El Salvador
Slain minister’s work lives on
One year ago, Antonio Lara was gunned down in the doorway of a church where he served as minister.
Christians in El Salvador have continued Lara’s work and baptized 80 people across this Central American nation in the past year, said Paul Newhouse, a member of the High Pointe Church of Christ in McKinney, Texas.
Newhouse and High Pointe’s minister, James Nored, accompanied a team of church members to El Salvador recently to survey ministries supported by the congregation.
Sixto Rivera, a native Salvadoran, accompanied the group and served as translator. Rivera helps plant Spanish-speaking churches in the U.S. with the Texas-based Genesis Alliance.
The team visited a program for needy children and several ministers planting churches in communities near San Miguel.
Rivera later visited the High Pointe church and praised the congregation’s commitment to his homeland.
“As I stood in front of the congregation … I saw the affirmation of the people,” Rivera said. “Their faces were saying ‘Amen’ to the work.”
Nored added, “It was a great day and a great celebration of what God has done.”
SEE A VIDEO of the work in El Salvador at www.missionaloutreachnetwork.com.
Christians in El Salvador have continued Lara’s work and baptized 80 people across this Central American nation in the past year, said Paul Newhouse, a member of the High Pointe Church of Christ in McKinney, Texas.
Newhouse and High Pointe’s minister, James Nored, accompanied a team of church members to El Salvador recently to survey ministries supported by the congregation.
Sixto Rivera, a native Salvadoran, accompanied the group and served as translator. Rivera helps plant Spanish-speaking churches in the U.S. with the Texas-based Genesis Alliance.
The team visited a program for needy children and several ministers planting churches in communities near San Miguel.
Rivera later visited the High Pointe church and praised the congregation’s commitment to his homeland.
“As I stood in front of the congregation … I saw the affirmation of the people,” Rivera said. “Their faces were saying ‘Amen’ to the work.”
Nored added, “It was a great day and a great celebration of what God has done.”
SEE A VIDEO of the work in El Salvador at www.missionaloutreachnetwork.com.
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