May/June 2010 Newsletter
Your unfailing love, O LORD, is as vast as the heavens; your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds. Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the ocean depths.
You care for people and animals alike, O LORD. How precious is your unfailing love, O God!
All humanity finds shelter in the shadow of your wings. You feed them from the abundance of your own house, letting them drink from your river of delights. For you are the fountain of life, The light by which we see. Pour out your unfailing love on those who love you; give justice to those with honest hearts. Psalm 36:5-12
Don’t you love that Lord know your needs even before you ask? How you can rest in Him knowing that He is watching your comings and goings and never sleeps! We have felt His loving care as we try to be faithful in feeding His flock. He loves His people more than we do and has made a way during these difficult times for the work to continue at Calvary Chapel Puerto Vallarta.
Many of you did not receive our last newsletter due to a circulation problem we had last month so I am praying that this one gets into your hands as I know you have been faithfully praying for this ministry and would like to share in the praise of our Lord in what He continues to do through the body at CCPV. Thank you for your love, prayers and support you have shared with us. God is truly Faithful!
These last two months we have seen the fruit of the discipleship classes our Men, Women, and Youth have been receiving at the church as they are spending more time in the Word. In May we had a Women’s Conference based on the book “The Lies Women believe and the Truth that sets them free!” What a beautiful time it was! Jim and Linda Mather were there behind the scenes helping Estie, Haniel, and Sarai getting all the prep-work done for the conference. Estie and Linda did a beautiful job decorating the church. Haniel and Sarai did a beautiful job preparing a book for each person…80 in all! Haniel is a graphic designer and did a great job designing the cover and formatting the book for printing. Sarai translated the book so each woman could walk away with the key “Truth” verses to battle the lies! Four of us in leadership gave conferences touching on each chapter of the book. Our closing message was on “Lies we believe about our emotions and circumstances” and a challenge was given for the body to let go of those obstacles that were holding them back from walking in freedom. An altar call was made for those that wanted healing from emotional and physical problems. Can you believe everybody came forward! It was probably the most awesome worship service we have had this year. It was very special and we saw the body grow from God’s touch on their lives! The youth did an awesome job serving these ladies during the whole weekend. This was the fruit of them being touched at their Youth retreat the previous month! It is so beautiful to see the body ministering one to another. We are really, really being blessed!
We are now in the planning stages of our next outreach which will be this Saturday. We will have a couple’s dinner the day before Father’s day to help the couples in our church take the “Love Dare”. Pastor Bill will share a message on marriage. Mari Molina and I will share with wives. Pray for us…we really want to make it special and are praying the couples in our church will be strengthened and that those that are not living rightfully before the Lord, simply because they do not know how, will be touched.
Then going into summer we will be finishing up our school year at CCMS. We will have graduation where we will recognize the children for their “faithfulness” to stick out the entire year by awarding them a school supply voucher for next school year and a diploma. We will invite the parents to have the opportunity to share with them all that God has done in their children’s in hope that they will receive Christ as well. They will also be rewarding a food staple packet. It is sad to me that there are people out there that believe that it is not necessary to evangelize the world because God already knows who will come into His kingdom so why bother…. The whole world needs to know that the Lord loves them and we love having an opportunity through the children to reach their parents. Pray that they will be touched and that they will step into a relationship with the Lord and will desire to be discipled as well. The battle rages for our youth and we want to cast the net every opportunity we have. The kids love Jesus and we love them! We have had a wonderful year with them and are also planning on taking them on an end of the year field trip. We don’t know where exactly but we hope it will be the Water Park. If God makes a way for us to fund it we will go there or to the Vallarta Zoo. God again has been so faithful to provide this year for the children’s monthly food packets, materials to run the school and the all the needs of the Church we believe He will keep providing!
Teams coming this summer….United Methodist Church will be lead again by Manny Cavasos who will help with construction projects out by the school. Part of their team will help us prep for our upcoming VBS – “Egypt, the Life of Joseph”. They will help paint, prep art and crafts, build, etc. Pray for their safety as we know that in the States many bad reports have been sent out discouraging travel to Mexico. We have had no acts of violence out of the ordinary down here. We know we are in the Lord’s hands as was Paul on his much more dangerous missionary journeys as his life was at stake. We serve and awesome God who is faithful to hide us under the shelter of His wings… We are also praying for Calvary South Denver who is planning to come as well to help during the week of VBS. Pray with us that God will open the door if it is His will. They have come many times in the best and have been a big blessing and help to the Church during VBS week.
What else…I am sure there are many other things I could share but then you might grow weary…wouldn’t want you to do that so I will end by saying that we thank the Lord Jesus for your lives; for your love and prayer support; for your financial support which makes this ministry of faith move forward, and most of all for the friendships God has blessed us with through all of you. I get so excited thinking about the day when we will all soon be together worshiping around the Crystal Lake in Heaven rejoicing as the Lord brings all the saints together to worship the Lamb! All those people that you all have met down here and have had the privilege of seeing coming to Jesus…you will have the privilege of seeing them once again in heaven! What a beautiful thought isn’t it? We hope to see you all down here again this upcoming fall and winter season as we work together to further His kingdom!
Prayer requests:
 Pray for a new Calvary Church Plant in La Cruz de Loreto 2 hrs south of Vallarta. For Pastor Roberto and his wife Paloma and their 4 beautiful children. That the Lord will continue to provide for their needs and that they will continue to be able to come to their discipleship class with Pastor Bill.
 Pray for another possible church plant in Las Palmas, community Northeast of Vallarta that is praying about coming under Bill’s discipleship as well
 Pray for Calvary Chapel Mission School…our roof leaks! The last concrete pour left much to be desired and we want to get it sealed before the rainy season starts. We want to assure that our interior is protected from humidity.
 Pray for finances of the Church and for the Body. We are in the low-season and we don’t want the people of our congregation be stuck without food and shelter. Life is pricey down here but they have nowhere else to go. Pray that the Lord would bless their faithfulness in their walks with Him.
 Pray for our summer outreaches that they will be a blessing to many and that God will strengthen us to do our best.
 Pray for our leaders Jose Luis and Mari Molina and family. They are diligent in coming alongside us in the ministry but are truly a tent-making ministry! They have a business that needs their attention but in all their free time they serve in the church. Pray the Lord would make a way for them to take Mondays off.
* Pray for all the discipleship classes that they would grow in numbers as the body becomes hungrier for the Word of God. Pray for our youth. Conchita specifically. She was swooped up and hurt by a married man. She let go of the relationship but we see her hurting now. Pray the Lord would restore her heart and that she would run to the Lord and not distance herself from Him. Pray that our youth would be faithful in reading the Bible every day.
* Pray for our children as they mature into young ladies and a young man. That the Lord would keep them pure and walking uprightly before the Lord.
Praise Reports:
* Thank you Lord for your constant faithfulness to your children! We are so amazed to see how you work and surprise us every day!
* We praise God for all the new believers. Pray they will exhibit fruits of repentance as they lay their sin down at the cross. That they would put off all the old man and take on all the wonderful things God has for them as they walk with Jesus.
* We praise you Lord for a finished school year at CCMS and at home. Keep our kids walking with you as they learn more and put you in the center of their studies!