Wednesday, December 15, 2010

NEWS LETTER: DECEMBER 2010

Developments:

* Last month we received one new pledge of monthly financial support that puts us at 67.3% of our budget; after adding one-time donations for this month we received 88.5% of our budget which is 136.2% of our “survival mode” budget—our Lord IS faithful..!

* On November 19th our church held a women’s conference with Gabie Goni from Running for the Gold Ministries in South Florida.

* On November 26th we had a Peruvian Lonche (light dinner) at the church. There we had a time of fellowship, live worship, and testimony. This time a fellow missionary from Soncoast Community Church in West Palm Beach, Jack Meier shared his testimony with the congregation. We were all encouraged to reach our mission field for Christ!

* On November 27th the youth of our church joined forces with the youth of Calvary Chapel Huacho to do an outreach in a Skater’s Competition held in a local skater’s park in Miraflores.

* On December 8th Karla and six other women from our congregation assisted a Women’s Conference in Calvary Chapel Koinonia.

* On December 9th Karla got together with some of the Calvary Chapel Pastor’s Wives around the area for a time of fellowship and encouragement.

* On December 10th Gabie Goni from Running for the Gold Ministries in South Florida held a leadership training over the web with the participation of women from several Calvary Chapels in the area. Karla hosted a group of five women that participated in the class from our house.

* On December 14th our church had the opportunity to bless 50 kids from Lurin with an afternoon at Bembos, a Mc Donald’s like, where the kids received a present and had a time to eat, play and be kids. Schick & Energizer of Peru sponsored this event through a member of our church.

* On December 18th we’ll be having our first Christmas Dinner with the church body at a local Chinese restaurant where we’ll be celebrating the birth of our Savior and exchanging gifts with each other.

* On December 20th we’ll be visiting the Iglesia El Camino in Rimac to participate in a Christmas event where we’ll be blessing the kids of that poor area with the love of Christ through small gifts and goody bags.

* On December 23rd we’ll be visiting a rehab center in Rimac to bless the inmates and their visiting kids with the love of Christ through small gifts and goody bags.

* This month we continued to have substantial extra medical expenses due to my back’s herniated disk and some dental problems. In total we spent an extra of about $320 that with the $360 spent last month total over $680 in the last two months.


Prayer Needs:

* For a fresh and empowering view of God, and that His will be done in our lives.

* For our marriage, our devotional lives, and for our kids to continue to grow in their desire to know the Lord.

* For social activities and godly friends for our kids.

* For my back’s healing and for the family to stay healthy.

* For an intense hunger for God in the hearts of everyone in the church.

* For the healing hand of God on the marriages of our church.

* For wisdom as we formalize the legal entity and the board of our church.

* For wisdom to do God’s will with the benevolence ministry of our church.

* For the hungry kids of Lurin and Rimac.

* For the men in the rehab center in Rimac.

* For the items mentioned above in the Developments area.

* For provision for extra medical expenses and for our family’s holiday season expenses.

* For provision for our family (2 adults and 3 children) to go to the yearly Southeast Calvary Chapel Pastor’s Conference in Merritt Island, FL in January, 2011.

* For our monthly financial support to go from 67.3% to 100% of our budget.


Thank you for holding us up through your love and faithful work of intercession..!



In His love,

Andres and Karla, Sebastian, Daniel, and Samuel—the Garcia’s.


PS: Make sure to check out the new pictures of our recent activities to your left...

Monday, November 15, 2010

NEWS LETTER: NOVEMBER 2010

Developments:

* Last month our pledged monthly financial support remained at 65.0% of our budget; after adding one-time donations for this month we received 87.3% of our budget which is 134.3% of our “survival mode” budget—our Lord IS faithful..!

* On October 19th we started offering the CC Ft. Lauderdale’s original Deep Faith classes on Tuesday nights. After the recorded teachings from Pastor Fidel Gomez I break with the men and Karla with the women. We are averaging a crowd of about 25 people—20 women and 5 men.

* On October 22nd we had a Peruvian Lonche (light dinner) at the church. There we had a time of fellowship, live worship, and testimony. This time a local musical artist, Mario Garcia—the Anti-Hero of Rock and Roll, shared his testimony with the congregation. We were all blessed!

* On October 31st we participated in an outreach for kids, called Life Festival, organized by Calvary Chapel Vida in Lurin, a poor town south of Lima. This event provided a sanctified alternative for the kids in that area to hear and see the Gospel with music and mimes while the world celebrates Halloween. That day Calvary Chapel Miraflores donated enough milk, oat, and sugar to feed a daily oatmeal to the children in the congregation for a month—about 25 of them. We are hoping to be able to provide this daily oatmeal on an ongoing basis.

