Update #1
Ministry Highlights/Praises:
1 Our mission trip to Colombia was a success. We accomplish our mission and we made a lot of life time friendships. We have been praising God for the time that he allowed us to be there and for the protection that was surrounding us the whole time.
2 Our church is heading to a different direction. All the leaders of our church have new projections for next year. Last week we started to train the leaders of our church. We have been using DVD's from a Hispanic Theology school that is offer online.
Projects Working on:
· We are taking a training program to prepare more all the leaders of our church.
· Working in a lot of new songs for the rap ministry.
· Planning all the youth activities for the next couple months to come.
· Playing volleyball alone with the coordinator of the sports' ministry (Will Partin) with the purpose of reaching out to more youth.
· Planning some revivals with some local churches.
Ministry Challenges:
1 To lead our church in a direction that will be effective.
Family News:
1 My mom doesn't have to go back to the States for her cancer rehabilitation check up, which means that now she is fully recover from her preview Cancer and she is completely heal.
Prayer Requests:
· The new projects that our church has.
· We really need a vehicle to facilitate the transportation of these evangelism activities.
· We need a sound system. Most of the churches we go to do not have a sounds system available and the ones that do have one, it sounds terrible.
How’s God working in you?
In my mission trip to Colombia I learn a lot of new stuff. I became very familiar with the church in the sense that they gave me an opportunity to get involve with them in their ministry. Their organization and their spirituality were my favorite things of their church. For every area in the church, they have different leaders in charge of it. Sometime we tent to do everything, and that isn't effective.
I when to Colombia with 13 men. We all knew that the purpose of God with that trip was not only the building of the school there but to learn new ways to reach people for Christ. I feel bless and very happy for that opportunity that i had because i came back to my country with a new mind set to work in my church. This is kind of hard to explain but the truth is that while I was at school I learn a lot of things. I knew about God and his plan for his church; but now, on top of that. I learned a lot of techniques of how to get to people. My trip to Colombia was like a closing to everything I have already learned at school. Seeing what God was doing in Colombia was like a confirmation from God of what he wants me to do here in my country.
The reason why this excites me so much is because all the leaders in my church are involve in this wave of changes. We divided the youth in three different ages:
14 to 17 (Adolescents) Carolina Peralta is in charge of this age group.
18 to 24 (Youth) Leandro Gomez and I are in charge of this group.
25 to 30's (Young adults) Vladimir Rosario and my brother Samir Gabriel.
The reason why we divided our youth is because the same teachings that would be relevant for 28 years old man is not going to be relevant for a 20 years old guy, neither the teachings that would be relevant for a 15 years old kid are not going to be effective for a 21 years old guy. Of course, we have some other people in charge of the younger kids. But it was a big problem for us to have all the ages together in our youth group, because many of our youth would have a great spiritual growth but then the older youth never grew because they were out of their environment.
By dividing the different age groups we have the opportunity to help them out more in their needs, and hopefully they can find and environment where they can feel comfortable and they can grow more spiritually. It's also going to help them to grow as Christians and to help others grow.
While I was in Colombia I had the opportunity to perform a couple songs in the presence of 700 people or more. It was great; it was something I really enjoyed. I also did a lot of construction work, I had to make an speech to the middle school kids about the Dominican Republic and about all the work that G.O. Ministries does here in our country. It was enjoyable to see how the kids were exited to hear about our country and all. I know all of you guys are very exiting to hear about my trip to Colombia, I posted a few pictures from my trip to Colombia so you guys can have an idea of what I was doing. I also have a few pictures of me preaching in my church in Dominican; It was a tuff sermon, it was against tradition, I really enjoyed!
Please keep praying for me because God is doing amazing things here. I never knew i was going to be part of something as big as this. Thanks for your prayers that i know are always with me and thanks very much for you financial support, you guys are doing something big for God's kingdom.
