Chad and Fabiola
Thursday, September 1, 2011
First time on TV
Chad and Fabiola
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Many Hands Make LIGHT work

We have had three amazing interns this summer that sacrificially gave their all so that our church plant, Fuente para las Naciones, could continue growing and maturing. We have also had perfectly timed phone calls, emails, and visits from friends and family that have encouraged us. We are continually thrilled to see how more and more of the individuals at Fuente are stepping up and taking responsibility. Many hands make light work. In fact, as we come together in unity all across this globe, many hands make LIGHT work – where God’s glory and presence is shown and can be known in the darkest areas.
Updates
Reaching Out To Help Pimps & Prostitutes

Being asked by a church 5 times our size to help them and train them in children’s ministry is quite a compliment to what we do. We ran an afternoon vacation bible school (VBS) for this church as part of an open air church service for the community. The VBS was planned by our team and then executed by a combination of our church and their church. It was great for our church to join in and serve and catch the vision of working in unity for the Kingdom of God and not just focusing on our needs as a local church. There were probably 200- 300 people out for the service that day.


We received a phone call late one night to the excited voice of Abraham. He was saying that he just got word of a church building that was for rent and thought we should check it out. (As you know we have been praying about a building for a very long time now.) Great ownership and fantastic enthusiasm on Abraham’s part to take the initiative. The following day we made our way over to see the building and hear about the price and arrangement. The price was actually reasonable, but we as a church still cannot cover even that expense on our own. This did, however, prove to be a wonderful challenge area and rallying point for us to bring back to the congregation. (The building unfortunately is also too far – since over half of our congregation walks to church it would need to be within walking distance to continue reaching the community where we have planted this church.)
This visit to the ‘potential’ church location stirred us all up and realizing we didn’t have enough money or even leaders to really fulfill what we believe God wants us to do here in this city moved us to action. We called a special meeting and during that meeting Graciela stepped up to pray and fast on a regular basis so that we can see revival in this community – a growing burden on her heart. Erica and Nancy stepped up without being asked or prompted to lead the High School and College Aged ministry. Merced agreed to meet with me in a more rigorous discipleship relationship to move into more of a teaching role.
Please Pray With Us
School Supplies Outreach
We are blessed to have received donated school supplies from Separated for Christ Ministries and plan on distributing those next week to those most in need in our community.
We are praying that this will open up new relationship so that we can share the Good News in word and deed with more families in this community. We are also shooting for this to be a church run ministry (volunteers from the church) and not something that we do by ourselves.
Wolyn Family Vacation
We have not had a true – do nothing/be with nobody – vacation since moving to Los Angeles two years ago. We will be staying at a beach house that somebody has given us to use so that we can recharge and keep running to win this race that God has given us.
Pray that our time would be truly restful and we would create memories as a family that would last a lifetime.
Family Camp - September 3-5 (Labor Day Weekend)
There are 80 of us heading up to the mountain to enjoy some time away from the city as families and as a church family. We are planning four teaching times, powerful worship as a church and some hard hitting Christian movies in addition to tons of fun and relaxation that will take place.
Pray with us for unity and powerful ministry times.
Derek Cardwell visits from the Philippines - September 6-11
We are so excited and honored to have long time missionary Derek and his family come and spend close to a week with us. They will be ministering to our church on three different evenings and we hope to be able to minister to them in a powerful and real way as well.
We are praying that our congregation will grow more passionate and go deeper in the things of God as a result of what God does through this time. We are also praying that our congregation gets stirred up for world missions and falls in love with the nations of the world beyond their comfort zone.
The Workers Are Few….
We have implemented a rotation of assistant teachers to help provide all the parents that regularly attend the church meetings an opportunity to see and learn what ministry to their children looks like.
Pray with us that the parents would catch the vision, take ownership and have passion to serve as Sunday school teachers and teacher’s assistant in the various age groups.
Follow-up to Sport’s Camp
We have a lot of homes to visit!
Please pray for God’s favor and soft and hungry hearts as we follow-up on the children and their families that came out to the Sport’s Camp we had at the beginning of this month.
First Day of School
Our son, Justice, is on his way to Preschool starting the beginning of September. Rebecca is starting first grade at a new school. This means for the first time since Rebecca was born we’ll have half a day with no little people in the house --- well except for Tuesdays and Wednesdays when we have Bible studies in the mornings and the mothers bring their kids.
Please pray for our family in this time of transition. It is exciting, but always a little hard to move to the next stage. We’re praying they will both do well and make really good friendships that honor God.
Thank you for folding your hands with us in prayer – many hands makes LIGHT work,
Chad & Fabiola
Monday, August 1, 2011
Identity: Who are you? Whose are you?
Chad & Fabiola
Friday, July 15, 2011
Go "It's Time!"

We are moving forward – forcefully laying hold of the promised land God has called us to as we draw more and more to join us. We have had a fabulous time serving with our church this month. People are stepping up during church services, outreaches, and summer camps to serve – and we’re only partially through the summer. Thank you so much for reading, rejoicing and praying for us as we continue to commit ourselves to reaching and raising-up those that are lost in darkness in this hurting place called South Central Los Angeles.

See what happened - in part at least - by the numbers.....

