This is Steve ...

I wanted to get some news up here before church Sunday.  

Thank you all for praying for the conference!  Here is a chunk of a post I just did for our family blog:  

The biggest news on this end is the final conference meeting yesterday.  I can´t give details, but there were eighty ladies that stayed after for an hour afterwards to study this document that Faye and Liesl worked very hard to translate.  It was about modesty, but basically sketched out what the Bible says about being a woman and how great it is.  One of the ladies, who had been a prostitute and despised by her family, found the love of Christ at this conference and believed.  Many ladies told Faye with tears that they had never heard any of this and the whole thing was life changing.  They represented three churches and several schools, and all said, ¨The 80 copies of this document will not grow dusty anywhere.  This is going to change Puerto Cabezas.¨  I talked with about forty men afterward.  Also very encouraging.  In short, the impact of the conference exceeded our wildest imaginings.  I am speaking again to the men tomorrow morning at 5:30 a.m.  Please pray!

We are well.  The ¨team¨ here (including Luke, Liesl and Seth) are amazing.  They are everywhere I look all the time doing beautiful, Christlike things.

Pray that we will make the most of our last days.  And that Luke will be able to find Raphael in Jinotepe Sunday and that that time together with him will be life-changing.  

Eager to see you all a week from Sunday!