Last month our pledged monthly financial support dropped to 45.8% of our budget; after adding one-time donations the Lord provided 100% of our budget—our Lord IS faithful..!
* On September 25th our house first selling contract fell through. That same day the house went under a different contract that is set for closing on October 25th.
* On September 26th Samuelito had his cast removed and today he's doing cartwheels and using his arm like nothing ever happened. Thank you for your prayers!
* On September 29th we assisted a simulcast session of Greg Laurie's evangelistic festival Harvest America at CC Spring Valley.
Last month we've caught a glimpse of what the Lord is doing in our lives during this season in the USA, specially by having us far from home in Las Vegas, NV. The Lord has turned our furlough into a mini sabbatical and is using it to "make us to lie down in green pastures…"
During this forced downtime, isolated and away from friends and supporters, the Lord has been healing areas of our family relationships that had been fractured by intense burnout during the last three-and-a-half years of missionary service. We feel the Lord using this time to tangibly charge and prepare us to tackle "chapter 3" of our missionary work in Peru in the power of God's Spirit and not in the flimsy might of human effort.
Thank You, Father, for our lives are in Your loving and mighty hands..!
Peru Developments:
We are please to report that the Lord is using our time away to provoke the people of CC Miraflores to love and good works. Several people, specially men, are stepping up to serve and sustain their church as a gateway of work for the kingdom of God.
* On September 29th Alejandro Castro, a man of our congregation that I have been discipling to be a leader in CC Miraflores, led communion on our Sunday service.
* On October 6th the congregation in Miraflores was blessed to be taught the Word of God by a guest speaker from within, Antonio Farfan. Antonio is a key figure in the ministry Christian Surfers of Peru that has been congregating with us for a while.
We have been successfully overseeing and ministering remotely to the needs of the church back in Miraflores via high speed internet. I have been available in every Sunday service to open with a casual word of exhortation, as well as for prayer, questions and koinonia at the end of the service. Karla and I have had several counseling sessions last month including premarital and one-on-one biblical counseling. I, also, have been meeting weekly with the leaders of the church via Skype and Team Viewer.
Thank You, Lord, for the technology that allows us to stay connected with the congregation during our furlough turned into sabbatical..!
Online Outreach Stats (September, 2013):
* Video Ministry: 3095 "Loads" and 148 "Plays" in 11 different countries (Peru, United States, Argentina, Italy, Chile, Mexico, Canada, Venezuela, Australia, Colombia and Spain--in order of most "Plays").
* Church Facebook: 211 People-Talking-About-This and 4735 of Total-Reach. We closed the month with 237 Likes.
* Church Web Page: 101 Visits with 54 Unique Visitors from 8 different countries (Peru, United States, Argentina, Chile, Canada, Colombia, United Kingdom and Japan--in order of most Visits).
Charts of all these metrics are available here.
Furlough 2013 Needs:
* Housing: The Lord has provided a corporate apartment through my newly found temporary job in Las Vegas. This is a spacious two-bedroom apartment where Karla and the kids can comfortably do homeschooling..!
* Transportation: The Lord has provided, also through my temporary job, a rental vehicle for me to work. The downside is that this vehicle, due to company policies, cannot be driven by Karla… Please pray that someone in the local churches would lend us another vehicle--our family is much more efficient having two vehicles.
* Work: The Lord provided a temporary contracting job with Cricket Communications in Las Vegas. Cricket is a mirror company of Metro PCS, the last place I worked as an RF Engineer for more than eight years before going into the mission field. Cricket is getting bought out by AT&T next year, so they are getting their network up to specs in preparation for the buy out; hence their need for contractors and the source of my temporary job.
These provisions are a testament to your work of intercession on our behalf and the reality that our God answers prayers… Thank you and please keep praying..!
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.
* 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 the sale of our house in Miramar, FL to close as scheduled and without hiccups on October 25th.
* For God's provision to cover extraordinary expenses incurred on passport renewals, homeschool materials and on plane tickets for our current furlough. Also, for the medical expenses due to Samuelito's broken elbow.
* For God's wisdom in remotely attending the needs of the church from the US during our furlough.
* For God's leading and provision on expanding the church.
* 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 the Lord to strengthen and develop godly homeschooling here in Peru.
* For the salvation of the people of the Club Terrazas Swimming Team and beyond.
* For Divine guidance and blessing as we seek to make disciples in the peruvian cities of Huamachuco and Pachacutec, 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 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, and Samuel—the Garcia’s.
PS: Make sure to check out the new pictures of our recent activities to your left...
