FEBRUARY 2007

Ministry Highlights/ Praises:
I have been feeling really good lately because I overheard some church people talking the other day saying: ¨the youth group is on fired…¨¨ that really made my day. In these last couple months I have felt so proud of our youth group; it feels good to know that your work is having good results. One of those good results is that I spent a lot of time praying and consoling one of my friends from the youth group because he stepped away from church for a while, and while he was away from church his life was not going in a good direction… Today I can testify that he is back in the church and he even started going to school again and his mom is really happy because he is in God’s ways again.
In the last couple weeks we have been invited to many churches to bring activities and to share with them. It has been good because our youth have had the chance to grow more spiritually and to help others grow with their example. I am really proud of them, they have so much potential to do anything they want and they are doing it. Each one of them is really using the gives God has given them.
I was very happy to see the results of the baseball clinic we had in February. It really was one of the finest weeks in my life as a youth minister/rapper/translator/missionary/team facilitator/construction worker, etc. ha ha. Because I got to spent time with kids that do not know Christ and many kids lives were changed through the sport I have always love (baseball). It was really cool. I pray that God continue bringing groups down for clinics like this.
Projects Working on:
We have our annual national youth retreat coming next April. We have been preparing for that because we want the whole youth group to go.
Along with our ministries sports coordinator Will Partin, we have been putting together an interchurch basketball tournament with the purpose of having a good fellowship with all the youth from our community.
This week we have been working construction in one of the churches of Santiago (brisas del campo). We are pouring part of the floor this week.
We have a bible study in my house and it’s having great results. Like 5 of the people who attend the study accepted Christ and have been visiting the church.
Prayer Request:
Please pray for the upcoming National Youth Retreat on April 5th to 8th. We are really hoping all the youth can come because it is a weekend that changes many lives all over the country.

also my grandmother form my father´s side is really sick.


Ministry Challenges:

¨I want my youth group to grow weekly not only in number but spiritually. I also want to be a good model for them to follow because we as leaders get attacks from the enemy all the time and we can not let the evil win that battle. We want to continue being an impact in our community.¨

Family News:
My family is doing well and we are exited about having my sisters coming down sometime this year to visit us from the states.
I have been doing all my paper work to go to the states this year. There are lots of reasons why I want to go to visit before summer. I want to visit my family, my mom has to go to KY for her doctor check up every once or twice a year (she is ok don’t worry) and I figure I might go with her, because she has to go sometime in may and around that date, my friends are graduating from college, I want to be there for that. Also I really want to visit those friends who have been supporting me financially and with your prayers. I know you guys want to hear more about what its going on here; I’m sure if I’m standing next to you I can show and explain more everything I have been doing down here, at least it would be better than just a reading update… so please pray for this purpose because it is really hard for us to get a visa, I know it should be easier for me because I have been in the US already but with them you never know.
My appointment with the American consul is on April 19th, in other words, this is the day when I find out whether I will be able to visit you guys or not (at least for now).

How is God working in you?
God has been showing me what he can do in my life only if I let him. He has been sowing me all these great projects for the future that some might seen impossible but with his help I am going for it. I have been preaching in different churches around our city and the youth from those churches are really on fire for God, this really inspires me to continue doing God’s work.
God has been opening a lot of doors through music, there have been happening things that I never expected to happen in my life. There has been so many people inviting me and my whole youth group to perform songs and dramas; it has been hard to believe. All these activities we have performed are free, we are not charging money or anything like that and somehow God always provides when the money is need it. Also it makes me proud to see how our youth group has become the youth group that all the churches look up to; like our youth group has been acting with a lot of leadership everywhere we go, and I can see that other youth groups have been appreciating that. They really have become role models, and I’m proud to say that. I really hope you guys can come down here sometime in a mission trip or just to visit me because I want you all to see with your own eyes what I’m talking about, it’s really cool to see it happening.

Again, thank you for all your prayer support and financially also. Many of the activities we do wouldn’t be possible if it wasn’t because your support, so I pray that God can continue blessing you and your families and your churches, thank you for everything and hopefully one day I’ll get to see some of you down here.

In Christ,
Isaias Gabriel