Dear Pastor and Church Friends,

Our furlough time is winding down. Just one month and a week from today we board the plane for Bolivia and home. It has been good to renew old acquaintances and to form new ones as we visited back here in the States but our hearts are still "over there." Thank you for sending us.

After reveling in this thought for a few seconds I just wanted to write and thank you for the first-rate hospitality we have received while here in the States. You have treated us well, not just on the field, but off the field too. We still have a couple of churches to visit and we look forward to these visits, all the more so because they are in our home state of Washington but for the most part we are ready to go home.

I wish I could say more about what is happening in our work in Bolivia. I called there and found that the computer had been damaged and was offline. Since we communicated mostly by e-mail, I just don't get the input I did before. I instructed the secretary to have a repairman come in but haven't heard much yet. What I can say is that attendance continues around eighty to ninety in the Sunday evening services (our most heavily attended service) and that most of our people remain healthy and serving the Lord. Recently there were three saved in services.

How we wish to be back in our yoke! I remember when I visited in a little house "behind the mountain." It was just a two-room home with a dirt floor, no lights and no plumbing, but there lived there a mother, a grandmother and three children, two girls and a boy. The mother and the boy were saved but Grandma didn't understand Spanish very well so I had to share the Lord with her through an interpreter. On this visit, Grandma got saved and later baptized. The mother of the children told me afterward that right after I left, Grandma took all her old religious stuff (a rock, some clothes, some statues and pictures, etc.) and made a bon fire. This is what we live for. I remember when these little girls got older and one at a time came to receive the Lord. I remember baptizing these little ones in the river and holding on to them so the current wouldn't take them away. I remember thinking how they trusted the Lord to save them from sin and trusted me to save them from the river as I baptized them. Such precious memories. Is it any wonder we want to go back?

I started by mentioning that our furlough time is almost over. We have met the goal of reporting to almost all of our churches. There are a few things we would like to take back with us for the ministry, though, that still need to have the money raised for. I would like to get an overhead projector and a video projector. Through a contact in the Missions Office we can get the video projector for $2,400 but it will cost a few hundred to import it into the country. The overhead projector can be purchased there for about $400.

Many of our people have never had the opportunity to get an education. "Seeing" the lesson projected on a screen will enhance their ability to learn the material. Each month on the last evening service we hold "Birthday Sunday" where we celebrate all the birthdays realized during that month with a Christian video and Jan's cake with Cool-aid followed by a brief devotional and an invitation. With ninety in attendance this is getting difficult with a just a VCR and television (we have had as many as one hundred and twenty-six on a high day). With videos like "No Greater Love" and others in Spanish now available we have had a very positive result from this program with many souls saved. Getting this video projector will enable us to continue it as well as take these videos on the road with a portable generator to towns were there is no electricity. Please pray about this need and help us if you feel the Lord would have you take a part. We thank you in advance.

We also thank you for your continued, faithful support of us in both finances and prayers. The finances feed us and cloth us and the prayers uphold and strengthen us. We need you and we appreciate you.

In His service,

Dennis and Jan Horn

E-mail: Hector657@aol.com

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