Thursday, August 20, 2015

NEWS LETTER: AUGUST 2015

Developments:
Last month our pledged monthly financial support remained at 29.9% of our budget; after adding one-time donations the Lord provided 84.8% of our budget—our Lord will be proven faithful..!

* On July 20th I shared at the weekly meeting of Christian Surfers of Peru. We spent some time in Proverbs 5.

* On July 24th my family and I traveled to Cajamarca to serve at the Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru for two weeks. During that time we all participated in the daily activities of the college while I served the students by teaching a class called NT383: Galatians, Philippians & Colossians. We had a wonderful time of service and fellowship with students and staff alike. Teaching at the Bible College was an activity that we all loved and can see ourselves doing more often in the future.

* On August 14th Karla and I celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary. Father, thank You for my wife and pray You continue to bless our marriage by doing Your work of love in us..!

* On August 16th we had our bimonthly Servants’ Meeting were we had a opportunity to regroup, share what the Lord had done with us and through us in Cajamarca and to set serving goals for our congregation in the near future. Among these goals were to partner with the Calvary Kids Ministry of Ventanilla & Pachacutec lead by pastor Raul Cervera to send missions teams to help in an ongoing basis and to assist Calvary Chapel Huacho during its pastor’s furlough time in September. We are strongly sensing God’s directive to selflessness by pouring into the development of other ministries.


Online Outreach Stats (July, 2015):
* Video Ministry: 832 "Loads" and 98 "Plays" in 12 different countries (Peru, United States, Chile, Netherlands, Austria, Mexico, Panama, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Italy and Germany--in order of most "Plays").

* Church Facebook: 195 People-Talking-About-This and 7084 of Total-Reach. We closed the month with 463 Likes.

* Church Web Page: 139 Sessions by 92 Users from 10 different countries (Peru, Brazil, United States, Switzerland, Italy, Mexico, Austria, Canada, Chile and Greece--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 provision to cover the baby delivery expenses and the new used vehicle we had to buy in order to mobilize our now family of six.
* For an assistant pastor to help me with the pastoral and evangelistic side of the ministry.
* For Lita and her family as she battles with cancer.
* 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 cities of Huamachuco and Tingo Maria, 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 ministries of Calvary Kids Ventanilla, Christian Surfers and 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...