Evangel Ventures
When: March 24-30
What: a 30 person team from Evangel building three homes in Mexico in partnership with our church down there! Very exciting!
Team Leaders: Derek and Julie Waldon, who will be hosting a booth at Mission Vision this weekend. Stop by and say hi!!
We have raised almost $11,000 to date for the home builds! This covers all the basics for the houses (building materials). We'd like to see another $4k come in over the next few weeks for furnishings and little extras like cupboards full of food. You can give right here on the website, or anytime at Evangel.
This Sunday at 12:30pm we'll be hosting a fund-raising dinner - Taco's in a Bag! Going to be an awesome time of hanging out and supporting the trip. Hope to see you then!
For anyone whose interested in a look at some of the recent trips Evangel Ventures has taken into Mexico, here are a couple videos.
March 2012 Home-building Expedition, Vicente Guerrero, Mexico
Nov. 2012 Church Build, team of 20
UPCOMING EXPEDITIONS!!
March 24 - 30 Vicente Guerrero, Mexico
This team of 30 people will be building 2 homes and doing various outreach projects in the surrounding communities.
July 22 - August 11 Republica of Crimea, Ukraine
This team will be joining our partner church plant in the town of Krasny Mak, as well as doing evangestic outreach into the surrounding areas.
God's Blessings,
India, January 20th- February 1st, 2013
Impact is heading back to India in just a few months! I joined them last year, and have never been so challenged, impacted and changed then during the 13 days spent in the country.
"For 12 incredible days, you will be on the front lines, demonstrating both the compassion and the power of God to people in desperate need. You will feed and minister to those who live their whole lives on the sidewalks of Vizag. In the villages, you will encounter people who have never heard the name of Jesus. You will pray for people on the streets and in homes. You will be part of a team that brings God’s Kingdom through mobile medical and dental clinics & public health education. Each evening, the village will gather as we tell them about the love of Jesus and pray for the sick. As has happened in every village we have ever entered in India, people will be healed, miracles will happen, and many hearts will turn to Jesus."
Calling all medical volunteers!! Although a medical background is not a requirement for joining this Journey, we are in specific need of a few more medical personnel to run the clinics most efficiently.
Come with us and get ready to be changed, to experience the Kingdom of God, and to pour out and bless so many!
Take a look at our website: www.impactnations.com for more information.
Posted by Darcie Voorhees.
EV NEWS: Mexico Church Build - November 11-17, 2012
Written by Tony Warriner
On November 11-17, Evangel will send a team to Vicente Guerrero, Mexico, to build a church. While the team is rapidly forming even as we speak, there's still opportunity if you or someone you know would like to get in on the action. The build itself should take roughly 4-5 days, with travel time on top of that. Cost is approximately $300 for the week, including transportation from San Diego (hello?). Your flights from here to there are additional. This will be the trip of a lifetime, as you are used by God to do some serious power-moves for the Kingdom. Sweet!
Quite the guy, Margarito! I spent over an hour with him today: talking story, praying and crying. We had a blast.
He and Florencia have been married 8 yrs and have 2 children together. His first wife died - he had 7 children with her.
He has known the Lord since '91. A few years before that he was in a migrant worker camp just to the north of Vicente Guerrero. The evangelists from the Mission (Orphanage) had come to do a presentation - movie, message, etc. He listened but it didn't affect him. He then went to Salinas CA to work and was challenged by someone to come to church and listen to the gospel. He did and started to remember what he had heard in the work camp. That night he was radically impacted, gave his heart to the Lord and repented from his ways. He cried for several days - a mixture of joy and conviction.
God has blessed him with the ability to share the scriptures and teach. When he moved to the area he is presently living in, he was approached by some people who asked him to teach.
The lot was given to him by the lady who owns all the land. She was very specific in saying that she wanted the word of God to be preached and taught and that she wanted the people of the area to be reached for Christ.
The church building when built will be registered with the Mexican govt. and will have a regular board with Pres, VP, Sec/Tres.
Everything has been donated, the land, the building materials, the wiring for electricity, the electricity....the outhouse. He has never asked for anything. His labor has been in prayer.
He has a passion to see God's word spread in his area. He needs a bigger space into which to invite the neighborhood. This is the only church in the area - on his side of the highway. He thinks that the area has few believers; no more that 15 - 20%.
He is part of an accountability group - 5 or 6 churches all located in the San Quentin valley - within 15 - 20 miles of each other. As pastors, they meet together to pray, support and encourage one another.
Thanks for asking me to do this. I was blessed to spend time with him.
This morning I read (or rather looked at) one of my favourite blogs, the Big Picture. And ran smack into the heart of God for the people in this remote, war-ravaged place called Chechnya. What does a guy do with this stuff? Each photo seemed to put flesh and blood on a people that up to now have remained distant from me. They are real. And they desperately need the message of the Gospel. And I feel God's heart-beat.
Of all the pictures we snapped over the week in Vicente Gurerro, this one ranks among my favourite because of the two central subjects of the photo: