Please pray for the following schedules in December. We appreciate your interest and love for what God is doing in our midst.

12/2-4: Abe will lead a seminar on *How to do Bible devotions well* at Leon Korean Presbyterian Church. May the church deepen their love for the Word of life. We expect about 30 people to take the seminar. May God's Word flourish in their lives.

12/3: *Pastor's meeting* will be held. May God continue to grant them a long-lasting friendship and partnership in doing ministries. Saturnino Arellano an evangelist is in his examination process for ordination. May God give him patience and loving heart for God's people at La Hermosa Church, where he is pastoring currently. He will be ordained sometime in February 2012.

12/6: The last session for the *Bible reading in 90 days* (readings for days 88-90) will be on the first Tuesday of December; and we all will celebrate the succeeded reading since last February. Wow, it was a kind of long journey, and many dropped along on the way, but about 10-15 people have faithfully walked along. Many congratulations and blessings.

12/11: *Duranno Church* in Mexico City will have us for a Sunday service. May God give an appropriate message for this fairly new church among the Korean immigrants in the city.

12/17-18: Mark Volker, a former CRWM media director and a current Professor at Dordt College, is coming with his students to make *a video for CRWM ministries in Mexico*. Please pray that this project would be a powerful source for us to promote Mexico missions to our churches.

12/20: We are leaving to Los Angeles for the upcoming *home service (furlough)* until the end of June 2012. We will reside in Rosemead, CA (January-April) and Grand Rapids, MI (May-June). Please contact us at 626.222.1882 (cellphone) or write to chiapslee@gmail.com.

*B4 (Mentoring)*: Pray for brother Alex Lopez and his wife Selene as they just had their third babygirl. He is also getting prepared for his ordination sometime in June 2012. Pray also for other young pastors, Hector Abarca and his church El Nazareno, Israel Melendez and his church Bethesda, Abdias Rodriguez and his church Puerta del Cielo, and also Noe Santiago and his mission at La Lagunilla. These men are serving and learning to serve God's Kingdom better here in Cuernavaca.

*Our visa*: We have not received our visa yet. Now a document is missing, our daughter's new passport. Hope this is the last piece to file in order to get the visa ASAP before we leave for the home service. Please pray this emergency need. Thanks.

*Our children*: Pray for our children's physical and spiritual growth and their school needs.

Thanks so much for your prayers. We are looking forward to see and talk over a coffee with you all.

Rev. Abe & Elaine Lee
CRWM Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

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Please pray for the following items:

1. Tuesday nights: We only have 10 days worth of Bible reading. Planning to finish in 4 weeks. We are so thankful for those who have come faithfully to read His word since last February.

2. Thursdays: Abe is giving 2 classes at the Reformed Seminary in Mexico city. Continue to pray for the students as they are preparing themselves to His calling.

3. Saturdays: Please pray for the Bible institute. Pastor Hector and Melendez are lecturing this time. Pray also for our 6 students.

4. Nov. 3-5: Annual Missionary Meetings in Mexico City. Pray that the sharing each other's ministry and planning for the next year will go well. May we all hear the calling, "Come to Macedonia and help us" and act upon the call.

5. Nov. 5-19: We will host a DTS team from All Nations Church. After several months of lectures, this will be their field service. Pray that they will apply what they have learned, guided to follow God's lead, and at the same time be blessing to our Mexican churches.

6. Nov. 5: Monthly Pastor's meeting. Some pastors have confessed that these meetings have been a blessing to them in person and in ministry. PTL!

7. Nov. 9-12: Our Mexican partner churches will have their annual synod meeting in Chiapas. Pray for all the delegates and the business matters and may be glorified in every single business matters they will deal.

8. Nov. 11: Among the evangelical churches in Mexico has been scheduled a prayer meeting at the Azteca Stadium (capacity of 100,000 people) in Mexico City. Please join us in praying for Mexico. Pray for the safety issues, new presidential election in 2012, etc.

9. Nov. 14: Abe along with three young pastors (Alex, Hector and Israel) will have their monthly meeting. It is a peer mentoring meeting.

10. Nov. 25: We were invited to a marriage seminar. May God give us words to speak to; and those who come and listen would be blessed and will enhance their marriage.

