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Mario and Seily Lara |
El Salvador |
Mario is a native of San Salvador, El Salvador. He is part of a two man team that is currently working in Cuidad Real, near Santa Ana, El Salvador. Santa Ana is the 2nd largest city in El Salvador. He is a graduate of Baxter Institute. After serious health problem and a kidney replacement in 2008, Mario has recovered nicely and continues to work diligently for the Master.
Email Mario Lara at mariocruzlarahemandez
Mar
3
I send you all Greetings filled with the wonderful love of Jesus Christ. Our prayer is that He blesses you all with peace, joy, and love.
DECEMBER 2009- Ivan Martinez and his family have finished their missions here and they come back to Honduras. The whole church last Sunday of the year had a “Community Dinner”, where some church members gave some gifts recognizing to Ivan his family for their work done here in City Real. The whole church showed how much love them and shown them that their efforts were not in vain.
JANUARY 2010- New Year and *New Plans
*Seily and I begun working with “Youth Group”. This group was under leadership of Ivan Martinez. This month we had a activity just across the street from a member of group, and we were invited some the neighbours. Every Saturday we will are meeting in the church building, young´s houses, on the streets.
*So, I begun the Bible Studie at the Church. Every Thursday I am teaching the book of “Colossians”. This is my first time that I am teaching this book and it is great blessing to me, and I hope that to the church too.
My Schedule:
Monday: Take rest, and spend time with my wife and Geovanni.
Tursday: Leading the “Day of Pray and Praise to God”.
Wenesday: Helping in the meeting in the house of our brothers
Thursday: Teaching the Bible Studie to the Church
Fridays: Meeting with Preachers of Sixteen Churches to work and help us to preach the gospel
Saturday: Leading the Youth Group
Sunday: Worship where I am preaching or teaching, and some times singing
Sunday afternoon: We have a meeting of Ladies Group, Leaders (Mens), Marriages, and with the whole family
The last activies:
On Sunday 31st we had the meeting to marriages, and we are discusing the movie “A Fire Proof”; I was taking and given four purpose to live day by day about the movie.
On Sunday 1st of Frebuary we begun with *the dream to have our building church with just a budgest of $3000, just to do the walls to close our property. We hope to have the meeting there a soon as posible. First of all we were cleaning the area where we want the walls.
On Sunday 7th We had a special meeting, I was preaching about “The plans that God have us” Jeremiah 29:11. Afeter our worship we let us to pray and bless the place wehere we want to build.
This day was really blessed to see the children, youngs, adults, a woman has nine months pregnant, handicaps and elderly poeple, and we had a hot sunny day about 95°F. We want to remind you that we need a builiding to meet in, if you can help or if a congregation or individual are interested in helping us reach this goal please let me know.
I would like you pray for our nations becasue we need more work to preach the gospel of salvations, many people are dying every day, and the number of homicides in our coutry has risen.
So, I ask your prayer about my needs. I am so happy because God is good always, my health is sood good, my wife is helping me and Geovanni is a blessing to me. So, the church is doing well. Just, I would like to share about a little worry about our budgest how family.
Jan
22
Greetings in Christ our beloved brothers and sister,
We can all praise our Lord and Father in Heaven for His love and many blessings as we strive each day to walk according to His will. Thank you for your continued love, support, prayers to help men and women who are hungering and thirst for righteousness.
Fourth aniversary 2009 has been a really blessed for the church here in “City Real” Santa Ana, El Salvador. Since January to December we have had 29 baptisms. We are so glad because the church has started again to grow. The attendance is increasing and now we are gathering about 90 people every Sunday. This encourage us a lot since in the few past the attendance was very low, but now the church is willing to invite their friends and family to the worship and the several activities we have had. We don´t have enough space, and we need to move another place.
To reach more people were some seminars for couples and we have invited many friends to come and they have liked the way they have heard the message and some of them have stayed. So, we had Evangelistic Campaigns, Community Dinner at Park, and small group at house, Knocking on the doors our neighborhood, Biblical Studies.
The meeting in the house of our brothers have given us many results and several families are attending this small group at “La Reina”, in this place living families have a few possesions, for example some of them don´t have water, electricity, houses, education, jobs, etc., but they have hope, faith, love and salvation in Jesus
We shared with brothers from Una Church of Christ our plans and dreams about to have our own building where the church can congregate. They were praying for it. In the pictures you can see the place where we will want to build. We already have US$ 3,000 that the church here was been able to raise. If you could help us that would be wonderful, or if you know about somebody who would be interested in helping us with this project please let me know. We need a wisdom and some ideas to build.
My personal job
In City Rreal I am working with the leadership to give some responsabilities to preach, teach, sing and pray. Every Tuesday I have the blessing to lead “Day of Singing and Prayer”, and I am visiting, encouraging, preaching, teaching and doing something to the Kingdom of God. So, I was teaching in the Bible Shcool of San Salvador the Capitol of El Salvador, where I had 40 students. Classes taught were for the Basic Year; Chronology of the Bible and History and Geography of the Bible. Also, I have meeting with the leaders of 16 churches, and we are working to have many different activities, for example in November 8th we were praising together and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. So, I am a member of the Committed to do The National Conferences to Leaders of Churches of Christs. The same way I am the Vice President of the Asocciation of Kidney Transplant , and I am visiting to patients will be have received a kidney to pray and said positives words.
Our Supporters
By God’s generosity, we have been blessed to have met all of our annual
expenses during the last year including your help to repair our car, help to buy some medicines, and help to pay the surgery of kidney transplant. We sincerely thank you for continuing to be partners and supporting the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Please keep us in your prayers, and pray for our Country because the number of homicides has rirsen butcher.
Specials Needs: Sunday School materials, Resources to evangelize (pamphlets), Have our own building, Resources for the families of poores (Scholarships and a program of “Beans and Rices”). So, We would like to get a Projector (new or that is second hand).
We continue praying for all our brothers and sister of Maple Hill, and your Country.
God has assisted us and he is good all the time. Thank your Lord!
For His Cross,
Mario&Seily Lara
Nov
6
I constantly praying for you, tha our God may count you worthy of His calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness, and the work of the faith with power. I am praying for you, Elane, and all brothers and sister of Maple Hill Church of Christ. Well, I apologize because you asked about the sermon that I had to preach…and I talked “A church nike” based in Romans 8.37 say: “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. The expression we are more than conquerors is a traduction of Greek “hupernikomen”. These expression are combined huper (huper) and nikomen the meaning is: that we have the victory). I am so sorry if is dicult read my English. I would like if you see the cd with the reports? So, if you are OK? How is your daugther, Elane and all members of Maple Hill?.
About me, I can say that I am fine. The last appoint was satisfactory, just a result of the test showed a little alteration with my liver, but We need to hope the next appointment to know if I am OK. Seily, is so happy to help me. She is finishing his Thesis in the University. About Geovanni the Seily´s son, he is very good and every day growing. About him we had a process to adoption, please pray for it.
I want to ask special petition, if is possible. It is if we get the magic boxes to the children of El Salvador? The last year we didn´t to get it.
So, I want to ask special petition: Pray for our country because every day the shadow of the darkness is affecting many souls.
Seily, say hello and that appreciate you.
May God bless you!
in Jesus,
Mario Lara
PD: I am working to share the next report.
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“known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed;sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything” 2 Corinthians 6 :9-10
Jun
23
From 1st of February to 31st of March 2009