NEWS LETTER: MAY 2017

Developments:

Last month the Lord provided 87.7% of our budget—our Lord will be proven faithful..!

The biggest news this month is that the Lord provided me a contracting entry-level engineering job with T-Mobile in Sunrise, FL. For the time being, I’ll be driving to South Florida on Monday early morning, staying with friends while I work throughout the week, and driving back to Central Florida of Friday afternoon. We are praying through this to see if God is using this turn of events to move our family and our local ministry back to South Florida… We’ll keep you posted as things develop.

I’m looking for places to stay in South Florida—four nights a week, just me—during this period of time. If you are led to help us in this regard, please let me know.

Remember that our method of receiving donations changed this month. If you are led to help us financially, please send your tax deductible donations via regular checks made out to Calvary Chapel Villages to the following address:

Calvary Chapel Villages

333 Colony Blvd, Box 311

The Villages, FL 32162

In the memo of the check write “For Garcia’s”.

We are working with GO! Ministries to set up an account with them so our ministry can be supported via online donations. 

Online Outreach Stats (April, 2017):

The internet Bible teaching ministry continues to grow. In the month of April, the number of people engaged with the teaching video posts in our Facebook page ascended to 568 in Nicaragua, 116 in Venezuela, 83 in Dominican Republic, 42 in Guatemala, 29 in Honduras, 28 in Peru, 19 in El Salvador and 12 in Ecuador. We closed the month with close to 37K Likes throughout the Hispanic world!

* Video Ministry: 5995 "Loads,” 1392  "Plays,” and 19 “Finishes” in 20 different countries (Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Peru, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador, Unites States, Colombia, Spain, Brazil, Sint Maarten, Costa Rica, Mexico, Canada, Panama, Curacao, Italy and Argentina—in order of most "Plays").

* Church Facebook: 1366 People-Engaged and 84219 People-Reached. We closed the month with 36991 Likes.

* Church Web Page: 43 Sessions by 43 Users from 9 different countries (United States, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Romania, Bahamas, Malaysia, Peru, Portugal and Venezuela—in order of most Sessions).

Charts of all these metrics are available here.

Prayer Needs:

* For those who support us, that the Father’s blessing be upon them.

* 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.

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

* For Karla’s pregnancy—her nausea and the baby’s wellbeing.

* For an increased and fortified measure of faith in order to walk humbly the new sanctifying paths the Lord is leading us through.

* For places to stay in South Florida—just me—during the week. 

* For provision in general, be it, donations, ministry giving, small business, commissions or regular job.

* For clear guidance in the next chapter of our ministry.

* For our video ministry, church Facebook and church web page to reach many with the liberating word of the gospel of the grace of God.

* For our monthly financial provision 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, Adrian and the New Baby—the Garcia’s.

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

NEWS LETTER: APRIL 2017

Developments:

Last month the Lord provided 60.5% of our budget—our Lord will be proven faithful..!

The biggest news this month is that my wife Karla is pregnant with our fifth child! Needless to say we are very much surprised, overjoyed and overwhelmed, all at the same time, with this unexpected development of God’s will for our lives. Please, help us cry out to God for His all sufficient grace. That our eyes would be fixed upon Him during this season of financial uncertainties. That this new baby would grow up to be a mighty man or woman of God—freed by the knowledge of His love!

Another important news is that our method of receiving donations is changing next month. Unfortunately, Shepherd’s Staff—our missions facilitators for over seven years—does not work with US based missionaries and is closing our account at the end of this month. Thank you, Shepherd’s Staff, for all the years of faithful service!

Starting May 1st, 2017—if you are led to help us financially—please send your tax deductible donations via regular checks made out to Calvary Chapel Villages to the following address:

Calvary Chapel Villages

333 Colony Blvd, Box 311

The Villages, FL 32162

In the memo of the check write “For Garcia’s”.