11. Nov. 26: We are scheduled for the Image of God seminar reunion. The 34 participants plus our service staffs will come together once again to share and pray. After this reunion, we will divide them into small groups and start the 8 week follow up Bible study. Pray that God will touch their hearts to continue with this study.

12. Missionary Garcia. Sam and his family plan to go to Spain as long term missionaries and have applied for the visa. But the visa was granted only to Sam. Sam will have to leave within a month as the Spain Embassy offered him the option. Unfortunately, he needs to leave his wife and daughters behind not knowing when they will get the visa. Please pray for them. He will work for the African immigrants.

13. Our visa: We have not received our visa yet. It's been almost 2 months. Please continue to pray for it.

13. Our children: Pray for their physical and spiritual growth and their studies. Especially for Nathan, who needs our extra prayers at this moment with his studies.

Thanks from the bottom of our heart for your sacrificial prayers. To send out this monthly prayer letter is our joy. It is also an encouragement for us and for our ministry knowing that many people are with us in prayers to boldly expand God's kingdom and strengthen His people. Thanks and blessings.

1) Spiritual Renewal - The 4th God's Image Seminar held in Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo (July 15-16)

2) Los Angeles Christian Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, CA)'s medical missions in Chiapas (July 19-24)

3) Urim CRC (Irvine, CA)'s VBS ministry in Temixco (August 9-12)

4) Hanbit CRC (Detroit, MI) & All Nations Community Church (Toledo, OH)'s prayer ministry and street evangelism in Cuernavaca (August 13-19)

5) All Nations CRC (LA) His' Vision 800's worship ministry in Cuernavaca (September 22-24)

6) Vision Care Service's Eye care campaign and Open Door Presbyterian Church (Herndon, Va)'s medical ministry in Chiapas (October 3-7)

4) Mentoring: The group of 4 young pastors are being mentored by us. We are scheduled to meet on the 17th. May God give us clear vision to lead them and encourage them to pursue what God has placed on their ways.

5) Oct. 1: The youth union of our churches in Cuernavaca will have a Bible Quiz night. May it be not only a fun time together, but a challenge to deep in the Bible-centered life.

6) Oct. 2-8: Vision Care Service, LACPC, and ODPC (Va.) will serve the Cho’l people in Chiapas. They are offering free eye-surgeries (more than 100 patients are already on the list) and medical services. Abe and Elaine will assist these teams and our Cho’l people, but we have to leave our kids in Cuernavaca under our friends' cares. Please pray for our children, the medical ministries, and our travel back and forth to Chiapas.

7) Oct. 21-22: The 5th Image of God seminar will be held in Cuernavaca. We have the service team and the place ready, but the list of participants. We expect however to have around 40-50 people for the event. Pray that God’s unfailing love will be upon every participant and the ministry team.

8) Our children. Pray for their physical and spiritual health; and their studies as they are pushing hard to reach the satisfying objectives before the home service.

9) Visa renewal. Continue to pray for the renewal of our visa. Hope to get it soon!

Thanks so much for your hard work praying for God's Kingdom in Cuernavaca and beyond in Mexico. Blessings.

1. Tuesday nights: Our Bible readers came back after a month of vacations. The reading continues and our plan is to finish before the end of this year.

2. Thursdays: Abe is going back and forth to Mexico city for the Reformed Seminary classes. He teaches leadership and applicable Calvin's thought.

3. Saturdays: The Bible institute is resuming its third modules. Sept. 3rd will be the first class.

4. Sept. 9-10: Presbytery Emanuel is having its annual presbytery meetings at Shekinah. May the topics that will be dealing with during the meetings would be practical and encouraging to further the Kingdom of God. Abe and pastor Hector will lead a study session on Take Your Church's Pulse, a Multiplication Network material.

5. Sept. 16-18: Abe is invited to lead a conference for a group of church leaders (40) in Tijuana. Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church (LA) will organize the event.

6. Sept. 22-25: A service and learning team will come to share how they worship God. The team of 9 people from All Nation Church’s HIS dept. will serve our youth by teaching body worship. Hope that it will please God as our youths learn to worship God with their whole person. On Saturday 24th, we are planning a concert at a local park.

7. Our children are back for a new school year. They will be attending the school just for half year due to our upcoming home service (January - July 2012). Pray for their physical and spiritual health.

