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  Dear brothers and sisters in Christ at Bethany Community Church, 1. The virus is hitting Mexico hard. This is not only reflected on the World Meter, which shows Mexico as third highest in the world in total numbers of deaths, behind the US. and Brazil, but our church members share regularly how friends and family are dying from it. This past week, a cousin of a church member and a former church member died. Many prayer requests get shared on our church's media link, every week, of family and friends that have been admitted to the hospital, are sick or have died. Thank you for praying for Mexico and our church. We thank the Lord for no deaths in our church, till now. Many have had COVID, including Jamie and me, but we have all recovered. 2. Because of the conditions here in Mexico, especially here in the Mexico City area, all our church services have been back on line, since the middle of December. The income of our families is also way down. We pray for the Lord to provide for ea...

Below are some ways that you can pray for Dougg and LeAnn Custer as they serve the ʟᴏʀᴅ during the COVID-19 pandemic: 1) On Febr. 15th, we will be part of the committees interviewing three candidates for acceptance by WorldVenture. Pray for wisdom and unity and God's clear leading as we try to ensure (as much as is humanly possible) that these candidates are a good fit for both cross-cultural work and service together with WorldVenture.  2) Following the interviews, Pre-Field ministry & Orientation will again be held virtually Febr. 22-24. These are three intensive days of training and guiding these new WorldVenture workers into the organization and then into their next steps of Partner Development. Please also pray for the following: For those organizing and refining the training to make it the best it can be, including the coordination of the sessions and the scheduling of presenters For the presenters to speak in such a way that not only communicates important information, b...