ABRIL 2009
How is everyone today? Things are good back in the Dominican. I got a cold but I´ll survive and be alright. I made a lot of videos for you guys to enjoy, the first one is about the youth retreat that took place at salcedo about a 3 weeks ago. It was great, we had a great time and I saw the hands of God working throughout the camp. Three kids from y youth group accepted Christ… Angelito (17), Carlos (15) and Rafelito (16). The cool thing about this is that we got in touch with them or I should say, we reatch to them through the VITLLA game. Isn´t that just cool? This is a game that has given us great results, Those three have been making big life changes. They have been searching a lot and talking to us a lot about how much they wanna change. This retreat lasted four days, we had about 35 youth that came to it, it was awesome. We had a lot of church challenges, compitting with chunches from all over the country, it was a great time. Thos challenges helped us to come together as a group. We even had a kid that broke his ancle playing one of these games hahaha He is still laughing about it.
In the Vitilla tournament we had the ALL STAR game the other day…We put together a group of the best players in the tournament by positions. He National league defeated the American League. It was awesome!!! We even saw players with the Dominican flag waving around, they really enjoyed this, we tried to make it feel like we were playing a major league all star game J I made a video of the HOMERUN DERBY. You might now understand what they say in the video but by watching it you can tell the energy of the guys playing, you can see how much into this they were. The last guy in the video won the derby, and the one before him was in second place.
We have been organizing a youth retreat for high schoolers n college kids, its gonna be great.The nname of it is CRISTO URBANO (urban christ). Expectations are already really high and we can´t wait for July to arrive. My Friend Jesse is gonna help us put this retreat together along with his youth group from kentucky. They are gonna bring t-shirts for the campers, cds, great lessons about the theme of the camp and many other things. Now, we wanna make this camp posible for many people to come, but the price of the camp por night once you added up to two night n three days, its 700 pesos, which is 20 U.S. We are trying to low the `price down so more people can come. By finding these schoolerships the cost of the camp would only be 15 buck por person. The money we r gonna raise is gonna help them go to camp, and will provide transportation for people all over the country. so what do I want you guys to do? simple, I know that you all are pastors and leaders in your churches; it would be great if you could spread the word around about this camp and show this video to all the peoople you can contact, we need to raise 300 schoolarships, which is 1,700 U.S. If we could all work on this together it shouldn´t be hard. So I encourgare you to help us...Spread this video around, send it to all your friends, show it to your church, youth group, small group, softball team, etc. Some people may not have 20 bucks but they may wanna give you 10 or even five... at the end of the video there is the G.O. ministries adress for you guys to colect the money from your area and send it in a check, you just gotta make sure on the check you put ¨¨isaias gabriel- youth retreat¨¨¨otherwise the money will go to any of our proyects in construction, like a feeding center or a church.
This retreat is gonna touch many lives and you can be part of it. If you have any questions about the retreat let me know, this video is being edit it as we speak, I have a friend that is gonna put music to it n stuff so once that´s done I´ll send you the link to the new edit video but for now this is what we got and we don´t have much time. Hope I don´t look too bad in the video :p
I know That we all have stuff going on at work, school and diferent this that keep us busy, i totally understand that but If you think you can be part of this help us to raise this money, please write me back n let me know. We are not expecting all the money to be raise from one single group so let´s get together for this and make it happen. If you are IN write me back
Two weeks ago we were at the MEN´S RETREAT with Dave and his group from bloomingtong. This is a retreat that G.O. puts togethers every year for only men from age 18 and up. 10 of the vitilla players whent to that retreat. I was super exited, I couldn´t believe what I was witnessing. These guys are the one who basically control what goes on in the streets of our neiborghood, they control the are ahead of all the parties in the streets and all the drinking. This guys have NEVER been in church. I mean NEVER, these are the people Jesus wants us to reatch, the sick not the healthy. Again, thanks to the vitilla game now I have a close friendship with them, I have invited some of them to my house to eat and they all invite me into thir houses all the time to eat and just hang out. There is a mutual respect between us. They know what I represent and they respect that. They have seen me as the guy that love them and not jugde them no matter who hey are or what they do. It´s a great feeling to be able to connect wih them, I feel like God found some kind of favor on me and for that I´m very thankfull because someone needs to reatch out to them and I´m willing to be that guy.
It was interesting that for the men´s retreat I just invited the leader of them, I knew that if the others knew that he was coming they would it tag alone. Once they found out that their leader was going, they joined the trip lol. They were vey respectfull towards the message at the retreat, they didn´t miss a service and they were always in time with their bibles in their hands. Two of them accepted Christ the last day of the trip (yes, I was crying J) and one of them got baptize that same day…WOW, it was a powerfull day. The one that got baptize, we have been working with him for years. He has been part of our softball outreatch at church but through the vitilla we all got closer relationships with him. Check out the video, I hope you enjoy and God bless you!!
