Home Base

Thank you to everyone who signed up for the mission trips this year. Jesus Christ will be exalted as we serve Him in Miami and throughout the world. There’s still much to do. Just because you can’t go on the mission trip doesn’t mean that you can’t be part of the team. There are many “behind the scenes” activities that go into planning and executing a successful missions trip. If you would like to act as “home base” for one of our teams this year then please email us at missions@calvarykendall.com to find out how you can get involved.

Uth Reminder

Please fill out this informational packet and email to pcarrion@calvarykendall.com as soon as possible!

This packet is MANDATORY for all Uth Group team members.

http://www.calvarykendall.com/download/Peru%20Youth%20Trip%20Application%20final.pdf

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

UthNation Missions Trip

June 6-13

For the second year UthNation, our Youth Group, will be going to Lima, Peru to serve alongside Calvary Chapel Lima and the CC Bible College in Lima. We will be involved in outreaches throughout the city and performing light construction work at their orphanage.

This trip is only open for people who are currently serving or attending the UthNation weekly meetings. UthNation meets every Friday night from 7:30pm to 9:30pm in the Main Sanctuary at Calvary Chapel of Kendall.

Cost: $1000 per person

missions@calvarykendall.com

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

 

News from Koinonia February 02, 2009

Hi Everyone,   Thanks so much for your prayers and faithfulness in partnering with the ministry here in Peru.  Those of you that help us are such a blessing and we appreciate and love you all.  Yesterday Betty and I were speaking about the blessing that we are experiencing in our lives in so many ways and you are all a part of that. Of course I want to thank those of you that wrote specifically to say that you’re praying for us and to wish me a Happy Birthday.  It was happy indeed!   Here is a little of what has been happening around here.   A worried father   A father of one of the teens that comes to church here came on Tuesday.  He wanted so speak to me about his daughter because he’s deeply concerned about the influence that he says we have over her. He’s concerned because his daughter reads the Bible too much and wants to be in church too much. Ricardo and I asked him if she was being diligent in her studies and chores at home.  He said yes.  His only concern is that he doesn’t want his daughter to be a Christian.  That’s the short version.  A number of our young people face the same pressures at home.  It’s a real answer to prayer when they’re able to attend church.  Please pray for this man.  His name is Eduardo.   Women’s Conference   The women had a mini conference this past Saturday.  It was a nice small group of about 27 women. Betty, Silvia and Angie taught and the women were really blessed. Tracy led the worship.  I praise the Lord for these women of Koinonia that have a hunger for the word of the Lord.    Sunday Service   This Sunday was a special day for me here’s why.  A year and a half ago Betty and I went to witness to a group of people in a home where we sensed quite a bit of spiritual opposition.  In the following weeks several of the people returned to share the gospel to the people in that home again. We prayed for the people there and left the rest in God’s hands.  On Thursday one of the women who had been in attendance that day showed up for Bible study with her niece.  She said she really enjoyed it.  She came back for church again yesterday and had her niece with her.  At the end of the service she surrendered to the Lordship of Christ and was born again.  The seed sown a year and a half ago brought forth fruit.  God is good.  Now we’re praying for the niece.  She has shown a lot of interest too.   A sad phone call   Some of you know that I’ve been going to minister in a local hospital every Tuesday.  I go with two women from the church, Oninxha and Teresa and we minister to the people in the area that is primarily for people that have aids.   One of the men that we’ve been ministering to was getting worse and worse. His story is a sad one. I don’t know all the details but I do know this much.  During the time of terrorism here in Peru his entire family was killed by the terrorists.  They were killed with machetes.  After killing them the terrorist cut their bodies into pieces and he was the only survivor. As he spent time in the hospital he only had a few people visit him.  This past Tuesday he told us that he had placed his trust in Christ.  Yesterday he hung himself in the bathroom there in the hospital.  There is so much work to do.  Let’s keep loving the people with the love of Christ and letting them know about His good news.     A Happy Phone Call   This past week we spent some time fasting regarding the future of the ministry in Cañete.  I’ve felt for a few months that it was time to make a change.  Pastor Jaime found a place for rent less than a block from the center of town, right by where he lives and so we started to pray.  One of the problems was that the owner wanted $50 more than Jaime is currently paying.  That may not seem like much but the ministry in Cañete has been affected by the economic crises and so it’s been a struggle to even pay the normal rent price.  Well last night the owner called Jaime and suggested that Jaime pay the same amount in the new building that he was paying before on the edge of town!  What a blessing.  This will make the church much more visible and accessible to a larger sector of the population.  Now we’re praying about opening a café or some type of restaurant in the same place.  That way Jaime will be able to meet new people and minister to them and hopefully pay for some of the ministry expenses at the same time.  Of course that will take some investment but we will trust the Lord to take care of that.   Koinonia Missions   Kati has been preparing to go to Iquitos which is in the jungle region of Peru.  She will be ministering there for 6 months total starting mid February.  She needs a total of $1700.00 for expenses during that time and so far has received a little over $500.00.  We really feel that this is the Lord’s will and know that He will provide.  Keep praying for her.   Our older children will be going to Cañete on the 11th of this month to minister to the children there. They will be doing Bible teaching, mimes, music, etc.  After the ministry they will be having a mini retreat with the older children of Cañete for one night.  They’ll be going to the beach.  That will be a time of fellowship and Bible teaching.  Please pray for that time.  The dates are the 11th and 12th of February.    God bless you all.  Thanks for your prayers.  Don’t hesitate to write me atbrianvanderkodde@yahoo.com    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.

