On December 3, the Iglesia Bautista Bíblica Independiente celebrated its 11th anniversary. We were honored to have Pastor Luis Martínez from Puerto Rico preach our services that day. Of the 175 people who joined us for the morning service, [...]
Our church theme for this year has been “. . . Let us rise up and build . . . .” from Nehemiah 2:18. One aspect of this theme has been focusing on several construction projects that our church has pending. We have decided not to go into deb [...]
Wendy is a young teenage girl who was reached through our Bus Ministry. After she started coming for a short time, she brought her mom to church with her. Wendy’s mom Sandra asked me if I could talk to her husband about salvation because he [...]
I sent out a text message to the members of our church and asked them to send me the names of their family members who were not saved so that I could pray with them for their salvation. Here are a few of the people that have been saved sinc [...]
As 2016 came to an end, we held our Second Annual Teen Camp. We had about 50 campers attend. Brother Ricky Torres once again did a wonderful job preaching for us. He has been a great blessing by helping us to get the camp going and organize [...]
I am very pleased to announce that we have paid off a debt we incurred while under a building project. This has been weighing on us for the last six years. We were so excited when we paid it off that we took the thermometer (which marked ou [...]
The Bible says in Psalm 116:15, “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.” Santos, the man I mentioned in our last prayer letter who got saved and baptized, passed away this month from various health complications. Deat [...]
“In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” (II Corinthians 4:4) In past prayer letters, I have asked fo [...]
Our church is in its tenth year. Although there have been many ups and downs, it seems that each year just gets better and better. Our theme this year is from Philippians 3:10, “That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection . . . . [...]
This month we were blessed to have my wife’s grandparents and a friend from college come visit us. We hadn’t seen Misty’s grandparents for 10 years. It was the first time our girls got to meet them. They really enjoyed getting to know each [...]
