A Story from Mike Butka

This month I want to share a story of one of the many successes that we are having in Trujillo. I want to tell you a story about Patty. Patty was one of the first people we met when we first arrived in Trujillo four and half years ago. Patty was Skylar and Nicole’s Spanish teacher. After 6 months, she started volunteering and helping (Danell) with Hope 4 Kids. Now she is one of the supervisors and they do it all! We are so grateful for their hard work and dedication to this program and to Christ. Danell and I took Patty and her parents through the Peace Treaty and all three of them were baptized in 2006. We never pressured or bible thumped Patty about her religious traditions that she was still part of. Recently she has been coming to our house church and she has been part of our training in the ambassador program, Life Winds and Puentes (bridges). All three of these programs we use in the barrios. It is so awesome to see how much she has grown with Christ and how her walk with the Lord is so strong. When we were in a new barrio called Buenas Aires Sur doing the Peace Treaty with 15 men at a drug rehab center, Patty was in my group. After the first lesson, she was all excited and told me that she was a natural evangelist. Patty was so excited and said I can’t believe I could have been doing this all along and I have wasted 3 years. I said don’t worry because you have many years and opportunities to serve Jesus. She told us that she can’t believe that she is and can be an ambassador of Christ. She is on fire for the Lord and last week she baptized her friend Lauren who she also took through the Peace Treaty. Now Patty is going to train Lauren how to be an ambassador! And this is how multiplying begins. Thank you Jesus for the love you continually give us!