* On November 8th Karla and I were delighted to have dinner with Pastor Lucho and his wife, Nori, from Garcia Calvary Chapel here in Lima. We had a wonderful time of fellowship and an opportunity to grasp some very helpful ministry tips.

* On November 11th we closed on the sell of our house in The Florida Keys. Yes, the Lord can be trusted... He is FAITHFUL..!

* On November 12th we had a Movie Night at the church where we played the 2003’s movie Luther. The entire audience was captivated and encouraged by this story as we realize how today we get to freely enjoy the light of God’s Word that remained hidden for so long—Sola Scriptura..!

* On November 19th we’ll be having a women’s conference at our church with Gabie Goni from Running for the Gold Ministries in South Florida.

* Karla is organizing a get-together for all the Pastor’s Wives of the Calvary Chapels in Peru for early December.

* This month we had substantial extra medical expenses due to my back’s herniated disk getting upset and regular vaccinations for the kids. In total we spent an extra of about $360 with another $220 pending for MRI expenses.


Prayer Needs:

* For a fresh and empowering view of God, and that His will be done in our lives.

* For our marriage, our devotional lives, and for our kids to continue to grow in their desire to know Christ.

* For social activities and godly friends for our kids.

* For my back’s healing and for the family to stay healthy.

* For an intense hunger for God in the hearts of everyone in the church.

* For the healing hand of God on the marriages of our church.

* For wisdom as we formalize the legal entity and the board of our church.

* For wisdom to do God’s will with the benevolence ministry of our church.

* For the hungry kids of Lurin.

* For the items mentioned above in the Developments area.

* For provision for extra medical expenses and for our family’s holiday season expenses.

* For provision for our family (2 adults and 3 children) to go to the yearly Southeast Calvary Chapel Pastor’s Conference in Merritt Island, FL in January, 2011.

* For our monthly financial support to go from 65% to 100% of our budget.


Thank you for holding us up through your love and faithful work of intercession..!



In His love,

Andres and Karla, Sebastian, Daniel, and Samuel—the Garcia’s.


PS: Make sure to check out the new pictures of our recent activities to your left...

Friday, October 15, 2010

NEWS LETTER: OCTOBER 2010

Developments:

* Last month our pledged monthly financial support remained at 65.0% of our budget; after adding one-time donations for this month we received 78.9% of our budget which is 120.4% of our “survival mode” budget—our Lord IS faithful..!

* On September 29th we started the process to formalize the legal entity of our church. The new official name of our church will be: Iglesia Cristiana Calvary Chapel Miraflores. Very appropriate since we are already known as Calvary Chapel Miraflores. We also registered the internet domain for our web page: www.ccmiraflores.org. There’s not much there yet, but we’ll be working on it soon.

* On October 4th we were pleased to provide the kids that attend Calvary Chapel Vida in Lurin, a poor town south of Lima, with enough milk, oat, and sugar to feed a daily oat meal to the children in the congregation for a month—about 30 of them. This is the first outreach of our benevolence ministry. We are hoping to be able to provide this daily oat meal on an ongoing basis.

* On October 6th we launched our Wednesday night Children’s Ministry.

* On October 8th the Lord provided a buyer for our house in The Florida Keys. We are schedule to close on November 10th..!

* On October 9th I was invited to share my testimony with a group of people from another church in the area called Gracia y Verdad. A couple of people from our church attended the event; it was a blessing.

* On October 10th our church started having an intercessory team praying half-hour before Sunday service. Later that day the church attended a lunch at Calvary Chapel Vida in Lurin where we had the opportunity to share with the poor kids in Lurin. We are praying about how the Lord would lead our congregation to continue to bless this group of poor kids with both physical and spiritual food.

* On October 12th we completed our men’s group weekly study on the book Calvary Road on Tuesday nights.

* On October 19th we will be offering the CC Ft. Lauderdale’s original Deep Faith classes—23 in total—on Tuesday nights for the church at large. I will be braking with the men and Karla with the women after the recorded teachings from Pastor Fidel Gomez.


Prayer Needs:

* For a fresh and empowering view of God, and that His will be done in our lives.

* For our marriage, our devotional lives, and for our kids to continue to grow in their desire to know Christ.

* For social activities and godly friends for our kids.

* For us to stay healthy.

* For an intense hunger for God in the hearts of everyone in the church.

* For the healing hand of God on the marriages of our church.

* For wisdom as we formalize the legal entity and the board of our church.

* For wisdom to do God’s will with the benevolence ministry of our church.

