Sharing with you some testimonies of January to March 2014
Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations; spare not: lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.
For thou shalt spread abroad on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and the reproach of thy widowhood shalt thou remember no more.
For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is thy redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
At GCE we have received this Word and believe it and are continuously marveled to see how the Lord accomplishes it!
We praise God that we can share this news with everyone who prays and walks with GCE and the CHE Mesoamerica Region. Please take a moment to read the following blessings received from January to March!
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In January, we were blessed to have the visit of the short term mission team from Bethany Bible Church, Phoenix AZ. Led by Pastor Brad Pellish, they were able to bring Bibles and medications worth several thousand dollars for the ministry and also some great encouragement! We were very thankful because our previous supplies were running low. The Lord always provides!
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The Mam Team of trainers in Guatemala baptized 18 people to begin 2014!
Below: What were these Mam villagers lining up for?
Food, clothing, handouts? No.
They brought their own ingredients to produce their own feed for their poultry projects as they had been taught by CHE trainers.
They were told that the mobile CHE grinder was in turn coming to their village of Los Mendez. Now they are able to produce more animal protein for their nutrition through their poultry projects. The investment of Mission Community Church in Gilbert AZ and the Christian Veterinary Mission among the Mam and Quiche teams is multiplying the end product of this project.
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Rancho la Paloma in Tecate B.C. Mexico hosted the first North Mexico Area CHE Council in January. Mexico Area Coordinator Pastor Jacob Sotelo and Raquel were blessed to have key people attending the meeting.
They presented how good stewardship is implemented and they also did CHE with Children Training of Trainers Seminar. How wonderful to have had partners present like 1Mission and Dr. Jody Collinge from Global CHE Network!
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In January, Dr. Hugo went to Georgetown, Texas to visit Drops of Grace to discuss more details about our partnership with CHE FIEMCA Nicaragua. Greg and Diane Bouchard kindly hosted Hugo. The Lord is equipping GCE through Drops of Grace with a third well drilling rig to bring water to needed communities in Nicaragua.
As we write this post the container is on a ship on it’s way to Nicaragua! The other two units, in Guatemala and Honduras, have been to put to good use with our partners Deer Creek Church and Littleton Bible Chapel, CO.
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Early February the short term missions team from Calvary United Methodist Church in Annapolis, Maryland, found the church at Monte Cristo looking like this below….
…the local CHEs had prepared the work site by removing the old broken roof.
After few days of intense work, visitors working alongside with locals were able to humbly and happily show the what they had accomplished together. The new steel roof structure will last longer. Praise be to God!
The teas were even able to spare time to go to visit the CHE Property to encourage and pray with us right there. Nelson, Bill and Dean together with Vitelio and Hugo (above).
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Jesus said…the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them!
Trainer Tania discipling CHE kids on how to use the picture booklets focusing on physical and spiritual needs to reach their friends. CHE FIEMCA team, our fellow servants in Nicaragua, pray together.
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(Above) The children of Chanxenil, a Mam CHE village singing along short term team members from Calvary Church, Muscatine, Iowa to praise God.
During the clinic in Chanxenil, Pastor and Trainer Florentin is being helped by Jacobo (Trainer Abel’s son). Second generation servants in the making! The future for GCE seems secured in God’s plans!
Volunteer Dr. Edgar—Dr. Hugo’s classmate—and Julie a short term volunteer, plus Gabriel Gomez kindly treat a young girl who got second grade burn on a foot (above). Praise to the Lord for having brought us to her in time.
Not enough room for everyone! Problem or challenge? (below).
The Calvary Church short term team joined the locals (below) to help advance their church facility project.
The farewell was heart touching for both visitors and locals as one Body in Christ! Calvary Church has been tirelessly blessing Guatemala since 1999!
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Psalm 144:13When our garners are full, affording all manner of store; and our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields; 14When our oxen are well laden; when there is no breaking in, and no going forth, and no outcry in our streets;
What are these people coming to? (above).
…..(below) trying to line up for vaccination and deparasiting of their animals was a challenge.
CHE teaches locals how to do it by themselves for long term impact (below).
(Below) Dr. Diane and Dr. Anna helping to teach.
(below) Mam CHE Trainer Cirilo. Adolfo Area Coordinator came from Honduras along with Trainer David to help. Almost nine thousand animals were treated, large and small!
This veterinary team came simultaneously with the construction crew from Mission Community Church in Arizona to continue the process at the CHE Training Center property. Now there are three concrete slabs ready to have the installation of the A-frame cabins to continue developing it.
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Our partner 1Mission, Phoenix, went to Nicaragua to the island of Ometepe to help in the beginning stage of the second house in CHE villages for the housing project 1Mission is funding hosted by GCE/CHE FIEMCA.
Our Area Coordinator, Roger Pavon, and CHE FIEMCA team are in charge of the continuation of the housing project. This time Argentina, widow and mother of seven children, is blessed to be the first one on the island benefitting from this project. She is just one among those who have met the 200 hours of community volunteer CHE service.
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On the Cuchumatanes range of Mountains, the villages Escapotzi and Vista Hermosa were blessed to welcome the local CHE team plus the STM Health Screening Team from Meadowbrook Baptist Church in Gadsden, Alabama. Now it is the local CHE Committee’s duty to follow up those screened patients for Diabetes and Hypertension.
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Also the AMSA Baylor University Texas short term missions team who have been coming to Guatemala for the last four years to bless the villages of Las Barrancas and La Victoria among the Mam. It was a privilege for locals and visitors to attend church together also.
Special thanks to Face to Face International for their ministry doing the stateside preparations
for our partner short term mission teams.
for our partner short term mission teams.
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We started this post sharing the Scripture on Isaiah 54. As you have heard the land lady of the place we rented for office for 12 years has requested us to turn her house back and the deadline is April 30.
Here (below) is what the lot of land we have been guided to rent looked like a month ago.
Below is what it looks like so far in preparation for the prefabricated structure and truck cargo boxes to help us keep our office goods protected and in use. Pray for funds to be provided and multiplied so we will be able to see the ministry continuously accomplished in GCE!
Praising God for His care and your support of GCE.
On behalf of the Board of Directors, the CHE Mesoamerica Region fellow servants
and the Gomez Family. Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, April of 2014.
