Developments:
* Last month our pledged monthly financial support remained at 65.0% of our budget; after adding one-time donations for this month we received 78.9% of our budget which is 120.4% of our “survival mode” budget—our Lord IS faithful..!
* On September 29th we started the process to formalize the legal entity of our church. The new official name of our church will be: Iglesia Cristiana Calvary Chapel Miraflores. Very appropriate since we are already known as Calvary Chapel Miraflores. We also registered the internet domain for our web page: www.ccmiraflores.org. There’s not much there yet, but we’ll be working on it soon.
* On October 4th we were pleased to provide the kids that attend Calvary Chapel Vida in Lurin, a poor town south of Lima, with enough milk, oat, and sugar to feed a daily oat meal to the children in the congregation for a month—about 30 of them. This is the first outreach of our benevolence ministry. We are hoping to be able to provide this daily oat meal on an ongoing basis.
* On October 6th we launched our Wednesday night Children’s Ministry.
* On October 8th the Lord provided a buyer for our house in The Florida Keys. We are schedule to close on November 10th..!
* On October 9th I was invited to share my testimony with a group of people from another church in the area called Gracia y Verdad. A couple of people from our church attended the event; it was a blessing.
* On October 10th our church started having an intercessory team praying half-hour before Sunday service. Later that day the church attended a lunch at Calvary Chapel Vida in Lurin where we had the opportunity to share with the poor kids in Lurin. We are praying about how the Lord would lead our congregation to continue to bless this group of poor kids with both physical and spiritual food.
* On October 12th we completed our men’s group weekly study on the book Calvary Road on Tuesday nights.
* On October 19th we will be offering the CC Ft. Lauderdale’s original Deep Faith classes—23 in total—on Tuesday nights for the church at large. I will be braking with the men and Karla with the women after the recorded teachings from Pastor Fidel Gomez.
Prayer Needs:
* For a fresh and empowering view of God, 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 Christ.
* For social activities and godly friends for our kids.
* For us to stay healthy.
* For an intense hunger for God in the hearts of everyone in the church.
* For the healing hand of God on the marriages of our church.
* For wisdom as we formalize the legal entity and the board of our church.
* For wisdom to do God’s will with the benevolence ministry of our church.
* For the hungry kids of Lurin.
* For protection against wolfs in sheep clothing in the congregation as we grow.
* That the Lord would bring the closing of the selling of our house in The Florida Keys on November 10th as scheduled.
* For the items mentioned above in the Developments area.
* For provision for our family (2 adults and 3 children) to go to the yearly Southeast Calvary Chapel Pastor’s Conference in Merritt Island, FL in January, 2011.
* For our monthly financial support to go from 65% to 100% of our budget.
Thank you for holding us up through your love and faithful work of intercession..!
In His love,
Andres and Karla, Sebastian, Daniel, and Samuel—the Garcia’s.
PS: Make sure to check out the new pictures of our recent activities to your left...
