April 2008. Missionary group trip from Miami.
This celebrated our 7th missionary group trip. And it was our best so far!
hundreds of children received either shoes, clothes, tooth paste, tooth brush or soap. We cleaned up the property and planted tomatoes, flowers and brought an electrical engineer from Miami to set up the electricity. Thank you Ricardo & Luz Torrado of Miami, and Javier who works for the State of Florida as an Electrical Engineer. Luz works for Lan Chile airlines and Ricardo works for Telefonica.

Gracias a Ricardo y Luz Torrado de Miami, tambien a Javier por hacer el gran esfuerzo de tomar de sus vacaciones personales y dar a los mas pobres de Rep. Dom. El viaje duro 6 dias y donamos a ciento de ninos ropa, zapatos, pasta diente, zepillo diente y jabon. El proximo viaje es en Junio 08'. VEN!!

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Marzo 08' 1st Missionary Trip of 2008. Primer Viaje misionero del 2008.
Con el Pastor Chris de Ekklesia Miami y Otto Aguilar.
Visitors Pastor Chris for the 2nd time, and Otto Aguilar his 1st trip to our project in D.R.

Gracias a Ivonnet/Eduardo, Guiselle, Katherine, Susana Diaz, Evelyn, Federico, Olga, Claudia, Carlos Luna (por fotocopiadora) Valeria, Leo y Malena (por la donacion de un laptop) Ileana Cuna, Joel de Blest por sus donaciones y apoyo. Este viaje fue muy especial. Visitamos la propiedad que pensamos en Octubre que era imposible que sea de nosotros, y ya en este viaje, era de nosotros, gracias a Dios! Ver fotos aqui.

We want to thank Ivonnet/Eduardo, Guiselle, Katherine, Susana Diaz, Evelyn, Federico, Olga, Claudia, Carlos Luna (por fotocopiadora) Valeria, Leo y Malena (por la donacion de un laptop) Ileana Cuna, Joel of the christian group Blest for donating there time and items.

This was a very special trip. It had been 6 months since we last came. In November due to the Hurricane Noel, we couldn't reach Juan Santiago, & we were in Colombia from Nov 11 through Jan 28, 2008. We missed our people, and so did they. The arrival was special, many folks came and embraced us.

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February 2008 Miami, Fl.,
we were invited to speak at one of biggest churches in Miami. We thank God for this blessing. In all three services people were deeply touched. We extended an invitation to our project in March and after the service the pastor of the Church told us he's going along with 2 more of his pastors and will be my trip also to accompany them. This to us is such wonderful news.

Febrero 2008. Dios habre puertas de nuevo y derrama su favor. Por 2nd vez Dios nos da una oportunidad de hablar en la iglesia local Ekklesia. Tambien, Joel del grupo Blest nos invita a hablar en una iglesia Cristiana en Hialeah. Gracias Pastor Jose Victor y en especial el Pastor Chris por tu apoyo incondicional.

November 07 through January 28, 2008 - Colombia, S. America.

Our missions trip to this country, our fourth, was very powerful and very special.
The children's program in Colombia is coming along. We took a brand new Dell computer that Robert and Mariel Diaz of Miami donated to these pastors. Alex and Stephanie donated teh childrens movies to draw the kids and therefore draw there parents to the church.

Colombia Noviembre 11, a Enero 28, 2008.
Que viajes tan increible los de Colombia! Es muy intenso, ministerial diario. Y el hambre espiritual es impresionante! A nuestra surpresa, se han iniciado 3 celula de mujeres escuchando la serie de "Esclavo a Hijo" tambien un centro de rehabilitacion de drogas "Antioquia" en Tunja ha transformado a jovenes. Tambien la musica de nuestro amigo y miembro del Board "El Soldado" ha impactado a estos jovenes. Desean que El Soldado venga hacer un concierto. Quiera Dios que lleguen los fundos para esto.

Tambien, dimos a "luz" al projecto en Saboya, Colombia con los pastores que amamos muchicimo por su humildad y corazon hacia las almas. La historia mas impactante es la muerte del santero. El cual venian muchas personas desde lejos para recibir sus milagros. Ahora sus nietos van a la iglesia del Pastor Jairo! AMEN!! y gracias a Roberto y Mariel Diaz de Miami, se les llevo una computadora DELL con un monitor plasma donde los ninos ven peliculas cristianas o con mensajes. Asi atraemos a los ninos, y los ninos traen a los padres. La intensidad del catolismo aqui es como nada que yo he visto en ninguna parte que hemos viajado. Asi que nos da alegria del respaldo de Dios!
le pedimos que porfavor ayuden a este pastor. Hagan click abajo;

Fotos y videos de Colombia aqui...

Centro de rehabilitacion "Antioquia"

El pastor Andres Acero (su pagina aqui)

Sofia (mi esposa) y yo nos encanta ir a cocinar para las personas, y en esta ocacion coninamos mi especialidad, arroz y frijoles a lo cubano a los del centro de antioquia.

My wife and I love to cook for other people and in this ocasion
we made Cuban beans and rice for the drug rehap center.

Gracias a Stehanie (16 anos) y Alex por donar peliculas. Dios los uso, porque entre las peliculas cristianas que nos dieron estaba una que ni yo tenia ganas de ver "Enfrentando a los gigantes" - Facing the Giants. Que impacto ha dado esta pelicula. La prestamos a varios grupos y iglesias, en total unas 10 y mas de 100 personas fueron impactados por el mensaje de esta pelicula.

Another awesome testimony is the movie "Facing the Giants" We asked Stephanie (16 yrs old our volunteer) to donate movies with a message. Among the movies she picked this one. To be honest, I didn't even want to see it, but I did in Colombia and it made me cry, I felt from God to lend it to a local pastors wife, and she told me "I had been praying to have this movie" we began to show the movies with the borrowed laptop that I took, to many groups of people, including youth and 3 local churches and a drug rehap center. Below is the picture of the pastor and the wife I felt led to give it too.

We arrived not knowing Hurricane Noel would meet us there. I am personally thankful we did travel while a hurricane hit. To live this experience here was an eye opener and ignited my passion once again to give up as much as I can to work much harder to be able to travel f/t & posibly stay months in these countries. I hope you consider helping us monthly.

Friends, to live this, to actually see that 90% of this country is poor and does not have the resources we have in the US, hit me hard. Bathrooms here are dug 15 feet underground, as waters rose to more the 6 feet, bacteria hit. Water is not available and the bridges that connect the capital - Santo Domingo, were destroyed by the rivers. Food, gasoline, water, could not reach the entire country because of this. over 25,000 homes were destroyed. Again, if you were to arrive by plane, you would notice the thousands of Tin Roofs even in the capital.

We were practically stuck in Santo Domingo and couldn't do much. Taxi service, transportation was not available.