A Purpose for my Life

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A Purpose for my Life

By Jorge Pinto, Board of Directors
July-September 2014

My older brother, Oscar, and I were born in El Salvador. Our father abandoned us, so our mother, Maria Herminia Pinto, had to make a living as a maid in order to support us. Around 1960 we returned to her native land of Honduras where she married Santos Tomas Sanchez. Sadly, both passed away. In 1964, my uncle Saul Gomez took us to El Sembrador, a school for poor children in Catacamas, Olancho. My brother and I were under the care of don Donaldo and doña Twana Hawk. I remained in El Sembrador school for many years. There I learned about work, study, and, above all, the Word of God.

Today I am happily married to my lovely wife, Marta Isabel. God has given us three children: Helga Ruth, Helga Esther, and Jorge. We have five grandchildren. I am a pastor and serve as president of the Evangelical Holiness Church of Honduras. I am also blessed to be president and founder of the Manuelito Project, an organization that rescues and educates the street children of my country. I am the president of La Agencia Misionera de Santidad Latino Americana, AMSLA (the Latin American Holiness Missionary Agency), which I am honored to represent on the Board of Directors of World Gospel Mission in Marion, Indiana.

Looking back, I understand that God has had a purpose for my life and that he has used people in my spiritual formation and calling to whom I am indebted. I am nothing more than an instrument in God’s hands. To Him be the glory.

As part of God’s creative design, He used the ministry of Escuela El Sembrador to shape the life of Jorge Pinto.

GIVE: Become a significant part in the future of more students like Jorge through the El Sembrador Sponsorship Program. A gift of $125 per month, or $1,500 per year, will provide a child with education and room and board for one year. Donations can be made to World Gospel Mission and sent to:

El Sembrador Sponsorship Program
World Gospel Mission
P.O. Box 948
Marion, IN 46952

Central America and Mexico

An excerpt from Regional Update: Central America and Mexico
By Terry Hawk, Regional Director of Central America and Mexico
January–March 2012

Honduras
Sixty-five years ago, the first WGM missionaries arrived in Comayagua, Honduras. They started the first Sunday School with just five little kids on the street. Recently, we attended a special celebration in Comayagua to thank God for the first evangelical church that was established in that city.

PRAY: Please join the WGM Honduras Field in offering praise for what God has done in the last 65 years of church planting.

El Salvador
After some problems with paperwork, interviewing hundreds of applicants for job positions, and purchasing all the needed equipment, David Hawk was able to open the new medical clinic in El Salvador on October 12, 2011. What a difference this new facility is going to make in the town of Jucuapa!

MORE: To learn more about the David V. King Medical Center in El Salvador, visit www.wgm.org/davidvking.

Mexico
God is moving His Church in the area surrounding the border of Mexico to a posture of repentance. Christians gathered in Mexico on the Nuevo Laredo side, and Christians in Laredo, Texas, gathered on the USA side and faced each other. They prayed for repentance, seeking God’s divine intervention in the crisis on the border with issues such as drugs, crime, and increased gang activity.

ACT: Perhaps God is moving you to repentance as well. Read Matthew 18:1, where God gives us a model for repentance.

Physical Needs to Spiritual Health

An excerpt from Physical Needs to Spiritual Health
By David Hawk, El Salvador
January–March 2011


World Gospel Mission entered El Salvador in 2006 as the partner of the yet-to-be-built David V. King Surgical Center. When David King heard stories like Alicia’s, he became burdened for the people of El Salvador. Medical teams regularly travel to Jucuapa to serve but have limited facilities in which to work. David decided to do something about it and earmarked funds for the purchase of land and the construction of a surgical facility.

David has passed away, but his legacy lives on through a family foundation led by his son Bradley. As you read this article, the facility is nearly completed and doctors are seeing patients for general care and referral for surgery. The medical center has two operating rooms, two procedure rooms, a full lab, a pharmacy, dental facilities, and a general medicine area. All this serves to help people of all walks of life get the help they need to be healthy, productive members of society.

On many occasions, Jesus met people’s physical needs in order to impact them spiritually. Through the David V. King Surgical Center, WGM missionaries and volunteer health workers will do the same. We want to be God’s hands working in El Salvador.

ACT: Do you have medical skills that could be used in El Salvador? Contact Troy Simpson at recruiting@wgm.org and tell him that this is where you would like to use your talents.

El Salvador: Healthcare

Offering preventative healthcare screening and teaching other healthy lifestyle practices while treating, curing, and responding to the physical needs of patients can change a community.

WGM El Salvador is the operating partner of the David V. King Memorial Clinic in Jucuapa, El Salvador. The project is under construction and slated for completion in October 2010 and should begin operating in early 2011. The clinic will provide two operating rooms and two procedure rooms for ambulatory surgeries as well as an area for general healthcare and dialysis. The ministry will also include a mobile clinic that will go into Eastern El Salvadoran communities to do health education, dental restoration, and health screening and diagnosis. Each patient will be offered the opportunity to learn about God's plan for their lives while receiving medical attention.

Career opportunities for serving in El Salvador are available. Could God be calling you to use your medical skills and education in El Salvador? Contact us at recruiting@wgm.org to apply for or obtain more information about these opportunities.

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Now Entering North America

Leaving Central America...
Next Stop North America

If you were able to join the concert on Saturday you know that Debbie Hawk led us in prayer for the ministries of El Salvador. That was our last concert for the Central America region and today we entered North America with a concert for the ministries of Mexico.

We seemed to have another technical glitch today with a conference phone not working. There has been more difficulties this year than we experienced last. I think God's people are praying. I have heard from some of you saying that even though you were unable to attend or hear the concert you have been praying. Please keep praying. Pray that God will bless the efforts of this ministry and that He will be glorified.

A prayer was recorded today so if you would like to hear the concerns for the World Gospel Mission Mexico field you can hear that here.

Join the concert tomorrow as we pray for the new ministry of Hispanic Ministries in the United States.

9/19 - El Salvador

NEW EXPERIENCE

This was the first time I attended the concert outside the office. I set the alarm on my phone so I would not miss it. I joined you, my fellow concert goers, to pray for El Salvador with my two year-old son, Noah. Noah and I were out and about today so we listened to the phone call in a public restaurant. It was an interesting experience to see him at his first Concert. : ) David Hawk led us in prayer and gave us several requests that we should remember in ongoing prayer. Noah ate his lunch and would look to me for approval every now and then. I am not sure what Noah learned from the Concert of Prayer, but it will be one of those moments etched in my mind's eye for future reference.

So, have you invited relatives or little people to the concert? It was a new experience, but a fun one that I would recommend.

See you at the concert!
Kristi Crisp

Call to Prayer Editor

World Gospel Mission

http://www.wgmcalltoprayer.org/