That All May Know Ministries Blog

The team from That All May Know Ministries would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas.

May we never forget the true meaning of Christmas. God looked upon a sin cursed world and sent His only Son to be born among men, to die for Man, so that you and I could become part of God's eternal family.

"But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons." - Galatians 4:4-5

It is hard to believe that 2009 is almost finished. The year has flown by and so many things have changed around us. With the world economy in focus, a new president inaugurated, tremendous job loss and unemployment data, the death of some famous icons, as well as secrets being unveiled about others, there is always something on the news that changes life as we now it forever. However, as Christians we understand that there is one constant thing in life that we can have comfort in...that our Lord Jesus Christ loves us and is always there for us. The truth that we serve a loving God who would send His only Son to die for you and me is a truth that will forever set us free and give us hope in an ever ailing world. God has a message of hope for the nations that we must deliver to them. There are so many in this world who have no hope.

Our desire is to deliver this "hope" to the people of Spain. We are gearing up for our big "push" that will begin at the start of the new year. In January, we will begin the journey of delivering the Gospel on DVD to 18,500 households. With an average of 3 people per household, approximately 55,500 people will have the chance to watch a very simple, clear, straight forward Gospel Message on their TV or Computer.

The DVD's have been duplicated and are ready. We have been fixing up the building trying to get it ready before we start delivering the DVD's. We are hoping that through the Gospel on DVD project, english classes, and other means of making contacts we will build a core group of people. Once we have this core group of people, we will then hold our inauguration service as a church. That is our plan for now. Pray with us as we try to make a dynamic impact in our city. Pictures of the progress on the building to come.

HAYDEN MIKAELA VELASQUEZ

November 5th, 2009 David and Favianna delivered a little baby girl weighing 8.5 lbs and 20in. long. She is precious. Her name is Hayden Mikaela Velasquez. The baby was born via C-Section so pray for Favianna during her recovery.

Please pray

Please pray for Hayden as she has been admitted back into the hospital. The doctors have found a small hole in her heart and her heart is beating fast. The doctors are reassuring that everything should be ok, but please pray as they are running tests and may have to do surgery. Pray for David and favi as they are both very tired. Pray for their Son Ian as he adjusts to having a new member of the family.

If you would like to personally contact David, you can do so at 404-285-2113.

Thank you for your prayers.

I wanted to comment on Jeff's (my brother-in-law) blog entry that he posted yesterday about working with resistant people. I recently heard a message in one of the missions conferences that I was a part of last week and the main speaker was talking about sowing and reaping. He said that some missionaries are in reaping countries and others are in sowing countries. Being a Missionary to Spain I understand that it is a sowing country.  However, I really believe that a harvest is going to come as long as we continuing sowing, maybe not in our generation but it will come.  God does not reward us according to the number of souls that we lead to Christ. He will reward us for our motives, our heart, and our faithfulness. While on deputation, the Lord has given me a message about what missions is all about. The main premise of this message is that the core responsibility of missions is to make the gospel available to every person on earth, not to save the most amount of people, like many think. This really transforms what we consider as success. This principle will give us perspective for our ministry in Spain and help us to have the right outlook.   The question is: "How do we measure our success?"  Do we measure it by the number of souls saved or by the amount of people that have had access to the gospel through our efforts.   In my opinion, if more missionaries would understand this concept than less would leave the field because of discouragement. That doesn't mean we won't have discouragement but as long as we keep the right focus we should make it just fine. Jesus never commanded that we save people but only that we evangelize them. That is the challenge of missions.  

Watch the Video or read about it below.

WATCH THE DVD PRESENTATION BELOW
Watch the Gospel on DVD (Spanish)	Don't know Spanish?  Watch it in English

I wanted to give you an update on how God is already blessing this DVD Project. It truly amazes me how generous God’s people can be. So far, enough money has been given to produce and get the gospel to 8,622 households. Our team made the initial investment to buy enough supplies to get the Gospel to 5,000 households so in total and as of right now, we will be able to get the Gospel on DVD to 13,622 households.

BUT WAIT, THAT’S NOT ALL!!! Wait until you hear this. This is how amazing our God is. When we bought our first 5,000 DVD’s, the company that sold them to us shipped us the WRONG kind of DVD. The printer/duplicator that we have only takes InkJet DVD’s. When I ordered the first 5,000 DVD’s , it was with the duplicator so the salesman knew exactly what kind of DVD’s were needed for that machine. Apparently when they went to ship the DVD’s, they grabbed the wrong order and shipped us 5,000 of the wrong kind. So when I got the DVD’s here to Spain, I tried them out on our new fancy duplicator, and it didn’t work! I was about to pull my hairs out! So I got on the phone with the company and told them the problem and they decided to let us KEEP the DVD’s and REFUND our money. SO WE GOT 5,000 FREE DVD’s! HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD!!!. We were also able to find a way of using the 5,000 free DVDs. So right now we have enough to get the Gospel on DVD to 18,622 households. What an amazing opportunity. Remember, we are talking about households. You can multiply that number by 2 if not 3 and that’s how many people will have the chance to hear the Gospel on DVD.