* For the hungry kids of Lurin.

* For protection against wolfs in sheep clothing in the congregation as we grow.

* That the Lord would bring the closing of the selling of our house in The Florida Keys on November 10th as scheduled.

* For the items mentioned above in the Developments area.

* For provision for our family (2 adults and 3 children) to go to the yearly Southeast Calvary Chapel Pastor’s Conference in Merritt Island, FL in January, 2011.

* For our monthly financial support to go from 65% to 100% of our budget.


Thank you for holding us up through your love and faithful work of intercession..!



In His love,

Andres and Karla, Sebastian, Daniel, and Samuel—the Garcia’s.


PS: Make sure to check out the new pictures of our recent activities to your left...

Thursday, September 16, 2010

NEWS LETTER: SEPTEMBER 2010

Developments:

* Last month we received a one-year grant of monthly financial support from an anonymous donor through the Christian Community Foundation of South Florida that puts us at 65.0% of our budget; after adding one-time donations for this month we received 98.1% of our budget which is 150.9% of our “survival mode” budget—our Lord IS faithful..!

* On August 17th Nicole Bromley taught a leadership class for the women of our church.

* On August 18th the mission’s team from Calvary Chapel Ft. Lauderdale arrived in Lima. During their stay we did construction work in the church, engaged on street evangelism, and did home visitations around Miraflores. We visited a men’s rehab center in Rimac, a very poor area of Lima, where a couple of missionary friends hold a Celebrate Recovery program. We led worship and ministered to the guys in the center and some of their family members. We visited feeding programs for children in Lurigancho and in Rimac, areas of extreme poverty of Lima. There we helped with food preparations and shared the love of God in Christ Jesus with the children at the centers and with families in their homes. That day the missionary team reached Celestina (100+), a quechuan woman in the hills of Rimac, and she gave her life to Christ—see the video to your left..! Pastor Steve’s wife, Roz, held an intimate conference with the women of our church. Overall, the missionary trip was an astounding success. They were starting fires for Jesus everywhere they went as the Spirit of God led them. We lost count of how many decision for Christ we got! Thanks to all who were involved to make this trip happen..! They left on August 30th.

* On August 22nd we received notice that out tenants were leaving at the end of the month in our investment house in The Florida Keys. The house is vacant since September 1st and after much prayer we sense that, even though it seems like the worst time to sell, the Lord wants to sell the house. We put it in the market on September 8th.

* On September 5th we debuted our new Sunday School place. After much prayer and waiting on the Lord, we were able to sign a one-year lease on a small office just a couple of feet from our church. Now our Children’s Ministry has its own place where we can serve the children away from the cold drafts of the Peruvian winter in Miraflores..!

* On September 6th we had our 1st marriage biblical counseling session.

* On September 5th I was invited to share at the Iglesia El Camino in Rimac.

* On September 10th we had our 1st Movie Night at the church. About 20 people attended and we had a great time of fellowship as we eat and saw the movie based on the book of Esther, One Night with the King.

* We are praying about offering the CC Ft. Lauderdale’s original Deep Faith classes on Tuesday nights for the church at large.


Prayer Needs:

* For a fresh and empowering view of God, that we may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, and that we may have grace to do it.

* For our marriage, our devotional lives, and for our kids to continue to grow in their desire to know Christ.

* For social activities and godly friends for our kids.

* For us to stay healthy.

* For God to cause the increase of all the seeds planted by the CC Ft. Lauderdale missions team that visited us recently.

* For an intense hunger for God in the hearts of everyone in our Men’s Discipleship Group and the church in general. That the men of the church be empowered by the Holy Spirit to serve where the Lord would call them and for me to have discernment to nurture their calling.

* For the healing hand of God on the marriages of our church.

* For wisdom as we formalize the legal entity and the board of our church.

* For wisdom to do God’s will as we start the benevolence ministry of our church.

* For the hungry kids of Lurin.

* For protection against wolfs in sheep clothing in the congregation as we grow.

* That the Lord would find a buyer for our house in The Florida Keys.

* For the items mentioned above in the Developments area.

* For provision for our family (2 adults and 3 children) to go to the yearly Southeast Calvary Chapel Pastor’s Conference in Merritt Island, FL in January, 2011.

* For our monthly financial support to go from 65% to 100% of our budget.


Thank you for holding us up through your love and faithful work of intercession..!



In His love,

Andres and Karla, Sebastian, Daniel, and Samuel—the Garcia’s.


PS: Make sure to check out the new pictures of our recent activities to your left...

