Geppeto's Workshop in Mexico...Building Dreams

The Tijuana pastor's board has been busy working hard to follow-up with all the families that we have built a home for. Here are a few of their prayer requests and praises for this month.

Pastor Francisco Chavez: I would like everyone to pray with me for my church and it's continual growth. Also, that we will be able to receive new instruments, speakers, microphones, and a guitar amplifier. Praise: Thank God that we were able to receive a piano and plenty of chairs for our church. We know that God will provide the rest.

Pastor Eusebio Haros: My continual prayer request is that Gd will provide a 15 passenger van to transport people to and from church. Praise:Thank God for His steadfast love toward us and for healing my wife of her illness.

Pastor Juan Bahena: We are asking prayer for our church expansion and for spiritual support for myself and my family. Praise: Thank GOd that he will continue to prosper our church.

Pastor Fausto Meraz: I want to thank you for praying for us and ask you to keep our church in prayer as we are working on expanding our church. We need Sunday school rooms. Praise: I want to give all the glory and honor to God for his provision. We requested awhile back for a new keyboard and God answered! Thank you everyone for praying for us!

Pastor Juan Briceño: Please pray for my family and congregation. Also that God will provide a van to transport people to church and for a bass guitar and amplifier. Praise: God has answered our petition about an electric guitar amplifier! Thank you.

Pastor Jesus Lobatos: Please pray with me for my family and my congregation. We are in need of musical instruments, a keyboard, and microphones. Also, that God will make provision for tables for our dinning hall and chairs too. Praise: We are so grateful to God and you for keeping us in prayer. we prayed about a building to be able to do a feeding program and it's built now and a church from Los Angeles, California gave us an extra long van for 13 passengers.

As a thank you to all our pastors we provide the means for them to have a Pastor's Retreat where they go to a location with their families and have a time of rest and relaxation. Here are a few pictures from their retreat.

Thank you Pastors from all the cities we work in!

July 13th I had a meeting with our pastors that work in the Rosarito area. Here are a list of prayer requests and praise reports.

Pastor Angel: Please join with me in prayer concerning a vehicle to use to transport people to and from church. Also, for my continual health and that of my wife because we have been a bit ill lately. Praise: I want to praise God that he healed my wife's right leg.

Pastor Jose: Please pray with us that we can continue our work in holding home fellowships groups. And that God will continue to prosper our ministry. To win amny more souls for His kingdom. Praise: I am very grateful for the work Amor Ministries does. To think that many souls will be won by the sheer joy of receiving a new house. I have some families in my congregation that have accepted God as their personal Saviour as a result of receiving God's love in the form of a house. Thank you for your love and passion to help those that are in great need in Mexico. Thank you for all the donations that blesses many families. We love you all!

Pastor Florentino: Thank you for your prayers. That our congregation continues to grow spiritually. Praise: I want to thank God for the little trailer that Amor donated to us. Currently we are waiting to finish our house and the trailer has helped to house us in the meantime. And thank God for the house that a wonderful group from Amor made.

Pastor Gustavo: Please help me pray for my wife's health and for our congregation to grow. Praise: Thank God for this ministry (Amor) and for all of you that participate. It's a great experience that Amor has brought and it has enriched my life. May you all continue to be blessed as you have blessed many lives. When I see the people that have benefited in receiving a house I stand amazed. On behalf of the families I want to thank God and you for all your love and support.

Thank the Lord for such faithful men that have not only heard the calling of God in their lives but are determined to increase the Kingdom of God.

Pastor Valente Reyes-Pray: Please pray for the registration of our church land and for my family. Praise: I want to thank you all for praying about receiving Bibles. Your gift will be given to many hungry souls. God bless!

Pastor Valente

Pastor Fernando-Pray: I would like you to join with me in prayer for a van for our church and different electronic devices for our church. Praise: I want to thank God for your prayers. God has been providing instruments for our church. Like someone donated a guitar and drum set. I also want to thank God for healing me from a growth that I had near my eye.

Pastor Fernando, Pastor Elizabeth, and Mexican Field staff Alonso

Pastor Antonio Sotelo-Pray: I really would like to ask everyone to pray for our lives, for the lost souls we are trying to reach and for the whole world. Praise: Thank God that he has answered by faith all our requests. God help you all!

