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Spiritual Fruit Abounding! — March 2025 Prayer Letter
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Dear Praying Friends & Family,
What a year it has already been! Join us in rejoicing over God’s blessings on the ministry here in Bucaramanga, Colombia.
The Refuge Of Life Center
In February, we launched a nonprofit feeding and education center in conjunction with our church in the Café Madrid neighborhood. We are serving around 50 underprivileged children each day. We provide a hot meal (often the only food they’ll have all day), help with their homework, and—most importantly—offer them hope. The children receive daily time in the Word, along with mentorship, counseling, and practical discipleship tailored to their individual needs and maturity level. We’re already seeing fruit from this program!
A project of this magnitude is quite costly. A generous donation from Impact Others helped us start strong, and we’re now working toward launching small businesses to support local families and ensure long-term sustainability.
Discipleship Initiative
Christ’s mandate to make disciples has always been at the heart of the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18–20) and the core of our ministry. This year, we reorganized our format and efforts at Ágape Baptist Church as a pilot program for our other ministries, and the results have been fantastic!
We meet in several small groups, each comprising 4–12 people, all of whom are reading through the Bible using the same reading plan. Each person highlights verses and passages that stand out to them, and we meet weekly to pray and discuss those highlights. Additionally, we incorporate outside readings to cover doctrine and the Christian life. It’s a reproducible and sustainable model, and I have high hopes for the long-term fruit it will bear.
Men’s Retreat
In March, we once again organized and hosted a camp for about 50 men from our churches. Over the course of a few days, we explored Scripture, focusing on the process God uses to form, purify, strengthen, and prepare us for spiritual battle. I thank the Lord for the way He is forging these men of valor!
Milestone Birthdays
We celebrated Aubrie’s birthday and Aris’s 10th in February, and in March, Amira’s quinceañera—a special Latin American tradition marking her 15th birthday and her transition into young womanhood. We’re proud of the godly young ladies our daughters are becoming!
Isn’t it amazing to be part of God’s work? We thank you for your prayers and financial support, which enable us to minister here in Colombia. This is eternal fruit—and it abounds to your account!
With Grateful Hearts,
Aaron & Aubrie Vance
(Along with the girls: Amira, Anabel, Aris & Alethea)
“Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.”
—Philippians 4:17—
An Exciting New Outreach! — January 2025 Prayer Letter
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Dear Praying Friends & Family,
Sometimes, life gets so busy that certain things are left undone. It has been a few months since some of you have heard from us, so we are sending out this letter along with the last one which was never sent. Please accept our apologies!
With Impact Others in Mexico
I was invited to join a group from Impact Others / Christian Media International in Guadalajara for a few days in December. We visited missionary Sam Robles, assisting in accommodating a new place for them to house orphans. I also learned from their experience in order to launch similar outreaches in the next stage of our ministry here in Colombia. There are exciting days ahead!
Nonprofit Launch!
As we have mentioned in the past, one of our churches serves a very needy community, in which many of the children are left to raise themselves. Many go hungry every day. Many struggle with school. Many end up in gangs or start using drugs from an early age. We’ve decided to do something about all of this!
With the help of a large donation from Impact Others, we are constituting a nonprofit feeding and outreach center based out of our church in Café Madrid. In addition to holding regular services, we will provide daily meals, assistance with homework, discipleship, and other resources to help between 40 and 50 needy children every day. We are currently remodeling the facilities of the church building to better serve these dear kids and their families in a very tangible way. This nonprofit will be led by Nicanor Uribe and his wife, Lyda, who have been training for ministry with us during the past few years. Lord willing, we will launch mid-February. As you can imagine, there will be many ongoing costs with this project. We are stepping out in faith and trusting the Lord to provide.
Mass Media Outreach
Our television recording studio is in full use, and we are putting out content every day in which tens of thousands of people are hearing the Gospel. If you speak Spanish and would like to check out some of the devotional and preaching videos, along with interviews and question & answer sessions, check out our new YouTube channel (along with other social media platforms): @verdadenamorbga.
Family Update
Aubrie had a long-awaited extraction of her four wisdom teeth in January. She did great, though recovery has been quite a process! Pray for her.
We thank the Lord for your faithful prayers and support, which enable us to minister in Colombia and beyond. Thank you also for the special Christmas gifts many of you sent to our family. These special offerings met very specific needs!
With Grateful Hearts,
Aaron & Aubrie Vance
(Along with the girls: Amira, Anabel, Aris & Alethea)
“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:”
—1 Peter 2:9—
The Vance Family 