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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=3 height=50 BGCOLOR="#333333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="196dcde1ddualp.gif"> <div> 2001-2002   <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCCC99" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="default.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Borgans Heavenly Home Page"><U>home</U></A></FONT></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=160 BGCOLOR="#333333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="196dedc2ddualp.gif"> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c899cccc00.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2001-2002</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id271.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="2000 Christmas"><U>2000 Christmas</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="19981999"><U>1998-1999</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="1999 Christmas"><U>1999 Christmas</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="19971998"><U>1997-1998</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id270.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Extremadura for Christ"><U>Extremadura for Christ</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id7.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ministry"><U><B>Ministry</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="default.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Borgans Heavenly Home Page"><U><B>The Borgans' Heavenly Home Page</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=396 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="19764643.gif"> <div> <IMG SRC="51c5ee10.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="225" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Borgan Family Report 2002</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.  Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.  As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.  Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let not your hands be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well. Eccl. 11: 1, 4-6 NIV.</div> <div> <B>Church services </B></div> <div> Cáceres Baptist Church now has four weekly services. Two locations are provided rent-free by the city:  Santa Bárbara on the southwest side of town on Saturday nights, and  Aguas Vivas (Living Waters) Community Center on the northeast side of Cáceres on Sunday mornings.  There are two Sunday evening services held inside the men's and women's units in the penitentiary.</div> <bR> <div> Keep praying for the outreach in Santa Bárbara.  One reason that city officials asked us to start a Baptist church in this community was because of the spiritual vacuum in that neighborhood.  There wasn't even a Catholic church in this barrio until May 2002. At Christmas, pastor Antonio Gómez -from our mother church in Córdoba- gave a powerful message to about forty adults and children.  Guadalupe, the president of the neighborhood association, led the singing of Spanish Christmas carols.  </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="51e2c900.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="400" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Fiesta del Barrio in Santa Barbara</B></div> <div> Guadalupe also worked twice as hard this year with our Baptist team in organizing the Fiesta del Barrio on Saturday, May 18<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >th</FONT>.  She and other adults in the association cooked 35 kilos of meat and provided fresh bread and soft drinks for everyone.  All our team worked dynamically together in the Santa Bárbara fiesta.  One of our newest team members from Columbia, Raul, sang and performed on guitar while his wife Elisabeth painted children's faces with Kelly Rogers.  Chris dressed as a professional clown impressing young and old alike (including a local news reporter), while Cathie helped Chris twist animal balloons for dozens of eager youngsters.  Joy registered 107 children from ages of 2 to 15.  All the children, older teenagers and parents, enjoyed Raul's program of Christian music and listened closely to the powerful testimony of Félix-a rehabilitated drug addict from the Mérida church. After the program, everyone was invited for outdoor lunch prepared by the neighborhood association.  Many response cards were turned in for the <I>Jesus</I> video.  The children received prizes from our team and valuable stuffed animals and board games from local Spanish merchants.</div> <div> <B>Prison Ministry Prison Ministry </B></div> <div> Everyone, including the guards, was amazed how three Muslim women participated wholeheartedly in our weekly Baptist classes in the women's unit.  They sang, read Scriptures, and even prayed with us week after week until they were reassigned to other prisons.  Although they didn't get baptized themselves, they participated in the Easter celebration where three women were baptized.  Pray that God will save these ladies.</div> <bR> <div> The warden permitted us to conduct two open-air baptismal services in the prison this last year: six men were baptized in October 2001, and six men and three women at Easter 2002, making a total of sixty-two baptisms since 1999.  We are blessed that the majority of the men in our weekly class are baptized believers and continue maturing in their faith week after week.  As early as two months before each baptism, we begin discipleship classes for each of the candidates, including written study materials for them to work through.  Afterwards we present them with a baptismal certificate and their first Bible.  We continue discipling them week by week in our classes -in some cases for two or three years until they are transferred to another city or released.  Many have received early probations to Remar and Reto, Spanish evangelical drug rehabilitaion centers.                 </div> <bR> <div> <B>Outreach  </B></div> <div> In the past year we have distributed 700-800 videos of the <I>Jesus</I> film and companion Gospels of Luke to families who requested them.  The majority of these were delivered by Texas volunteer teams in distribution campaigns before and after the 2001 Cluster meeting.  Over five hundred families filled out response cards as a result of the outstanding work of the Hardin Simmons Cowboy Band in the city fair in May 2001.</div> <bR> <div> In the fall, Santiago López Herreros, a seminary graduate from Albacete, working under the auspices of the MEM, was housed and partially supported by our church for October and November.   Santiago contacted all  who had received the <I>Jesus</I> film and Gospel.  He reported that over 130 families stated that they had enjoyed the video and were interested in more.  We conducted several seminars, each of which attracted new adult visitors.  Santi updated an electronic database of all the prospects to assist us in planning new, creative follow-up strategies.  Our goal is to turn strangers into friends, friends into believers, and believers into church members.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="5202ce10.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="5222ce10.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Puppet Ministry</B></div> <div> In October, our family performed a puppet show, sponsored by the Junta de Extremadura in the public library, to over two hundred children and parents.  Announcements were posted in thirty public schools around Cáceres.  Families requested <I>Jesus</I> videos and were personally visited in their homes.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Reina Valera Bible</B></div> <div> This year is the 400<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >th</FONT> anniversary of the Reina Valera Bible, which is the most widely published book in the Spanish language, with millions of copies printed each year. Published in 1602 by Cipriano de Valera, an Extremaduran scholar and professor at Oxford and Cambridge, his monumental work is still unknown in his hometown in Extremadura.  The Evangelical Council invited the Spanish Bible society to hold exhibitions in towns across our region.  The Bible exhibition in Badajoz was sponsored by the provincial government and attracted many visitors.  Our team contributed Jesus videos for over 200 families in Badajoz and Villafranca.  These were distributed through local churches.  In Fregenal de la Sierra, birthplace of Valera, the mayor has invited evangelicals to celebrate the anniversary this August in the Plaza Mayor, and is providing a stage and seating for 2000.  This is the first phase in the Evangelical Council's ongoing church planting strategy for this town.  The council's goals include distributing 1000 New Testaments, 200 Jesus videos, holding fall and spring Bible exhibitions, teaching in public schools, and conducting other evangelistic and church planting events in 2003-4.  There has never been an evangelical church in Fregenal de la Sierra (4000 inhabitants).</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="52c902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Children </B></div> <div> Hope worked hard in her third year of Nursing at Louisiana College.  Her Grandma took her to Washington, D.C., New York city, Rio de Janero, and Argentina this year.  She'll be home for Christmas.  Grace, Josh and Faith are all doing well in their studies at home and at the music conservatory in Cáceres.  Grace is now in her sixth year of flute and has only has one more year before going to college.  Pray for the Lord's guidance in where to study.  Josh and Faith are in their fourth year at the conservatory, studying piano and trombone respectively.  They all take part in the music in our weekly church services and bring their friends. We thank the Lord for each of them and the blessing they are to us. </div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> See our team site at: <B>www.prayextremadura.info</B></div> <bR> <div> David, Joy, Hope, Grace, Joshua, and Faith</div> <bR> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=34 BGCOLOR="#333333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="196dcde1ddualp.gif"> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="22"><B> </B><A HREF="id271.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="2000 Christmas"><U><B><IMG SRC="13a16180.gif" border=0 width="22" height="24" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>     </B><A HREF="id322.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="History"><U><B><IMG SRC="13916180.gif" border=0 width="22" height="24" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B> </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="22"></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>