$50,000 Matching Fund

         Church Planter Julio Navarro

Julio and Arlette Navarro are lay leaders of the Misión Dios Soberano (Sovereign God Mission) works in both Mexicali, Mexico, and El Centro, CA. BEAMM desires to support them financially so that they may be able to work half-time planting this work over the next three years. After that time, we expect the church that they are planning to take over their support.

A $50,000, 1:1 Matching Grant has been made available through MTW Ambassador’s Fund toward this project. Partnership donations received from other donors will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $50,000. This will yield a total of $100,000 for the project.

Extreme Blessing:

Our goal: $30,000 for a new home for the Peña Family

Over the past two years, Hector Peña, who earns just $300 per week, has been trying to build a new home for his family, buying a few 2 x 4’s each week. Won’t you help us bless his family by completing their home this summer?

On September 2006 the trailer in which the Hector Peña family was residing caught fire. They had no homeowners insurance. They received some help from the Red Cross and a local church. Assistance from various local governmental agencies was extremely limited or nil, in part to the family’s inability to speak English and navigate the bureaucracy. The property on which the trailer was set, a car salvage yard, belongs to Mr. Peña’s employer. After the fire, the family moved into the salvage yard’s office, a one-room space with a bathroom (no shower or tub) and no running water. They have been living in this space for the past 18 months. The salvage yard has now been sold, requiring the Peña family to vacate the “office” by April, 2008.

Over the past two years, the Peña family has been in the process of building a new home on a lot they purchased in the same community. Monies for the down payment came from donations given to them. However, as seen in the photograph above, much more construction is needed.

Hector Peña works as a car mechanic and earns about $300 per week. While trying to supply the needs of a family of five on this meager salary, Hector is also using as much money as possible to buy materials for their new home. But now that the family has to leave the salvage yard office, they must seek another place to live and, most likely, won’t be able to purchase much material, delaying the project even longer!

Las Tierras Community Church has been praying for the last several months about commencing mercy outreach and community development ministry in the “colonia” of Montana Vista just outside the Eastern limits of the city of El Paso. In God’s providence Pastor Manuel Padilla met this family through a former community development worker. After prayer and several meetings with the family, the Las Tierras Church has decided to serve this family in the construction of their home. There are several other needs, material and social, which we will also try to address.

Overall, this service fits within our vision of extending the Kingdom of God through community involvement. As we have received mercy, we also give mercy. It is our desire to pray and work toward the planting of a Spanish speaking church in Montana Vista.

Las Tierras Community Church, along with BEAMM work teams, will seek to serve and collaborate with the Peña family in the construction of their home. We will not do it for them, but join them in this effort. We will mobilize other neighbors in the community, other local churches, etc. to participate and cooperate with the construction of the Peña home.

Your immediate gift of $50, $100, $1,000, or more will enable us to complete this house with them by the end of Summer, 2008.

Please send your tax-deductible gifts to:

Las Tierras Community Church
3664 Tierra Calida
El Paso, TX 79938

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$110,000 For Iglesia La Vid in Laredo

  

Please Help Us Finish A Meeting Place For La Vid!

Utilizing the help of work teams, BEAMM has been assisting Iglesia La Vid (The Vine Church) in Laredo, TX, with construction of a new meeting facility. Your financial gift can help complete this building in 2008!

In April of 2005, Carlos Cano took over as Pastor of Iglesia La Vid (The Vine Church). The church had been planted thirteen years earlier as part of a charismatic denomination, but had adopted the Reformed Doctrines of Grace in 2004 and became a fledgling Mission Church of the South Texas Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). La Vid expects to become a particular church of the PCA in August, 2008.

Because the church had outgrown its current space, and to better attract new people from the community, the church began building a new meeting facility in the Fall of 2005. They invested all of their savings at that time in the construction of the steel and cement block shell of the building. Now the building sits as the congregation tries to slowly raise the additional $110,000 necessary to complete the building. While BEAMM has brought in small work teams over the past two years to help with the construction, these teams have not been able to raise the cash necessary to complete essential components of the building, such as electrical, plumbing, carpet, and parking lot paving.

BEAMM sees La Vid as vital to reaching the Eastern end of the border with the Gospel. This building is essential to their growth and effectiveness as a congregation.

Your immediate gift of $50, $100, $1,000, or $10,000 will allow this building to be completed in 2008 and La Vid to become an even greater light to the people of Laredo!

Please Send Your Contribution To:
Building Fund
Iglesia La Vid
4801 Gallagher Ave
Laredo, TX 78041
A Tax-Deductible receipt will be issued for your donation

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