Developments:
Last month our pledged monthly financial support remained at 29.3% of our budget; after adding one-time donations the Lord provided 71.0% of our budget—our Lord will be proven faithful..!
* On January 18th I shared at the weekly meeting of Christian Surfers Peru. We spent some time in the first couple of verses of John 1.
* On February 3rd we decided to step out in faith and bought plane tickets for our next Furlough. We will be in Florida from March 5th until May 10th.
The main purpose of this trip is to do a lot of PR and try to raise supporters interested to invest in the new more international scope (with heavy emphasis in Venezuela) of my growing internet teaching ministry. We have no idea what the Lord has in store, but, with the limited info available, we are anticipating spending most of our time around Calvary Ft. Lauderdale and its satellites, as well as, a couple of churches in Central Florida (Inverness, The Villages, Merrit Island, Venice, etc.).
If you would like for us to visit you, while we’re in Florida, to hear what the Lord is doing through our ministry, please, let us know… We would love to share our story with you.
* On February 3rd we received our car from the repair shop in perfect conditions and everything, about $2500, was completely coved by the other driver’s insurance. Thank You, Father..!
What the Spirit of God has been doing in Venezuela through our internet teaching ministry in the last couple of months is truly remarkable:
In January, the number of people reached by our Facebook page, in Venezuela alone, surpassed 190000, the amount of people engaged with the teaching video posts was over 1600 and the amount of Likes on our page closed the month at 2592—already 194 more than in Peru. Also, after reviewing the stats on Vimeo (our video housing provider) we realized that the amount of Plays of our Bible teaching videos was 3898—in Venezuela alone—followed by Peru with 168!
Father, we praise You—continue to further the kingdom of Your Son in Venezuela and beyond..!
Online Outreach Stats (January, 2016):
* Video Ministry: 10491 "Loads" and 4268 "Plays" in 26 different countries (Venezuela, Peru, United States, Spain, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Canada, El Salvador, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, South Africa, Poland, Belgium, Aruba, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Argentina, Trinidad and Tobago, France and Portugal—in order of most "Plays").
* Church Facebook: 3049 People-Talking-About-This and 366977 of Total-Reach. We closed the month with 5363 Likes.
* Church Web Page: 180 Sessions by 139 Users from 6 different countries (Peru, United States, Venezuela, Canada, Ecuador and Mexico—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 guidance and provision as we plan our upcoming Furlough in March and April.
* 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 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...
