CC Rio de Janeiro

Alexandre Silva Vaz is the Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  Pastor Alex attended Calvary Chapel Corvallis School of Ministry and then returned to his home country, Brazil, in 2004 to serve with Calvary Chapel Sao Vincente. The Lord called Alex and his wife Lillian to move to Rio de Janeiro to serve with the Calvary Fellowship there in 2006.  Pray for them and our team from Calvary Kendall as we travel to Brazil in August and serve with CC Rio. For more information on this trip visit http://www.cckmissions.com .

Calvary Chapel Kendall Special Guest

This Wednesday, April 8, we have a special guest here at Calvary Chapel Kendall. John Bonner and his     daughter, Michelle, will be joining us. Calvary Chapel Kendall has been a longtime supporter and friend of  John and his ministry in Peru. John is the Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel Lima, Peru, and Director of Calvary Chapel Bible College in Lima, Peru. His wife, Pilar, teaches Bible classes to women at the Bible College.

John has been with Calvary Chapel for more than 20 years as a pastor, a missionary, an author, and now as director of CCBC Lima. He and Pilar were sent as missionaries to Lima, Peru in 1999. Also serving with them are their three children Michelle, Jason, and Joshua.

Pilar was born in Durango, Mexico and has known the Lord nearly thirty years. As well as being a missionary and John’s wife, she is also a full-time homemaker, teacher, and mother.

If you’re a coffee lover and would like to get involved visit this page.

Calvary Chapel Bible College Jr Trujillo#456 Magdalena, Lima 17, Peru 
South America

E-mail: ccbc_peru@yahoo.com

www.calvarychapellima.com
Meeting Address – Sundays 9 & 11 a.m.
Iglesia Cristiana Calvary Chapel

Auditorio Derrama Magisterial
 Av Gregorio Escobedo #598 
Jesus Maria, Lima, Peru

Costa Rica Update

“Asociación Esfuerzos Humanitarios de Quepos”

> Ced. # 3-002-478009

 

> Goal: Serve and glorify our God, serve the greater community of Quepos/Manuel Antonio and serve the addicted and or homeless community here in this immediate area.

> Purpose: is to restore, to the extent possible, persons among this homeless population to their fruitful places in society – to begin again to be productive and healthy members of their families and their communities. 

> Update Dec. 2008/march. 2009    For the year we have had an average of 10 men living in the house.  Today there is six. There are four that have graduated and now are living at home and growing. 3 have stayed to become leaders in the program. The program consists of biblical studies, physical healing and disciplines, community and family reintegration, household duties, community service, work projects, IAFA counselors among others. The house we are renting is affectionately called the House of Love (Casa de Amor). 

> Jimmy Vargas is doing great as the hands-on director.  In addition, Jared and his wife Eileen have joined the Quepos/center to live and assist with all aspects of the program. Jared, called Moses by the men in the center, is volunteering and is a welcome friend. Brian is also scheduled to come June 17.  He is a volunteer who will stay at least three months. They have several years of experience and we look forward to their involvement. There are others that are planning on coming to join us. We need more laborers.    

We continue to serve with several work projects whereby the center gains funds. It is our hope to work making Quepos a better place and generate enough funds to pay for this program. We presently need additional donations or work with pay to keep the center going. We could use more community help as well as international help. We need someone to give us property now to add another center away from downtown Quepos. We can buy the property we are at but it needs some work to meet the standards for the “Ministerio de Salud” to keep us open. We need $30,000 and a group to help with construction. There are two construction companies waiting to build but we need the property first. Again it is our goal to have an induction center in the Quepos area and a work rehab center in an outlining area. 

We are in need of food items and personal items weekly. Please help if you can on a regular basis. It is vital for all who live in and around Quepos. We need all your junk steel to build a retaining wall and another entrance to the center. It does not matter how old or bad it is we will pick it up. We need bags of concrete the work. Please let us clean your place and help our effort to help others. We will take just about everything. Roofing stuff, junk in general and we can clean up Quepos and your place.  Call if you want to help.

This project cannot happen without community involvement. Want to help??? Call us and  please consider how you could be involved.  If you would like more information, please call Kim Stilwell at h 2777-0249 or c 8381-0708 or by e-mail: losstilwells@ice.co.cr.

> Banco Costa Rica: Colones: 280-2853-3  Dollars: 280-2852-5  

> Call me and we can make arrangements.  Thank you for your help!

Wes and Vicky Bentley-Far Reaching Ministries

Our mission is to carry the Gospel to the lost and dying of the world with discipleship as a primary vehicle. We do this through the planting and establishing of churches and Bible schools. We desire to minister to the afflicted, starving, and dying by bringing aid to their physical needs while, most importantly, fulfilling their spiritual needs with the love of our Lord Jesus Christ. We desire to train and equip in the United States, training missionaries to go out and fulfill the calling on their lives and exercise the gifts given them by our Father in Heaven. In doing so, we are able to reach the rest of the world by supplying teachers and mentors who can effectively train and equip indigenous pastors and servants to minister in their own countries or serve as missionaries to neighboring countries. It is our desire that this blog site will allow you to connect with the work we are doing on the field, even from your homes. We ask you to join with us in prayer for the lives that are being impacting with the Gospel, for those who carry the Good News, for all the laborers in the field. We also wish to thank you for your part in this ministry- for without you there would be no Far Reaching Ministries.

CC Rio Update

Hi dear friends,

How are you doing?

