JUNE 2007

MINISTRY HIGHLIGHTS:
We had a two days seminar with three professors that came from Dalton Tennessee. They came to train the pastors about marriage relationships and mostly church history. It was a good for me to be able to translate for them because the seminar refreshed my memory about many things that a learned at college.
We have been doing a lot of construction. We have been working in the church of Hato del Yaque, The Hole and Los Salados. It has been great working at those places because the people of these communities have been really exited for their new building. Once those churches are finish, they are going to have plenty of space (which they don´t have right now) to hold their church service.
June is also known as the BASKETBALL month. I´m talking about the week in the entire year that takes away all of our energy because it keeps us busy 24/7. But at the same time this is the week that all the kids of our neighborhood are looking forward to because they just love it. It´s a really fun week for us to because we get to see how little by little God uses people through sports to change young kids´ lives.
During this month we also took the time to start a new college age night in our church; with some great worship, and great teachings. This has been a big challenge for us because we have work so hard for this to happen, and after month of planning we finally made it happen. We have our first college service 3 weeks ago, and it was awesome. Everyone loved it.

PROJECTS WORKING ON:
I just started a new worship band for our college service. It´s an on going challenge for each one of us since two months ago non of us played any instrument and now we do. We are putting a lot of effort into this and God has been blessing us with talents. I never in a million years though that I was going to be a worship leader, but God called me to it and I´m here to do it.
In two weeks we are starting to study a new book… Is going to be good. Is going to challenge the youth group to make disciples I want to train them to be able to train others in the country.
I´m working on a rap CD that will be ready for sometime next year. God has been opening doors even when I wasn´t looking for opportunities. God is giving me the opportunity to reach kids with something I like and I just say ¨¨why not.¨¨

PRAYER REQUEST:
1. For our new worship team. We want God to keep us together and to continue growing in him so we can impact others.

MINISTRY CHALLENGES:
¨¨To bring new faces for our college nights events.¨
FAMILLY NEWS:
My sister Samira is having some kidney stone problems – PRAY FOR HER.

HOW IS GOD WORKING IN YOU?
Lately I have been challenge by many people to think BIG and I have; they were some things in ministry that I always wanted to try and I never did because I though it was impossible but I was wrong. Let me explain myself better… for those of you who know about South East Christian Church, they have this awesome service for college age students call The Vine. While I was in the US I loved going to the vine whenever I have the chance I always dreamed about having a similar service here in my church but I always though it was going to be impossible to break all the tradition barriers. Well my friends, God has been breaking all those barriers, I always dreamed about having a service where people didn´t go to it because they feel obligate but to go because they don´t want to miss it.
The next goal that I have set for the future is that by the end of this year our worship band is going to be rocking the world. Also in the fall we are thinking about a couple mission trips in the country and also in Haiti.
Please keep me in your prayers and always remember that you are always welcome here. Thanks to those who have been supporting me financially and through your prayers, I hope you all can get the chance soon to come visit and see with your own eyes what God is doing here. I love you all and God bless!

In Christ,
Isaias Gabriel