitors at this event and this year one of the women was baptized.

November 9-11 we were on the road again to work with the leadership of the church in Florianópolis. We have visited this church many times over the past 4 years to help them grow and establish a strong leadership. They have suffered two splits in the past several years, but God is working powerfully to keep them strong and give them hope. We enjoy working with this church because of their positive outlook and caring spirit in spite of their difficulties.

Prayer Needs:

This has been a very busy year for us and we are looking forward to some time off as we celebrate the holidays. Kristofer will be coming to spend two weeks with us from Dec. 17 to Jan. 2. Please pray for his safe travel; for our physical recovery from all our travel this year; for the continued preparation of the Brasília team (more on this next month); and for Angela and Joel since we will not get to see them.

We praise God for each of you. We can’t do this without you! May our God grant you peace and bless you with His mercy as you seek to serve Him in your community. We are so thankful to have this ministry and to see God’s hand at work in the lives of so many Brazilian brothers and sisters.