Developing and discipling leaders brings passion and focus to Joseph in his ministry! Seeing leaders built up in their giftings and helping them excel as leaders with integrity is vital to reach others with the love of Jesus.  One of the joys Joseph has recently had is being able to continue to partner with Pastor Chad in Los Angeles.  He has been working with him as he develops and designs a discipleship pathway series to develop leaders in his church Fuente para las Naciones. Joseph and Pastor Chad have been meeting regularly to discuss multiple topics related to evangelism, discipleship, developing leaders, outreaches and planting more churches in Hispanic communities.  His desire is to build a Hispanic bilingual church planting network! 

Pastor Chad and his church recently went to the Dominican Republic for a mission trip.  This trip really helped inspire and invigorate potential leaders for the new church he desires to plant soon. Pastor Chad trained them in how to share their faith and give a testimony.

Please pray for future partnerships!  Joseph and Pastor Chad are continuing to discuss how to develop more leaders and utilizing Easter and Christmas outreaches to develop people within his church—to prepare them to share their faith during these natural church rhythms.

Joseph sharing via video, Dave Robinson (our director) teaching at the conference and a group picture of all the Church Movement staff together!

Recently our ministry, Cru Church Movements, had a national staff conference in San Antonio, Texas. It has been a blessing for Joseph to serve on the National Leadership Team within our ministry and as a National Field Director overseeing all the regional directors.  Because Joseph was recovering from his radiation treatments, we were unable to attend the conference, so he was asked to speak a couple times through video! 

He began the conference on video giving vision for the conference.  Our mission of:

 Picturing transformative, multiplying churches in every segment of the city that communicate and demonstrate the gospel to every person, so that every man, woman and child would know the gospel and experience the love of Jesus Christ. 

We desire to do this through connecting people to Jesus, Developing Missional Leaders, Multiplying the Church and Partnering to Serve Others.

Joseph also spoke and shared with the staff how to partner with churches, pastors and leaders.  How different churches land on the spectrum of partnerships and how to approach leaders.  He shared a tool he recently developed to use nationally as Cru partners with churches as we live out our vision in ministry.

This summer our daughter, Jessica, has the opportunity to go to North Africa with her school on a mission trip!  She will experience a new culture and create authentic connections with the local communities—share life stories, testimonies, connect with locals, and explore the city. Her heart is to learn about the culture and form relationships to share the love of Jesus to a country that has very few believers. Please be in prayer for her!

Thank you also so much for your continual prayers and financial support for us and the ministry here in Los Angeles.  We are truly grateful for each of you and are blessed.