This last month, more than usual, we have been meeting one-on-one with
individuals and challenging them to press-in to God more. Our family has been
called by God to come to Los Angeles to build His church. In our children's
last days of summer vacation we spent a lot of time building Lego’s together –
brick by brick wonderful creations emerged. Likewise, the way we
understand the church will be built, is ‘brick by brick’ or one life at a time.
We have been planning and dreaming together with the others in the church this
month encouraging them to ask God “How do you want me to build Your church?” It
is encouraging that personal intimacy with God, unity in the church and sharing
our faith keep coming up. The church will grow and be healthy as each
individual seeks to love and honor God and lives outwardly what God is doing
inwardly….this is how we build the church – one brick at a time.
Updates
High School Summer Camp
We sent out 5 of our core High
School students for a week of growing in God at camp. We were unable to be with them during the
week because of other responsibilities at the church, but they talked our ear
off on the way home of all the great things they learned, memories they made
and fun they had.
Marriage Conference: The Art of Marriage.
The church wants to do this same
conference again in early 2014 so they can invite their friends and family
out. We also are talking about inviting
some other churches to bless them with this material.
Please Pray with Us…
FL!P: Fuente Leadership Intern Program
Next month we launch our new intern/leadership training program where we will be strategically training-up leaders to flip the world upside down for Christ.
We will focus on three core areas: discipleship, accountability, training in ministry/leadership.
Please pray for God to hand pick the right cohort and powerful times
ministering to and ministering with this group.
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We were created to
worship God. September will also be the
launch of our newly revitalized worship and music training ministry. Both youth and adults will be coming together
to study the Bible and have a short hand’s on teaching on what praise and worship
area at a heart level. Then we will have
an hour training time where they are learning how to sing or play the
guitar. Lastly we will be putting all
this together and forming worship teams and eventually releasing these teams to
lead worship on Sunday mornings.
Pray that we would raise-up many people that would
have a heart of worship like King David to sing and lead other’s in to God’s
presence.
Youth Group
Our emerging youth
leaders Erika and Nancy are going back to Cal State Los Angeles soon and this
means we had to be creative with some of our youth activities since their
classes conflict with our mid-week service. One of our primary goals is to
empower them and let them grow in their leadership.
The change is giving us some great momentum and we ask
for your prayers for:
-Erika and Nancy to be able to balance their ministry,
home, work and school lives.
-That the youth group would continue to grow in:
(1) intimacy
with God,
(2) unity together and
(3) an ability to reach the other youth in the
community.
Family
Please continually lift up our family – our marriage
and children. Also pray for our
relationship with God to continually grow deeper. Rebecca enters 3rd grade and Justice 1st
grade this year.
With your help, brick-by-brick we
are building Christ’s church. Thank you
for your prayers and support and love!
Chad, Fabiola,
Rebecca and Justice
