We are so grateful to have you in our life and excited to
share what God is doing now! Ten years ago,
we left our home and job to come live in the inner city of South Central Los
Angeles as missionaries with World Impact. This happened because of partners
like you and we are so grateful for all the prayers, financial support,
encouragement, and great friendships that have been a part of our journey!
When we started, we had two small children not even in
preschool yet and now Rebecca is in going to High School, Justice is entering 7th
grade and our youngest is entering Kindergarten. We came to Los Angeles as
missionaries to plant churches, to evangelize the lost and train up leaders… and
that is what we have done by God's grace. We've started a church from simply engaging
with our community and sharing the beautiful story of Jesus with people - letting
them know there is hope from their pain and despair. Our ministry has been
changing over the last few years as World Impact focuses more on empowering
urban leaders – so while we continue to be on the ground, pastoring and
involved in the community we are doing a lot more training, equipping and
empowering of other church leaders helping them be successful in ministry and
life.
As we look forward to what God will do in the coming years,
we’re excited that we are able to take a trip to Oregon and the Bay Area to
strengthen our support team, reconnect with many of our faithful partners, form
new friendships as well get some rest.
This will be our first time back ‘home’ in four years (and
only 2nd trip in 10 years!) We are excited to spend some time
visiting with as many friends and catch up and share about what God is doing in
Los Angeles. If you will be in Oregon
between June 21-July11 or in the Bay Area from July 12-July 15 and would like
to connect please let us know!
Our goal for this trip is to raise $1,200/month in new
or increased support. This would allow us to be fully funded and
be able to focus 100% of our energies on the mission!
We’ll then return home ready to minister again in all that
God has called us to do with World Impact in Los Angeles, which we believe is
plant more churches, invite many more people to know Jesus and continually
train and mentor more leaders. In fact, upon our return we will run 2 church
planting schools, 2 workshops helping churches receive ex-prisoners, officiate 2
QuinceaƱeras, travel to Wichita for a church planter catalyst training and
record a church planting workshop video in Spanish that will be used all over
the US and world to train new church planters (along with all the other 'normal' stuff)…all before starting our kids back
into school.
To make this trip possible to raise support to get fully
funded we need to raise special gifts to cover the cost of the trip. We're
projecting the cost to be about $1/mile (for gas, food and other expenses for
our 4-week trip). We’ll be logging nearly 5,000
miles for our trip this summer… Would
you consider “BUYING-SOME-MILES" to help fund a portion of this trip? We're
hoping to get all the funds in before we leave in the middle of June, so if you
can respond by then that would be great...
A gift of $50 would cover 50
miles, $100 would cover 100 miles, etc.
A gift of any amount will be
appreciated and help keep us moving forward in ministry… J
There are two ways to donate if you'd like to send a gift:
2.
Check: Write a check to World Impact and send it to the following address: 2001 S Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA
90007. Memo Line: “Wolyn Support
Trip”
Thanks for your partnership with us in ministry! We are looking forward to this next season of
ministry, and this trip will help launch us forward into God's plans for us. Please be praying for our safety and that
our time away from the city would be fruitful and provide a little rest and
renewed vision as well.
Chad, Fabiola, Rebecca, Justice and Beniah
Personal
contact info: mail: Chad & 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
UPDATE (Review)
We are celebrating 10 years as missionaries to the hardened
streets of South Central Los Angeles.
While we have been in Los Angeles we have:
Planted and continue to pastor a church amongst the poor, specifically Spanish-speaking immigrants (the church’s name is “Fuente”).
We have baptized over 50 people.
Missions and Church planting is a priority. We empower and train leaders so that together we can reach more people for Jesus transforming communities, people groups and nations. Since we started the church, we have faithfully given 20% of our budget to missions and church planting, regardless of our own need.
Run programs such as a job training & leadership development internships - of which we have trained 18 interns in ministry or job-related skills.
Organized and taught at 4 church planting schools. Which had teams from numerous countries, states and cities represented.
Coached 9 other pastors and leaders (and their teams) in helping them establish a new church or ministry.
Help lead/run 2 Urban Church Association’s (monthly meetings and regular connection for fellowship, resourcing and training for pastors).
Taught at Los Angeles Christian School, a mission-focused school giving a Christian education to children K-8 in the community.