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April 2026

Normally we share stories of what God is doing, in which we are directly involved but this time we thought we would share something Terry heard about last night in the monthly Córdoba Evangelical church leaders meeting.

For more than 25 years a group from different churches has been visiting the local prison weekly and the relationship with the current director is so strong that she asked if someone could visit a man who was in solitary confinement, after he had caused a lot of problems and threatened to kill any other inmates that were near him.

After a few months of someone reading the Bible to him (from a distance) and sharing the good news of Jesus, he said he wanted to give his life to Jesus and be placed back in to the general prison cells. They inserted him in a special module called “Proyecto hombre” (project man) where a lot of the really tough cases are and the other inmates tried to provoke him by tearing up his books, personal photos etc but he didn’t react with violence. In the last weeks he has had contact with some child abusers (which are normally treated really badly by other inmates and to whom he had previously said he would kill them all if he saw them).

To the surprise of the prison guards, he asked for their forgiveness for wanting to kill them and shared God’s love in Jesus with them and the possibility of being forgiven by God. Needless to say, the ripple effect in the prison has been incredible and has opened a door to preach about Jesus to many more people, for which we praise God!

Whilst our ministry may seem less exciting, it is equally necessary. We had a great last session of the Story of God looking at Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. As we asked the first  question, “what stands out to you?” Lolo quickly drew us to Jesus’ key words: “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die.”

We spent the next hour and a half helping them clarify what it means to believe in Jesus and have life in him and challenging them to believe (trust) in Jesus. At the end of the evening Lolo, Jesús and Nina took copies of a gospel tract we have helped to translate (Crosscheck) and we will try to meet with each of them individually, in the next week or so.

This Friday we have another meal with questions from Chat GPT to provoke people to think and get to know each other better. Lolo and Nina will be there and we pray that they will share something of what they are discovering in Jesus.

Please pray also for us to finish these next 6 weeks well as we prepare to come back to the UK at the beginning of June.

With love in Jesus,
Terry and Cristina