Last month our pledged monthly financial support remained at 29.9% of our budget; after adding one-time donations the Lord provided 78.9% of our budget—our Lord will be proven faithful..!
* On June 22nd I shared at the weekly meeting of Christian Surfers of Peru. We spent some time in Proverbs 4.
* On July 8th Lita, a relatively new member of our congregation, received the news that she has a very aggressive form of cancer. An aggressive chemotherapy was scheduled for her during the next couple of weeks. Karla and I had the privilege of being present at the time she received the news and had the opportunity to offer her comfort and encouragement form God’s Word. Father, we lift up Lita and her family to Your throne of grace—bless them.!!
* On July 11th our church participated on an outreach to bless the kids of the Calvary Kids Ministry of Ventanilla & Pachacutec lead by pastor Raul Cervera. The congregation left with a great desire to continue to partner with this ministry on an ongoing basis.
My family and I will be traveling to Cajamarca from July 24th until August 9th to serve at the Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru. I will be teaching the ‘NT383 Galatians, Philippians & Colossians’ class.
This last month was a tough month of heavy trials for our congregation, but also of fruitful and rewarding discipleship ministry as we witness the Spirit of God providing God-glorifying confront and guide to all of us.
Online Outreach Stats (June, 2015):
* Video Ministry: 893 "Loads" and 104 "Plays" in 11 different countries (Peru, United States, Australia, Brazil, Ecuador, Honduras, Germany, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Bolivia--in order of most "Plays").
* Church Facebook: 157 People-Talking-About-This and 4472 of Total-Reach. We closed the month with 447 Likes.
* Church Web Page: 130 Sessions by 85 Users from 10 different countries (Peru, United States, Brazil, Australia, Italy, Andorra, Austria, Chile, France and United Kingdom--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 an assistant pastor to help me with the pastoral and evangelistic side of the ministry.
* For our trip to teach at the Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru in Cajamarca from July 24th until August 9th.
* For Lita and her family as she battles with cancer.
* 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 ministries of Calvary Kids Ventanilla, 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...
