Edwin and Maria Giron | Missions Mobilizers for Hispanic Friends
Edwin and I can testify to you that it is truly worth serving Jesus Christ, living for him, and being obedient.
The Lord has allowed us to lead 10:2 prayer trips to Mexico and Ecuador and to be able to see and even touch the need in fields that are ready for the harvest. One of the many ways that God shows up on these tremendous prayer trips is how he so wonderfully opens doors and has led us to know the person of peace in different places where he has allowed us to reach.
During the prayer trip to the Amazon area of Ecuador, where the Shuar people are centered, we accompanied Jose Olivas, a Friends missionary from Mexico, to look for a Shuar man whom Jose met on a bus who invited Jose to his home so that he could share the Gospel with him and his wife. His name is Juwan. They have heard the Gospel before from a wife’s relative who lives very far from them. Juwan and his wife have since been hungry to know more about the word of God. The team traveled four hours by dirt road deep into the jungle to get to this remote Shuar village called Nunkui.
When our prayer team arrived at Juwan’s house, he was not home. So, the team stopped there in front of his hut, and we decided to pray for this Shuar man and his wife and this Nunkui village, even though they were not present. The team prayed that God would open doors for Jose to start a church in that community. While each of us on the team took time to pray, something exciting happened: a woman approached us and told us that she was Juwan’s daughter! We told her that we were Evangelical Christians and that we came to pray for the Shuar community. Surprised but very happy to hear who we were, she told us that a few years ago, she, her husband, and her children heard the Gospel, accepted Jesus, and even witnessed by a public testimony of baptism, but that it had been a long time since they had gone to a church because they live very far away from the nearest town and it is not affordable for them to travel.
Juwan’s daughter took us to meet the rest of her family and to pray for them. Missionary Jose offered to come every Friday to have Bible studies with them, and he only asked them to allow him to set up his camping tent on their land. The family was so happy with Jose’s offer that they even offered him a place not on their land but a space inside their house so that Jose could spend the night every time he came to speak to them about the Word of God.
Incredibly, this event was a quick answer from God to our prayer! Now, Jose is coming weekly to gather with three families who are so happy to be able to study the Word of God. Praise the Lord!
Now, Friends, we invite you to pray that these people would become a Shuar church that worships God in spirit and truth and become disciples of Jesus who bring the good news and make more Shuar disciples for the honor and glory of God.
We are simply so grateful to have been part of this beginning of God’s work in which He has involved us, Friends.
In obedience to him
Edwin and Maria Giron
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