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 December 18th we participated on a beach evangelism outreach with Eternal Wave Surf School.
* On December 18th we had a very blessed Christmas Party where we celebrated the birth of our Savior and another year of serving Him together as a church.
* On December 20th our church was able to bless the kids of Calvary Kids Pachacutec with some Christmas’ gifts.
* On December 23rd I was asked to bless the workplace and the entire staff at a friend's factory as a Christmas and End-of-the-Year even—the gospel of Christ has proclaimed.
* On January 10th we had our bimonthly Servants’ Meeting. We mainly started preparing for my upcoming Furlough trip around March.
* On January 8th Karla got in a car accident. No one's hurt, completely the fault of the one who crashed into her, but we're now—because we couldn't afford car insurance—dealing with a lot of unbelievable paperwork trying to get paid for the $3000 repair expenses. Father, have mercy on us…
Last month we were led to broaden the scope of the promotion of our Facebook page and the Sunday teaching posts to include Venezuela as well as Peru… I believe we are witnessing a true phenomenon of the Spirit of God take place:
The number of people reached has been multiplied by 43, the amount of people engaged with the teaching posts has grown by a factor of 9 and the amount of Likes on our page is six times as much. 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 31!
When we rank the numbers by countries we can see that Venezuela is already first by ten times as much as Peru that comes in second.
Father, we praise You for Your unparalleled goodness and pray You continue to bless my birth country with the freedom that only Your Son can provide!
Online Outreach Stats (December, 2015):
* Video Ministry: 8712 "Loads" and 4331 "Plays" in 27 different countries (Venezuela, Peru, United States, Colombia, Spain, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, Panama, Brazil, Italy, Australia, Bolivia, Egypt, Russia, Portugal, Argentina, El Salvador, Canada, Costa Rica, Guyana, Dominican Republic, Iraq, Morocco, Aruba, France and Germany—in order of most "Plays").
* Church Facebook: 1894 People-Talking-About-This and 254638 of Total-Reach. We closed the month with 3067 Likes.
* Church Web Page: 155 Sessions by 108 Users from 8 different countries (Peru, United States, Venezuela, India, Austria, Spain, Mexico and Panama—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 resolution on getting paid for the $3000 car accident repairs and provision to purchase car insurance.
* For guidance and provision as we plan our upcoming Furlough around March.
* 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 Divine guidance and blessing as I seek to expand my hispanic teaching ministry to Venezuela and beyond with the use of social media.
* 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 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...