Pastor Antonio, Mexican Field staff Alfredo

Pastor Javier Heredia-Pray: I really appreciate prayer for the continual health of my family. My daughter Ivon is in California and for my parents will receive complete healing. Thank you for your prayers. May God bless you! Praise: God has answered so many prayer requests. My daughter Joselin was ill and God healed her.

Pastor Jesus & Pastor Javier

Pastor Jesus Garcia-Pray: Please pray that we would be able to obtain chairs for our church and tables for our dinning hall. Thank you for your prayers!

Pastor Felipe Posadas-Pray: We need prayer for our spiritual well being and for donations to help those that are in great need. Thank you! Praise: We will continue to preach the Word and minister to many people.

Pastor Elizabeth Avendaño-Pray: Continual prayer for the construction of our new church and that God will grant us wisdom concerning our finances. Praise: Thanking God for allowing us to meet with several government officials and to invite them to an outreach we are going to have in July.

These are the prayer requests and praise reports that our brothers and sisters in Ciudad Juarez have shared. Thank you for your continual support of the church in Mexico.

Bright Sun!

Sisterly Love.

A little lunch with the pastors.

Even in Ciudad Juarez I got to wait in a long border line .

Finally home.

Cool eagle!

Francico Chavez: Please pray with me for spiritual growth in our church and to obtain musical instruments, a sound system, microphones and amplifiers.

Eusebio Haros: Please continue to pray with me about obtaining a 15 passenger van

Juan Bahena: I want you to please continue to pray for God's perfect will to be done in our church and for our church to prosper each day.

Adolfo Escamilla: Please pray for myself and all my family as we drive to Oaxaca, Mexico. For our leadership at our church. To be able to receive a sound system for our church.

Armando Ponce: We would like help in praying for the souls that were won during the citywide evangelistic conference recently. Also that God helps me to speak His word more boldly.

Fausto Meraz: We are believing God for a 12 passenger van and pray for the needs of our church.

Juan Briceño: Praying for a van for our church, amplifier for our electric guitar, and for a bass guitar.

Jesus Lobatos: Prayer for our family and congregation. We are in need of a van to transport people to and from church. Also, our church needs speakers, microphones, electric guitar, and a new drum set. Thank you and God bless!

Joel Rodriguez: I want you all to please pray for my family, our church, and for a project that I am involved in with an orphanage and Christian school.

"I love the Lord because he hears my prayers and answers them. Because he bends down and listens, I will pray as long as I breathe!" Psalm 116:1-2 TLB

Pastor Leoncio wants to share that he is very grateful for everyone's prayers and may God bless you all.

Pastor Hortencio shares that he wants to give praise to God for the continual growth of his church and for giving them another church to expand even more. Thank you for your prayers!

Pastor Mere wants to share praise for the construction of their new roof on his church. They have $2,300.00 dollars of the $7,000.00 they need to complete the whole renovation! Thank you for your prayers.

Pastor Hortencio requests that we continue to pray for his ministry and for the growth that they have been seeing in their church. For protection for his family. Also that God will provide chairs for the mission church that they have just started.

"God's care for us is more watchful and more tender than the care of any human father could possibly be." Hannah Whitall Smith

Pastor Ezekiel requests that everyone be filled with the blessings of God and their church is in need of musical instruments. He says that they have an old guitar ready to be retired.

Pastor Leoncio requests prayer for his spiritual walk, for his church, and for a new drum set for his worship team.

Pastor Mere requests that we please pray for the construction of his new church (the roof). Also that God will continue to bless with the growth of his church and all the mission churches that they are trying to help with resources. Please keep my mother in prayer as she has diabetes and is having some kidney problems, her name is Maria Natividad.

This last Firday I drove to Tecate, Mexico to visit our pastors there. We have meetings every month to see how they are doing, if they have any issues to address, if they have any specific needs or just to let them know what is happening at our office in San Diego. We enjoyed partaking together the joys of hearing stories of families that have been blessed with the reality of God's perfect love. We spoke about how we can go beyond our families expectations in blessing them with vital resources. For example, back to school supplies, toys for Christmas, food bank, emergency relief packages for families that have lost a home, and church supplies. They know that only God will be able to meet their needs, but they also are praying that God will touch the hearts of those who are able to give. I'm excited to see how God will provide.