8. Our Mexican visa is due to renew this month. Pray that the process would go smoothly.

9. The image of God Seminar Ministry. After another wonderful experience back in July, now we are soon to have another coming up. So planning is on demand. Our 5th seminar in Cuernavaca would be on October 21 & 22. Pray for our ministry team to refresh their readiness and renew their attitude to serve at the event.

10. In Palenque, there will be a big feast with medical campaigns during the week of October 2-9. A medical organization known as Vision Care Service (ophthalmology) will perform free medical service to hundreds of patients, mostly the ch'ol people. Our local personnel (IPRM and INPM) are spreading the word through radio and use every possible means for people to get the needed care. It is VCS' 100th campaign. ... Along with them, there will be one more service and learning team from Open Door Presbyterian Church (VA). They will also do medical brigade (intestinal medicine, pediatrician, etc.). May many people restore their sight and see their God once again.

Thanks you as always for your faithfulness in partnering with us.

2. Tuesday night Bible reading classes will resume on August 2nd after a month of vacation.

3. August 5: God's Image seminar ministry team will have meetings to celebrate the seminar we had in Carrillo Puerto (evaluation) and to plan for the upcoming seminar (Oct. 20-21) in Cuernavaca.

4. August 6: Pastor's monthly meeting will be held at pastor Saturnino's house. His wife Guadalupe has been ill for a while that put her pregnancy in jeopardy.

5. August 8-13: Hosting a work team from Urim CRC (CA). The team will bring VBS (and saloon decoration for church kids), prayer for the sick, and Taekwondo classes. Also will be offered a study on Leadership to our pastors.

6. August 12-19: Hosting a work team from Hanbit CRC (MI) and Toledo Korean United Church (OH). The team will do street evangelism, Prayer for the sick, and construction. Also there will be a cooking class.

7. August 22: Our kids will be back at school. Due to our home service, they will be in school for a half year. May they have a wonderful school year.

8. August 23: The Reformed Seminary in Mexico City starts another school year.

9. August 25-29: Abe will lecture at a spiritual retreat of the Chol pastors (the Alfa y Omega Presbytery of the NPCM). There will be about 20 pastors.

10. Pray for our landlord (Eduardo) who has been hospitalized for the last 2 months, and still no sign of getting better.

Please pray for our physical and spiritual health as we are saturated with many activities. May those who visit us will see the work of God in our area and be blessed.

Blessings on your needs, too. and also pray for all of you, dear friend.

Reformed Theological Seminary of Mexico (RTSM) has announced two graduates (Jose Antonio & Jesus) after 4 years of theological preparations. Both grads will be working in Cuernavaca (Jose Antonio) and Acapulco (Jesus).

Please join us in prayer for the followings in July:

1. July 2: Our monthly meetings with pastors are becoming every month for a better mean to relate each other in person and for ministeries. We met this time in our home. Beside well feeding, we studied on a book for pastoral reflection, The OT Template: Rediscovering Gods Principles for Discipling All Nations by Landa Cope (YWAM, 2006). Our book reviewer of the month, Samuel Garcia, did great opening calling his colleagues to reflect their own ministry attitude. We will continue this study 2-3 more sessions.

2. July 9: Nathan will be graduating from the elementary school. Afterward, he'll join Naomi next year.

3. July 11: Abe initiated extra meetings with three young leaders of Emmanuel Presbytery. He will mentor them for personal maturity and visionary church leaders. The group is called B4 (the Four Guys).

4. July 12: We, along with the ministry team, are traveling to Q. Roo for the Image of God Seminar. It will take us two full days to get there. Please pray for the safe trip.

5. July 15-16: The 4th Image of God seminar will be held in Quintana Roo. Pray that God will heal the broken hearts and bind up the wounds. Our dear friend John and Shirley Wind will also serve as table leaders.

6. July 18-25: On our way back from The Seminar, we will spend a week in Chiapas to host a summer mission team from Los Angeles Christian Presbyterian Church. The church visited about a decade ago, now they want to see them again. They are bringing various ministries: VBS, medical ministry, prayer for the sick, and beauty saloon ministries.

7. Please continue to pray for our dearest friend Cesario for his quaked faith and marital vows. Since last year after her oldest daughter got forcefully married (due to teen problems) to a pastor's son, he started to isolate himself from churched life. This change started to damage his marriage up to the point of divorce. He even doubts the God of his salvation.

