Mario Tabor

Guatemala

When Desil Besias left to join his teammates in Colombia, he hand-picked Mario Tabor to be his replacement in Mixco, Guatemala. Maple Hill was excited to know that the soil Desil had started would continue to be cultivated through Mario’s efforts.

December 2009

DICIEMBRE
The wish of this congregation for you is grace and peace from our Lord Jesus Christ.
It is of much joy to inform you of our activities in this month, which the Lord helped us to do.
We had the privilege, while having a thanksgiving service at our sisters Maria Luisa and Alejandrina, widow of Gomez, for her son’s first year of life. Because of the time of the year, different activities were organized for children, which were of great blessing and uplifting, they had a contest on all they had learned during the trimester.
According to the program we made for this year, during this month, every week end we went to visit hospitals to pray for the sick and their families, and take them some coffee and bread. This we did after 10 p.m.
Such activity was motivational for our brothers, and being aware of spiritual and material needs in those places, we decided to continue with the commandment of James 1:27 the last weekend of each month. We ask your prayers so that the church may not faint in this purpose.
Also, the last Sunday of December, the ministers signed a pact of work with God. We send attached the work program for 2010, and pray to be able to apply it.
In Christ,
 Mario Tobar Dubón
 
 

Church of Christ work plan 2010
We will have a prayer book to write down petitions to have them in mind on prayer nights Fridays and in fasting
Every first Sunday of the month we will begin with prayer and fasting
- For new ministers
- For unity
- For projects
- Specific situations
- Book of prayer.
We will have printed cloths to remember fellowship principles
Do not criticize, do not condemn, do not complain, show sincere appreciation, smile, avoid discussions, be friendly, accept your mistakes (one per month.)

We will be ending the month with a pact. We’ll start February 28 with a pact with God, on march 28 with married couples, and the other months with the brothers, looking forward to stimulate fellowship.
We will organize a retreat for march 13 & 14
The Purpose driven life seminar will be given from January 18 until February 26 (every day). A certificate will be given to each one that finishes the seminar.
We’ll start Monday meetings for motivation looking forward at work and being ongoing. We’ll start Monday, march 1st.
The new work group will be formed by the following ministers: Marleny, Marto, Zonia, Telma, Mario, Mauricio and Freddy.
There will be another work group in charge of organizing all the activities that the ministers plan: Jaime, Douglas, Iris, Estuardo, Ernesto y Jorge Mario. We’ll call them “The Motor”.
In august we will be having as guests at our congregation 9 other congregations with the purpose of unity (approximately 1,500 brothers).
Having in mind the beautiful experience of sharing in hospitals, this year we will be putting to practice James 1:27’s commandment, the last Saturday of each month. One minister being in charge each month.
Taking advantage of traditions on the calendar, we want to turn them into opportunities to preach the gospel. Two ministers in charge of this.
With the purpose of evangelizing and planting the word of everlasting life, we will be organizing an evangelistic campaign in June 19 & 20 with the theme: The end of the world. Another campaign will be in October 16 & 17, with this theme: Heaven or Hell.
We will be having evangelistic house meetings starting
 March 6 in Satelite with Pu family
 April 10………………
 May 1 ………….
 June 5 ………..
 July 3 …………
 August 7 ……..
 September 4………..
 October 2 ………….
 November 6……..
 December 4 ……..
Being aware of the necessity, we also will be having a seminar for preachers and new preachers to prepare more brothers in this area. Sisters will also be invited to participate. The seminar will be given by an invited brother on April 17 & 18.
Wednesdays and Fridays will be prayer meetings throughout the year. Beginning Wednesday, March 3 and Friday, March 5.
The ministries of visitation, benevolence and evangelism will be on the go.
In Christ Jesus:
 Yoee Rodríguez and Zonia de Rodríguez.
 

