Thursday, December 18, 2014

NEWS LETTER: DECEMBER 2014

Developments:
Last month our pledged monthly financial support remained at 61.0% of our budget; after adding one-time donations the Lord provided 84.4% of our budget—our Lord will be proven faithful..!

* From November 16th through the 30th Karla, the kids and I went on a road trip to the area of Cajamarca where we had the opportunity to spend some time with John and Pilar Bonner in the Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru and with the Alegre’s in Calvary Chapel Cajabamba.

* On November 19th I had the opportunity to share the Word of God at the mid-week service of Calvary Chapel Cajamarca.

* On November 20th my wife, Karla, shared with the women in the Bible College.

* On November 21st I had the privilege of being the keynote speaker at the graduation ceremony of the Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru in Cajamarca. We spent a week in the Bible College and it was truly a blessing to witness firsthand the work that the Spirit of God is doing in and through this ministry. Later, after praying it through with my wife, I made myself available to John Bonner to serve with my family for a couple of weeks in the months of August. John Bonner has asked me to teach a two-week course and I have accepted. 

We are also planning on getting our church involved in helping this ministry with mission trips during our yearly stays in the College to serve the College and the churches in the area.

With the new addition to our family that we are expecting to arrive in April we will be forced to upgrade the family vehicle to one able to mobilize a family of six… Please pray for God to provide a reliable vehicle that we could use to take the 15-hour trip to the mountains of Cajamarca every year to partner with this ministry. On our last trip the automatic transmission of our current car ended up needing to $350 in repairs.

* On December 10th I had an encouraging time of koinonia having lunch with a group leaders from Calvary Chapel Downey and other local Calvary Chapel pastors at Gracia CC.


Online Outreach Stats (November, 2014):
* Video Ministry: 1047 "Loads" and 74 "Plays" in 7 different countries (Peru, United States, Argentina, Venezuela, Ecuador, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico--in order of most "Plays"). 

* Church Facebook: 325 People-Talking-About-This and 3394 of Total-Reach. We closed the month with 379 Likes.

* Church Web Page: 182 Sessions by 135 Users from 10 different countries (Peru, Brazil, United States, Italy, Ecuador, Spain, Colombia, Germany, Hong Kong and Portugal--in order of most Sessions).

Charts of all these metrics are available here.


Prayer Needs:
* For a fresh and empowering view of God, that we may learn to see His goodness in all places and in all things, and that His will be done in our lives.
* Against spiritual oppression and discouragement in my family.
* For our marriage, our devotional lives, and for our kids to continue to grow in their desire to know the Lord.
* For good health to all in our family.
* For a supernatural healing of Sebastian’s nose after his operation.
* For Karla’s pregnancy, that the baby would come healthy and for provision for all the coming expenses.
* For a ministry vehicle able to mobilize our soon to be family of six.
* For God's anointing and continued provision for our new Sunday morning service location.
* For our church to be rooted on an ever fresh vision of the grace of God.
* For a downpour of spiritual realities and an intense hunger for God in the hearts of everyone in the church, including our children and our youth.
* For the healing hand of God on the marriages of our church.
* For the development of male leadership in our church.
* For the development of healthy relational discipleship groups where our congregation truly comes to know and grow in the grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
* For our video ministry, church Facebook and church web page to reach many with the Word of God.
* For the Lord to strengthen and develop godly homeschooling here in Peru.
* For the salvation of the people of the Club Terrazas Swimming Team and beyond.
* For Divine guidance and blessing as we seek to make disciples in the peruvian city of Huamachuco, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela. Also for God to raise up local pastors for these locations that are of one mind with the vision of Calvary Chapel Miraflores.
* For our involvement with the local ministry of Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru.
* For our monthly financial support to go back to 100% of our budget.

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


In His love,
Andres, Karla, Sebastian, Daniel, Samuel and Adrian—the Garcia’s.


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