Sorry for the inconvenience that having to write and mail checks may cause you… We are working with GO! Ministries to set up an account with them so our ministry can be supported via online donations. In the meantime, a big thank you to our pastor and spiritual mentor—Steve Turner—and to his board of Elders for graciously allowing us to channel donations through their church.

Online Outreach Stats (March, 2017):

The internet Bible teaching ministry continues to grow. In the month of March, the number of people engaged with the teaching video posts in our Facebook page ascended to 793 in Nicaragua, 147 in Venezuela, 142 in Dominican Republic, 46 in Ecuador, 43 in Honduras, 37 in Peru, 34 in Guatemala, 33 in El Salvador and 12 in Colombia. We closed the month with more than 37K Likes throughout the Hispanic world!

* Video Ministry: 5311 "Loads,” 1226  "Plays,” and 29 “Finishes” in 25 different countries (Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Peru, El Salvador, Guatemala, Ecuador, Honduras, Unites States, Colombia, Sint Maarten, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Spain, Germany, Panama, Canada, United Kingdom, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Turkey, India and France—in order of most "Plays").

* Church Facebook: 1773 People-Engaged and 80008 People-Reached. We closed the month with 37042 Likes.

* Church Web Page: 113 Sessions by 109 Users from 8 different countries (United States, Spain, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Morocco, Peru and Venezuela—in order of most Sessions).

Charts of all these metrics are available here.

Prayer Needs:

* For those who support us, that the Father’s blessing be upon them.

* 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.

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

* For Karla’s pregnancy—her nausea and the baby’s wellbeing.

* For an increased and fortified measure of faith in order to walk humbly the new sanctifying paths the Lord is leading me through.

* For provision in general, be it, donations, ministry giving, small business, commissions or regular job.

* For clear guidance in the next chapter of our ministry.

* For our video ministry, church Facebook and church web page to reach many with the liberating word of the gospel of the grace of God.

* For our monthly financial provision 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, Adrian and the New Baby—the Garcia’s.

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

NEWS LETTER: SEPTEMBER 2016

Developments:

Last month our pledged monthly financial support remained at 48.7% of our budget; after adding one-time donations the Lord provided 100.0% of our budget—our Lord IS faithful..!

After a month fully packed with farewell get-togethers, planning, selling, packing and shipping we are now back in the USA. It is with bittersweetness that we left Peru, but we look forward with great expectation to the new chapter of our missionary ministry to the hispanic world—now in and from Central Florida.

We will be busy working on a hispanic church plant in the area of Orlando, FL—specifically in the city of Clermont. This church plant will be the new furnace where Bible studies will be produce, to feed the local sheep first, and then be placed on the internet to continue to reach the hispanic world with the freeing message of Christ’s inexhaustible grace to an exhausted world. The name of our new church plant and missionary ministry will be calvary chapel Eres AMADO, as in “You are unconditionally and eternally LOVED”—the essence of the gospel of the grace of God!

As we remain full-time committed to the work of missions and church planting in the hispanic world, we appreciate your continued financial support during this transition period and into the next chapter of our ministry. Until further notice, the process to collect donations remains the same.

Father, we are Yours—glorify Your name in us and through us..! 

Online Outreach Stats (August, 2016):

The internet Bible teaching ministry continues to grow. In the month of August, the number of people engaged with the teaching video posts in our Facebook page ascended to 1510 in Venezuela, 515 in Nicaragua, 244 in Peru, 230 in Guatemala, 160 in Dominican Republic, 129 in Ecuador, 124 in Honduras, 121 in El Salvador and 77 in Colombia. We closed the month with 9975 Venezuelan Likes—out of a total of already more than 21K Likes throughout the hispanic world!

* Video Ministry: 13486 "Loads,” 4599 "Plays,” and 151 “Finishes” in 25 different countries (Venezuela, Peru, United States, Colombia, Spain, Panama, El Salvador, Italy, Brazil, Honduras, Portugal, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Ecuador, France, Netherlands, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Chile, Costa Rica, Guyana, Paraguay, Switzerland, Argentina and Germany—in order of most "Plays").

