I am back!!!!!

After spending my summer in my city Maracaibo, I came
back to Mérida on September 13th to receive my new stint team.

The students were excited to meet the new team and they joined me at the airport, but due to the weather the team came to another airport.
This new team is going to have six people, that means a bigger team, we´ll see what happens!!!!. In order of the picture we have Ivan, Sarah, Eben, Amanda, Chelsea and me.


Our activities in campus has not started yet, we are going to start on October the 1st so meanwhile, we are praying, planning, getting used to the city and some of us learning Spanish.


Please join us in prayer:

• That God would guide our planning.

• For Wisdom.
  
• For the health of the team.
  
• That they can communicate in Spanish.

Our leaders:

Last February 13th we had a special meeting with our student leaders, who were committed to help us this past semester.
Well the students leaders are the ones who help us with some decisions, they also give new ideas for ministry.
We meet once a week with them, and this group is also a place were they can grow in leadership and also learn how ministry works, etc.

So now, that their commitment is over, our idea is to challenge them to move forward by leading a Bible study and doing discipleship. Some of these leaders are staying on the team with us, so that they can teach the new students joining this team. So in this special meeting we thanked all of them and encouraged them, we played some games and had fun.




Kelly Maldonado:

One of these leaders is Kelly Maldonado, who I talked to let her know that we wanted to encourage her to lead a Bible study and continue with the discipleship with the girls that she had. We really would prefer her to stay in the team working closer with us.

As I was explaining to her our ideas about her, she told me that the idea of leaving the team made her sad, but she really wants to help the ministry and that she doesn´t need to be on the team to do so, ¨I learned a lot on this team so I want others to learn too,¨ she said. Amazing!! She told me that she was going to be available to help us.

Besides that she shared with me about the discipleship that she is having with two girls. This was kind of funny because sometimes when she wanted to encourage them from the Bible but she couldn´t find the book in the Bible and the girls usually said is before this or that book.
She also told me "God is great," when these girls asked me a question that I have never thought about, He gives the answer to me so I can help them!!
I really love these girls she continued, and more than being a discipler she wants to be their friend, ¨I am just learning how to do that. I have no clue how to do it but I am trusting God for that,¨ she concluded.
Personally Kelly encourages me to trust God and share with other girls His love, I am so happy to see a girl loving and trusting in this way, I just can praise the Lord for her!!

This month:

This month our ministry is focusing more on prayer, getting closer to God and having an intimate relationship with him. To do this we are having a weekly prayer time with the students. Our goal is that God can speak to us as a movement and guide our path. We are also praying that our students will make God the number 1 priority in their life.








We also are preparing ourselves for the annual national conference, ¨Solo Uno¨ (only one). This conference is based on Psalms 27:4

¨One thing I ask from the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.¨

The aim of this conference is to go back to our first love: God, to enjoy devotional times and to have a hungry heart for the Lord.
At this conference we will have students from all over our country so we are really excited about this. I would really like for you to join us in prayer. Here are some prayer request:

Our ministry:

• That God unify our hearts
• That God will guide our decisions
• That God give us wisdom
• That God break our hearts and give us a desire for his word and his will
• That God prepare our students´ hearts for the conference, so they can be open to hear his voice
• That we can have 50 students from Mérida at the conference
• That God provide students with ideas to raise financial support to go to the conference.