We are thankful for...

Every Thanksgiving we have a tradition at our church to gather for a potluck meal and share testimonies and words of thanks to God and one another.  It is a beautiful time of fellowship and a powerful moment to count our blessings. What God has done and is doing is truly awe inspiring – from the smallest to largest detail. 

In that spirit, this month we wanted to list out some of the things we are thankful for:

-A unified family that loves one another and is committed to serve and minister together.

-A church we got to start that is growing in its understanding and application of what it means to give their lives fully over to Jesus.

-The hundreds of people (like you) that are praying and supporting us financially and cheering us on from the sidelines all over the world. 

-Eight salvations and six baptisms this year so far.

-Our house that gives us space to be a family and recharge our battery to be able to minister more effectively.

-Our health and safety, especially because where we minister there are so many health and safety concerns.

-New life! One of our personal biggest thanks to God is for our third child (yes, Fabiola is pregnant!), whom we expect to join us in March.  J

-Great volunteers that come and help us throughout the year. Some help regularly with things like our tutoring ministry and others come and visit and lend a helping hand just once.  We are grateful for every single person that has linked arms with us to expand God’s Kingdom here in Los Angeles. 

-Our days of prayer and fasting that we hold at the church semi-regularly that press us in closer to God.

-A healthy transition as the other missionaries who were helping us earlier moved on to help in other ministries.

-Nancy and Erika whom we have empowered as leaders from within our church to take greater responsibility in working with the youth and serve in other areas of the church.

-Angel, who was saved and baptized last year and now is going through our leadership program and growing as a worship leader.

-For being located in a strategic location at the center of our community in front of a large park where we are able to interact with, serve and share Jesus with so many people with deep needs. 

-Violent crime is down in the neighborhood where we are ministering.

-Favor with key community, business and government leaders.

-Our financial support base which has been growing up to where it needs to be for us to be fully provided for as missionaries.  We have almost doubled since the start of the year when we were only at 45% (currently we are at 88%).  Please pray for us to reach that 100% goal before the end of the year.

 

We are excited about our church hosting a large community outreach the Sunday before Thanksgiving where we will be inviting the community to hear about Jesus and eat lots of food in celebration of all that God is and all that He has done for us. 

Thank you for your love and partnership in empowering people to be all that they can be in Christ!

Chad & Fabiola Wolyn