Monday, August 16, 2010

NEWS LETTER: AUGUST 2010

Developments:

* Last month we received one new pledge of monthly financial support that puts us at 49.4% of our budget; after adding one-time donations for this month we received 56.0% of our budget which is 86.2% of our “survival mode” budget—our Lord will be proven faithful..!

* On July 17th I was invited to a breakfast at the Calvary Chapel Bible College in Lima with Sergio Pirelli from Calvary Chapel Amistad in Montclair, California.

* On July 21st Pastor Dan Tuttle, the Pastor of CC Savannah, taught in our mid-week service in Miraflores. Also, that day a group of leaders form the women’s ministry of CC Savannah held a mini women’s conference in Miraflores. Our congregation, as well as a couple of other women from the area, were deeply blessed and refreshed by the spiritual food served to us by Pastor Dan and his team—thank you CC Savannah!

* On July 24th my self and most of the men in our congregation attended Gracia Calvary Chapel’s 2010 Men’s Conference. Pastor Dan and his leadership team led the conference. Again, we all were extremely blessed as they took us on a gleaning session studying the lives of a couple of mighty man of faith in the Scriptures.

* On July 28th Missionary Nicole Bromley arrived to Miraflores to help us prepare for the arrival on August 18th of a missionary team from our home church Calvary Chapel Ft. Lauderdale.

* On August 2nd our kids stared a new year of homeschooling. Sebastian started 4th grade and Daniel started 2nd grade. After much prayer, starting August 17th, we’re putting little Samuel on a morning day care/school so he can get some social and educational activities until he starts homeschooling next year.

* On August 12th Karla assisted Debbi Bryson’s workshop for Pastors’ Wife held by CC Lima.

* On August 14th Karla and I celebrated eleven years of marriage! Thank You, Lord, for shedding Your grace upon our family… We’re humbled at the sight of Your strong hand, Your faithfulness, Your goodness, and Your loving-kindness!!

* On August 17th Nicole Bromley will be teaching a leadership class for the women of our church.

* On August 18th the mission’s team from Calvary Chapel Ft. Lauderdale will arrive in Lima at night.

* On August 19th and 20th the mission’s team we’ll spilt in three groups. We will be working on the construction of a deposit and the remodeling of our bathroom in the church, engaging on street evangelism, and doing home visitations.

* On August 21st we’ll be organizing and getting the church ready for service next day, as well as, street evangelism and home visitations.

* On August 22nd we’ll be having church and the team we’ll be taking a Sabbath day.

* On August 23rd and 24th we’ll be painting and finishing the work in the church, as well as, street evangelism, and home visitations.

* On August 25th we’ll be visiting a rehab center in Rimac, a very poor area of Lima, where a couple of missionary friends hold a Celebrate Recovery program. We’ll be leading worship and ministering to the guys in the center and potentially their family members. Latter on that day we’ll be having our mid-week church service in Miraflores—Pastor Steve will be teaching.

* On August 26th we’ll be visiting the Ingrid Project, a feeding program for children in Lurigancho, an extremely poor area of Lima. We’ll be helping out with the food preparation and sharing the love of God in Christ Jesus with the children at the center and with families in the area.

* On August 27th we’ll be visiting another feeding center. This time it will be at Iglesia El Refugio, in Rimac, where ORC has a feeding program for children.

* On August 28th Pastor Steve’s wife, Roz, will be sharing with the women of our church.

* On August 29th Pastor Steve will be teaching in our Sunday service in Miraflores. Later, the team will have a last minute shopping session before they leave very early next day.


Prayer Needs:

* For a fresh and empowering view of God and that we may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

* For our marriage—the enemy knows that if he can get in the middle of our marriage he can mess up everything else.

* For our devotional lives and for our kids to continue to grow in their desire to know God.

* For social activities and godly friends for our kids.

* For provision for little Samuel’s school expenses—school in Peru is rather costly.

* For the salvation of Alberto Ojeda, Ernesto Alegre, and Juliana.

* For an intense hunger for God in the hearts of everyone in our Men’s Discipleship Group and the church in general.

* For wisdom in regard to the development of the Children’s Ministry of our church.

* For us to stay healthy.

* For the missionary team that is coming to help us this month from CC Ft. Lauderdale.

* For Nicole Bromley to hear clear Divine Guidance in regard to the will of God for her life.

* For the items mentioned above in the Developments area.

* For our monthly financial support to go from 49.4% to 65% of our budget. 65% is what we need to make it in “survival mode…”


Thank you for holding us up through your love and faithful work of intercession..!



In His love,

Andres and Karla, Sebastian, Daniel, and Samuel—the Garcia’s.


PS: Make sure to check out the new pictures of our recent activities to your left...