Season of Harvest

Mike & Polly Brown – Missionaries to Bolivia
Reaching the marginalized, outcast, and forgotten with the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

“Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.” Proverbs 25:25 (ESV)

Season of Harvest

“And he said to them, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.’” – Luke 10:2

As we look forward to Thanksgiving, we are reminded of its origins. The Pilgrims were grateful to God for bringing them safely through the previous winter and allowed them, thanks also to the help of the Natives, to experience their first harvest in the New World.

We celebrated our 8 year anniversary of arriving in Bolivia on October 3. We’ve enjoyed some fruitful harvests here. A lot of that is thanks to the faithfulness of many laborers (missionaries and national workers) who have gone before us and others who have come alongside us. We rejoice in the successes. We also recognize the great harvest that still remains. As missionary Loren Triplett once said, “You don’t measure yourself by your success but by the Unfinished Task.” I once heard someone put it this way: “We don’t measure the harvest by what’s in the barn but by what’s still in the fields.”

So we are grateful for the fruitful harvest we’ve seen to this point. But we’re also focused on the harvest still to come. Would you pray that the Lord would send us back to Bolivia in 2027 after our year in the U.S. even better prepared? Would you also pray for more workers in Bolivia? Would you pray and consider if you might be part of that response?

Speaking of more workers, our MAPS worker Tyson has already begun the process to return for 2 years to serve alongside us here in Bolivia. We praise the Lord for that! We also got to participate in sending our friend Jhobi on her first ever missions trip to Southeast Asia as she considers her own potential call to missions. We praise the Lord for that opportunity too!

Fruitful Ministry – Fall 2025

We have had so many opportunities in the past few months since we last sent out a newsletter. Let’s look at some highlights.

Mike had the opportunity to attend the first Assemblies of God Southern Cone MM33 NextGen Ministry Summit (that’s not the official name, but rather a descriptive one). NextGen leaders from Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay came together to strategize reaching youth and kids with the Gospel.

We continue to serve the Deaf kids, youth, college students, teachers, and their families with our weekly lunches and Bible lesson. We were also so encouraged as we once again participated in the march for the Deaf and Sign Language in Cochabamba. We had so many friends that we were happy to see and who were happy to see us. Building relationships is key to any ministry and especially among the Deaf.

We taught a parenting workshop throughout September and October at a local church as part of our desire to see healthy, whole families.

We hosted a team from Orlando led by friends who came and served at the end of October while planning more trips in 2027. It was mostly connected to our desire to better serve those with special needs. It was such a wonderful time.

In November, Mike visited friends who are new ChildHope missionaries in Honduras as part of our new ChildHope role as Vice Presidents of Field Ministries and Partnerships.

While in Honduras, Mike also got to visit our friends and their ministry to the Deaf, including their school for the Deaf and their church.

Upon his return to Bolivia, Mike stayed in Santa Cruz to help launch the pilot for getting Sawyer water filters into our schools and each home of the students in those schools. Sawyer donated around 25,000 filters to ChildHope schools in 8 countries and the money to cover customs, shipping, etc. We had a great week fine-tuning the process of how the distribution will work in each country.

Next, we received our new area directors for their first ever visit to Bolivia. We had an incredible week of important strategic meetings and showing them some of the ministries with which we serve.

We’re in the midst of having our ChildHope Christmas parties. Our last one will be in Santa Cruz on Wednesday, November 26.

And, of course, the construction continues at the kids church Plenitud de Gozo (Fullness of Joy) near the city dump in Cochabamba.

FINANCIAL PARTNERSHIP

If you would like to contribute to our ministry, through either a one-time donation or monthly support, you can do so at the following link:

s1.ag.org/brown

Please feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions: mikeandpollybrown@gmail.com

To our financial partners, please accept our gratitude: Thank you! Your faithful financial partnership helps us to continue to do the things God has called us to do. We do not serve here in Bolivia alone. We are in this together.

PRAISE & PRAYER OPPORTUNITIES
Praise God with us for…
…our prayer and financial partners
…a great team from Orlando, FL
…our MAPS worker Tyson who will be heading home the first week of December
…a productive NextGen meeting in Paraguay
…a great time in Honduras
…the Sawyer water filter donations
…the continued advance in the construction projects in Central Arrumani
…a solution for the Bolivian house we rent for 2026
…safety in all our travels
…health and safety

Pray with us for…
…our upcoming transition to the U.S. in January and all the prep work
…the continuing construction projects
…our schools and the needs they have
…the future for the next steps of Deaf ministry here
…more opportunities to multiply missions
…more workers to be called to Bolivia
…MAs and MAPS workers to come alongside us
…the missionaries who serve here
…the missionaries from Bolivia who serve around the world
…health and safety for our family
…continued favor as we walk in what God calls us to
…opportunities to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with others
…all financial needs to be met each month
…to finish well

FAMILY PHOTOS…