In Christ,
Isaias Gabriel
Ministry Highlights/Praises:
1 Our mission trip to Colombia was a success. We accomplish our mission and we made a lot of life time friendships. We have been praising God for the time that he allowed us to be there and for the protection that was surrounding us the whole time.
2 Our church is heading to a different direction. All the leaders of our church have new projections for next year. Last week we started to train the leaders of our church. We have been using DVD's from a Hispanic Theology school that is offer online.
Projects Working on:
· We are taking a training program to prepare more all the leaders of our church.
· Working in a lot of new songs for the rap ministry.
· Planning all the youth activities for the next couple months to come.
· Playing volleyball alone with the coordinator of the sports' ministry (Will Partin) with the purpose of reaching out to more youth.
· Planning some revivals with some local churches.
Ministry Challenges:
1 To lead our church in a direction that will be effective.
Family News:
1 My mom doesn't have to go back to the States for her cancer rehabilitation check up, which means that now she is fully recover from her preview Cancer and she is completely heal.
Prayer Requests:
· The new projects that our church has.
· We really need a vehicle to facilitate the transportation of these evangelism activities.
· We need a sound system. Most of the churches we go to do not have a sounds system available and the ones that do have one, it sounds terrible.
How’s God working in you?
In my mission trip to Colombia I learn a lot of new stuff. I became very familiar with the church in the sense that they gave me an opportunity to get involve with them in their ministry. Their organization and their spirituality were my favorite things of their church. For every area in the church, they have different leaders in charge of it. Sometime we tent to do everything, and that isn't effective.
I when to Colombia with 13 men. We all knew that the purpose of God with that trip was not only the building of the school there but to learn new ways to reach people for Christ. I feel bless and very happy for that opportunity that i had because i came back to my country with a new mind set to work in my church. This is kind of hard to explain but the truth is that while I was at school I learn a lot of things. I knew about God and his plan for his church; but now, on top of that. I learned a lot of techniques of how to get to people. My trip to Colombia was like a closing to everything I have already learned at school. Seeing what God was doing in Colombia was like a confirmation from God of what he wants me to do here in my country.
The reason why this excites me so much is because all the leaders in my church are involve in this wave of changes. We divided the youth in three different ages:
14 to 17 (Adolescents) Carolina Peralta is in charge of this age group.
18 to 24 (Youth) Leandro Gomez and I are in charge of this group.
25 to 30's (Young adults) Vladimir Rosario and my brother Samir Gabriel.
The reason why we divided our youth is because the same teachings that would be relevant for 28 years old man is not going to be relevant for a 20 years old guy, neither the teachings that would be relevant for a 15 years old kid are not going to be effective for a 21 years old guy. Of course, we have some other people in charge of the younger kids. But it was a big problem for us to have all the ages together in our youth group, because many of our youth would have a great spiritual growth but then the older youth never grew because they were out of their environment.
By dividing the different age groups we have the opportunity to help them out more in their needs, and hopefully they can find and environment where they can feel comfortable and they can grow more spiritually. It's also going to help them to grow as Christians and to help others grow.
While I was in Colombia I had the opportunity to perform a couple songs in the presence of 700 people or more. It was great; it was something I really enjoyed. I also did a lot of construction work, I had to make an speech to the middle school kids about the Dominican Republic and about all the work that G.O. Ministries does here in our country. It was enjoyable to see how the kids were exited to hear about our country and all. I know all of you guys are very exiting to hear about my trip to Colombia, I posted a few pictures from my trip to Colombia so you guys can have an idea of what I was doing. I also have a few pictures of me preaching in my church in Dominican; It was a tuff sermon, it was against tradition, I really enjoyed!
Please keep praying for me because God is doing amazing things here. I never knew i was going to be part of something as big as this. Thanks for your prayers that i know are always with me and thanks very much for you financial support, you guys are doing something big for God's kingdom.
In Christ,
Isaias Gabriel
posted by Isaias Gabriel/ I.G at 2:10 PM
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