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    December, 2007

    Five Baptized into Christ in San Andres

     

    What a way to finish the year! We are so thankful for the work the Spirit of God has been doing in the hearts the families in San Andres Totoltepec. On Sunday, December 16, the Tierra Firme Church traveled up to San Andres to celebrate Christ together. We also invited Iker Marquez, from Cuernavaca, to share from the word. Israel has been forming a cell group in San Andres for over a year now. The seed was sown and God caused the growth! Four people from San Andres were baptized into Christ, including Doña Guille and her husband, the owners of the house where the cell group has been meeting. It was also awesome to see Luis Paco baptize his own son, Oscar. After the baptisms we shared an incredible Mexican home cooked meal together and ended with a piñata for the kids.

     

    Our prayer has been that God would lead us to plant a new church in San Andres. Therefore, we are stepping out in faith beginning in February. Israel will be working with several of the families from the Tierra Firme Church to serve in San Andres as part-time missionaries. Our hope is that through this experience the Tierra Firme congregation will learn how to plant new churches.

    Hombres de Valor

     
    Over the last 3 months, Israel and I have organized a special equipping seminar for the men of the Tierra Firme Church. We held the seminar on Friday night once per month: October, November and December. We call this group of men "Hombres de Valor" which has a double meaning in Spanish - "Men of Courage" or "Valuable Men." Over the last three months we have based our training on Romans 8: More than Conquerors! We encouraged one another to look at our lives as Christian men from God's perspective, and not from the perspective of the world. Through Jesus Christ, God has made us more than conquerors over condemnation, guilt, negativism, laziness, loss, hurt, worry, materialism, passivity and ignorance. Each lesson was filled with biblical examples, which brought out great conversations about how to live out our victory over these things. As a result, several of the men have taken greater initiative in the spiritual leadership of their families, their cell groups and the projects within the congregation. For example, one of our "Hombres de Valor," Alfredo Hernandez, has become a co-leader in our cell group. This has given us the ability to multiply our cell group within the next couple of months. So, please continue to pray for the men of the Tierra Firme Church as they live as "Hombres de Valor" in a city that needs true examples of integral followers of Christ: Alfredo, Luis Gonzalez, Jorge, Angel, Miguel Angel, Oscar, Luis Paco, Buenaventura, Porfidio, Jonny, Jaime and Froylan.