8. Pray for the weekly Bible Reading. Now we are reading the Day 51 of 90. Abe translates every week about 2-4 day reading portions to teach the contents and for homework. The reading is in God's Kingdom Perspective, so the readers will have a complete understanding of God's message to the fallen humanity. We continue to have a group of 25-30 Bible lovers. Praise the Lord!

Thanks for your ongoing prayer. We pray also for your rich blessings from the high.

She is so happy to serve God and be a channel for blessing to her youth of the church she serves. It was the first time gathering this many youth at church. There showed up about 50 teens. It was a joint activity from a number of churches in town. After a 3-hour conference on a brief introductory session of God's Image conference to a group of couples and some teens, Abe continued delivering the Word to this adolescents. Their program started at 10 pm until 1 am. Wow, it was an endless day for us, but glad that God touched every one of them through the Word. We left home at 9 am for a 5 hour driving to this place, and 6-7 hours of marathon activities. It was hotter than Cuernavaca, so we wanted to take at least a good night rest, but we had no success to find a place to sleep cool. The five of us slept underneath the bent ceiling fan ... so hot but so tired to fall asleep anyway. It was pleasing to serve God's people after all.

See the pictures of the event at Flickr. Please click on Tulcingo del Valle

Praise God that pastor Jose Ocampo was able to make the full payment for the land purchase for a mission in Puente de Ixtla. Now it's ready to build a worship center. He is also becoming our key member for the Image of God ministry.

Please join us to pray for the followings in June:

1. Every Tuesday nights – Our 3-hour Bible reading program (aka, Bible Reading in 90 Days in God’s Kingdom Perspective) is being blessing to many people. Time to time, we see new faces. Our Bible readers now add up to 25-30 regularly. They are blessed through the Bible reading program. So far we've made progress 1/3 of the entire Bible. PTL.

2. Every other Thursday nights – Follow-Up Bible Study of God’s Image Ministry. The last session (of 8) will be on June 9. Yes, we've walked through the 8 sessions. We will celebrate the finale maybe at a coffee shop. However, they want to continue studying the Bible with Elaine. PTL! They have poured out even the secret parts of their life experiences. May God continue to heal their lives through the Word of God. Now then the Bible study will be open to everyone. In addition, Elaine will begin another follow-up Bible study with Adriana. Pray that God will use Elaine to minister her.

3. Reformed Presbyterian Seminary in Mexico City. Abe is having the last class on June 3. His students will have to turn in final term papers (mostly a series of sermons). Abe will celebrate with them for their hard works. He will take them out, probably a chinese buffet restaurant. They love to eat a LOT.

4. Every Saturday mornings – A half dozen of men from Bethesda RPC gather together around our dining table every Saturday morning at 6:30 am. Abe leads the study and prayerfully challenge them to walk in holiness to lead better their families and play their role at workplaces. Its been more than 2 months so far. Please pray for Jorge (mechanic), Ulises (student), Alberto (salesman), Israel & Noe (seminary students), and pastor Francisco. They are making a great team, too, to lead the church forward.

5. Every Saturday night – Our TEE continues with 5 students. A new student (Rut) has recently joined us. We've been studying on Spiritual Leadership (Abe) and Hermeneutics (Jose). Pray for our students: Maria Luisa, Grecia, Bertha, Rut, and Roberto, as they walk through the Bible and also face some tough spiritual struggles, too.

6. The Image of God Seminar Ministry (July 15-16) – As the date is approaching, we are planning the details now. The biggest challenge we are facing is the travel plan. There are about 16 people who will be going to the Yucatan Peninsula (nearby Cancun) to serve the seminar. Since we don't have a van (we'd need one in future), we must rent a passenger van to travel together. We will be driving up to 2k miles in total. Please pray that we'd be able to rent an economic, safe, and nice van within our budget. Also pray for our team to raise their travel funds. We know God is good to us. He has always been good!

7. Our dear brother and ex-student of TEE Rigoberto (Shekinah church) was diagnosed with Leukemia a couple weeks ago. He is in a critical condition and is hospitalized in Mexico City. In Mexico, in order to get the blood transfusion, the patient must collect the amount of the blood before getting the transfusion. Since most of people he knows live in Cuernavaca, it is a bit difficult and troublesome for them to make blood donation. Beside it is open only between 7-10 am. Please pray that it will not complicate his needs. Pray also his family, especially Rode his wife who is so scared due to the similar symptoms with that of his father who passed away some time ago.

