FEBRUARY NEWS - VILLA REGINA

1.Please pray for Delia, a lady in the church whose car was in an accident while the church people were driving to a family camp in Chile at the beginning of February. Ricardo says he saw the accident through the mirror on his car and that it was a miracle nothing happened to the four people in the car because it almost fell through a bridge fifty feet in the air. They are praying that the car can be fixed in Chile, but Delia doesn’t have much money for it since her husband left her and she has a lot of troubles with their unsaved, grown children who live in her home. Ricardo thanks the Lord that Delia was still able to participate in the family camp and that it was a great blessing to her. 

2. Ricardo thanks God for the way He blessed all the families that were able to go to the family camp in Chile (425 miles away from Villa Regina). Pray that all the fruit that he saw in them there will prevail and grow every day.

3. Please pray for guidance for Ricardo and Silvina’s daughter Carolina, who is 23. She will be in the United States to visit the man she hopes to marry. The Daglios praise the Lord for a work of grace in her life.

4. Please keep praying regarding their church building. They have three months left to get the money for the purchase or they will have to move to another place. Finally, pray for new souls for this year and for the provision for the continuing of the teaching of the Word on a verse-by-verse basis. 

October News from Villa Regina 

Thanksgiving 

1. Ricardo is presently teaching through Genesis, Nehemiah, and Acts verse by verse and says it has become a great blessing for the church and especially for his personal life. Pray that the church would appreciate even more the importance of verse-by-verse Bible teaching.

2. José, the young man Ricardo visits on a weekly basis, has confessed faith in Christ. Ricardo says they are waiting for the proofs of his verbal profession of faith.

3. A lady named Kati called Ricardo the other day because she wanted to be assured from the Scriptures that she is a Christian. Kati lost her brother in a motorcycle accident one month ago. She began to witness to her family as soon as this happened, and Ricardo believes she understands the gospel through the grace of God.

 Prayer requests

1. Please continue to pray that the money will come in so that they can purchase the building where the church is meeting. They can rent it until June 2013.

2. Pray that God would bring more young people into the church as a result of the witness and testimony of the young people in their schools. At present, Ricardo has just two teens in the youth meetings, one boy and one girl.

3. Pray also for strong marriage relationships in the church. The church needs strong families that would be clear witnesses in their own neighborhoods.

August Prayer Requests

The church in Villa Regina has begun a verse-by-verse study of the book of Genesis. The people are excited about the study, and news about it is spreading in the neighbourhood around the church. Ricardo says people are searching for a place that will teach them the meaning of the Word of God. Pray that many souls will be added to God’s kingdom as a result of the faithful presenting of the truth.

The Daglios thank God for doing a work of grace in their daughter Carolina, who is 23. She is now filling her life and heart with the Word and is committed to living for the Lord. Please continue to pray that the Lord will work in the heart of their son, Lucas (21). Ricardo says Lucas seems to be realizing the emptiness of life without Christ, but he is still away from the Saviour.

As a result of the retail work that Silvina is doing, the Daglios are making many new contacts and are having many opportunities to share Christ with people. Pray that God would use this new activity, not only to help with their financial needs, but especially to reach many souls for Christ.

Please continue to pray regarding the church’s need to purchase the building it is presently renting. The church will have to either buy the building or move by May 2013. They need approximately $90,000 US to buy it. Ricardo says, “We know that the church consists of living stones, but a building of our own property will help [us] to gather together in one place.”

Please also pray for the salvation of José and Vanessa, a couple Ricardo is visiting every Wednesday. They are very interested in knowing God. Finally, pray that God would strengthen and confirm the believers so that they will have the kind of commitment they will need in order to serve the Lord in the days ahead.

Hope - May God bless you with this song today

"Por Mi Cuenta Viví" - Marvin & Andrea Hiebert singing / cantando

Marvin and Andrea Hiebert singing in Salto, Uruguay - Marvin y Andrea Hiebert cantando en Salto, Uruguay

Doing Evangelism door by door - Haciendo Evangelismo puerta a puerta

Several months ago we started visiting our neighborhood placing literature and gospel tracts in many homes. We're able to start again soon as the Summer has gone in this part of the world and it is a better weather to start visiting. Pray for us and for good relationship with the people around the church.