Isaias Gabriel
How is everyone today? Things are good back in the Dominican. I got a cold but I´ll survive and be alright. I made a lot of videos for you guys to enjoy, the first one is about the youth retreat that took place at salcedo about a 3 weeks ago. It was great, we had a great time and I saw the hands of God working throughout the camp. Three kids from y youth group accepted Christ… Angelito (17), Carlos (15) and Rafelito (16). The cool thing about this is that we got in touch with them or I should say, we reatch to them through the VITLLA game. Isn´t that just cool? This is a game that has given us great results, Those three have been making big life changes. They have been searching a lot and talking to us a lot about how much they wanna change. This retreat lasted four days, we had about 35 youth that came to it, it was awesome. We had a lot of church challenges, compitting with chunches from all over the country, it was a great time. Thos challenges helped us to come together as a group. We even had a kid that broke his ancle playing one of these games hahaha He is still laughing about it.
In the Vitilla tournament we had the ALL STAR game the other day…We put together a group of the best players in the tournament by positions. He National league defeated the American League. It was awesome!!! We even saw players with the Dominican flag waving around, they really enjoyed this, we tried to make it feel like we were playing a major league all star game J I made a video of the HOMERUN DERBY. You might now understand what they say in the video but by watching it you can tell the energy of the guys playing, you can see how much into this they were. The last guy in the video won the derby, and the one before him was in second place.
We have been organizing a youth retreat for high schoolers n college kids, its gonna be great.The nname of it is CRISTO URBANO (urban christ). Expectations are already really high and we can´t wait for July to arrive. My Friend Jesse is gonna help us put this retreat together along with his youth group from kentucky. They are gonna bring t-shirts for the campers, cds, great lessons about the theme of the camp and many other things. Now, we wanna make this camp posible for many people to come, but the price of the camp por night once you added up to two night n three days, its 700 pesos, which is 20 U.S. We are trying to low the `price down so more people can come. By finding these schoolerships the cost of the camp would only be 15 buck por person. The money we r gonna raise is gonna help them go to camp, and will provide transportation for people all over the country. so what do I want you guys to do? simple, I know that you all are pastors and leaders in your churches; it would be great if you could spread the word around about this camp and show this video to all the peoople you can contact, we need to raise 300 schoolarships, which is 1,700 U.S. If we could all work on this together it shouldn´t be hard. So I encourgare you to help us...Spread this video around, send it to all your friends, show it to your church, youth group, small group, softball team, etc. Some people may not have 20 bucks but they may wanna give you 10 or even five... at the end of the video there is the G.O. ministries adress for you guys to colect the money from your area and send it in a check, you just gotta make sure on the check you put ¨¨isaias gabriel- youth retreat¨¨¨otherwise the money will go to any of our proyects in construction, like a feeding center or a church.
This retreat is gonna touch many lives and you can be part of it. If you have any questions about the retreat let me know, this video is being edit it as we speak, I have a friend that is gonna put music to it n stuff so once that´s done I´ll send you the link to the new edit video but for now this is what we got and we don´t have much time. Hope I don´t look too bad in the video :p
I know That we all have stuff going on at work, school and diferent this that keep us busy, i totally understand that but If you think you can be part of this help us to raise this money, please write me back n let me know. We are not expecting all the money to be raise from one single group so let´s get together for this and make it happen. If you are IN write me back
Two weeks ago we were at the MEN´S RETREAT with Dave and his group from bloomingtong. This is a retreat that G.O. puts togethers every year for only men from age 18 and up. 10 of the vitilla players whent to that retreat. I was super exited, I couldn´t believe what I was witnessing. These guys are the one who basically control what goes on in the streets of our neiborghood, they control the are ahead of all the parties in the streets and all the drinking. This guys have NEVER been in church. I mean NEVER, these are the people Jesus wants us to reatch, the sick not the healthy. Again, thanks to the vitilla game now I have a close friendship with them, I have invited some of them to my house to eat and they all invite me into thir houses all the time to eat and just hang out. There is a mutual respect between us. They know what I represent and they respect that. They have seen me as the guy that love them and not jugde them no matter who hey are or what they do. It´s a great feeling to be able to connect wih them, I feel like God found some kind of favor on me and for that I´m very thankfull because someone needs to reatch out to them and I´m willing to be that guy.
It was interesting that for the men´s retreat I just invited the leader of them, I knew that if the others knew that he was coming they would it tag alone. Once they found out that their leader was going, they joined the trip lol. They were vey respectfull towards the message at the retreat, they didn´t miss a service and they were always in time with their bibles in their hands. Two of them accepted Christ the last day of the trip (yes, I was crying J) and one of them got baptize that same day…WOW, it was a powerfull day. The one that got baptize, we have been working with him for years. He has been part of our softball outreatch at church but through the vitilla we all got closer relationships with him. Check out the video, I hope you enjoy and God bless you!!
Isaias Gabriel
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