Noviembre
Dear brother
Receive our Greetings in the Lord, from the Church of Christ in Lo de Coy, Mixco.
It is a pleasure for me to tell you about the work that is being done in the church here thanks to the blessing that you share with me.
In November I decided to strengthen the message that the church receives, by visiting the brothers in their homes, dividing my time among reinforcing the brothers and evangelistic work, using Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Thanks to God I was able to visit 12 homes. Working on Wednesdays and Saturdays, I was able to meet and evangelize: Juan Guillermo Gómez,  Julio Oroxon, Sebastiana Canel, Pedro Tambriz and Alexander Vásquez. I ask your prayers for them, so the Lord my give the growth of His Word in their hearts.
We had a thanksgiving service at the home of our sister Alba Marina widow of Martínez, because God protected the life of her grandson after falling from 20 meters. To God be the glory.
It was also of great joy for the church that young Luis Fernando Vásquez came to our worship service the first Sunday of November, since he was absent for health issues during a whole year.
With help from God and other brothers we were able to have a special activity in the home of our sister Norma Vásquez de Alonso, after finishing the study we gave her. We trust and hope in the Lord that this family may turn to the Lord.
In Christ Jesus,
Mario Tobar Dubon
 

Octubre
It is a great blessing to be able to greet you once more in the Lord, asking Him to always protect and bless you.
Thanks to God’s blessing, we were able to share on October 4th with different congregations a special worship service for unity among churches in Mixco. This activity was held in a park, and our children and teachers also had participation.
We want to share the news that in the Lord we have new brothers:
Brandon Santizo,15 years old was baptized on october 4,
Jaime Hernández, 60 years old, was baptized the 14, and
Paulino castellanos, 94years old was batized the 25th.
Please keep them in your prayers.
Our children had their Bible school season’s end, in which an exam was made to the congregation regarding what they had learned during the period of classes.
To maintain harmony and fellowship among the members, we had a recreational activity on the 18th; it was a great experience for children, young ones and adults.
It is also a pleasure to tell you that our ladies are active in their ministry; they had a special trip to an ecological park, and both single and married women participated, and some of the men helped to take care of children.
Having in mind the program for the year, the church visited the orphan’s center with children that are HIV positive. This was a memorable experience, and we were able to share benevolence with this center. All of the groups of our congregation participated.
By God’s blessing, we continue to study the evangelistic course with 6 people, and we are visiting and encouraging members in general, and giving follow up to those who where baptized with the “My first 40 days” course.
We always thank you because it is thanks to the Lord and your effort that this congregation is being blessed.
We already installed the gate from the side of the street, so now our children and our belongings are a little safer.
In Christ Jesus,
Your brother
Mario Tobar Dubón.

August 2009

Greetings in the love of the Lord from your brothers in Christ in Guatemala. In the month of august, here we remember and are thankful for the pure Gospel arrived here 50 years ago.
For this reason, we have been participating in the organization of a thanks giving worship service nation wide since a few months back, for this 50th anniversary on August 14 and 15th.  
Our congregation had the privilege to serve organizing parking, and our women were able to teach the children present.
We also organized a spiritual night of prayer with the youth group, which was of blessing for all, the 13th.
And with the ladies group we organized an evangelistic campaign the 1st, and all the ladies participated. For God’s glory, we had 6 visiting women with whom we shared the word of God, games, presents and snacks.
At the end of the month, both grown ups and children honored our sister Guadalupe, who is 87 years old and also sick, she was hospitalized for 2 weeks.
 
For now we are preparing the last campaign of the year: “Mixqueños para Cristo” (Mixcans for Christ), which will have as subject: “how to be a true chanpion”, since Mixco is called the land of champions. For this I have designed a daily work plan, accompanied by the members of the church to evangelize and invite neighbors, and that way grasp many different places.
In Christ Jesus,
Your Brother:
 
 
 
Mario Tobar Dubón

July 2009

Blessings for all of you brothers. May the peace of God reign in your hearts.
In the month of July we organized the church to go out in the streets near to the congregation to evangelize. Thanks to the Lord everyone was able to participate in this labor.
We were able to make 6 contacts for Bible study. I’m studying the 7-lessons evangelistc course with them, and it has been well received, and they are surprised for what they are learning from Scripture.
During this month I also prepared 2 conferences about virginity and the importance of marriage for the youth group. They are also working for the unity of the group and are active in evangelism. With the ladies group I’m also teaching workshops so they can be prepared to be good women, mothers, wives and leaders, acording to Scripture.
We also gave baptism certificates to our new brothers that were baptized in the second trimester of this year.
 
Miraculously we received 3 boxes of printed materials for children from our brothers in Wichita Falls. They have proven to be of great help and blessing for our teachers that work with the little ones. (Photos). We also requested from their catalog some evangelistic tracts, but we haven’t received answer if they will be sending them or not.
 
In Christ Jesus,
Your Brother,
 
 
Mario Tobar Dubón

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