Developments:
Last month our pledged monthly financial support remained at 56.5% of our budget; after adding one-time donations the Lord provided 72.2% of our budget—our Lord will be proven faithful..!
* On March 16th I shared at the weekly meeting of Christian Surfers of Peru. We spent some time in Proverbs 1.
* On March 19th we acquired a used new vehicle that has enough room for our now family of six.
* On April 1st our new son, Adrian, officially started his life outside mommy’s womb. He arrived perfectly healthy with a steady and strong heartbeat…Thank you for your prayers..!
* On April 13th we started the second phase of our discipleship program Deep Faith—Experiencing Your Faith—ran by Alejandro Castro-Mendivil.
* On April 15th a new Women’s Group was born led by Peggy Carrion and hosted by Lita Trujillo at her house.
Last month we continued to see the work of God in our congregation as more and more they become actively involved in the work of the ministry!
Online Outreach Stats (March, 2015):
* Video Ministry: 1005 "Loads" and 90 "Plays" in 9 different countries (Peru, United States, Australia, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Austria, Brazil and Morocco--in order of most "Plays").
* Church Facebook: 142 People-Talking-About-This and 2797 of Total-Reach. We closed the month with 402 Likes.
* Church Web Page: 181 Sessions by 121 Users from 10 different countries (Peru, Brazil, United States, Mexico, Spain, Austria, Colombia, India, Italy and Barbados--in order of most Sessions).
Charts of all these metrics are available here.
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.
* 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 Karla’s nursing days and sleepless nights.
* For provision to cover the baby delivery expenses and the new used vehicle we had to buy in order to mobilize our now family of six.
* For God’s favor on selling our old car.
* For an assistant pastor to help me with the pastoral and evangelistic side of the ministry.
* For God's anointing and continued provision for our new Sunday morning service location.
* For our church to be rooted on an ever fresh vision of the grace of God.
* 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 the local surfing community.
* For Divine guidance and blessing as we seek to make disciples in the peruvian city of Huamachuco, 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 involvement with the local ministry of Christian Surfers and Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru.
* For our monthly financial support 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 and Adrian—the Garcia’s.
PS: Make sure to check out the new pictures of our recent activities to your left...
