Thursday, March 19, 2015

NEWS LETTER: MARCH 2015

Developments:
Last month our pledged monthly financial support dropped to 56.5% of our budget; after adding one-time donations the Lord provided 96.7% of our budget—our Lord IS faithful..!

* On February 16th I shared at the weekly meeting of Christian Surfers of Peru. We spent some time in Acts 16.

* On February 19th we received notice that my mom’s malign mole was removed in time, so she is cancer free. Thank You, Father.!!

* On February 23rd the doctor checked Adrian’s heart and it showed a more steady heartbeat… We are praying for fully clean heartbeat by the time he’s born—anytime after the March 19th. 

* On February 28th we felt the Winds of Change… After five years of ministry on our location in Larco we surrendered it. We have been having our Sunday services at the Club Empresarial in San Isidro and will now have all our other activities in houses. We are looking more like the church of the book of Acts.

* On March 1st we had our first Sunday service with live worship led by our very own Mingo Casaretto. That day we also had our bimonthly Servants Meeting. Father, raise the leadership of our church that everyone would be actively involved in the work of the ministry.!!

* On March 3rd we had our first Prayer Meeting at the Monzón family’s house… The more intimate setting was conducive for a downpour of the Holy Spirit.

* On March 5th a new Women’s Group was born led and hosted by Judith Espinoza at her house.


Online Outreach Stats (February, 2015):
* Video Ministry: 771 "Loads" and 71 "Plays" in 9 different countries (Peru, United States, Venezuela, Colombia, Australia, Mexico, Italy, Argentina and Panama--in order of most "Plays"). 

* Church Facebook: 153 People-Talking-About-This and 2011 of Total-Reach. We closed the month with 407 Likes.

* Church Web Page: 164 Sessions by 106 Users from 10 different countries (Peru, Brazil, United States, Spain, India, Italy, Portugal, Australia, Germany and United Kingdom--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, specially that the baby’s cardiac arrhythmia would heal and for provision for all the coming expenses.
* For Abita’s spiritual growth and physical health.
* For a ministry vehicle able to mobilize our soon to be family of six.
* For an assistant pastor to help me with the ministry.
* 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 the local surfing community.
* 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 Christian Surfers and Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru.
* For our monthly financial support to remain at 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...