Precious Moments

Meet my beautiful angels. This is Jesena, Ramon, Agustin and Nathy. One day as I was going door to door in the beautiful city of Visalia, I knocked on a door and little Agustin (14) ran to the door and said, "What??!!" I was astonished with his attitude and without thinking said, "Sir, you're supposed to say 'Yes?', politely." I then continued with what I was doing in the area and asked if I could speak to his mother. I showed her a couple of my books and then Agustin stops our conversation and says, "Hey! Hey I have that book, Carlos gave it to me!" He said that our friend Carlos Interiano was studying the Bible with he and his brother Ramon for a little while "back in the days". He then ran to call his brother Ramon and they both started talking to me. I asked them if they wanted to continue studing with me and they instantly said yes! Since I have been studying with Ramon, Agustin and Jesena, I have learned plenty about their past struggles and present ones as well. These kids have suffered through so many things and the enemy has tried and is trying so hard to make these children cease from existing. Often my heart breaks and cries and pleads for these children; but, I know that the Lord has so much more than any one of us can imagine for these little ones. Why else would He have sent me back to them? He LOVES them, and so do I! One beautiful thing is that now, their mommy is beginning to join in on our studies and God is changing their lives one precious moment at a time!

Fishers of Men

           Since we have been at the Visalia Bilingual church, our SWAT team has deciced to incorporate the method that the Central California Cross Trainers use to train their church members to be equipped to give Bible studies to the community. The program that is used is called, "FM 101". No-- it is not a radio station; FM 101 stands for Fishers of Men 101.  :) We have 1 class a week,       for  8  weeks, and Yoane, Christy and myself teach about 12 church members, throroughly, how to give Bible studies and reach out to their community, loved ones, and just about anyone, by the grace of God. :) The picture above is from our very first night of FM 101. Our friends were so stoked to learn how to be more effective in reaching out to others. The best part about it all, is that we are ALL learning TOGETHER. :D

Hitting the Streets -- First Official Day Out!

Here's a little belated video of Valerie and I's first day "hitting the field" in search for Bible study interests! The Lord indeed led us to people who are searching. We'll share the testimonies in upcoming posts. :-)

Site Seeing =)

For the past few years, Visalia Central Bilingual Church has been renting out a church to worship the Lord... However, Christy and I have had the privilege of going "site seeing". That's right!! Pastor Justin Aguilar and the rest of the congregation have taken the step of faith to build a church that they could call their OWN! The church is said to be complete in about 3-4 short months. We have been doing outreach along the surrounding community of the church and have gotten much positive feedback from people in the are, such as, "Oh you are part of the new church they are building?! I want to visit it when it's complete. It looks like it is going to be a beautiful church to attend"!!!! Praise God! Another blessing on this subject is that many members of VCB are so ministry oriented! For example, this new chuch will include two upstairs rooms made specifically for the Youth Rush Summer Program, where youth go door to door with Christian literature and minister to the community; as well as showers and a large kitchen and room to hold community events! What a nice site!

Papusa Party ;)

Our first weekend of Bible work at Visalia Bilingual Seventh day Adventist Church, we had a faithful crew of church members working off their tails to make papusa's for a fundraiser... Do you know what the fundraiser was for???! EVANGELISM =) Christy and I were blessed to see these members serious about raising funds to, initially, be used to blessed the souls in the community of Visalia :) ProjectV! :)

Es un gran bendicion para ver los miembros de la iglesia de Visalia Bilingual, trabajando para recaudar fondos para aydar, inicialmente, a alcanzar las almas en el comunidad de Visalia! :)