CUBA COMMITMENT

CUBA COMMITMENT

Updates:

Further trips are being scheduled soon for continued training and follow-up to several projects. This is especially needed considering the printing of the ABC’s are almost complete and another tract will be in completion very soon. As you will read in a report out this week to your physical mail boxes, a missionary reported 8 Cuban men surrendering to missions in a national conference in their home town. This report will be in your hands this week. And I will have details of all printing and details of the last travel taken by Brother Bruce Martin as well.

Information:

Brother Robert Creech in a recent trip to the Island mentioned an encounter to me and I requested he write about this conversation for you, the prayer warriors. This is regarding the temperature and possible temperament on the island in relation to how Americans are starting to be viewed now. Here is Brother Creech’s experience and comments to follow:

A comment made to me by a Cuban man in a recent visit I made to the island has caused me to wonder if Cubans are seeing United States citizens in a different light. As I conversed with this man, he asked me where I was from. Upon answering, "The U.S. ", he said, "How does it feel for you to be here, since your country is our country's biggest enemy?" The comment only seemed strange to me in light of the fact that I have found Cubans to be overwhelmingly pro-U.S. on the personal level. In many, many conversations with Cubans on the island over a period of eight years, I have never had one even imply that as an individual American citizen, I might be considered an enemy. Perhaps they are succumbing to the relentless anti-American sentiment generated in the press worldwide, or perhaps to increased fears of the U.S. created by the Cuban dictatorship to distract the focus of the populace from internal affairs. In any case, it served to reinforce for me the observation I have made while traveling recently in other Latin American countries, which the credibility of Americans is at an all time low in the region.

As you can see, this could be very strategic. Change is inevitable, but the changes lately are rapid and could very well be induced by your prayers. Articles from the Cuban and American press agencies are changing views on a weekly basis, when in times past it has stayed basically leftist in view points and prerogative. The laws are rapidly changing as well, nearly every month or so in both countries in regard to how we contract business, conduct religious affairs, and travel restrictions. Doors are “creaking open” and we may be at the precipice of major developmental change that could go either way for us. Please Intercede as continued trips abound. We will not halt our advancements against the enemy if you will continue to intercede for us in your private and I hope public intercession. Without this strategic prayer life, I am convinced that our efforts will be hindered if not impossible entirely.

Prayer Request:

Please Intercede for “open doors” and that God will prepare more than a few to be able to strategically be in place at the right time. Pray specifically that God would allow us the first opportunity before the charismatic’s and free-lance missionaries that would seek to cause further confusion and control the efforts of the National men already there.

In HIS Service,

Travis A. Jones

travis@metrobc.org

cuba@metrobc.org

Metropolitan Baptist Church

6051 Azle Ave.

Ft Worth, TX 76135