Dearest Prayer Warriors,
As you know, after coming from our trip to Peru in April and seeking God’s will for our lives we believe He has spoken. The Lord has given us peace and overwhelming confidence in our hearts that He is calling us to serve Him as missionaries to the urban culture of Miraflores-Lima, Peru through the ministry of Calvary Chapel Vida. After much prayer and consideration we now have a take-a-step-of-faith departure date of January 2010. To that end, we have been busy working out the details of our departure to the mission field by figuring out budgets, moving expenses, visas, residencies, passports, schools, sending agencies, applications—it’s been just like planning a wedding! The purpose of this letter is to keep you informed of the latest developments and prayer needs of our ministry.
Developments:
The latest development is that we just have been approved by Shepherd’s Staff, our mission facilitator agency. We have been assigned the account number 4508; this enables us to start raising support that is tax deductible to our supporters. This is huge since it usually takes months to get this.
Prayer Needs:
* That God’s will be done in our lives.
* That the Lord would continue to feed our hearts with fresh revelation of His glory that we may not lose the fire of our first love and single devotion to Him in the midst of busy work.
* That He would facilitate a meeting with Pastor Chet, the missions Pastor in the main campus. A meeting with him is necessary to make us official missionaries of Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale.
* Wisdom to make many practical decisions in regard to our departure to the mission field.
* That He would raise more prayer warriors to keep interceding on our behalf and partner with us in our ministry.
* That He would raise funds for our moving expenses and supporters for our ongoing living and ministry expenses.
* Protection against the works of the wicked one in our family.
* Unity among His true church that we may work in unity for the exaltation of His Son in Lima and all across Peru.
Thank you for your faithful prayers. We truly believe that prayer is the driving engine of the work of God in this world. We’re just the visible tip of the iceberg that labor on top of your faithful work of intercession.
May God bless you with the unspeakable gift of His Holy Presence..!
Love,
Andres, Karla, Sebastian, Daniel and Samuel—the Garcia’s.
