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• Peace, and continued effectiveness in the Lord's work

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Burch, John & Sue

After seminary degrees from both Goron-Conwell & Westminster Theological, John served in several pastoral positions before the Burches joined the MTW team in Brisbane, Australia in 1991. They were involved with church planting, theological education, discipleship ministries, and conference planning until 2004.

In 2004, John and Sue joined the Spiritual Life Department of MTW. They will provide spiritual care and training for MTW’s long-term missionaries, and support for shortterm participants. This includes participating in MTW’s “Living in Grace” conferences, helping missionaries apply the doctrines of grace, and working with seminar attendees from PCA churches. They will also develop materials to encourage grace-based ministries among MTW’s missionaries and national workers.

Currently they are preparing for another ministry trip to learn more about a work in the Asia Pacific region and to visit those there.

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Crane, Richard & Robyn

Richard was born and grew up in Chile. With a BA from Covenant College and an M.Div from Covenant Seminary, Richard has studied at Westminster Seminary and has Chilean certification in systems family therapy.

Robyn was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and studied at Penn State. She has a BA and certification in educatio from Covenant College. She studied at Covenant Seminary and completed the PEPP program, a counseling and training center Richard founded.

From 1979 to 1991, the Cranes worked in church plantin and theological education with the National Presbyterian Church in Chile. After founding PEPP, Richard and Robyn started EMEP in 1992, a Chilean expression of Marriage Encounter. Their ministries and "therapy evangelism" brought couples to Christ and to Cristo Rey Church, were Richard was pastor until 2002.

The Cranes have been called to Miami to work in Latin America through LOGOI, a missionary agency that works with MTW. Richard is in charge of developing the pastoral psychology program for FLET - a distance education institution that provides Christian university and seminary studies for the Spanish world. He also conducts family seminars in Latin America and heads various othe projects.

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Cross, David & Barbara

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Cross, Jerry & Peggy

Jerry was born of missionary parents in La Paz, Bolivia, and Peggy is from Buffalo, New York. Peggy is a graduate of the State University College at Buffalo with a B.S. in special education. She also received her master’s degree in Bible from Covenant Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. Jerry is a graduate of Columbia International University in Columbia, South Carolina, and also holds a doctorate in church planting from Covenant Seminary as well.

Jerry serves as the team leader for the missionaries in Mexico City. He also trains and mentors church leaders in Brazil. Peggy has a varied ministry with women within the national Presbyterian Church. The Cross family has worked in Mexico City since 1987 and has served in Chile, South America from 1973-1986.

At this time they are in Patrocinio, Minas Gerais, teaching two courses at the Missionary Bible Institute: "Urban Church Planting" and "Living in Grace" three or four hours every day, preaching on Sunday at the local churches. They will stay on until December 10th for a conference with about 50 pastors from all over Minas Gerais

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• Please pray for daughter Sarah's work and studies as she continues to work on her doctorate.
• Please continue to pray for daughter Emily, and for her daughter Natalie as their emotional scars heal from her kidnapping last year

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Cross, Wilma

Wilma was born to missionaries Walter and Mary Cross in La Paz, Bolivia. After graduating from Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri in 1972, she was sent to Chile by World Presbyterian Missions. She taught at the Evangelical Institute of Quillota. In 1979 she developed the first Protestant Ministry for women in Chilean prisons. In 1987 McLean Presbyterian Church formed a mission board called Wilma’s Partners in Ministry (WPIM) in cooperation with MTW. Ruhama is a mercy ministry of Youth With a Mission.

Her ministry has now expanded to include Ruhama Mercy Ministries. The focus of this ministry is threefold: Evangelizing women in prison / Training volunteers for prison and mercy ministries / Operating a girls’ rehabilitation home.

Currently Wilma is overseeing & involved in teaching a new mercy school in Santiago Chile. These schools are 3 month, live-in, schools which take up a new life-changing topic each week. Weeks one & two, for example, focus on "Who is God?" so that by week 3, God Made Flesh, the mercy and grace of the Lord is highlighted.

These schools exist to reach the heart & teach others to follow the pattern of Jesus ministry found in Isaiah 61:1 "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound..."

• Praise & Prayer for the new school starting in Santiago, Chile this July!
• Pray that the Lord would move in hearts & not just minds, that he would increase our first love for Him.
• Pray for wisdom as Wilma is looking towards passing these ministries off to the the next generation
• Pray that the Lord would raise up teachers & leaders to minister in the area of mercy after the pattern of Jesus Christ

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Dortzbach, Karl & Debbie

Karl and Debbie continue laboring in the key issues with which they have been involved for years. Debbie continues as the global HIV/AIDS coordinator for World Relief and her main geographic area of focus now is in Asia, since that is the direction in which the epidemic is moving. She is involved mostly in strategic program development which includes funding for all the countries in which World Relief has HIV/AIDS programs. She oversees a significant African team in Nairobi, but the largest programs are in Mozambique, Malawi, and Rwanda. Kenya is now developing a significant program, and there is activity in Burkina Faso as well.

Karl is now an adjunct faculty with the Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology in Nairobi, teaching about 4 short block courses a year. He is full-time with Peacemaker Ministry to help seminaries globally to develop a course or a program in Peacemaking. In this last year he has developed an entry-level course at the BA level which has been taught in Liberia, Congo, Kenya, Peru, Cuba and Mexico. In the next year he will teach it in Bulgaria, Zambia, and Sri Lanka. He is working with the International School of Theology in Manilla to create a DMin program in leadership and peacemaking. Karl continues working with a video editor in Nairobi in the development of video tools for the church in Africa. Over these past years about 25 films have been created

Living Hope for Africa (Local Churches Respond to Aids)

"In today's Africa the problems often seem overwhelming. This is particularly true of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This is a training film intended to help churches understand how they might respond to the needs of HIV/AIDS. The one-hour film is in five major parts that focus on the population groups of: patients, youth, orphans, care givers and church leaders. In each section the viewer first sees and hears about the problem, and then an opportunity is given to respond to Biblical texts and to the question, "what can YOUR church do?" The film then shows what some churches have done without outside aid to address the pain and problems.

If you think there is nothing that can be done, think again! Let this film help you and your people think and imagine all that might be done by God's grace to be His living hope in this time of darkness." - Quoted from Africaresource.org

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Home But Not Alone

"he numbers of orphans are increasing all over the world, but particularly in regions where financial poverty is the greatest. Wealthy countries can best help as they listen to the "relationally rich" nations that bear the greatest challenges of orphans. This film is to help the viewer rethink strategies for orphan assistance, and engage with the challenge. Home But Not Alone has been produced in collaboration with the Desmond Tutu Center for Learning." - Quoted from Africaresource.org

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• Debbie has recently been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, pray for healing, encouragement, & patience and endurance with great joy

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