Dear brothers,
Once again I have the pleasure of writing a few lines with the intention of updating you regarding the work at BVBI-PERU, wishing that each of your ministries be greatly blessed for the glory of our God.
After our last report, I want to tell you that we were blessed with the presence of the Director of International Studies, our brother Keith Kasarjian, on January 21-22. His visit has really been very productive. On Saturday the 21st we had the I Biblical Seminar. On this occasion who was in charge of the presentations was Keith with the theme of "The administration of finances", there were 4 very instructive presentations and they were very well received by the members of the different invited churches. This is setting a precedent for what will be our future annual seminars either with foreign or local speakers.
On Sunday the 22nd we visited four of our sister congregations in different parts of Lima (IDC Los Angeles (south), IDC America (south), IDC Santa Anita (center) and IDC Los Rosales (north). The intention has been both the communion and the publicity of BVBI-PERU among the members of these congregations. Many of the brothers had already had the opportunity to hear Keith preach and it was nice for them to see him again. Keith's presence has certainly given him an added impetus to the institute here in the country. As a result of Keith's presence we had around 80 people at the conference, 4 congregations visited and an increase in students in our last course.
In the month of January the course of "Acts of the Apostles" has been taught, the person in charge of this class has been brother Andrés Nuñez and we are currently about to conclude the course "A.T. 1- The Pentateuch” Juan Abanto. We currently have 9 students (4 of them are formal students and the others are taking the course freely; several brothers have expressed their interest in taking the classes freely due to the difficulty they have with their schedules, but expressing their sincere desire to keep learning.
As of March 11, the institute will be teaching two courses every Saturday for a period of two months, following the suggestions of our director, with the intention of continuing to make it easier for the brotherhood to take the courses according to their availability. The courses will be "A.T2- Historical Books" Juan Abanto and "The Life of Christ 2" Abraham Alata.
On the other hand, we are making preparations for the V Bible Conference scheduled for April 8 in the city of Ica. On this occasion, in response to the request of the brothers in this city, we have decided to decentralize a bit and present the conference from another country point. We hope this decision will be fruitful with a view to promoting the institute more and more. The exhibitors will be the active teachers and one of our graduate students. We hope that all efforts involved are only for the glory of God.
We will continue working both in instruction and in the search for more students to make the work of the Institute more effective and efficient. We ask for your prayers for everything we have been doing and what we want to achieve for the Lord. God bless you!