* Church Facebook: 3840 People-Engaged and 429710 People-Reached. We closed the month with 21086 Likes.

* Church Web Page: 343 Sessions by 128 Users from 10 different countries (Peru, United States, Venezuela, United Kingdom, Panama, Brazil, Ecuador, Israel, Iraq and Italy—in order of most Sessions).

Charts of all these metrics are available here.

Prayer Needs:

* For our financial supporters, that the Father’s blessing be upon them.

* 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.

* 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 guidance and provision for the next chapter of our ministry.

* For the new church that is about to be born, that it would be rooted on an ever fresh vision of the grace of God, with downpours of spiritual realities and an intense hunger for God.

* For our video ministry, church Facebook and church web page to reach many with the Word of God.

* 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...

NEWS LETTER: AUGUST 2016

Developments:

Last month our pledged monthly financial support went up to 48.7% of our budget; after adding one-time donations the Lord provided 100.0% of our budget—our Lord IS faithful..!

* On July 23rd 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 hispanic students by teaching a class called NT383: Galatians, Philippians & Colossians. We had a wonderful time of service and fellowship. Our heart is to continue to serve at the Bible College once a year as God provides.

* On August 20th we had a very special Koinonia Day with the church at large where we enjoyed each other over great BBQ. Father, thank You for these beautiful group of people You gave us to tend to. We pray You bless them always..!

We continue moving forward with God’s directive to move the operations of my hispanic Bible teaching ministry to the States by way of starting a hispanic church plant in the area of Orlando, FL—specifically in the city of Clermont.

Last month the Lord gave confirmation to pastor Renzo Plasencia and his family to join the leadership team of the local church here in Miraflores. He will assume the lead with the local pastoral responsibilities of the church while I remain involved in the disciple making process of the church, from the States, using the technology that is available to us these days. Thank You, Father for Your provision—bless the Plasencia family.!!

We are set to fly back to Florida on September 13th… Last month we made tremendous progress with the moving process, but continue busy with a great amount of planning. Please help us pray for provision for our move as estimates are showing figures close to $10,000.

We are and will continue with our full-time commitment to the work of missions and church planting in the hispanic world, hence, we appreciate your continued financial support during and into this next chapter of our ministry. Until further notice, the process to collect donations remains the same.

Father, we are Yours—glorify Your name in us and through us..! 

Online Outreach Stats (July, 2016):

The internet Bible teaching ministry continues to grow. In the month of July, the number of people engaged with the teaching video posts in our Facebook page ascended to 1639 in Venezuela, 516 in Nicaragua, 260 in Guatemala, 195 in Peru, 171 in Dominican Republic, 169 in Honduras, 153 in Ecuador and 120 in El Salvador. We closed the month with 8773  Venezuelan Likes—out of a total of already more than 18K Likes throughout the hispanic world!

* Video Ministry: 12316 "Loads,” 3647 "Plays,” and 103 “Finishes” in 19 different countries (Venezuela, Peru, United States, Colombia, Curaçao, Ecuador, Mexico, Brazil, Panama, Spain, Chile, Italy, Bolivia, Republic of Korea, Australia, Syria, Guyana, Switzerland and Algeria—in order of most "Plays").

* Church Facebook: 4026 People-Talking-About-This and 437797 of Total-Reach. We closed the month with 18277 Likes.

* Church Web Page: 230 Sessions by 171 Users from 9 different countries (Peru, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, Argentina, Canada, Greece, Iran and Morocco—in order of most Sessions).

Charts of all these metrics are available here.

Prayer Needs:

* For our financial supporters, that the Father’s blessing be upon them.

* 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 guidance and provision for the next chapter of our ministry.

* For wisdom in organizing our move, favor in selling household items and provision for moving expenses.

* For our church to be rooted on an ever fresh vision of the grace of God, 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 pastor Renzo and his family and for a smooth transition process for the church.

* For missionary Nicole Farmer as she helps our church navigate through the transition process.

