Mark's Notebook

Bostons in Paraguay

(My brother in law and his family are missionaries in Paraguay. This is their latest newsletter.)

July 2005     

Actually, the Bostons are now in Sacramento, California. We arrived in Sacramento June 2 after leaving Paraguay on May 13.  We made a detour to Quito, Ecuador where Rebecca joined us to celebrate Pauls high school graduation, then we spent a week in Florida with Brenda’s mother.

Our goodbyes in Paraguay were bittersweet. For the two weeks prior to our leaving we had meals out every single day with our Paraguayan friends who we were saying goodbye to.  The highlight was a special 3 hour long service with participation from nearly every department in the church.   We left Paraguay feeling loved and honored. Our plan is to stay in California until March 15th of 2006 and then return to Paraguay to resume our ministries.  During our stay in California we will be speaking in churches, participating in Missions conferences, womens events and other activities where we have the opportunity to speak about Paraguay.  

Bob continues as Field director in Paraguay, doing the work long distance. Dan and Becky Klassen are interim pastors of the San Lorenzo church and Bob stays in touch with them and keeps up with news of all the CMA churches in Paraguay.  The Lambare church is experiencing great growth under the leadership of Jorge Bernardini accompanied by Chilean missionaries Edwin and Octavia Sotomayor and Debora Parada.  The Lambare church is quickly outgrowing its rented property and is looking to buy a place that will be permanent for them.  They are running over 150 on Sundays and recently hosted their first ladies tea with more than 100 ladies present. Join us in prayer for the future of this church.  

News from San Lorenzo is good.  The church recently participated in a city wide Franklin Graham campaign and followed up on the campaign with a dinner for new comers and a ladies tea at which 80 women were present and there were 10 decisions for Christ.  Dan and Becky Klassen are doing a good leading the church along with a leadership team.  Pray for Dan and Becky and daughter Emily, they were in Paraguay less than 4 months when we left them alone.  Pray also for Jorge, Nancy and Ignacio, our seminary students.

One of the highlights of being in the United States is that we have been able to speak on the phone with our new missionaries preparing to depart for Paraguay. Forest and Sarah Schell will be working with us to plant a new church on Mariscal Lopez near Asuncion, and J and Karen Spurling will work in the Asuncion church. We are encouraged that God is sending dynamic, talented people willing to work hard with us in Paraguay.   Currently they are participating in a language acquisition course and both couples, accompanied by Melanie Bagamary will depart for Costa Rica in August. They will spend a year in Costa Rica learning Spanish and then join us in Paraguay. Pray for all the transition and cultural and language learning these couples will experience.

On a more personal note, we are happy to be back in California and to be reunited with our children and extended family.  Rebecca graduated from Sacramento State University in May and has a full time at a public relations firm and a part time job doing public relations at the Mexican Cultural Center.   Paul has a part time summer job and is preparing to go to Azusa Pacific University in the fall.  When we are not out speaking at other churches, we attend Church of the Foothills in Cameron Park, California.  Many thanks to the folks from COTF and Trinity Alliance in Redding who helped us get settled in our home here in Sacramento.   

We would love to hear from you.  You can call us at (916) 362-3606.

Thank you for giving to the Great Commission Fund from which we receive our support.  

Blessings,

Bob and Brenda Boston
Missionaries of the Christian and Missionary Alliance
PO Box 35000
Colorado Springs, CO 80935-3500

The Alliance has a web site here: http://www.cmalliance.org/

And the Paraguay missionaries have information here:
http://www.cmalliance.org/im/mlocator/results.jsp?name=&country=paraguay

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Last updated Tuesday 13 May 2008