Hello friends, family and faithful partners in the gospel,

Attached you will find our March newsletter, and it hits me now that we will only have 2 more newsletters to mail out from the United States.  Our 3rd from now will be from Brazil!  Wow, we are so excited to begin the work in Belem!  Thank you all so much for your prayers, thoughts, concern and support for God's work through us.

Serving Christ Jesus along with you,
Brian King

3-1-2010

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to give you all an update on the situation in Chile.

Family: The family is doing well. The kids are back to sleeping in their rooms but still ask if the earthquake will happen again. The house still doesn’t have electricity but the word is that maybe today or tomorrow. The kids are beginning to ask how they can help those in need.

Church: Almost everyone from our church and the churches in Santiago are accounted for without major damages, but the are three churches in the south that we have not been able to communicate with. I know many have desires to help but we will keep you posted as soon as we have an ideas of how to help we will let you know. Please be patient. Also one of our members works with the Red Cross. He is going to call me this afternoon with more information.

God is good. My prayer is that the church will shine in the darkness for the Chilean people growing the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We will be on Skype at home as soon as the electricity come back receiving your calls.

Love you all,
Zane, Tae, Naomi, Isaac, Simeon, Enoch

Dear Brethren

Greetings!

I just got back from a six weeks trip to Ethiopia. It was a very productive and successful trip. I was able to travel to the countryside to see the newly planted congregations, conduct leadership workshop, talk to the deaf and KG teachers,  visit some of the newly installed water wells and able to clear out the rig and other shipments sent by Healing Hands International. Everything went well and good.
Update report of my trip to Ethiopia.
Left to Ethiopia:   Jan. 11, 10
Return:   Feb. 16, 10 (six weeks trip)

I.           Baptismal Report: Feb. 17, 2010
In Awasa area 85 people has been baptized in one month. Bro. Yonas, Awassa’s congregation preacher reported 3 new churches have been planted around the town of Awasa.
II.         Water wells area evangelical gospel outreach report:

We received this on Saturday:

I am Angelica Alaniz daughter of Armando Alaniz. My dad wanted me to update you on his health, after several days of intensive testing of his deteriorating health the team of 5 physicians diagnose him with stage 4 cancer of the colon. This primary score mass grew enough to spread the cancer to the liver and lungs. The cancer deteriorated enough of his blood cells, that he had to have a transfusion of 2 units of blood to replenish the loss.

My dad continues to be hospitalized. Tuesday, God willing, they will do minor surgeryto place a port on his chest of chemotherapy treatment until the cancer is regressed. My family continues to ask for prayers.

Angelica Alaniz

We wish to let you know that Brother Armando Alaniz is currently in Ben Taub Hospital in Houston Texas and has been diagnosed with cancer. He will be having more tests in the next few days to determine the type and how advanced it is. We will update you when we know more.

We appreciate your prayers on behalf of Armando and his family.

from the Angleton Church of Christ

Sunset Family,

Hello there! How are you all doing? I pray you and your families are well!

Here is our lastet newsletter. As you can see, we have combined December and January.

We really enjoyed seeing all of you that we could during the workshop!

We love and appreciate you!
Danny and Lee

Attached is The February newsletter from George W. Hall with Biblical Institute of Central America

Jabe Matthew Pratt, 95 of Abilene, passed away Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 at his home in Abilene. A service is scheduled for 11:00 am Friday February 5th, 2010 at Piersall Benton Chapel, 733 Butternut St with burial to follow at Elmwood Memorial Park, Don Morrison officiating. A visitation will be held at the funeral home Thursday evening from 5-6:30 pm.

Jabe was born on September 17th, 1914 to Jabe Ero Pratt and Virda Cooper Pratt in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. He attended ACU, LCU and Sunset International Bible Institute. Jabe was a minister at many churches across the Northeast and the Western United States as well as many other areas of the country. After retiring from Portalis, NM Jabe and his wife Yvonne moved to Abilene where they were members of the 11th and Willis Church of Christ.

Jabe was preceded in death by his mother, father, A son and a brother. He is survived by his wife of 77 years Yvonne, a son, Butch Pratt and wife Gladys of Little Elm, TX; a granddaughter; Jamie Klimko and two grandsons; Gary Pratt and Gerald Pratt, 5 great grandchildren, 3 great-great grandchildren, as well as many extended family members and close friends.

Attached is the latest newsletter from Brian and Melissa King and their plans to go to Brazil.