Febrero 2008
MINISTRY HIGHLIGHTS:
For the last three months me and the youth group have been praying for the students of Great Lakes. We prayed to God to bless them, provide for their trip and to prepare their hearts for a wonderful experience. They made it!! They were here a few weeks ago and it was a great blessing to have them around. We were very encourage by them. I could see how the youth group connected with the students of GLCC and how it was a blessing from both parts to share with each other. Many of you already know that I graduated from GLCC in 2006, so to have them come down to support our efforts to spread the gospel was great. I couldn´´t more thankful…
Last weekend I had the chance of getting a selected group from my youth group to go encourage the youth of a sister church in Montecriti (two hours away). We whent up there for two days and we prepared a program of evangelization, VBS, and a special evangelistic Youth Night there. We had a full house that night and also during VBS we had over 60 kids with not much time of notice. It was great! We had a great responsed from the people of Montecristi, telling us that they like our creactivity and they want us to go back soon. I really enjoyed our time there, that night I have my friend Brian preach (another staff of G.O) and next day, the missionary there asked me to preach for the big church on Sunday mourning… It was a wonderful experience to see everyone in the youth group grow from that experience. We have become like a family, helping each other grow spiritually, and also growing from each other. Some of the kids that have never evangelized before, they were all over the place going house to house spreading the news about Christ. That´s what he wants from us.
PROJECTS WORKING ON:
The National Youth Retreat of the Christian Churches of D.R. is next week. I have to prepare for that because many of my youth group are going to it and also I was invited by them to teach a class while we were there. I gotta get ready for that.
We are also planning new bible studies with the girls and the guys separately to help each other out and keep accountable.
For next month I´m planning a meeting with all the youth leaders of the country. I am gonna try to find as many as I can because we want to make a National impact but in order to do that we have to be well connected first. Also we have to share our goals and be in the same page, so I will meet with them with the purpose of connecting everybody and work together for the kingdom. Because there are many things that we could be doing great in this country for our youth but we haven´t because we haven´t take the time to analize them. I know that once we meet with all those youth leaders we are gonna be able to help each other out figure out new plans for reaching out the lost.




PRAYER REQUEST:
1. We just celebrated my parents 40th anniversary. Please pray that they can continue strong being a good example for others to follow.
2. Upcoming Youth Retreat
3. My grand mother (from my dad´s side) is sick.
MINISTRY CHALLENGES:
This year we have been teaching that God has to be in the first place of our life. If he is in the first place, then we won´t have to worry about following a bunch of sets of rules like the Pharisees. As this year goes by I want everyone in the group to live their live according to what God wants not by what the world says.
FAMILLY NEWS:
1. My parents just celebrated their 40th anniversary.
2. My gramma is sick
3. My mom has a doc appointment in may about her surgery from a few years ago.
HOW IS GOD WORKING IN YOU?
God is shaping me to be the man he wants me to be, not what men wants me to be. I´ll tell you what… It feels great. Every time I see growth in the church I´m happy. For a long time I asked God to give me visions of what he wanted me to do, and I´m finally seeing the big picture. It is not that I didn´t know what God wanted to do with my life because I always knew he was calling me to ministry. But I told God that I wanted to be part of something big, I want him to use me in big things where I could reach the whole country. Now I can see myself doing great things in a near future, but you guys are going to have to continue praying hard for me and continue your encouragement. I have been preparing the youth group for those big things (to reach the whole country) and the feedback I´ve gotten from them is great, because I can tell that we are all in the same page…Learning the word to spread the word. Thanks for your support! Is great having people like you pushing me forward every day, and sorry that my updates are not too long, I´m never very good writing stuff down, but I encourage you to come check it out. It´ll be great for you all to see the great things God is doing in our country. God bless!!!