Dia de Pentecostes

Este aviso es para usted hermano(a) aqui en Ciudad Juarez/El Paso. Comenzamos este Jueves a celebrar el Dia de Pentecostes.

El Jueves sera en la Iglesia Misionera "Agua Viva" en Jesus Carranza a las 6pm. Estara ministrando en la alabanza el grupo de alabanza de Riveras del Bravo. Predicara la Hna. Irene Garcia.

El Viernes sera en la Iglesia Misionera "Agua Viva" en El Millon a las 6pm. Estara ministrando en la alabanza el grupo de alabanza de El Millon. Predicara el Hno. Monico Garcia.

El dia Sabado cerramos en la Iglesia Misionera "Agua Viva" en Riveras del Bravo a las 5pm. Estara minsitrando el grupo de alabanza de El Millon. Predicara el Hno. Martin alias "El Gato"

Sera tres dias de alabanza y adoracion.
Sera tres dias de bendicion
Sera tres dias inolvidables, donde TU necesitas asisstir.

Junio 9 - 10 y 11

OVERTIME IS ON ITS WAY!

Hello again everyone. Well for lots of kids summer vacation is on its way, where you do a whole lot of nothing. Summer for us means more work, overtime!!!

We start this Saturday. El Millon and Riveras will have registration for Back to School(handing out of backpacks with school supplies) El Millon will have its registration from 8:30am till noon, where as Riveras will have it from 8:30am till 10:30am. We will be doing registration till the end of June at all churches.

In July we have VBS for all churches. Our big VBS will be in El Millon and Riveras. We are expecting 200-250 kids!!! El Millon and Jesus Carranza will have it together on July 11- July 15 from 9am till noon. Riveras will be having it from July 17- July 22 from 9am till noon. The theme this year is Bible Heroes.

In August we will be handing out all the backpacks from the registration. Lets see how many will be in total?? wanna guess?

We also have lots of activities that will be going on at the churches. We have 3 days of services (Thursday- Jesus Carranza, Friday-El Millon, Saturday- Riveras) where we will be celebrating "DIA DE PENTECOSTES"(could you guess what I wrote?). Also in July- August we want to do a Slumber Parties with the young ladies from the different church where we want to talk to them about waiting till you are marriage for sex and sexual abuse. We are hoping and praying for help this weekend(hint-hint, wink- wink). We are also having "Servicio de barrios" in the different churches. Services outside of church. And of course lots of other plans we have but all we need is time!

And to top the summer my baby brother(he's 24) will be getting married on August 13!!! We are so happy and proud of him. We couldn't love Olga more. She is a great women and a great addition to the family. (YES!!! more help for the ministry!)

We ask that you pray for us. Our entire family. None of what we do is done without your prayers and our family help. We ask that you pray for our health especially the little ones(Daniel- 12, Adrian- 3, Ruby- almost 2, and Karina- 3 months).

Pray for my parents: Francisco and Rosa

Pray for myself and my family: Lucio, Rosa, Ruby and Karina

Pray for my brother and future sis-in law: Xavier and Olga

Pray for my sister and her family. Cathy, Jorge, Daniel and Adrian.

and I have an older brother in California, that if he was here he would play a mean guitar(hint-hint, wink-wink)

Everyone plays an important part in this ministry.

LET THE SUMMER BEGAN!!!!

Prayer Request in El Millon

This time its Norma Ramirez that needs your prayer. Norma Ramirez is a sister that has been attending the church in El Millon since 2008. About three weeks ago she gave thanks because she had three goals for 2011 and two of them where already done. The first one was to married to the father of her kids and the second was to get baptized. The third goal is to be able to walk again.
In August 2009 at Norma's home there was a dispute with her husband and some family members. 4 people including Norma jumped into a car that was going to the hospital because one of the men was injured in the dispute, but the man that was driving was drunk. Not even 10 minutes away they turn over in a curb. Norma at the time was 8 months pregnant. Thank God no one in the car was injury badly only Norma. She was told the baby was no in harm at all but she was on the verge of having her leg amputated. God worked his magic and her legged was saved. In September 2009 her daughter was born and she name her Victoria.
Since 2009 they have told her that she needs an operation on her leg because her knee tendons are torn. The operation is costly and untill she comes up with the money she is able to have the operation. Norma sells food at her home during the weekend to come up with the money and also sells candy from time to time at church. Please join us in praying for her so she could come up with the money she needs for the operation.