Hace unos meses atrás comenzamos a visitar nuestro vecindario de la iglesia colocando literatura y tratados evangelísticos en los hogares de los vecinos. Pronto podremos comenzar nuevamente ya que el Verano en esta parte del mundo ha pasado y es mejor el clima para visitar casa por casa. Oren por nosotros y por una buena recepción por parte de la gente.

Praying for the building - Orando por el local

We still are praying for the building where we are gathering since June 2011, we do have one more year of renting and then we have to purchase it or move from there. Please, continue to pray for the money we need for the purchase that is about u$s 90.000

Seguimos orando por el edificio donde nos estamos reuniendo como iglesia desde Junio de 2011, aún resta un año más de alquiler y luego hemos de comprar o mudarnos. Por favor, continúen orando por el dinero que necesitamos para la compra que ronda en los u$s 90.000

WE NEED YOUR PRAYERS - NECESITAMOS SUS ORACIONES

We found a place for the moving of the church. It's for renting but it is (we believe) a provision from the Lord! Pray that the final papers that are delayed to be ready for the renting.

Hallamos un lugar para la mudanza de la iglesia. Es para alquilar es (así lo creemos) una provisión del Señor! Oren que algunos papeles que están atrasados puedan liberarse pronto.

Visitando a Joel - Visiting with Joel

Joel and his wife are coming to our church since three or four months ago, he was looking for a church for almost 10 years after leaving his former church for different bad reasons. He and his wife know the Lord and are enjoying the teaching of the Word.

Joel y su esposa están asistiendo a nuestra iglesia ya por cerca de tres o cuatro meses. Joel estuvo buscando una iglesia de sana doctrina por casi 10 años luego de abandonar su antigua iglesia por diferentes tristes razones. El y su esposa conocen al Señor y están disfrutando la enseñanza de la Escritura.

More visiting... Más visitación

Visiting is an integral part of the ministry in South America. People will enjoy fellowship in their homes, while opening the Bible for teaching. In the picture, sister Leny (Pablo Tello's mom)

La visitación es parte integral en el ministerio. La gente disfruta la comunión mientras abrimos la Escritura para enseñar. En la foto, Leny, (la mamá de Pablo Tello).

Más visitas con Angelo - More visiting with Angelo

Lindo tiempo el que estamos invirtiendo junto a Angelo visitando familias aquí en Regina. El Señor es bueno al permitirnos cada tanto alguien con quien compartir el ministerio y la comunión, como así también tiempos de esparcimiento. En las fotos, la familia Riquelme y la familia Tello. También en las bardas de Regina

Nice time with Angelo invested in visiting families here in Regina. The Lord is good as He allows us from time to time, to have someone with whom share the ministry and fellowship and also times of recreation. In the pictures: The Riquelme and Tello families and also at the mountains in Regina.

If I were a pastor - Si yo fuera pastor

“If I were a pastor, I would want to preach in the spirit of the New Covenant, inviting everyone in the congregation to see the heart of God revealed in the cross of Christ. I would encourage them to interpret all of life’s hardships not as problems to fix or struggles to relieve or pain to deaden, but as important elements in a larger story that all God’s children long to tell. I would urge them to accept wherever they are on the journey, whether happy or miserable, as the place where God will meet them, where He loves them, where He will continue to work in them. And I would offer my own life as a growing, struggling, sometimes painfully unattractive example of what doing that might mean. I would beg God to deliver me from Calvary-denying sermons, which leave people feeling scolded and pressured….I would ask God to never let me again preach an Eden-denying message where psychological insights replace biblical wisdom in a misguided effort to repair emotional damage when the real problem is a serpent-inspired determination to experience life without God. ” Larry Crabb

"Si yo fuera pastor, quisiera predicar en el espíritu del Nuevo Pacto, invitando a cada uno en la congregación a contemplar el corazón de Dios revelado en la cruz de Cristo. Les animaría a cada uno de ellos a interpretar todas las dificultades de la vida, no como problemas para solucionar, o luchas para aliviar o dolores para minimizar, sino como elementos vitales en la extensa historia que todos los hijos de Dios tienen para contar. Les urgiría a aceptar cualquier lugar que les toque en este peregrinaje, ya sea feliz o miserable; como el lugar donde Dios quiere encontrarlos a cada uno, donde los ama, donde continuará obrando en ellos. Y también persistiría en ofrecer mi vida como un ejemplo creciente de lucha, y quizá como un ejemplo doloroso y poco atractivo de lo que significa todo eso. Rogaría a Dios que me libre de predicar sermones que nieguen el Calvario, que dejan a las personas sólo regañadas y presionadas... Le pediría a Dios que nunca más me permita predicar sermones que niegan el Edén, donde puntos de vista psicológicos reemplazan la sabiduría bíblica en un esfuerzo equivocado de reparar daños emocionales, cuando en realidad el problema verdadero es la presente determinación de experimentar una vida sin Dios lo cual está inspirado por la serpiente." Larrry Crabb

