Christmas in Covina

This past December we partnered with Christ First Espanol in Covina to host a “Christmas in Covina Espanol” outreach. Joseph meets regularly with Pastor Marco to plan and design evangelism outreaches. 

The outreach had a drama/comedy skit “What if Jesus was never born?” that comprised of comedy and a gospel presentation. Pastor Marco also shared the gospel and we saw 10 people come to Christ!  One of the ladies that came to Christ was the mother of the stage manager (Julie) who serves on the outreach team.  Julie was so excited to see her mama come to know Jesus!

Please pray for our next outreach near Valentines in February focused on Friendships.

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Church Planting Network Celebration

This Christmas we also had a great time celebrating with the Church Planting network that Joseph helped form.  There are now 3 churches in the network! Solid Rock Church, Salvo Por Gracia (a bilingual Spanish speaking church) and First Love Church (a church that meets on the Claremont Colleges reaching college students with the gospel).

We also rejoiced in the new members of the network who desire to plant churches in the future! Stiven is a pastoral resident who will plant another church in the near future. He is also a seminary student at Gateway Seminary.  Hugo is from Salvo Por Gracia and he desires to plant another bilingual Spanish speaking church.

We are so grateful for God’s blessing us to multiply churches that will reach   different people groups with the Gospel!

Family Update!

Another huge milestone for our family this December was the graduation of our oldest boy, Luke! He graduated in Business Finance from Cal Poly Pomona!  We are so proud of him and all his hard work the past 4 years and are excited for the plans the Lord has in store for him and his future.  It feels like just yesterday we were sending our firstborn to college—it is such a reminder to treasure the moments.

Thank you for your prayers for Joseph’s health—he is doing amazing, and his latest test showed the cancer as undetectable—Praise God! Thank you also so much for your continual prayers for us and the ministry here in Los Angeles.  We are truly grateful for your prayers.