More about Roseburg, OR Team

Hello Everyone,
Last week we shared a bit about the Roseburg Integrated Ministries Team and the church planting work they helped with in Tres Rios. After spending one day at a local school, the team spent another day in the community of Eulalia. The team and the local leaders split into groups to help with park clean up, trash pick up in the streets and children’s activities. It was a full day of ministry ending with the showing of the Jesus Film under a tent in the rain. It was a great day!


Josh and his best buddy Pablo enjoying the power of machetes. Be careful, boys!















Trash clean up and cutting grass with machetes - the Latin American way!









The Jesus Film in the rain with a great turnout!











The children watching the VBS program. (Kayley and her friend Maria on the left dressed up as clowns.)






The team also worked on the Regional Office Building on the seminary campus. They painted a huge outside wall two times, and painted the entire lower level of the building two times.

























Some folks helped to prepare a missionary home for painting by cutting and filling the cracks in the concrete walls.










We enjoyed a great tour day as well and I (Shelley) saw something I had not yet seen: a sloth! You can’t see his head in this photo, but he’s there!







It was a great time with the Roseburg team. We were impressed by their ability to be flexible and adapt to the Latin American way of life (sometimes it moves as slow as this sloth!) They not only blessed us, but blessed the district as they begin to work in the Tres Rios area. It is our prayer that this cell group will grow and become a healthy, vibrant church very soon.




In other news, David is traveling this week with a Jesus Film team from Eastern Kentucky. They will be planting a new church in the area of Liberia and will show the Jesus Film each night, so pray for no rain in the evenings! David will have a full report for us next week on the activities of the KY Team.

Thanks for your prayers! We love and appreciate you all.

God bless,
The Webb Family

Team from Roseburg, OR

Hello Dear Friends and Family,

We had a wonderful time recently with a team from Roseburg, Oregon. There is so much to tell that I will have to split the info into two or three segments, the first telling about their work in a local school in an area called Tres Rios.

(The team in front of Volcan Poas on a partly cloudy day.)
The team of 17 split into two groups: the construction/painting crew and the VBS crew. The painting crew’s job was to paint the entire outside wall of the school, which is about 100 feet long.

Some rain delayed the team, but finally they got the work completed. We thought we were in good shape until the afternoon when “the big one” hit…lots of heavy rain and wind, so much so that the paint completely ran into the street! (See photo at end of blog to see what I mean!)

It was disappointing to leave in the rain with the project undone, but the plans were already underway to complete the work later in the week.

It seems the painting crew found enough time to play soccer with kids! You can guess who won.


With the rainfall, we had to move indoors. The painting team turned their efforts to the old, rundown desks, which were in serious need of repair and recovering. All their sanding and covering efforts were a success and old tables were given new life. The teachers and students were thrilled.















In the middle of the day, our Pastor (Pastora Leyla) received word that our friend, Joseph, a 15 year old new believer with cancer, was nearing the end of his life. The family requested that Leyla and David come immediately to the home. It was a blessing for David and Leyla to pray with Joseph and his family before his passing. He died later that night. We were all saddened by the news, but rejoice that Joseph, who had such a heart for evangelism, was no longer suffering, but enjoying new life in heaven. We’ll not forget him, nor will his community. His witness during his short time living a Christian life (18 months) will be remembered for years to come. We look forward to the reunion in heaven.

Even with the sad news, the work continued. The VBS crew dressed up as clowns, held up the puppets and sang/danced for more than 175 children that day. This wasn't any easy thing for Ruth (pink clown outfit in photo 1 and blue T-shirt in photo 2) to do since she was close to Joseph, but she gave all she had as she led the kids in the songs and games.


Each group enjoyed the message of the VBS (how a school boy took the blame for his friend when blamed for breaking a window...sounds a little like Jesus taking the blame for us, right!?) The good news was shared and many children decided to follow Jesus that day.



The school wall did finally get painted, thanks to the local evangelism leaders and another Work and Witness team from Ohio.

Part of the team from Ohio spent one morning repainting the wall. This time the rain held off and the paint stuck. You can see the remnants of coat #1 - pink, nearly all washed away.


Next week, more about the Maximum Mission and the Roseburg Team. But for now, a few prayer requests:

1. Please pray for all the missionaries from the Regional Office who are sorting, packing, selling and preparing to move to San Jose in January. This is a huge transition for everyone involved.

2. Pray for David and the next team, a Jesus Film Team from Kentucky. They arrive on the 22nd and will work in North Costa Rica near Liberia.

3. Pray for the kids as they continue studying at ICS (International Christian School). We received their first report cards and they are doing well. We are proud parents!

Lastly, Shelley enjoyed a great Birthday traveling around Costa Rica with the Roseburg Team. The beauty of Costa Rica continues to amaze us. A week later, she was completely surprised by a Birthday party at a friends house. What fun!

Thanks to everyone! We miss you all and pray for you.

The Webb Family

David and Mike By Lake Nicaragua

Greetings in the Name of Christ our King,

David recently returned from Nicaragua after doing workshops with Pastor Mike Dennis who is a former missionary and the pastor of Canton First Church of the Nazarene. Through the generosity of Pastor Mike and his church, Pastor Mike gave a week of his busy schedule to travel to three of the four districts of Nicaragua with David during September 21-27.

Pastor Mike did training in the mornings in how to prepare sermons and in the afternoon David gave workshops on church planting. They did four days of trainings in the cities of Rivas, Managua, Boaco and Estelí with an overall attendance of over 170 people. They praised God as 54 people signed up to plant new cell groups with the hope that each new cell group will become a new mission. Mike did an excellent job and although his voice started to give out on our last day, God gave him enough to make it through the week. David was so appreciative for the opportunity to know Mike and to travel with him all week.

The District Superintendent of Nicaragua Central with 9 new cell group planters

This was also special as Mike is a former pastor of the Woodlawn Church of the Nazarene in Woodlawn, TN where we have our membership. Yeah Woodlawn!

We are so thankful to all who prayed for this event. God blessed in so many ways. Since we were not able to fly out to the South east district of Nicaragua (the airport was closed--but thats
another story), we improvised by doing workshops in the city of Boaco (about an hour east of Managua). This city is known as La Ciudad de Dos Pisos (the City of Two Floors) because it is all hills (our church is on the second floor!). We only have two churches in this area, but one of these has over 300 members. With less than one weeks notice, we had over 20 people in attendance at the workshop in Boaco and of these 20, 14 signed up to start new cell groups.

The view of Boaco from the church

We give thanks to God for how he arranged this time. Through private donations, each new cell group leader receives Bibles, discipleship materials and evangecubes for this new work.
140 manuals were given to various churches that want to replicate the training on sermon preparation. God is continually raising up new pastors and leaders!

Please pray for God’s continued blessing on these new cell groups and that His kingdom will be expanded through these hard working folks. Thanks so much for all your prayers as God continues to bless us with traveling mercies, language, and, most of all, for sending workers into His harvest field.

Love in Christ,

David, Shelley, Joshua and Kayley