8. Dated events:
- June 4: Monthly Pastor's meeting at Bethesda Church. It has been running now on its own. Our ministry partners are taking the initiative to make their churches march forward with good communications.

- June 12: Abe will preach at the Lord's Church of Puebla (a Korean church). Their pastor is on furlough.

- June 16: The Image of God ministry team meeting. Our team has been on fast for the last 2 months for the upcoming seminar (most participants will be pastors and elders). And this event is being coordinated by pastor Jacobo and Grecia who are on training stage. Please pray for the team as we all will continue fasting until the event date.

- June 25: Nathan will have his Taekwondo Black/Red belt Exam. He's taking extra classes to get ready for the exam.

8. Our kids are now taking final exams as the school year is about to end.

9. Please continue to pray for the safety of all the ministers in Cuernavaca and throughout Mexico as the war on drugs is seemingly an endless battle.

Thanks for your prayer. Blessings.

Rev. Abe & Elaine Lee

Easter celebration will be a turning point for many new comers. The Catholic believers are going to launch huge street performance on the Passion of Christ. It may attract people to stare at the performance but we pray that the very meaning of Christ’s ministry on the cross would be planted in their heart.

Our children will have Tae Kwon Do grade exam this Saturday. Pray that they would enjoy it, first of all, and be active participants in social life to bring in justice and order.

Please join us to pray for the followings in April:

1. Every Tuesday nights – Our 3-hour Bible reading program (Bible Reading in 90 Days In God’s Kingdom Perspective) has been blessing to 30 of us. We’ve read so far up to Judges. Pray that it would not just be a reading of the Bible, but experiencing the close walk with God as Adam and Eve had had in Eden.

2. Every Thursday nights – Elaine continues Follow-Up Bible Study of God’s Image Ministry. Among her group members, Gloria needs a particular attention due to her depression level. Pray that God will turn it into praise. Carolina is a blessing as she is getting fired up in the Bible reading. And Rosenda has a great talent that attracts the youngsters of her church.

3. Every Thursdays – We will continue assisting the Reformed Theological Seminary in Mexico City. Pray for Pastor Luis Manuel (rector) and his leadership to lead on this institution.

4. Every Saturday mornings – Bethesda RPC has a few men who are now gathering together at 6:30 am for a Bible study. It’s been just a few weeks they come to our home to have coffee along the Bible study. We want to explore our relationship with the Holy Spirit through these studies. Jorge, Ulises, Alberto, Israel, Noe, and pastor Francisco are formenting a pleasant environment to learn and support each other to grow up in spirit.

5. Every Saturdays – Our TEE has offered its second modules of 4-month classes. Our 4 students successfully passed the first study materials and now are learning Spiritual Leadership and Hermeneutics. Pray for our students: Maria Luisa, Grecia, Bertha, and Roberto.

6. Image of God Seminar Ministry (July 15-16) – Our ministry team gathered to pray, plan, and partake each one’s responsibility for the upcoming seminar in the Yucatan peninsula. The event will be held for the benefit of Zacilbe Presbytery, whose pastors and elders will take this upcoming seminar. Pray that God will walk ahead of us to minister these leaders. On April 30, our Image of God Ministry team will have meetings to plan for upcoming events. Pray for the team to unite in same goal and spirit.

7. Monthly pastoral meetings – This Saturday morning our pastors of Emmanuel Presbytery will gather to have fellowship encouraging each other’s ministry. It will be at pastor Hector’s place.

8. Easter week has always been so busy for us. This year it will have us preach almost everyday in that week. Holy Thursday (Last Supper), Holy Friday (Seven Words on the Cross), and Sunday daybreak service (Elaine will preach). Especially, Resurrection service is led by women as the biblical tradition is narrated in the Gospels.

9. Pray for the land purchase for Puente de Ixtla missions. The fund raising is not so easy but we trust in the Lord. Also pray for the following steps ... filing documents and initial construction for a temporary place to worship. Pastor Jose Ocampo is heading this missions.

Thanks for your prayer. Blessings.