Thanks New life!

As I am sitting here writing this blog I have a fever and have been sick since yesterday. When I started yesterday, Lucio gave me some medicine. Darn medicine worked and to my surprise it was the medicine that New Life had send over. New life must of prayer over it because it worked and not just myself but also lots of families in Juarez. We were blessed with a shipment of medicine from New Life Church in Indiana.

Two weeks ago in El Millon, women from El Millon, Jesus Carranza and Riveras gather to celebrate mothers day. There were around 50-60 women there. After the gathering my mom told the ladies, get medicine that you need. I would look at my mom and tell her "I hope its enough"(we had already been giving out before this). Every single women in there got the medicine that they need. It multiply and even had some left. Prior to this we have been giving out medicine to people that were sick, Kids with the cold, Adults with the........runs!

New life, God Bless you! Thanks to you we have been able to give lots of medicine to people that other wise wouldn't have been able to buy on their own. We have given allot and still have some more to give away. GOD BLESS YOU!!

here are a few pictures of when the shipment arrived and the whole family was sorting everything out.

Even the kids where helping out too!!

JESUS IS ALIVE!!

Father and Daugther!

This is Anita!

Today Sunday we had a great day. We started the morning with a 6am sunrise service in Riveras where Lucio preached. To our surprise 120 people attended this service. After the service we all stayed and shared some menudo, everyone was able to eat well. Thank God! After this service we all went to El Millon where we had another service at 10:30am. At this service we had 9 people that were baptize. 1 from El Millon, 2 from Jesus Carranza(father and daughter) and 6 from Riveras. We had a special moment where Anita was baptize. She is our little girl(she is 26) with special needs. Her parents would tell us that she would tell them daily that she wanted to get baptize. Her mom told us that today Anita woke up in a great mood and saying that she was going to go into the water. God is awesome!!Every baptism was special in its own way but Anita touch close to home.

Beside having 9 baptisms, there were also 12 children that we presented to God including my very own baby, Karina. We had a great service an afterward we all ate hamburgers, more then 200 burgers were made. WOW!
All in All we had a great day, a long day but a great day.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL...

No bus transportation

For about 2 weeks now there has been no public transportation in the valley of Juarez. The bus route end in Riveras del Bravo, meaning that El Porvenir, El Millon and Jesus Carranza have no way of traveling outside the towns, unless they have a car and many dont. There has been lots of attacks to the public transportation especially to the one going to the valley, and for that reason the owners decided to end it all together. In the pass they had done this but only a couple of days. Now because of this people in the valley have not been able to go to Juarez for the food, doctors visit or school. This pass friday the church in El Millon provided the churches van to people that needed to go grocery shopping. For those that have a car is not that hard, just have to find gas money but for those without a car is hard. We hope this doesn't last long.

God is our protector!

No need to tell everyone about what is going on in Ciudad Juarez, I think you know by now.
This pass wednesday while in school a young boy of 6 years old was killed when a car crashed inside the school. The driver said he was being chased, he is 16 years old.
On thursdays service in Riveras, Juanita ( she was a church member in El Millon but moved to Riveras. She is married to Carlos and has three kids and has her sister kids too) stood up and gave thanks. On the day the car crashed into the school, Rosita(her youngest) was drinking from the water fountain. When the car crash it was going directly to Rosita. Rosita saw the car and ran but the little boy next to her didn't run. Rosita saw when this little helpless boy was ran over by the car. Juanita and us we give thanks to our Protector, God!! He saved Rosita from also being killed that day. If she would of not ran off she would of been killed too. The only thing is that Rosita has not been able to sleep since wednesday night. She starts shaking and crying when she closes her eyes. We praise God because He protected her but we also ask Him to help her forget what happen that day. That she be able to sleep at night. No child deserves to have this happen to her. Keep her in your prayers!

