Developments:
* Last month our pledged monthly financial support dropped to 63.9% of our budget; after adding one-time donations for this month we received, for the first time, 100% of our budget—our Lord IS faithful..!
* On January 7th Karla and I broke our 10-day liquid fast.
* On January 10th our family had the opportunity to spend a week of relaxing and spiritual recharge with Pastor Lucho and Nori Garcia in the beaches of Asia, about an hour south of Lima.
* On January 16th Karla and I accompanied Pastor Lucho and Nori to what was meant to be the final service at Calvary Chapel Surco. CC Surco is a congregation of mostly young adults, about a 20-minute drive from Miraflores, whose Pastor went to be with the Lord about three years ago and they haven't since been able to find a Pastor to lead them. Upon meeting them I felt a tug from the Lord to be involved with them. After much prayer we felt the Lord leading us to support them with a month of rent and spiritual leadership during which we have been seeking God's will in regard to our roll in their spiritual progress in the future. I have been teaching and worshiping with them on Sunday afternoon and praying together on Thursday night. We are still waiting on the Lord to make His will known to us...
* On January 25th we broke cake and sang Happy Birthday on a small corporate celebration for all the January birthdays in our congregation.
* On January 26th we had our monthly Movie Night at the church. The Spirit of God is using these events to bless our congregation with fellowship and spiritual oneness in a mighty way.
* On January 28th our family traveled about three hours south of Lima to Pisco to join our fellow missionaries, Marco and Monique Laura, as they celebrated the third year anniversary of Calvary Chapel Pisco. We had time to connect with them and their congregation, to lead worship, and to perform a couple of baptisms in the beach of Paracas, a well know tourist area about 15 minutes further south of Pisco.
* On January 31st we had our first baptisms in our congregation..!
* On February 5th we celebrated birthday number three for our youngest son, Samuel.
* Last month was a challenging month in terms of physical health in the family. Daniel (6) went down with a case of mild pneumonia that lasted for 20 days and Samuel (3) had a bronchitis infection that agitated his asthma. Thankfully everybody is back in good health today.
* The Lord continues to bless our children with godly friends as He brought another Peruvian-American couple with a nine years old daughter to our congregation. They are a returning-home family that lived in the US for ten years and used to congregate in Calvary Chapel Ft. Lauderdale, our home church.
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 the Lord.
* For social activities and godly friends for our kids.
* For my back’s healing and for the family to stay healthy.
* For an intense hunger for God in the hearts of everyone in the church, including our children and our youth.
* For the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of God to be poured in our congregation as a whole.
* 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 God to lead us into His will in regard to our involvement with His sheep at Calvary Chapel Surco.
* For the hungry kids of Lurin and Rimac.
* For the men in the rehab center in Rimac.
* For provision for me to go to the yearly Calvary Chapel Senior Pastor’s Conference in Murrieta, CA in June, 2011.
* For our monthly financial support to go from 63.9% 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 checkout the new pictures of our recent activities to your left...
