Developments:
Last month our pledged monthly financial support remained at 29.3% of our budget; after adding one-time donations the Lord provided 100% of our budget—our Lord IS faithful..!
* On November 16th I shared at the weekly meeting of Christian Surfers Peru. We spent some time in the second half of Proverbs 6.
* On November 21st our church got together for a movie night where several unbelievers were exposed to the eternal truth of God’s Word.
* On November 22nd I had the privilege of sharing God’s Word at Calvary Chapel Pachacutec.
* On November 30th my firstborn son, Sebastian, and I went on a kind of bar mitzvah trip to Machu Picchu with a group of CC Bible College-Peru. Father, bless my son as he enters into manhood to be a man of God that seeks after Your heart.
* On December 8th Christian Surfers Peru did an outreach to the surfing town of San Bartolo.
* On December 12th I was asked to participate in the opening ceremony an unbelieving friend’s store in order to bless the business—the gospel of Christ has proclaimed.
* On December 16th I participated in end-of-the-year Christian Surfers' Leadership Meeting.
Back on October 20th we were led to make use of Facebook’s promotion tools with a budget of $2/day to promote the church’s Facebook page and the Sunday teaching posts… Since then we have had incredible results: The number of people reached has been multiplied by 12, the amount of people engaged with the teaching posts has grown by a factor of 5 and the amount of Likes on our page has tripled. Also, after reviewing the stats on Vimeo (our video housing provider) we realized that the amount of Plays of our Bible teaching videos has multiplied by 10! Father, we praise You for Your judgments are unsearchable and Your ways are indeed past finding out!
Online Outreach Stats (November, 2015):
* Video Ministry: 2709 "Loads" and 1399 "Plays" in 23 different countries (Peru, Venezuela, United States, Chile, Brazil, Italy, Belarus, Spain, Argentina, Russia, Mexico, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, Bahamas, Australia, India, Netherlands, Bolivia, Japan, New Zealand and Colombia--in order of most "Plays").
* Church Facebook: 941 People-Talking-About-This and 74002 of Total-Reach. We closed the month with 1468 Likes.
* Church Web Page: 145 Sessions by 85 Users from 8 different countries (Peru, United States, India, Mexico, Colombia, Spain, El Salvador and Venezuela--in order of most Sessions).
Charts of all these metrics are available here.
Prayer Needs:
* For our financial supporters, that the Father’s blessing be upon them.
* 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 provision to cover 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 evangelistic side of the ministry.
* 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 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 cities of Huamachuco and Tingo Maria, 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 Peru and Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru.
* 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, Samuel and Adrian—the Garcia’s.
PS: Make sure to check out the new pictures of our recent activities to your left...