Chad sharing at WOW Jam




Pictured below
Summer Camp [4th – 6th Grade Camp]

We had a one day praise dance and singing workshop that really got some of our youth excited about engaging in worship in a fun and meaningful way.


As a result of the phone calls and visits we made following up on the many people that came out to the WOW Jam we had Stephan show up to our Sunday morning worship service. Stephan is an African American man who recommitted his life to Jesus and who we baptized at WOW Jam. Fortunately we were prepared with bilingual worship since the youth have been asking to sing more of the songs in English. I (Chad) then quickly adapted my message so that I could preach in English and Fabiola translated everything in Spanish. The overall response was positive and at the end Stephan testified to how God had been moving on him and challenging him this week and even woke him up telling him to go to 50th & San Pedro (the corner where we meet for church services).
Please pray with us that Stephan will return this Sunday. We plan to have an English Bible study on Sunday mornings for him and others that have shown an interest.
The Sunday after WOW Jam we had a fantastic Sunday worship service and a meal together that was organized very well by the ladies of the church...a continuation of their service the day prior at WOW Jam.
Please Pray With Us
·Two More Weeks of Summer Camps
Jr. High Camp July 17 -22
Counselors: Sheila, Garnett & Norma
Youth: Flor, Sol Angel, Liliana, Rocio
High School Camp July 24 -29
Youth: Alexis
·First English Service (see above)
10 am on Sundays
Starting Sunday July 17th
·Unity in the Park
Sunday, July 31
There is a burning in my heart to see a greater movement of the Church unified in our community. I have spoken to various churches and pastors without much fruit – until now….another Hispanic church (mostly Guatemalan) located about 3 blocks from us has invited us to work together with them to put on an outdoor church service for the community. Please pray that this would foster greater unity and much fruit in new lives coming to the Lord.
·Sport’s Camp
Monday – Friday, August 1- 5
This was probably our most fruitful event last year so we’re super excited to put it on again!!! It provides quality sport’s instruction with a very relevant and quality Bible teaching – including songs and dance, memory verses and more. It runs every day for a week from 8:00 – 12:15pm.
·Donations of Instruments
We have been working on grant application through music stores here locally and are constantly looking for guitars (electric or acoustic), basses, keyboards, drums, along with all the sound equipment needed for performance to enable us to reach more youth and adults with our music classes.
We are serving the community in Christ’s love with your help.
Thank you,
Chad & Fabiola
Friday, July 1, 2011
Hundreds of Homes
Chad & Fabiola
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Blind & Shortchanged

Nelli has three children under the age of five and an alcoholic, drug abusing husband who is currently in prison. She shared how she feels so shortchanged by the life she has lived so far…missing out on what is really good. “There is so much more to life that I have never known. I want my kids to have this life that you are living.” Just to be clear she is talking about a deep peace, love, joy and hope that come through knowing Jesus. Nelli and her family have been living in black and white – actually just black, while God longs that we all live in full color. Nelli, like so many people in this neighborhood, have been locked into a dark box of lies, blinded spiritually by the things their ancestors and culture have taught them and oppressed both spiritually and physically. Sound extreme – it is! The darkness here is something even the blind can sense. She recognizes that she has not been living life to the fullest. Her heart yearns to know her Maker and live according to His plans. We proclaim that Jesus is the only One who can rescue us from this darkness and bring us into everlasting life. Please keep Nelli and her family in your prayers as she continues to press in to the things of God more and more.
Psalms 119:18

“The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and can’t understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.” (1 Cor. 2:14) We thank God for answering our prayers and allowing the Holy Spirit to illuminate and direct Salvador’s way.

·Early morning prayer times with the guys
·A praise & worship time in our cabin during free time
·Great conversations – about so many things
·An early morning hike and time to reflect on God’s goodness and grandeur
·A time where one of the guys began to share his burdens and the other guys were able to listen and counsel him with little help by me.

Please Pray With Us
WOW Jam - Saturday, June 25
Our church is sponsoring/hosting this huge outreach crusade again this year. We’ve been getting the word out to the community for the last couple weeks. Last year we attracted 4,000 people. We hope for even more (praying for 7,000) people this year so more can hear the Good News. We have been working hard to train everyone in our church in the basics of evangelism, follow-up and praying with people so that during the event and at the altar call we can have our whole church activated and helping bring new people into the Kingdom of God.

This post WOW Jam service has the potential to really help add more people to our congregation. If even 1% of the crowd came out that would be 40 new people based on last year’s numbers. We pray that we would be ready and that the ministry would be done by those that are being equipped for the ministry and not just our family.
Summer Camps
Please pray for our counselors and campers this summer:
1st – 3rd Grade Camp
June 28 – July 1
Counselors: Norma, Nate, Graciela, Faustina
Children: Stephanie, Valerie, Leslie, Michelle, Araceli, Brandon, Alan and Luis
4th – 6th Grade Camp
July 3-8
Counselors: Misty and Nate
Children: Jennifer, Martin, David, Michael
Jr. High Camp
July 17 -22
Counselor: Sheila
Youth: Flor, Sol Angel, Liliana,
High School Camp
July 24 -29
Youth: Alexis
Thank you for your partnership. Your prayers and financial support to this ministry is literally allowing people to come out of spiritual darkness and bondage and see the light for the first time.
Rejoicing together with you and the angels,
Chad & Fabiola