JANUARY 2007

NAME: Isaias Gabriel


Ministry Highlights/Praises:
1 All the youth are very exiting about the up coming youth conference. Also I have been talking to a lot of no Christian youth about it and they are very positive about it.
2 In the month of February we have some cool activities coming up. One of then being a special service for Saint Valentines´ day.

Projects Working on:
• I just started to organized a new small group that I´m going to start with some friends who have step away from church and they have tell me that they need some kind of mentoring to stay strong in their faith; I believe a small group can be very effective.
• In two weeks we have the baseball clinic that we organized every year in our city.
• Writing new songs for my music ministry. I get to perform every time we have a youth activity that requires a couple songs; I’m just ready for it.
• We have been writing a drama to perform it at church, it´s going to be cool and full of excitement; we are very happy because it has been coming together very good, and hopefully we´ll have it ready to be perform by next month.

Ministry Challenges:
¨To start a fire within every leader of our youth group so we can conquer our community for Christ.¨

Familly News:
1 Last weekend I when and visit some cousins I have in Santo Domingo and I had a great time, they always visit me but I never get to visit them.
2 Some of my family members when to Cuba to visit a pastor there, I´m really hoping Fidel Castro does not die this week because the country would go crazy.

Prayer Requests:
• The worship team of our church.
• Kendy´s family (one of my teachers at college).
• The revival in February.
• My father´s health.

How’s God working in you?

In the last couple days God has been showing me ways to be more effective in my community. I have been learning more and more about how to be a man of testimony, I know it is hard but we have to be. The testimony is the most important weapon for the Christian because everybody has their eyes on us. People are just waiting to watch us fall so they can take us down.
I remember a pastor that said: ¨preach the word of God in every circumstance of your life and if you have to, open your mouth.¨ it was something like that, the thing is that at the moment the preacher said these words, I realized how effective that could be. I´ve been trying to do that with my life because if I can do that, I will be able to bring more people to Christ without even talking, can you imagine how powerful could that be? I believe that is my goal for this year, I want to be a light in my community 24/7, I want to impact lives with my testimony, not with my knowledge. The bible says:

¨Seek first the kingdom of God above all things, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.¨
Mathew 6:33
Love,
Isaias Gabriel

DECEMBER 2006

NAME: Isaias Gabriel


Ministry Highlights/Praises:
1 I had to receive a mission group (the George family)during Christmas week. I have to say that everything when smoothly.
2 The youth group has been very exiting about this New Year. They have been attending all our activities with joy.

Projects Working on:
• We have been organizing an evangelistic revival that is going to take place at the local basketball court next February 11.
• We are thinking about organizing a youth retreat maybe next month.
• Writing new songs for my music ministry. I get to perform every time we have a youth activity that requires a couple songs; I’m just ready for it.
• Getting ready for the national youth retreat in April.
• Going to a youth conference in January 28th.

Ministry Challenges:
¨To rescue those Christians who have step away from church.¨

Familly News:
1 This was an awesome Christmas because I had a good time with my family and also a bunch of my cousins came to visit me and spent New Years eve with me. I really enjoyed having them around.
2 On December 28th my dad turned 60 years old; we had a b-party for him.

Prayer Requests:
• This year I don’t want to do anything that is away from God’s will. I want him to always be the center of my decisions.
• We need a sound system. Most of the churches we go to do not have sound system available and the ones that do have one, it sounds terrible.
• Kendy´s family (one of my teachers at college).
• Our church is planning a huge revival for this coming February that it is going to be huge. We are going to need a lot of prayers because if this revival goes smoothly our church is not going to have space to hold all the new Christians that are going to come.

How’s God working in you?

Well this was the first time ever that I took care of a missions group. During that one week I learned lots of new things; I have always worked with missions groups but this one was diferent because it wasn´t a group with a bunch of diferent people from a church, this group was a family, a very nice and humble family. It was a cool experience, I learned a lot from it. I kind of feel like I can be of more help now for the ministry, and I also thanks the ministry for trusting me with a group.
In this last two months I have been thinking about a lot of new things. There have been lots of questions in my head about ministry and my future. I want to be doing the right thing; I don’t want to waste my life. I know, I have been doing ministry non-stop since June, but I never like to stop and say ¨¨ this is what I’m suppose to do¨¨ I wish it could be that easy but is not. I’m the kind of person that is always open to start something new. I never know what my next move is going to be, so what I’m saying is that I want you guys to keep me in your prayers because I know God wants to do big things with me, I want him to keep showing me the way of how to do things properly because I just want to be his vassal.
I have been really happy with the youth lately because they really have been enjoying the activities lately, I could see they have been having a lot of fun and at the same time they have been learning more about God which is the main thing. Over Christmas break bunch of my friends back in the states got married, I really wanted to be there for then but I could not… maybe next time lol.

Well, you guys be good, and I love you all…
In Christ,
Isaias Gabriel