Riveras Del Bravo

Riveras Del Bravo also known as "The Pigeon Coop". The Church in Riveras is a church that is growing fast, it is located right in the middle of where the factory plants build homes for the workers. There are over 10 sections of houses with more then 8000 houses in each sections. Why "Pigeon Coop"? because the house are very very VERY small. God has blessed us(Lucio and myself) with being the leaders at this church and wow has he blessed us. We are learning a lot and quick. The people in Riveras is a church that is learning new things and not only learning but also putting it in practice. We love to worship Christ and love to spend time with one other. Riveras even thought the church is done with construction there are many things that still need to be done. Riveras has been robbed 3 times, where they have taken everything they can including toilet paper! Thank God we have an alarm system and were not able to take it all. Continue to pray for the church members in Riveras and for Lucio and Myself(Rosa) including our daughters Olivia Ruby and Karina.

El Millon

El Millon, the heart if the missionary churches in Ciudad Juarez. El Millon is where all the churches starteds, where the leaders began and then branch out to the other missionary churches. The Pastor here as you know are Francisco and Rosa Ramirez. As you see in the pictures(for those that have came down) there are many new faces at churches. This picture was taken on a sunday and many people did not attend since they come by themselves to church and their husband or wife doesn't let them come on a sunday or they spend it with there family. The people here in El Millon are the nicest people you WILL ever meet. Even though they don't have much they WILL give you the shirt of there back if you are in need. Continue to pray for the missionary church in El Millon!

Jesus Carranza And El Porvenir

Here we have church members from El Porvenir and Jesus Carranza.

El Porvenir:

El Porvenir is the last town that is located in the valley of Juarez. El Porvenir has had a hard year. Last year in April, El Porvenir was one of two towns that were told that everyone that lived there must leave. The members at El Porvenir as well as the leaders here had a hard time understanding what was going on. The Gomez Family(Leaders at El Porvenir) left there home and everything that they had behind and left to the dorms in El Millon. After many weeks living at the dorms, they return to El Porvenir after knowing it was safe. Because of what happen and is happening in Juarez, Sister Jobita has had lots of health complications, but they have not given up. Lots of church members left El Porvenir and didn't return but the ones that did return continue to worship God at the Gomez's home every Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Jesus Carranza:
Jesus Carranza has church services Thursdays and Sundays. Jesus Carranza is small church but with members with big hearts. It is one of the churches that when we need help in anything, they are always willing to help. As many of you remenber, Jesus Carranza is located where witch craft is all around but WE have made our way!! GOD HAS MADE ITS WAY! Jesus Carranza was the first building that was build (I believe in 2005?) The leaders at this church is Ezequiel and Maria Zuniga. They have three sons, Ezequiel, Missael and Ismael. Members from the churches in El Millon and Riveras attend services thursda ys and sundays to encourage the church members here.

THIS WEEK WE INVITE YOU TO SAY A PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH MEMBERS IN EL PORVENIR AND JESUS CARRANZA.

LEADERS OF EL PORVENIR: VICTOR AND JOBITA GOMEZ. THEY HAVE TWO OLDER CHILDREN THAT HELP THEM IN EL PORVENIR. ANGEL (22) AND GERALDA (18)

LEADERS OF JESUS CARRANZA: EZEQUIEL AND MARY ZUNIGA. 3 CHILDEREN. EZEQUIEL(11), MISSAEL(7), AND ISMAEL (9 MONTHS OLD)