Visitando en Villa Regina - Visiting in Regina Regina

Con la visita de Angelo, aprovechamos para visitar familias y personas, a la vez que pudimos tener comunión y compartir diversos aspectos de la obra.

With Angelo's visit we took advantage to do some visitings to families and people of the church, also we had the chance to enjoy fellowship and to share together about the work for the Lord.

Visita de Chile y discipulado en casa - Visit from Chile and discipleship at home

Tenemos en casa la visita de nuestro hermano Angelo, del Centro Bíblico de Concepción, CHILE. Compartió su testimonio en la iglesia y fuimos grandemente bendecidos, también está participando en el discipulado aquí en casa.

We have the visit of our dear brother Angelo, from our Bible Center of Concepción, CHILE. He shared his testimony at the church and we were blessed in a great way; he is also participating in discipleship here at home.

When God works in the heart -Cuando Dios obra en el corazón

Last Sunday (Feb.13th), was the Evening Service with less people we ever had since we serve in Villa Regina (only 12). Many on vacation and others, as always, with lack of commitment. It was (to my opinion) the worst sermon I ever preached, plus, bad health and discouraged for several reasons. I preached on Mk.8:34 "Self Denial and the calling of Jesus." After the service and while I were putting my twelve strings guitar inside its box, Araceli (10) (picture), came to me, tears in her eyes, deep conviction and she said: "Pastor, did mom share with you about my situation?" I said, yes. "Well, I know I am a sinner, I sinned against God and I know I don't have Christ, nor His salvation." I explained to her that "praying" would not save her, but Christ yes. So she bowed her head and called on the Lord herself, asking for forgiveness and help to face several situations on the following weeks. After she prayed, she called her mother, hugged her and wept over her shoulders a lot. She went weeping all the way back home and there, she asked her father for forgiveness and also to her little sister. Praise the Lord! He is good. Araceli is now having discipleship and is enjoying memorizing Bible verses during the week. Pray for his father (Miguel) that he would come to Christ. So, God is good and sovereign always!

El Domingo pasado (Feb. 13) fue el Culto Vespertino con menos gente que hayamos tenido desde que estamos en Villa Regina (sólo 12). Muchos de vacaciones y otros, como siempre, con falta de compromiso. Fue (en mi opinión) el peor mensaje que he predicado, sumándole mi mal estado de salud y desaliento por diversas razones. Prediqué sobre Mr. 8:34 "Negarse a sí mismo y el llamado de Jesús." Luego del culto, y mientras yo guardaba mi guitarra en su estuche, Araceli (10) (foto) se me acercó, con lágrimas y profunda convicción diciendo: "Pastor, mamá le contó sobre mi situación?" Le dije que sí. "Bien, sé que soy pecadora, he pecado contra Dios en gran manera y sé que no tengo a Cristo ni la salvación." Le expliqué que "orar" no la iba a salvar, pero sí Cristo. Agachó su cabeza y clamó al Señor, pidiendo perdón por sus pecados y rogando ayuda para las diversas pruebas que enfrentaría en la semana. Luego de orar, llamó a su mamá y lloró pidiendo perdón sobre sus hombros. Regresó a su casa llorando todo el camino y pidió perdón a su papá y a su hermanita. Alabado sea el Señor! El es bueno. Araceli está siendo discipulada y disfruta memorizar versículos en la semana. Oren por su padre (Miguel) que pueda llegar a Cristo. Dios es bueno y soberano, siempre!

Bautismo de Victor - Victor's Baptism

Bautismo en el río - Baptism at the River

Tuvimos el gozo de participar del Bautismo de Victor González (Tato) - We enjoyed the fellowship and the baptism of Victor (Tato)