Walking Alongside Gary and Mary Lou Sander

We were recently accompanying the University Covenant mission team at a children’s event in the El Pinar neighborhood at the Spring of Peace Covenant Church.  There were many children – more than 70 – and all of them were involved …

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Ten adults from the University Covenant Church of Davis, CA, arrived to spend 11 days in Medellin and will minister in the Spring of Peace Covenant Church and in Covenant Elementary School.  In order to get to the El Pinar …

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This week’s Prayer and Fasting time with the Antioquia Regional Pastors centered around a discussion of Numbers chapter 20, where Moses strikes the rock instead of speaking to the rock in order to get water.  For two hours we discussed …

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2011 has been a year with less rain, so far.  But, 2009 and 2010 set records in Colombia with the amounts of rain.  One of those locations which was receiving large amounts of rain was Barranquilla, specifically, the 20^th…

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Mary Lou led the second AVA (Advocacy for Victims of Abuse) training for 14 leaders of the AVA—Colombia team.  They are a solid and unified group of leaders who are taking their role seriously as hands and voices of God …

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Mission staffs often get together for a staff retreat.  Since our staff has consisted of just Mary Lou, Gary and Cathy Campobello for the past five years, we have often gotten together, just not often in a retreat format.  In …

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Mary Lou is standing here with the real heroines of the Barranquilla-Soledad Covenant Churches in the North Coast Conference of Colombia – (from left to right) Amalfi, Evelsy, Damaris, and Milena.  We are continually impressed and blessed by the ministries …

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Yes, our mission staff continues to grow!  We arrived home from the airport around midnight last night with Sam and Kassie Posladek, our newest short term missionaries.  They will do some intensive Spanish study here in Medellín and then move …

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One month of Holly Meyer’s Short term missionary career has come and gone.  In that month she has gotten herself all set up to go forward with her ministry in Colombia.  She has met the majority of the pastors in …

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Pastor Porfirio Cassares was traveling on the bus from the small town of San Carlos, in the department of Córdoba, Colombia, on his way to the city Montería to attend the ministry couple encounter that Mary Lou and Gary were …

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