This is the church of Pastor Leoncio where we had our meeting.

Here is Pastor Hortencio and Pastor Ezekiel as we break bread together. Yum! Carne Asada!

This is Pastor Mere writing down the praise reports so that I can share them with everyone!

A supporter donated brand new T-shirts from their company and so here we have the pastors modeling their new shirts.

I was able to take with me to the meeting a box of Spanish Bibles so each pastor was able to take 6 Bibles each and Pastor Leoncio placed them on his church shelf to be ready to use in the next service.

"God can do anything, you know-far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams!" Ephesians 3:20 MSG

Prayer requests from Tijuana, Mexico

Pastor Francisco Chavez - We are asking prayer fo our church and in locating instruments, ampliflyers, and speakers. Anything to do with new music ministry. Also we have a church goal of reaching out to 100 new families!

Pastor Eusebio Haros - Thank you for your prayers for my wife, she is doing much better health wise. Now I'm requesting of the Lord a new van or little bus to transport people to and from church.

Pastor Juan Bahena - For my ministry that God has given me and for the prosperity in my church. That more and more souls receive God as their Savior and for the expansion of our church.

Pastor Adolfo Escamilla - For the leadership of our church. Second, for the musicians of our church. Thirdly, the means for us to have a family vacation. Thank all for your prayers. We just received a vehicle for our church. May God bless you more!

Pastor Armando Ponce - We want you all to join us in prayer that God will use us to bring more souls to the kingdom.

Pastor Fausto Meraz - We request that together we pray for God to provide the funds to buy the land next to the church to be able to expand the church. Thank you for your prayers.

Pastor Juan Briceño - Thank you for your prayers. Our family is doing well and as for the prayer request for a guitar God answered! All we need now is the amplifier and also a van to transport the kids to and from children's church and events. Thank you!

Pastor Jesus Lobatos - Prayer for my family and the congregation. Plus, we are in need of 1 or 2 vans and various musical instruments, chairs, and microphones. May God bless you!

Pastor Joel Rodriguez - Prayer for my family and church. We are are in need of various items in the chruch.

Prayer requests from Tecate, Mexico

Pastor Hortencio Guerrero - God will and will continue to give us the love and support we need. For growth and for meeting our need. Asking God for His divine protection.

Pastor Ezekiel Higuerra - I pray for our ministry here in the region of Cafetelera.

Pastor Leoncio Hernandez - I would like for you all to pray for my spiritual life and for my church will get the musical instruments we need. Thank you for your prayers. God bless you all!

Pastors prayer requests from Rosarito, Mexico - Pastor Angel Dominguez - I really request that you keep myself and my wife in prayer for health. Also, we are in need of a vehicle. Thank you for your continual support.

Pastor Jose Hernandez - Thank you for all your prayers. Please join with us for the construccion of our church and for a evangelistic project we are endeavoring. And that God will increase out homefellowship groups.

Pastor Gustavo Rendon - God bless you all. Thank you for your support and prayers. We are in a stage in our congregation that we are training up leaders in our church. Thank you!

Pastor Florentino Gallardo - Please continue to pray for the health of my wife and that the Lord will bless our work. We want to see more souls to be saved.

Pastor prayer requests from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

Pastor Valente Reyes - I would like you to please continue to pray for my family and for the registration of our church. We are in need of Bibles!

Pastor Fernando - We are in desperate need of a van for our church, new musical instruments, and for land for our church. Especial prayer request for the spiritual well-being of our church.

Pastor Antonio Sotelo - We are requesting all of you to keep the buying of our church land in prayer.

Pastor Javier Heredia - For our church and for the soup kitchen we want to build. For the continual helaing of my mother who had an eye operation. God bless you!

Pastor Jesus Garcia - I would like to request prayer that God will supply tables and chairs for our church.

Pastor Elizabeth Avedano - Pray for the revival at our church and that lives will be changed. Pray for our economical needs to be met and for the provision of our church. Thank you! God bless.