Koinonia Update for January 12, 2008

Hi Everyone,

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve written an update and a lot has been happening. I want to start by saying thanks to each one of you that prays for us on a regular basis. God is so good. Here are a few of the things that have happened in Koinonia and in our lives as the Vander Kodde family continues ministering in Peru.

Christmas and New Years were really awesome times here in Koinonia. We had wonderful times of fellowship around God’s word during the Christmas holidays and on New Years Eve we had a talent show in the early part of the evening and finished everything off with a time of worship and praise. The people of the church are really growing in depth and in desire to serve the Lord. We see it in the number of people attending prayer meetings and in the number of people volunteering to serve in the different ministries. Thanks again for your prayers. God is answering.

A few surprises were awaiting us during the holidays as well. My aunt Reka went home to the Lord. She was a great encouragement to us in our ministry and when she was healthy, had been a great prayer partner for the ministry here. She and my uncle Chet had been great examples and encouragers to me through the years. I miss her a lot even though I hadn’t seen her for a number of years.

Christmas day we received news that one of our dear friends and a former student of mine in the Methodist seminary in Ayacucho had been beaten up very badly and was in a coma. He stayed in a coma for several days and then went home to the Lord. He was not robbed of anything and no one knows exactly why he was murdered. He was in his early thirties and was planning to marry in July. I was going to be the pastor to marry him and his fiancé. Betty and I made an unexpected trip to Ayacucho to comfort the family and the Christians there. It was a blessed trip. I’m so glad that as Christians we cry, but not as those that have no hope.

This past weekend Koinonia Surco joined hands with Koinonia Cañete and the new church in Ica. 24 of us went to do an evangelistic outreach in Ica. It was a blessing to be able to preach the gospel and minister to the people of Ica for three days straight. I say three days because Robin, Americo and Aaron actually went on Thursday to get everything ready for the team. They also taught the two Bible studies that we have each Thursday in the afternoon and evening. The rest of the team arrived on Friday afternoon. Hundreds of people were witnessed to over the two day outreach.

If you would like to see pictures of the event in Ica and our ministry to the children in Santa Rosa over Christmas time, you can go to http://www.iglesiacristianakoinonia.blogspot.com

Thanks for taking the time to read this update. May God bless you all abundantly.

Making disciples in Peru,

Brian Vander Kodde