* For our video ministry, church Facebook and church web page to reach many with the Word of God.

* For Divine guidance and blessing as we expand my online hispanic Bible teaching ministry to Venezuela and beyond with the use of social media.

* 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...

NEWS LETTER: JULY 2016

Developments:

Last month our pledged monthly financial support remained at 29.3% of our budget; after adding one-time donations the Lord provided 100.0% of our budget—our Lord IS faithful..!

About eight months ago the Spirit of God started stirring in our hearts the thought of moving the operations of my hispanic Bible teaching ministry to the States in order to continue to serve the Lord in reaching the hispanic community of the world with the gospel of the grace of God. For that matter we embarked on an intense season of prayer and fasting to seek confirmation and direction from the Lord in this regard. During our last Furlough the Lord categorically confirmed this to be His calling and gave us direction by way of opening huge doors for us to start a hispanic church plant in the area of Orlando, FL—specifically in the city of Clermont.

Since we got back from Furlough we have been diligently seeking the Lord to reveal His will for the local church here in Miraflores. The Lord has been giving progressive revelation in this regard and the way He is working it out is for the church to remain a satellite church of our ministry—at least for the time being—in order to continue faithful with the mandate to make disciples. While my heart is to remain involved in the disciple making process of this church using the technology that is available to us these days, we are at the moment praying for a campus pastor to oversee the local operations of the church and to attend to the pastoral needs of the congregation. We have an ideal candidate at the time that is seeking confirmation from the Lord. More information on this to follow…

We are set to fly back to Florida on September 13th and at the moment find ourselves busy with a tremendous amount of planning. Please help us pray for provision for our move as estimates are showing figures close to $10,000.

We are and will continue with our full-time commitment to the work of missions and church planting in the hispanic world, hence, we appreciate your continued financial support during and into this next chapter of our ministry. Until further notice, the process to collect donations remains the same.

Father, we are Yours—glorify Your name in us and through us..! 

Online Outreach Stats (June, 2016):

The internet Bible teaching ministry continues to grow. In the month of June, the number of people engaged with the teaching video posts in our Facebook page ascended to 1283 in Venezuela, 226 in Nicaragua, 211 in Guatemala, 197 in Peru, 161 in Dominican Republic, 118 in Honduras and 108 in Ecuador. We closed the month with 7666 Venezuelan Likes—out of a total of already more than 15K Likes throughout the hispanic world!

* Video Ministry: 11241 "Loads,” 2639 "Plays,” and 85 “Finishes” in 23 different countries (Venezuela, Peru, United States, Colombia, Italy, Spain, Chile, Ecuador, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Panama, Dominican Republic, Aruba, Greece, Syria, Honduras, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Brasil, Israel, Canada, Portugal and Argentina—in order of most "Plays"). 

* Church Facebook: 2823 People-Talking-About-This and 350014 of Total-Reach. We closed the month with 15381 Likes.

* Church Web Page: 181 Sessions by 145 Users from 10 different countries (Peru, United Kingdom, Venezuela, United States, Spain, France, India, Chile, China and Colombia—in order of most Sessions).

Charts of all these metrics are available here.

Prayer Needs:

* For our financial supporters, that the Father’s blessing be upon them.

* 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 guidance and provision for the next chapter of our ministry.

* For wisdom in organizing our move, provision for moving expenses and favor to sell our car and other household items.

* For our trip to teach at the Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru in Cajamarca from July 23rd until August 7th.

* For our church to be rooted on an ever fresh vision of the grace of God, 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 God to provide an ideal campus pastor and a smooth transition process for the church.

* For missionary Nicole Farmer as she helps our church navigate through the transition process.

* For our video ministry, church Facebook and church web page to reach many with the Word of God.

* For Divine guidance and blessing as we seek to expand my online hispanic Bible teaching ministry to Venezuela and beyond with the use of social media.

* For the salvation of the people of the Club Terrazas Swimming Team and the local surfing community.

* 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...