Let your shine light
“I just wanted you to know how grateful I am for all the support you are giving to Adriana as she is part of the restoration group. She not only told me about it, but I can notice the bond there is between her and her mentor and how deeply it is affecting her life” said the pastor’s wife as she greeted me at a Bible’s study meeting.
I felt so blessed to hear those words. Only because God has brought to us incredible volunteers as Marizabel who lead the Post Abortion restoration groups at Centro de Vida. Marizabel is truly a woman who looks to honor
God with her life. By her example of fire for God she is being used to help women who have experienced abortions become the women God wants them to be.
When we opened this program in 2006 we had in mind to provide support to our clients who would end up having an abortion. God had other plans. So far, 90% of our women who are and have been part of these groups are Christian women who are active members at local churches. As one of our mentors once said, “seems that God wants us to restore our women first, in order for them to stand up and be a light for life”
Thank you for supporting and empowering us to be lead to spread the light among a culture of death that is spread over our country. We would not be able to reach our church and community without your faithful commitment with His kingdom. May God bless you.
God’s plans are bigger than ours
Remember our dream to have our own facility?
Well, after years of a relationship with SIM (Serving in Mission), our board has committed to a partnership with this mission. SIM is working toward building a building at the local university land and to make use of the land for 99 years.
In the building they will serve the university students through their ministry of coffee shop, library, children’s care, auditorium for conferences, etc. The commitment is that we have our own center on the property and serve the university population right from the main campus.
Personally I was thrilled while looking at the drafts of floor plans of our new building (Expected to be ready to move at the beginning of 2011). 90% of our clients are university students of this public university that at the moment has over 50,000 students.
Can you praise God with me for this wonderful opportunity to serve our abortion minded women from a perfect location?
Also, please join us in praises and prayers for:
We praise for four women who were abortion minded and decided to continue with their
pregnancy this month. Three of them will be placing their babies for adoption. One of the
women has twins. Please pray for them as we look forward to see Godly parents having these
babies.
Pray for safety for Marizabel (Volunteer of Post Abortion Program) and Cynthia (our clients
Director) who will be attending some training conferences in Lima, Peru. (60 hours of trip!)
We were invited through churches, ministries and other organizations to present the abstinence programs at different sites. When doing it in the streets in Santa Cruz we came out with some big games to make the teens play as they learn! Fun experience.
Always a sweet experience to receive our little visitors visiting us at the office. What a delight especially when they start to speak and clearly can say “hola tía” (hi aunt).
We organized our first fundraising event: A garage sale. We have come out with a plan to raise funds and realistically expect to raise 10% of our annual budget.
We had our annual volunteers dinner in order to honor volunteers and board members and thank them for their commitment and service to Centro de Vida.
Yes, as a ministry we need to review our vision, mission and evaluate in order to plan. We had very intense planning sessions, as we looked for God’s wisdom in order to correct mistakes and dream God’s dreams.
Yes, we were robbed last year, but as I shared with you things could have been worse. Right now we have more security in our facility and above all we trust God will protect it.
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