New series of May: Miracles

May 2
It's not too late!
Speaker: Sergio Handal

May 9
I don't know where to go!
Speaker: Sergio Handal

May 16
I don't have a promising future!
Speaker: Sergio Handal

May 23
Starting all over again
Speaker: Oscar Gutierrez

May 30
The miracle has to be today!
Speaker: Sergio Handal

Great opportunities ahead!

Once again we surpassed the 200 people in attendance to our weekend service. Great oppostunitiea ahead: this is what we can clearly see in the future. Our church is in a growth stage and lass weekend we started our services at the Presidente Intercontinental Hotel in San Pedro.

It was 9:00am and everybody was full of excitement. Musicians, technicians and volunteers, we all added up our energy and enthusiasm to prepare every little detail. The new meeting place is almost 3 times larger than our previous one. Despite this, it seemed a small place to receive all the people from both of our services. Now they're all combined in one service at 12:00pm. More than 200 people including children came. The kids have now been split into 2 groups that separate kids from 3-5 years old and 0-3 year-olders. This allow us to have more specialized programs for each group.

At 12:00pm the rows were being quickly filled and we had a lot of first-time visitors. Our strategy has been to connect these new visitors to a small group if their desire is to get to know God in a more personal way. The message inspired everyone to live Fearless at a time where insecurity is taking over the city. We were taught that we can have hope because we can trust and pray to God instead of worrying.

The following weeks and months are critical. We believe we can have 2 services on the weekend. We had, indeed, 80% of occupancy and therefoe need to be thinking about more choices for people. Your prayers are always welcome because we have a lot of work ahead of us!

Images of our new place

Coffee break

During the message

We had over 200 people in attendance

Before the service

Praying

Generous fundraiser

One of the things that can test our hearts more than anything else is how we use our money. Jesus was very straightforward by saying: "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also". At our young church, we had the opportunity to take this principle to practice by generously giving to a vision greater than ourselves: to make a disciple of every non-believer.

For the first time in the history of our church we asked our members to participate in our annual project called Vision 2010. Our goal was to raise $26,000. Being still a small church, God proved faithful as we engaged in this 'entrepreneurial risk'. Indeed, through very generous and faithful hearts He provided almost $29,000 in pledges.

These pledges will be coming in all throughout the year and they will be useful for moving to our new meeting place, for paying the rent there, for improvements in our sound systems as well as visual equipment, cases and the like.

While many could question our strategy, we are willing to take this kind of risks because there is a city of 4 million people who desperately needs hope and that needs to know this God whom you and I know. With no doubt, we are in the greatest business we could be in: the business of bringing people to Christ. Therefore, we will spend every resource trying to turn people who are far away from God into his disciples and followers.

These are some important things you can pray for:

• Faithfulness from our members to fulfill what they've pledged
• Grace before the people at the new facility
• That new people may be addes to our small groups

Interview with Javier Morones

Javier is an enthusiastic and dedicated young man. He's a student at the Tec of Monterrey and he's an active part of the church's college ministry. He also plays in our church's band and he's just a great example of someone whose life God is changing and will continue to do so. Javier has been in our church only 3 months...

1- How did you end up coming to our church?

I started attending church because of the influence of Mark and Macie Gonzalez. They are part of the short-mission team that pastor Rodger brought from Texas in January. I met them at Tec and I spent a lot of time with them that week. I wasn't a christian then but I became really interested in knowing these guys that made such a long trip just to talk to students about God. One of those days, Macie asked me if she could pray for my problems and it wans't until then that I realized what was missing in my life... Macie's prayer showed me that her faith in God gave her hope and that was exactly what I was missing. I wanted to feel what she was experiencing and that's why I accepted their invitation to Great Commission Church.

2- How do you feel now?

Very happy and fortunate. My encounter with God has allowed me to fix many aspects of my life where I was having trouble. Besides, it has allowed me to become a happier person and a more whole one. Addiotionally, I've met a lot of people who have made me feel accepted and loved.

3- How did you realize you are on your way to Heaven?

It took me some time but after being involved in two small group meetings, I finally made the decision to believe that Jesus really came to die to save me and I prayed. I talked to God and I let him come into my life. He's changed it in such a way that I understood that I cannot go far away from Him and that through His Son I could have eternal life with him.

4- How do you see yourself 5 years from now?

I see myself as a fulflled person, a true example of life for those around me. A succesful man and with God's help, a leader like the ones who now teach me how to live and grow to become more like Jesus.

5- What are you currently involved in?

Right now, I'm involved with the music ministry, I sing on the weekend services as part of the band. It's something I enjoy very much and makes me feel happy because I'm helping people sing to God and be closer to Him. This is exactly how I feel, whenever I sing.

We are starting a new series on Sunday at a new location:

Date: Sunday, April 18, 2010
Time: 12:00pm - 1:20pm
Location: Hotel Presidente Intercontinental
Street: José Vasconcelos # 300 (Esquina con Lázaro Cárdenas)
City/Town: San Pedro, Mexico

We can't wait to have you with us!

New location: April 18th

It is official now. On April 18, we will move to larger location. We've already signed our contract with the Intercontinental Hotel in San Pedro. This shall be our new meeting place for our weekend services.

We are all very excited about this. We outgrew our current location about three or four months ago and it's time fow some change. This new room has space for 350 people whereas our current one can only fit around 90 people. So you can see the difference is important. We think it matches perfectly with this year's goal to have 300 people attending our weekly services.


As part of our strategy, we will go back to having one single service at 12:00pm instead of two. This will encourage people as we all worship together and everybody gets a chance to know each other. We hope it will not take long before we break it down to two services again. Hopefully, we'll be able to do so by September when we have our annual massive outreach program.

We encourage you to pray for us. This change involves a step of faith in trusting God He'll provide for music and sound equipment and many other related expenses. But we trust God, and we know that when He asks us to move, He'll bring in all sorts of blessings.