Friends of Nueva Vida – June 2009

Worship

 

The most recent Friends of Nueva Vida is here – amigos.june2009

Some recent photos are here – june09.photos

Adrian receives Gateway Certificate

Pastor Adrian and President Hamel

Holiday Greetings from Nueva Vida

 

“Jehovah es mi pastor  nada me faltara.” (Salmo 23:1)

 

This year was of great blessing for both my family and the church.

 

Praise:  This December, God has shown us, once again, his great love and mercy. We have seen him at work in our lives through a prayer of my oldest daughter Shared.  One day my daughter, Shared, came excitedly into the house. She was exited to go on a mission trip to Mexico with a group called YWAM (Youth With a Mission). She is currently a student studying in UW Madison. So, as she told us about this trip, I began to think, how are we going to pay for this? We have had to pay the schooling so far because she had not been able to acquire a scholarship to pay the semester. Also we still needed to find out how to pay for the next semester of schooling. I wondered were would we get the money to cover for the trip? I did not believe it was possible. I told them. “No, not this time. We cannot think about that right now when we have lots of things to pay for.”

            Then my wife, Maria, told us to pray about the situation. She said “Why don’t we see what God says about this.” I said okay we have nothing to lose. In that moment, we prayed for God’s will to be done. We said “If you need to teach my daughter in this trip to Mexico something special please Lord provide for this trip.” With only one day left before registration for the trip she recieved a 8,500 dollar scholarship from FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid). From that money she was able to pay the whole year of school and had money left to go on the trip to Mexico.

            We praise the Lord for providing this need. We hope this testimony will encourage anyone to first come to the lord when in need of guidance and provision. In these hard economic times we hope that you will thank the lord for his helping hand in our daily lives.   

 

Last year:  We finished with 25 members in New Life church 35 in attendance on Sundays, with a team of 6 leaders and 8 students in GATEWAY and all the people hungry to know more about our Lord Jesus Christ.

            We are planning to start 10 new church Plants this year 2009 in Wisconsin 

 

Here are some things you can pray about.

• For our own place to meet.
• For new believers to continue to come to the Lord.
• For spiritual growth
• For students attending the Gateway program.
• For financial stability in New Life Church. We have included an envelope addressed to the Forest Lakes District,  if you are able to support our work
• For my Family.

 

                        Sincerely,   

 

Adrian Rayo 

Newsletter from New Life Church – Pastor Rayo

The newsletter is here – Friends of New Life

Friends of Nueva Vida – New Life Church

Here is the most recent newsletter from Iglesia Nueva Vida – New Life Church-  Friends of Nueva Vida

Adrian Recieves Award

Pastor Rayo received the Intercultural Chruch Planter of the Year award at the EFCA National Conference in St. Louis this year.  Here is the writeup:

Here is the report from national conference:

           

            In 1997, God gave Adrian Rayo the opportunity to travel from Chicago to Sparta, WI, to preach to a new group of Hispanic who hoped to become a church plant out of Faith Evangelical Free Church.  This group had only been meeting for a few weeks.  For six months Adrian loaded his family of five into their van for the six-hour trop to Wisconsin.  Seeing God bring several to faith in Christ affirmed to Adrian that he should leave his secular job and begin to devote himself to full-time ministry.  In 1988, he stepped out in faith and moved to Norwalk, where the church would locate.  God raised up support for Adrian’s family through many area churches in the Forest Lakes District.

            Through the six years of Adrian’s ministry in Norwalk, dozens trusted in Christ and were developed as disciples.  Funds were raised to purchase their own facility.  One of the new converts from El Salvador, Jose Reyes, became so well trained in ministry, that he followed Adrian as pastor of La Cosecha which now has more than 90 members in attendance.

            Following a year of traveling to Madison, WI, one day a week fo evangelize, Adrian and Marian moved their family to Sun Prairie to plant another church.  Again many were converted to Christ, and Nueva Vida was welcomed into the district as a full-member church in April 2008.

            In addition to always being eager to share Christ, Adrian has a large vision for multiplying Latino churches throughout Wisconsin and beyond.  He is regular contact with several Latino church planters and Forest Lakes District churches who want to start new works. He is also taking five men from his church through the GATEWAY Theological Institute.  GATEWAY was started by the EFCA to offer practical and accessible theological training for pastors who lack the time and resources to access traditional seminary education.

            So much of the apostolic vision for a true movement of multiplication “among all people” has flowed out of Adrian’s heart.  The Forest Lakes District is truly blessed to be able to work with this godly leader.”

           

Praise the Lord!

Charter Membership Sunday – Nueva Vida

After several years of prayer and work, Nueva Vida is ready to have a Charter Membership Sunday.  This marks the transition from being a Church Plant to being a Church.  The members will approve a constitution and select leaders for the church.  We anticipate Nueva Vida entering the Forest Lakes District as a full member congregation.

Those who have supported Nueva Vida and Pastor Rayo should continue, because due to the special nature of this church, it will need supporters for longer than is customary for “anglo” church plants. 

Also, plans are afoot to start other churches in our district – this is a movement, not just a church plant.

Nueva Vida – December 2007

Pastor Rayo’s newsletter is amigosdec07.doc

Friends of Nueva Vida – October 2007

Here is the latest letter from Pastor Rayo on New Life church – Iglesia Nueva Vida.

Hispanic Church Planting Vision

My desire to work as a team with those who have or are planting churches, using the available materials to guide me in order to reach my purpose

At this moment we need to continue working with the Theological Training Center.  In order to continue preparing leaders from the new existing churches in the Forest Lakes District.  Through this ministry new pastors will arise.  Church members will also be rained in order to improve their work ethic as they continue to serve God in their churches.  Yet,if through this training someone shows outstanding improvement and knowledge, he or she will be encouraged to prepare at a higher level.  We can count of the Baptist University of the Americas, who are now giving our students credit for their courses.

In many cases, at the start of a new church plant a pastor might need to work at a secular job on top of working at the church.  However, this could only apply in some cases.  We hope that eventually each church would be able to support their own pastor.

For the pastors, the Gateway Theological Institute has offered to give them credentials through their program.

August 30, 2007

Pastor Adrian Rayo