Developments:
Last month our pledged monthly financial support remained at 29.3% of our budget; after adding one-time donations the Lord provided 100.0% of our budget—our Lord IS faithful..!
About eight months ago the Spirit of God started stirring in our hearts the thought of moving the operations of my hispanic Bible teaching ministry to the States in order to continue to serve the Lord in reaching the hispanic community of the world with the gospel of the grace of God. For that matter we embarked on an intense season of prayer and fasting to seek confirmation and direction from the Lord in this regard. During our last Furlough the Lord categorically confirmed this to be His calling and gave us direction by way of opening huge doors for us to start a hispanic church plant in the area of Orlando, FL—specifically in the city of Clermont.
Since we got back from Furlough we have been diligently seeking the Lord to reveal His will for the local church here in Miraflores. The Lord has been giving progressive revelation in this regard and the way He is working it out is for the church to remain a satellite church of our ministry—at least for the time being—in order to continue faithful with the mandate to make disciples. While my heart is to remain involved in the disciple making process of this church using the technology that is available to us these days, we are at the moment praying for a campus pastor to oversee the local operations of the church and to attend to the pastoral needs of the congregation. We have an ideal candidate at the time that is seeking confirmation from the Lord. More information on this to follow…
We are set to fly back to Florida on September 13th and at the moment find ourselves busy with a tremendous amount of planning. Please help us pray for provision for our move as estimates are showing figures close to $10,000.
We are and will continue with our full-time commitment to the work of missions and church planting in the hispanic world, hence, we appreciate your continued financial support during and into this next chapter of our ministry. Until further notice, the process to collect donations remains the same.
Father, we are Yours—glorify Your name in us and through us..!
Online Outreach Stats (June, 2016):
The internet Bible teaching ministry continues to grow. In the month of June, the number of people engaged with the teaching video posts in our Facebook page ascended to 1283 in Venezuela, 226 in Nicaragua, 211 in Guatemala, 197 in Peru, 161 in Dominican Republic, 118 in Honduras and 108 in Ecuador. We closed the month with 7666 Venezuelan Likes—out of a total of already more than 15K Likes throughout the hispanic world!
* Video Ministry: 11241 "Loads,” 2639 "Plays,” and 85 “Finishes” in 23 different countries (Venezuela, Peru, United States, Colombia, Italy, Spain, Chile, Ecuador, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Panama, Dominican Republic, Aruba, Greece, Syria, Honduras, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Brasil, Israel, Canada, Portugal and Argentina—in order of most "Plays").
* Church Facebook: 2823 People-Talking-About-This and 350014 of Total-Reach. We closed the month with 15381 Likes.
* Church Web Page: 181 Sessions by 145 Users from 10 different countries (Peru, United Kingdom, Venezuela, United States, Spain, France, India, Chile, China and Colombia—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 guidance and provision for the next chapter of our ministry.
* For wisdom in organizing our move, provision for moving expenses and favor to sell our car and other household items.
* For our trip to teach at the Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru in Cajamarca from July 23rd until August 7th.
* For our church to be rooted on an ever fresh vision of the grace of God, 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 God to provide an ideal campus pastor and a smooth transition process for the church.
* For missionary Nicole Farmer as she helps our church navigate through the transition process.
* For Divine guidance and blessing as we seek to expand my online hispanic Bible teaching ministry to Venezuela and beyond with the use of social media.
* For the salvation of the people of the Club Terrazas Swimming Team and the local surfing community.
* 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...
