FALL 2018
We hope you had a great Thanksgiving! We certainly are thankful for you
and your prayers and support for this ministry.
Updates
We had a great Thanksgiving week – with four different events. Our
newest event was caravanning 8 cars through South Los Angeles delivering 120
plates of food to the homeless living in the tent encampments. Many of the
youth in our church have done this type of ministry before, but for many of the
adults and children it was their first experience. Many commented on how their
heart was broken and eyes were opened to the humanity of each person we briefly
got to know.
Feeding the homeless.
Fabiola giving the welcome to one of our
Thanksgiving dinner outreaches at the church.
Some
of the graduates from our Evangel: School of Church Planting that Chad taught
at in October. In our
two Evangel Schools this year we had people from Canada, Hong Kong, Michigan,
Skid Row (Los Angeles), Fresno, Ontario (California), Nigeria, Malawi,
Tanzania, Huntington Park (California), Norwalk (California), Miami (Florida),
San Jacinta (California) and many from Los Angeles. Chad is now coaching several of these pastors
as they prepare to launch their new churches and ministries.
Men’s Retreat / September 2018
Women’s Retreat / October 2018
Fuente KIDS (our children’s ministry)
volunteers
Youth sharing testimonies after returning
from their youth camp. Some of our students help lead worship and were part of
the drama team.
Round Table Discussion: A special time of
sharing stories about race, privilege and immigration to bring greater understanding
and humanity to different people’s perspectives.
Our “Media Ministry” has been growing as
we train up more people to work with digital media, sound and running the
slides for our services.
One of our community groups studying the
Bible together.
Gospel Concert in the Park! We joined up
with another church in the community. We were responsible for giving the
message in Spanish. Unified we will be able to reach and impact more people and
see greater change in the community!
Christmas Toys Needed
Are you able to help us with our Toy Store? This annual event gives
families from our church and community the opportunity to come buy a gift or
two at deeply discounted prices (up to 75% off). This makes getting a special
gift for their children more attainable, but still allows for them to feel the
ownership and dignity of choosing and buying the gift themselves. There is a
real special feel as our church really makes the space festive and hospitable
and a group from our church does all the follow-up afterwards to help make a
deeper connection for these families.
We need 100+ toys
and gifts for boys and girls from 2 years – 18 years old. You can send or drop
off gifts, order them online and have them delivered directly to us or send
money and we’ll do the shopping. Please
have money or gifts to us by December 14th at the very latest.
If you are able to give towards
this need please send your gift to either to us personally or through our
church (note this is different than
our normal support giving sent to World Impact):
Chad and Fabiola Wolyn
2001
S. Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA
90007
or
Fuente para las Naciones
2001 S. Vermont Ave.
Los
Angeles, CA 90007
“Elves” busily wrapping gifts and parent’s shopping for toys and gifts
at last years Toy Store (most of the toys and “shopping” is out of this
picture’s frame).
Upcoming Events to keep in prayer:
December 15 Christmas Banquet
December 17 Fuente Toy Store
December 22 Youth Hike and Prayer for the City
January 9-15 Dominican Republic Mission Trip (see below
for more info)
January 19 Academy of Music and Worship starts
Other Prayer Requests
1. New church planters
Please pray for the following pastors/leaders we are
coaching:
- Bayas and Melody
- Geovany and Jessica
- Alex
- Manuel
- Mario
2. Rebecca @ High School
Our teenager, Rebecca, enters High School next year. Please
pray she would be accepted into the best school. We have public, charter and
private schools on our short list. Rebecca’s first choice is a private
Christian college-prep school…please pray
that we could get scholarships and be able to raise the extra funds for this to
become a reality.
3. Dominican Republic Trip
Please pray for our trip to the Dominican Republic to
support a missionary friend there. We have wanted to lead a youth group to the
DR for a mission’s trip and this opportunity has opened up for us to go and
“scout out the land” while helping minister in churches and community centers and
translate for a group from a partner church. The majority of this trip is paid for,
but we do need to raise $1,400 for our travel expenses. If you are able to give towards this need
please send your gift to either to us personally or through our church (note
this is different than our normal
support giving sent to World Impact):
2001 S. Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
or
Fuente para las Naciones
2001 S. Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Fuente KIDS (Children’s Ministry):
Where children learn the powerful truth of God.
Thank you so much for praying, giving and loving!
It’s amazing what we can do together when we follow Jesus’ example.
Chad, Fabiola, Rebecca, Justice and
Beniah
If
you want to send us a Christmas card / Personal contact info:
mail:
Chad and Fabiola Wolyn / 2001 S. Vermont Ave. / Los Angeles, CA 90007 / email: heart4thecity@gmail.com /
ph:
503 475-5548 (C) / web: heart4thecity.blogspot.com
Please
send regular financial support to: World Impact / 2001
S. Vermont Ave. / Los Angeles, CA 90007
(Please make check payable to “World Impact” and designate “WOLYN” on
the memo) OR You may also GIVE
ONLINE HERE. [giving address: https://my.worldimpact.org/default.aspx?page=3826&funds=6605]