Puerto Rico Partnership Newsletter La Viña in Puerto Rico Year 2015 in Review
The year 2015 was a busy and exciting one for La Viña in Puerto Rico. In this issue we are going to provide a review of the most important things that happened during 2015.
Mission Trips:
Feb 2015 Thrive Vineyard Team of 6 people lead by Molly Kiefer. They served at Metro Vineyard and even went to Vieques, the small island off the east coast of Puerto Rico, to minister in the streets. They also ministered in La Viña de Mayagüez and La Viña de San Germán. We truly enjoyed your visit and ministry. Feb 2015 Ray Maldonado’s Team. A group of 8 people from Chicago. They served the churches in the west side of the island: La Viña De Agua Viva, La Viña de Mayaguez y La Viña de Las Lomas. They went to the streets to serve the homeless, prayed for the church people and preached during the Sunday Services. We had a wonderful time serving and ministering together!
June 2015 Four Teams served during the Summer Camp. The churches are: Duluth Vineyard, Miami Vineyard, Cobb Vineyard and Franklin Vineyard. The mission teams served in crafts, outside games, prayer and prophetic ministry for the children and leaders and making the two camp weeks the best two weeks for the children in 2015! We really appreciate all the help and support provided!
Oct 2015 Ray Maldonado’s Team ; 8 members from Chicago and Atlanta. Among them, we had Pastors Geno and Rand. They even took a picture with the mayor of Aguadilla while doing servant evangelism at the square in downtown Aguadilla. Geno preached at La Viña de Las Lomas and Rand at La Viña de Mayaguez. We also had them for a night of prayer and worship at La Viña de Mayaguez.
Conferences: Leadership Conference in May by Michael and Brenda Gatlin. People from all 4 churches attended the conference.
Metro Vineyard: Moved to a new facility by the end of the year. The partnership churches provided financial support to fix the building and buy air conditioners. Aguadilla Vineyard: Lou and Annie moved with their children to Aguadilla to start the church plant of La Viña de Agua Viva in Aguadilla. They are part of La Viña de Mayaguez during the first year and serving in different areas such as preaching, prophetic ministry, youth ministry, leaders meetings and others. They started a home group at their house and are doing servant evangelism ministry in different areas in Aguadilla, especially at the University Campus.
La Viña de Las Lomas in San German: They did some repairs, remodeling and installed air conditioning in their facilities. Started the first home group meeting in December. La Viña de Mayaguez: We continue our emphasis on children and youth as we have a passion to develop a new generation that will invade and impact all spheres of society. A team from our church goes, on a weekly basis during the school year, to the public middle school in our community to offer a weekly values program. We have impacted students, teachers,
parents and school employees. We launched a Stewardship Campaign in October with the objective to grow in faith, generosity and our church. Our plan is to have a bigger building that will accommodate ~225 people with minimum or no debt. We are asking the members of La Viña to give sacrificially during the next three years. This is the logo for our Campaign:
Please pray for…
The pastoral families New leaders and their development process
Resources needed for growth of the churches You can keep in touch with what is happening at the churches in Puerto Rico in facebook. Go an “LIKE” our facebook pages: Iglesia La Viña de Mayaguez Iglesia La Viña de Las Lomas Iglesia La Viña De Agua Viva MetroVineyard San Juan
The Puerto Rico Partnership began in 2006 and consists of 8 Vineyard Churches located in the US (Mainland and Puerto Rico) that have come alongside the Puerto Rico Vineyard Churches in the establishment of a church planting movement in PR.
6th Edition
Prepared by: Carmen Suárez Edited by: Ray Maldonado