March 2008 Update

Construction Update:
We have officially paid off the church property, Praise the Lord! Thanks again for all of your donations and prayers!! We will be going through the legal processes soon in order to get the land in the name of the church’s denomination, Misión Centroamericana.

On Monday, March 3, a soil test (see photos) was conducted to determine the resistance of the ground to the metal structure that will be put up to frame the church’s building. We’ll receive the results by the end of this week.

Service Ministry:
We’ve begun a Service Ministry within our congregation. The purpose of this ministry is to show the love of God visiting the sick and needy in the community (believers and non-believers) to pray for them and give them a special offering. The Ministry’s group gets together every two weeks to assess the current needs of the community, pray for them and plan the visits.

Work with Circuit 1:8 (La Cruz):
Once a month pastors and their wives meet to report and share about their congregations, projects they would like to complete, and how, as a group, they can help one another. One of the urgent needs is to help a church from Misión Centroamericana in the La Cruz village of La Nueva Concepción. Currently this church is without a pastor after certain problems. To see that the church members don’t disappear, three pastors, Osmin Corleto, Anibal Arías, and Camilo have taken the initiative to help care for this congregation. Once a week they are meeting with members of the community to determine the roots of the problems. We pray that the community can stay strong in their faith focusing first on their own personal relationships with Christ and then on the search for a new pastor.

Working in the Community (Cindy, vice-president of the board of the Environmental Unit):
At the end of 2007, the municipality of Ojos de Agua along with the mayor formed an Environmental Unit. They elected a board to help with implementing decisions to protect the environment. The board includes Cindy as vice-president and other Christian representatives: Alba Luz Calderón and Berta Luz López. We hope to have an impact on the community educating them on the importance of caring for God’s creation. The first project of the Environmental Unit is to determine an effective system to collect trash for recycling and compost, and put up signs in areas where people dump their trash warning them of strict fines (in the creek areas and along the cliffs).

Baby Blanco is very blessed!
Our baby has been so blessed. We are so thankful for the sisters of Circuit 1:8, Brisas del Edén Church in Ayutuxtepeque, and a group of friends in San Salvador that planned very nice baby showers with showers of lovely gifts for our baby. Thank you so much! May the Lord bless you!
Cindy is in her last month of pregnancy and the baby is already in position for departure. She is living now in San Salvador with missionary, Tina Anderson of ENLACE in order to be closer to the hospital. As a family we are so thankful to Tina for offering us a home during this time!

Our needs:
Praise the Lord we have been able to complete the payments for the hospital (for a normal delivery). Thank you for your donations! We are still looking for donations for the doctors’ fees and other exams for the baby once he’s born.
-doctor’s delivery fee: $750 ($1,130 if it’s a c-section)-pediatrician’s fee: $250
- metabolic test on baby, epidural if necessary and other proecedures: approximately $1,025
If the Lord puts it on your heart to help us in this way, please email us: camiloycindy@gmail.com


Prayer Requests:
-Economic provision for church construction. The price of iron is going up every moment.
-For the Service ministry to have a strong impact for Christ in the community.
-Restoration of health for sisters, Alba Luz and Vilma.
- For the brothers and sisters helping with Sunday School while Cindy is away, that they have confidence in themselves and that they prepare well to work the kids
-A healthy delivery for both Cindy and baby
– Provision for the expenses of the delivery
- We are still not in the new house. Pray that the workers can finish their jobs quickly so we can be somewhat settled by the time of the baby’s arrival. Right now we are staying in the little room of the church.
-Keep praying for the health of Cindy’s father and physical and spiritual strength for her mother.