Welcome Gary!

I am playing a little bit of catch up here. This is a story that I should have posted several weeks ago.

One of the greatest blessings coming out of all of our recent struggles has been a spirit of "let's get busy working!" As a result, we have developed a new ministry called "Ministerio HAS" which stands for "HAS Ministry" The HAS stands for hermanos al servicio or in English, brothers in service. That is exactly what has been happening. It is a group of mostly young adults that are helping out with evangelism, visitation, and they get together and socialize as well. One of the young ladies that has been involved in the group is Linda Morales. She has grown up in the church. She has not had the easiest life. Like all of us she has had her ups and her downs, but through it all she has remained faithful. Recently she invited a young man to church, that she had gone to high school with. Gary is his name. Gary is 25 years old. He moved to the United States from Nicaragua when he was 2 years old. Gary has been coming off and on for the last 2 months. The first week of July we were scheduled to have a Bible study on Wednesday night. What I did not know was that on Monday and Tuesday night the guys from Ministerio HAS had been studying the Bible with Gary. On Wednesday night, we talked a lot about respecting God's word, and being obedient to it. We had agreed that we would get back together to study some more the next week Wednesday. However, the next day Thursday, Gary called me up. I answered the phone, and Gary said to me, "Luis, I know what I have to do, I need to be baptized." I was so happy. He went on to tell me that he couldn't stop thinking about it since we had studied the night before. Gary was asking me if we could do it the following Sunday. Of course I said, but why not tonight? He nearly jumped through the phone! That night in front of the young adults that had studied the Word with him, Gary was baptized into Jesus!
We thank God for Gary, and all of the brothers and sisters that are working very hard for Jesus. Not only do we need their help, but it is also very encouraging to all of us. Please pray for Gary and Ministerio HAS. Thank you for your support.