(En Español)
The Willis Family
 
Missionaries To Panama

Support and Offerings Address:
Byron Willis Missions Account
Miller Road Baptist Church
2000 16th Street
Garland, TX 75041

* Note: Please indicate whether support is for Personal, Church, College, Feeding Centers, Girls Home and Orphanage, etc.

E-mail: bwillis@cwpanama.net
Tel (507) 775-6639
Field Address:
Apdo. 583
David, Chirique
Rep. of Panama

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February 11, 2010

Dear Friends

I sure hope you had a wonderful New Year and that God is richly blessing you as you serve Him. God has been good to us and we are seeing great things from the Lord this year and we are excited about what God is doing through us.

We held the largest conference of the year here in our church in January. We had to rent two auditoriums at the fair grounds and we had over 1000 people attend. We had five different sessions during the day with over 450 in attendance and we held a Teen Conference and an Adult Conference in the evenings. Our people really worked hard to be able to carry out this conference and the greatest result was that 57 teens surrendered to full-time service and 20 adults as well. Praise the Lord!

We held our first set of Vacation Bible Clubs the first week in February and over 850 children participated in our ten clubs with over 300 making professions of faith. I thank the Lord for all of our hard workers who did a great job organizing these clubs. The Club with the highest attendance had 146 children on the last day and this brother is BLIND! His name is Ricauter and he is a graduate of our Bible College. I won him to the Lord over 10 years ago and he has since been through our Bible College, has worked in our girls' home and all four of our feeding centers, he is the best janitor we have ever had in our church building, and one of our best Sunday School teachers. He has Degenerative Retinitis and has been slowly losing his sight over the years. He is now almost completely blind and if there is anything you could do for this man to be a blessing to him please let me know. For sure I know you could pray for him. He is a great blessing in our ministry and he and his wife are at camp this week helping as counselors. He has two daughters and he loves being able to serve the Lord doing anything and everything.

I had surgery on January 6, to take out my thyroid gland (that showed up on all cat-scans and ultra-sounds), but when the doctor opened me up there was only fatty tissue! She did no have to take out anything other than a small nodule; therefore my voice was not affected at all. I could have lost my voice completely if she had of touched my vocal cord nerve which lies very close to the thyroid gland. My other vocal cord was paralyzed three years ago due to my first surgery. The nodule was sent to pathology and the results came back negative! Praise the Lord, I am cancer FREE! Thank you so much for your prayers.

Our oldest son, Anthony, had his eighteenth birthday on January 16. He is very excited to be eighteen but he still has to finish 12th grade. Pray for him as he has many major decisions to make in the near future. Our daughter, Rachel, had her "sweet fifteen" party just last week. She is growing up and is a beautiful young lady. Thanks for your prayers for our family.

Please pray we may be able to get the buses that are in Tennessee down here as soon as possible. It has been very difficult to sell any of our older buses and we have not been able to raise all the money we need to get the others down here. We have around $8,000.00 saved up, but we need anywhere from $12,000 to $15,000 to get these buses here.

Please pray we may get two acres of property close to downtown David to build a new building. We need the building to keep growing. We had over 4,500 people saved on the streets last year, over 800 saved in our services and over 300 baptized. Our goals for this year are to reach over 5,000 soul-winning, see over 1200 saved in our services, and to have over 400 baptisms. It would be great to reach these goals but, where are we going to put them if they keep coming to church? Please pray for us.


In His Service,

Byron and Briceida Willis


Prior Prayer Letters

December 1, 2009

September 30, 2009

July 31, 2009

May 7, 2009

February 20, 2009

December 12, 2008