Red Nueva Vida Pastors Retreat 2025

 

Our 2025 Pastoral Retreat is in the books. This is an important time of connection and growth for all of us. I love the privelege of getting to lead this group. Please continue to pray with us for all the Lord has done and will do through the ministry of Red Nueva Vida in the USA. Check out more pics and info about the retreat below.

We started our time sharing together about praises and challenges in ministry and prayed for each other

We had some time of worship together too

Pastor Jonathan shared the word with us and talked about fervent prayer which was our theme for the retreat.

Of course we had a bonfire together and shared.

More prayer time early Saturday morning.

Pastor Randy Spacht shared with us Saturday morning. He is a great expositor of the word! He talked about how Christ is building his church and what the statement, "And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of heall shall not prevail against it" from Matthew 16:18 means and its implications for us as pastors.

This was a workshop we did further building out and applying the message on fervent prayer on Friday night. Pastor Daniel Godbey led us in this workshop.

I got to finish our time with a conversation together about what it means for us as a team to form and execute the vision God has given us as a hispanic disciple-making network in the USA. We will continue to work on this in the weeks and months to come.

A Special thanks to Daniel, Jonathan and Randy for sharing at the retreat. Also a big thanks to Piedmont Church who helped sponsor part of the retreat!

Vision for 2024

 

As we wrap up 2023 and look forward to 2024 I wanted to share a little be of what we believe the Lord has in store for the coming months and years so you can know how to be praying and supporting us in this season. As we learned in 2023, "In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes his steps." Proverbs 16:9 so we hold these plans loosely and leave God with the final "steps".

Family: We are looking forward to finding our own place to live, community to get more grounded in and church to serve in. We are looking forward to some time in Guatemala as a family helping bring some closure to that chapter of our lives and also celebrating the wedding of our son Levi in May. We also want to find better educational opportunties for the other kids. Jake has finished up highschool and is considering the military in 2024.

Ministry: Our vision for the next 3 years as we start our work with the New Life Network in the US, is to see the network in the US grow from 25 disciples to 150 disciples, from 4 churches to 10 churches and train 25 leaders and pastors. We also want to see 10 missionaries mobilized and in process of training for global missions. Currently there are over 60 million Hispanics in the US so there is a great need for healthy disciples and churches!

Partnerships/Friendships/Community: We have seen the Lord bring new partners into our ministry and the ministries we are a part of over the last year and we are excited for more partners. We truly are better together as Ecclesiastes 4:9 says. We also hope and plan on developing more friendships and deeper community for this next season of life and ministry!

Thanks for praying with us for these things for 2024! Let us know how we can be praying for you!