Kep & Debbie April 2026 Prayer Requests

* Pray for our time in Africa April 6-25. Debbie and I will be visiting ESI groups in Lusaka, Zambia with Artis and Ruth Powell. Following that, Paulo will visit ESI groups in Harare, Zimbabwe. Debbie and I will go on to Senegal to train Fulani church planters. We will be studying the book of Romans with that group in Senegal. Pray for gospel impact in their lives.

* Praise for the two ESI groups that have begun meeting together in San Jose, Costa Rica after our February ESI Facilitator Training there. Pray that these 30 pastors and church leaders will experience deep gospel transformation studying through Romans, and that this will impact many local churches across that country.

* Praise for the many pastors and church leaders we spent time with in Brazil in February. We are encouraged after hearing so many testimonies of how God is growing them up in grace and to experience real changes as they apply Scripture in their personal lives, marriages, families, and the way they preach and teach in their local churches.

 -Kep

Kep & Debbie March 2026 Update

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Thank you for praying for our latest ministry trip into Costa Rica and Brazil. Attached is our report about what we saw the Lord doing. PLUS a peek into pastor Elias' most recent ESI initiative into Guyana.

Kep and Debbie James

ESI Trip...Checking In

We are half way through our ESI visits in Latin America. Last week in Costa Rica was amazing. Of the 80 participants in the ESI Facilitator Training, 30 have committed to studying Romans with us. Please pray for Jose Gutierrez and local pastor Luis as they organize these pastors and church leaders into 2 ESI groups and take them through Romans 1-3 over the next 3 months. Pray that their time digging into the depths of Scripture will draw them closer to Jesus to experience deep gospel transformation in their lives and marriages. Pray that the discipleship process will grow them deeper in the grace that is in Christ Jesus to redirect their ministries in their local churches.

We paused for a few days to visit Andrew and Angie who are planting a church in Uruguay. Our next stop is Rio de Janeiro to visit our ESI leaders for Brazil, and then on to Rondonia and Vilhena in the Pantanal region where we will visit many ESI participants there. I will be preaching and teaching 2 Corinthians during our week there before returning to Cleveland on February 25.

Thank you for praying for the Lord to impact many lives through His Word. When you pray you are here with us. Thankful for your partnership in the gospel,

Kep and Debbie James