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A new update has arrived from the Hispanic Christian Ministry! Read about Rev. Pennings' ventures to Panama and Colombia here!

You are all once again encouraged to attend the Classis Michigan Missions Rally this coming Monday, April 30, 2012. Rev. Boekestein will be the main speaker. The Rally begins at 7:00pm and will take place at Bethany URC, 5401 Byron Center Ave in Wyoming, Michigan.

It should be another encouraging and challenging night of edification and fellowship. We hope to see you there! (See the map below for directions.)

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HCM Update – Rev. Pennings will be travelling once again from May 2-14. He will be visiting a new MINTS Centre that has opened up in Panama. He has also been invited to teach in Colombia where he will be visiting 5 MINTS Centres to do 7 conferences on Nehemiah and Canon of the Scriptures. He has also been invited to preach/teach on seven different occasions. There will be a lot of travelling within Colombia. Please pray for safety.

[Not sure when exactly this update was written. - Ed.]

[Hispanic Christian Ministry] Supporters:

I’m half way through my current ministry trip having just spent five days in El Salvador. I had the privilege of participating in the wedding of two of our MINTS students who are showing much leadership potential in MINTS-El Salvador. I am very impressed with the ministry of José Ramírez in his role as country coordinator there. He is developing significant leadership there and has developed five Centres with over 60 students at this point. He made arrangements to gather them in one conference activity where I taught the course of Philippians. I am currently in Nicaragua attending to the opening of one new Centre, and teaching at several others as well as presenting MINTS to two groups of pastors.

Rev. Eric Pennings

Missionary of Covenant Reformed Church of Toronto

The Spring Missions Rally will be held on Monday, April 30 at 7pm with Rev. Boekestein speaking. Mark your calendars and stay tuned for more details!

Rev. Pennings reports on the encouraging retreat MINTS-CA had last month involving spiritual leaders from across Central America. Be sure to check it out here!

Rev. Shane Lems' lecture from the last Classis Michigan Missions Committee Fall Missions Rally, Home Missions: Moving Forward in Church Planting, is now available for download (MP3) on our Missions Rally MP3s section.

This is worthwhile and challenging listening, no matter who you are or what classis (or denomination) you're in. Consider burning it to CDs and given them out as gifts as well!

The Contact page now has an Email field so that we can actually answer your question personally if you asked one. As for the question that was asked, no, we haven't received updates from the Langendoens in Honduras. But if somebody has such an update for any URC mission work, or even contact information of individuals who do keep up with our missionaries, there is a Contact page and you can submit it to us!

The Classis Michigan Missions Committee will, of course, review submissions before they are posted.

Read the Eternal Life Mission of Tepic, Mexico's newsletter here (PDF), and Rev. Penning's journal on his work for the Hispanic Christian Ministry here.

Thank God for the work of all His ministers in promoting the gospel and discipling His people, and pray diligently for them!

Rev. Andrea Ferrari wrote a nice, short update on the Reformation Italy blog which you can read here.

Also, don't forget the Fall Classis Michigan Missions Rally! Rev. Shane Lems will speak on church planting at Grace URC in Alto, MI (9255 84th St SE).