Ed and Jeanne Casteel minister in church planting and regional leadership in Asia Pacific. “Many of our recent updates have centred around the new outreach at the village where over 200 people are meeting to hear the gospel message. We and the whole team sincerely appreciate your continued prayers for this outreach as they have just started the ‘Life of Christ’ lessons and show how the promises of God in the Old Testament are fulfilled with the birth of the Saviour. Pray that these folks’ hearts will be open and receptive as the gospel message unfolds before their eyes.

“The [W] outreach is in the very north of Wana land. With this email I wanted to introduce you to a fairly new outreach we have started in the south. In recent years more and more Wana people in the south have been expressing an interest in hearing the gospel, but as the Scriptures say, ‘The harvest is plenteous, but the labourers are few.’ We do have one Wana family, Riben and Annie, along with a single fellow, Witan, who has been working in this area at the village. They too are making their way through the chronological lessons in an attempt to make the gospel very clear to these people. Riben feels overwhelmed with all the requests he is receiving, so we appreciate your prayers for him and wisdom to take on only what the Lord would truly have for him and the team.”

Photo #1 caption: Riben on the right teaching the small group in Laworo. Notice he has all the chronological pictures hanging on the wall behind him which go along with each of the lessons