December 2007

MINISTRY HIGHLIGHTS:
During the month of December we did a lot of activities not just the youth but the whole church… all the activities we performed during December, lead the youth group to grow closer. Here is a ist of some of the things we did, and some of the results:
We organized a concert with one of our sister churches around. Our youth group was incharge of putting this activity together. Through this concert this church was trying to raise some money for their youth group. I´m very proud of what my YG did because the other church (Guandules church´) was bless by what the youth of our church put together.
After that week we started what we call an ÄNGELITO¨ which is a s Secret Santa. We do this every year for fellowship and is always good to involve non Christians in it cause many times that works as a way to bring them to Christ. For the last day of the secret Santa we took the youth to a retreat up to the mountains for two days; it was awesome, we all had a great time. We were bless by it. I could say that in te way there I saw different circles of friends within the group but in the way back everyone was united as one, and during our devotional time one of the guys took the decision of getting baptized.
At the end of the month we when in a retreat up to the mountains. It was an awesome experience, everyone loved it and it wasn´t just about the fun…Lives where change in those two days. We had some non Christians with us and after that weekend they have come opening their hearts to us; talking about how much they want to change and how much they want us to help them through that change. By spending time with us they realized how great is the fellowship within Christians and how much they need Christ in their hearts.
Since I graduated from GLCC almost two years ago, I have been talking to my friends about how much fun American football is; well, the time has come… last week we got it going for the first time. It was great, all the guys from the youth group loved it and never stop talking about it. They were amazed about how much they enjoyed because non of them had a good impression about football before. Since this is a baseball island, no one ever plays football, but right now we are. We are trying to used it as another tool to connect people to Christ. First day we played we had 8 people, three days later we played and we had 17 people and almost half of them were not Christians… Do you see where we are going with this? Keep this outreach plan in prayer please. We wanted to give the youth another tool to enjoy themselves and we are all loving it. Also pray that we can all learn the game rules quit lol.