The blessings don’t stop there. We have posted the video on YouTube and have had almost 1,000 views. We have given the weblink to various people who have wanted to share the video with their family and friends who don’t know the Lord. One man in particular sent it to many of his friends and family members. One of his friends who he has been witnessing to for many years received the video. He told me that after watching the video, something resonated in his heart and mind and he trusted Christ as his Lord and Savior. What a blessing it was to hear that. All the effort and money to produce the DVD was worth it for that one testimony. We have had such good response from this and we haven’t even started delivering them in our own city yet. Several missionaries to Spanish speaking countries around the world have already requested the DVD for use in their own city. We have begun duplicating the DVD and have duplicated almost 4,000. We are so excited about what the Lord is going to do through this Gospel DVD. Thank you for your prayers and gifts.

THE VIDEO IS NOW IN ENGLISH!

I have made the video in english so those of you who don't know spanish can understand what is being said.

We are exciting about this project.  Many people have already given so that they can have a part in getting the gospel on DVD to someone here in Spain.  You can learn more about this project, watch videos, and even donate  monetarily by clicking on the link below.

http://www.thatallmayknow.net/the-gospel-on-dvd-project.html

 

Watch the video below.  This is how we are going to get the DVD to 50,000 households in our city.

 

We are so excited about this project.  We know that God is going to bless in a tremendous way.  I was talking to my father-in-law yesterday about this project and I said to him that we could spend the rest of our lives personally talking to everyone in the street and still not get to every person in our city.  However, in a relatively short time, we will have given every person in our city the chance to hear and watch a clear presentation of the Gospel through this DVD project.  However, it doesn't stop there.  We have plans to distribute mass amounts of literature, CD's, DVD's, etc. to keep the Gospel in front of them. 

Very soon, I will be posting a video of how we are going to produce theses DVD's and deliver them to the people.  Stay tuned!!!  

 

 

Dear Pastor, Congregation and Friends,

Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. (Phil. 1:6)

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t is so wonderful to see how the Lord has worked in my life. I was five years old when I was saved and I surrendered my life to be a missionary when I was eleven. All of these things came to my memory just last week as I attended a mission’s conference in North Carolina. The speaker was veteran missionary Bro. J.T. Lyons. He is well in his eighties and has suffered a great deal with his health. In spite of it all he preached five blazing messages that stirred my heart once again for the need of missions around the world. You see Brother Lyons was a missionary in Liberia, Africa as well as in Spain. I had known him growing up in Spain and the last time that I had seen him was when I was eleven and it was precisely under his preaching that I answered the call of God in my life for missions. The last night I went forward and recommitted my life to Christ’s service. I pray that the Lord will continue to perform His work in me until I see His face.

Deputation News

Since our last letter we have had six new churches partner with us and that means that we are now at 52% of our needed support. Praise the Lord! We are are confident that we will be in Spain soon.

Also, a couple weeks ago we were able to find out that we are going to be having a little girl! My parents are really happy because this will be their first granddaughter.

We have very exciting ministry news to share with you. Although we are not on the field yet we have been very busy alongside the other families in our team planning ways to reach the community of Parla, Madrid with the gospel. In the city of Parla, where we will be working, the population is roughly 150,000 and we figure that there must be approximately 50,000 households. Our goal is to reach every one of these households with a gospel DVD. We have produced a professional DVD which clearly explains the gospel message. It is very hard to get into the homes of the Spanish people but we are praying that God will use this DVD to not only reach souls for Christ but also allow us to gain contacts to begin our church. We are praying that many of you would be involved in this great ministry opportunity. It is easy to give. Kids, Sunday School Classes, Adults, Churches, etc. can participate in this project.  We have figured that the cost to make each DVD is around 50 cents. So for 50 cents, the Gospel on DVD will be given to someone who may have never heard the Gospel before.  For $5.00, the Gospel on DVD can be given to 10 people. For $100, the Gospel on DVD can be given to 200 people and so on. We are not asking for money for ourselves we simply want to give you the opportunity to have a part in someone hearing the gospel. If you would like to be involved you can send donations to:

Every dime that you give will go directly to getting a Gospel DVD into the hands of someone who doesn’t know Christ as their Savior. In the future we would like to follow up with even more DVD’s as well as gospel literature. What a great way to make our way into the homes of the people in Parla and allow them to hear the good news of the gospel for the first time in their lives.We couldn’t be more excited about this project. We are so grateful for all of your prayers and financial support. Only one life will soon be past, only what’s done for Christ will last. We love you. God Bless.

We are excited to present a new church planting opportunity to you.  You can be directly involved in getting the Gospel to thousands of people.  Click the video below to learn more about it.