I just got back from Sunday service very happy and encouraged with our God, we were blessed by the visit of Pastor Morris from Kenya, he is a great servant of God who spoke at our church through the power of the Holy Spirit, I encourage you to listen to his message that will soon be on our web site www.calvarychapelrio.com

Lídia is doing great praise God, she is now 8 months old and is a great blessing for Lilian and I and also to the church. Everyone wants to hold her and she is now going everywhere in the house. Sometimes she gets stuck under the chair and starts crying for help because she is not able yet to move backwards.

I would like to encourage you when you have a chance to keep praying for the possibility of our church moving to a new location, we have one in sight, and we are praying for the Lords direction.

Pictures:

-Lídia-Lilian, Lídia and I with the Sugar Loaf behind us
-Renata who is a missionary who served the Lord for a few years in Egypt and Níger, speaking to our church about missions and about the current situation in Sudan
-Pastor Morris

God bless!
Alexandre Vaz

2009 CCK Missions Trips

Calvary Chapel Kendall is excited to have the opportunity to serve our missionaries by sending them teams. In the past, we’ve sent teams to Mississippi, Peru, Costa Rica, Asia, and the Middle East. Our goal is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ in everything we do, we hope to portray God’s love through our actions and our words. This year we have been invited to serve in El Salvador and Brazil. It’s an honor to be ambassadors for Christ in other parts of the world, a responsibility we take very seriously.

Please be aware that these trips are not tours nor vacations.

 

El Salvador July 4-11

In July we have the opportunity of joining Potter’s Field Ministries at their orphanage in San Martin, El Salvador. The Lord has called us to serve orphans and we plan to do just that. We will be making ourselves available to Potter’s Field for whatever need they have including teaching kids about the Lord and doing light construction work on the orphanage grounds.

Cost: $1,250 per person

Registration is required by April 20

 

Brazil August 7-17

Pastor Alexandre Silva Vaz from Calvary Chapel Rio de Janeiro has invited Calvary Kendall to Rio. We will be teaming up together in order to further impact the community in Rio. We’re going to take over CC Rio’s church services and bless the church body with worship and teaching. We will also team up with Pastor Alexandre to conduct outreaches throughout the city.

Cost: $2,000 per person.

Registration is required by April 20

Come by CCK to register or email us at missions@calvarykendall.com for more information.

Koinonia Update for February 16, 2009

 

 

Good Morning Everyone,

This last week or so has been a time of quite a bit of activity for the people of Koinonia.  Here are a few samples of what has been happening.

 

• The children of Koinonia Cañete joined up with the children of Koinonia Surco for a mini retreat on Wednesday and Thursday.  The retreat took place after the weekly children’s ministry in Cañete.  The meeting in Cañete was lead by the children of Koinonia Surco.  After the meeting everyone went to a house on the beach for the retreat. For more information and pictures check out the Koinonia Surco blog at www.iglesiacristianakoinonia.blogspot.com
• Teresa traveled 16 hours by bus to the beach town of Negritos in Talara for a couple of weeks of ministry. She will be helping the people in a local church there.  They want to begin to minister to people that have aids.  She’ll be ministering to the women there as well.  Pray for her the next couple of weeks and for Pastor Abraham.  He’s the pastor of a church there in Negritos.  He desires a closer relationship with Koinonia and we’re praying about how God will allow us to work together in the future.  We want to reach more of the people on the northern coast of Peru with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
• Robin and Tracy are in the States and so Eddy, Kati and Americo went to Ica this week to minister to the people there.
• A few new guys have been coming to church.  They’re not Christians but they have shown some interest.  Pray for their salvation.  They are Peter, Gerardo and Lucho. Others that have been coming a little longer but need to be saved are Pepe and Luis. 
• We had several construction workers stay in the building this week.  They built a kitchen in the back part of the building. It’s starting to look nice and is almost finished.  The best part is that some of the guys from the church here where able to share the gospel with them on several occasions.  Now we just have to pray for the Lord to work in their hearts.
• Last week I asked you to pray for several young women that have been coming to church.  God is working in their hearts.  I see that one young woman in particular has a lot of hunger for the word of God even though she hasn’t made a decision to follow Christ yet.  Her name is Maria Claudia.  Pray for her especially this week.

 

Thanks for much for taking the time to read the updates.  Thanks for praying. May God bless you abundantly as you seek Him. 

 

Making disciples in Peru,

 

Brian Vander Kodde

 

Prayer Requests

One of our own, Joey Herbello, recently left to the Calvary Chapel Bible College in Lima, Peru. He will be there for their spring semester, aside from the bible college classes, he will also be participating in outreaches on a weekly basis, on a mid term missions trip to a neighboring country, and he will be staying for the Youth Missions trip to Peru from June 13-20. Pray for Joey’s studies, his safety, and for the Lord to use him on his outreaches.

MIssionary Spotlight

Gary and Marlene Cameron work with Intervarsity Christian Fellowship at the University Park Campus of Florida International University in Miami and at the main campus and Medical School campus of the University of Miami. The Purpose of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA is to establish and advance at colleges and universities witnessing communities of students and faculty who follow Jesus as Savior and Lord: growing in love for God, God’s Word, God’s people of every ethnicity and culture and God’s purposes in the world.

Prayer Points – Far Reaching Ministries

“The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe”
Proverbs 29:25

Sudan:
o Pray for Vicky as she heads back into Sudan this week.
o Pray for the team from CC Bellmawr, that the Lord would use them mightily and that they would be so blessed to meet our ladies.
o Pray for Emily who is leaving this week to go to Africa.
o Pray for the referendum in all the marginalized areas of Sudan this January. Ask God to protect the freedom of these oppressed brothers and sisters.
o Pray for CC Kauda to grow. Ask God to give us favor with every local official and to strengthen the chaplains as they build the church building.