Bruce and Sylvia Harmon

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Prayer Letter/Ministry Update

Photo: Left to right: Sylvia, Carol, Bruce, and Caleb Harmon, our daughter Becki and her husband Matt Beack.

Bruce was away from Paraguay for two weeks in September to attend the funeral of his Dad, Robert E. (Bob) Harmon who passed away in the Los Angeles area on September 12.

Meanwhile, Sylvia stayed in Paraguay continuing our immigration procedures, following up on renting a house and attending a portion of an “Encounter with God,” a discipleship retreat for new believers in the Lambare Alliance Church where we are beginning to be involved in ministry. The twenty-four participants were challenged to renounce sin and fully commit their lives to following Christ. It was a powerful experience for each one.

Thanks to excellent prep-work by our Field Director couple Bob and Brenda Boston, we looked at several houses during our first few days in Paraguay. In fact, we had made a “final” decision on a house to rent within five days of landing in the country. But after a several days preparing our “application to rent” and nearly two months waiting for relatively minor repairs, even our patience ran out! Now, we have decided on another house, spoken directly with the owner, and have hopes of moving in some day.

Yes, we are buying a car as well. We have decided on a ’99 Toyota Rav 4. But here in Paraguay nothing is as simple as it would seem. It requires the signing of a temporary and then a formal contract, a title search like a real estate purchase in the USA and I don’t know what all other steps. After one week even the temporary contract had not been signed and not a cent paid! We will need additional contributions of a few thousand dollars to our “vehicle special” fund to repay what the mission is advancing for the car, taxes and transaction costs.

We enjoyed several days in October gathered as a missionary family learning better relational skills from our Regional Director, Bill Mangham and his wife Ann.

We are excited about transitioning into the work at Lambare Alliance Church on the south side of Asuncion.

New Beginnings

After twenty five years of missionary work in the Philippines we are undertaking a whole new life, as it were, by taking a missionary assignment to Paraguay in South America. “Life begins at forty,” they say. Our new life begins at 57 & 58 respectively! After one year of Spanish language study in San Jose Costa Rica we will proceded to Asuncion, Paraguay on August 28, 2007. We expect to work in the still-new Lambare church there.

On the Job

Our second daughter Carol is staying in the United States where she works with challenged kids and young people as therapeutic support staff in the Harrisburg, PA area. She greatly enjoys her work with the kids.

Grandparents!

You should see our grandson Isaiah Matthew Beack, first son of our oldest daughter Becki. He was born on Jan. 20, ’06 and at about 1 1/2 is a whole lot of fun. Becki’s husband Matt is son of retired C&MA missionaries to Indonesia, David and Valerie Beack. Matt and Becki feel called as missionaries to meet the overwhelming needs of the third world’s poorest children and young people.

We want to thank you all for your concern for us and especially your prayer. We are profoundly aware that our presence here, health, and every accomplishment is the result of your prayer for us. Thank you all, too, for your gifts to the Great Commission Fund of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. These gifts sent us to the Philippines, keep us here in Costa Rica and, we firmly believe, will take us on to Paraguay and effective service there.

Living the call together,
Bruce and Sylvia Harmon

Gifts can be sent by clicking on the green "support this missionary" on your right or by mail to :
The Christian and Missionary Alliance
P.O. Box 35000
Colorado Springs CO 80935-3500

Please mark gifts as:
Great Commission Fund
or
Bruce Harmon, Paraguay--Outfit fund
Bruce Harmon, Paraguay--Approved Vehicle Special
Bruce Harmon, Paraguay--Work Special

Kids' Contacts

Caleb Harmon
caleb15harmon@hotmail.com

Matt & Becki Beack
bravesfan4ever77@yahoo.com

Carol Harmon
carolharm12@yahoo.com

Prayer Requests/Answers to Prayer

Thank you for your prayer in our behalf.

Please keep praying that:

• we would be able to understand and be easily understood by people speaking to us in Spanish.

• we would begin having an impact for Christ on people’s lives. Both within the church and in reaching those who do not yet know Christ in a personal way.

• we would soon be able to move out of the guest house we’ve been staying in and into our own rented home.

• the purchase of our car would be completed soon.

Paraguay

Approved Specials

If you wish to contribute to one of our specials (vehicle funds, building projects, etc.) you may select it from the Approved Specials List.

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