Fall 2010
Reaching Mexico and the Nations for Jesus
Sweet friends and family,
Minis ries
Pablo & Martha Garcia
Serving with LIM at the
church “La Gran Comisión” in
Ensenada Mexico
Financial Support
may be sent to:
Pablo & Martha Garcia
Link International Ministries
PO Box 4092
Orange, CA 92863
Greetings from the country of Mexico! A land
filled with beautiful people – tastes, colors, sounds,
unique to this little corner of the world! We just
celebrated the bicentennial of Mexico’s independence!
¡Viva Mexico!
It is with joy that we write you, sending you an
update regarding all that the Lord is and has been doing
here in Mexico and in Cuba. We hope that you and your
families are all well.
May everything good from God our Father be
yours! “Our prayers for you are always spilling over into
thanksgivings. We can't quit thanking God our Father and
Jesus our Messiah for you!...” Colossians 1:3
Pablo and Martha
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Left to right: Frank & Jeannette Meitz,
Humberto Molina, Pablo & Martha Garcia,
Luis Funes and Adam Barkley
A team of seven of us flew to Cuba to
conduct a second series of discipleship
training for the association Hermanos en
Cristo (Brothers in Christ). In 2009 we
trained over 100 pastors and leaders from
the eastern side of the island. This year
the central part of Cuba was represented
with over 250 attendees at a Campground
outside the city of Cienfuegos.
On the Sunday before the conference we
worshipped at three different house
churches. At each church a different team
member preached. The picture below is
the first house
church that we
attended. Humberto
shared the message.
Pastor Felix and his
wife Odalis attended
the 2009 conference and
then went on to share the
discipleship concepts with
the church.
A woman
from the church took on
the Discipler ministry and
8 new believers have
grown strong and made the decision that
Jesus not only be their Savior, but also, the
Lord of their life! Throughout the year
there has been an explosion of spiritual
and numerical growth.
At the second house church, Luis
preached. The pastor at this house church
is Derlys and his wife is
Tanya. They met in
prison. While he was
serving a 10 year
sentence for murder,
Derlys accepted the
Lord and then later led
Tanya to Jesus! They
pastor a small church that meets in the
back of their house
in the country.
When we drove up
to the house it
looked like no one
was home since
there were no cars.
However, when we rounded the corner of
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his house, there were more than 50
people ready to worship! No one in that
church has a car (including Derlys), so
everyone either walks, rides a bicycle or
motorcycle or takes public transportation.
(The next day, Pastor Derlys accompanied
us to the conference to receive discipler
training.)
The third house
church is pastored by
Juneisy, a young
woman
whose
husband
died
suddenly last year
from cancer.
Pablo preached at this
church and, like Derlys, she and a couple
of her leaders accompanied us to
Campamento Canaan for the discipleship
conference. One very sweet thing about
this day – on a personal note – is that it
was Father’s Day and also Pablo’s
birthday. Throughout the day his life was
celebrated over and over,
at each service, by the
wonderful people of
Cuba that so love him!
That love is mutual and it
was one of the most
unforgettable birthdays
that Pablo has ever had!
the main platform in the beautiful
tabernacle, followed by five breakouts led
by the DTI team
members for more
than six hours in
small groups each
day.
It was in
these
breakout
sessions where the
deeper teaching was conducted, allowing
the trainers to get to know the people in
their group personally. Pablo led a small
group and translated
during the main
pla tforms.
I
translated for our
team leader, Frank
Meitz, spoke during
one main session, and got to “make music
on my violin” with some of the most
amazing musicians I have met! There was
so much enthusiasm as the pastors
learned throughout the
week.
The great
majority of pastors in
Cuba are laymen who
have not had formal
training, but have been
called by God to be
pastors. They want to serve and to be
better prepared for that service.
THE CONFERENCE
AT CAMPAMENTO
CANAAN
We had one-hour worship
and teaching times from
During the conference two pastors from
the 2009 conference came and gave
testimony. One of them, Pastor Odiel,
who had been in Pablo’s small group,
shared that his church had completely
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been revolutionized. His congregation
gave themselves the assignment of
discipling each other so that the entire
congregation was discipled.
As a
consequence of their growth, they all
began reaching out and the church has
doubled in size! In addition, 95% are
actively doing the work of the church and
now only 5% are passive Christians.
Pastor Paneque shared that another
byproduct of discipling is the growth in
numbers of the house churches. This is in
contrast to what we had been told had
been a typical problem - that people “come
in through the front door” but within
weeks “go out through the back door”.
Because the new believers are now being
discipled, they are staying and inviting
others, causing the church to grow
numerically, as well as spiritually.
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Before going to Cuba, Pablo and Jacob had the privilege of preparing the land and
foundation for a 10x16 home for a family of 5. Jocelyn, who is a new believer, goes to our
church. She recently was released from prison and had nowhere to live. She first asked
us if we had a tent that she could borrow to put up on the piece of
property that her father had given her. Pablo
told Jocelyn to begin to pray that the Lord
would supply the need to build her a home. A
week later, Agua Viva Ministries called and
asked if we could receive a group that wanted
to do a project! The Lord had answered our
prayers! We prepped the land, laid the
A s
w e
returned home God
had
some
grand
a d v e n t u r e s
planned! The same
day we arrived in
Ensenada,
Pablo
went straight to
Colonet to work with a group from
Taft Ave. Community Church. They did
a beautiful job painting the kitchen
and dining areas of Casa de Pan.
They also held a children’s program
which included Bible teaching and
loving on those beautiful indigenous
children who are in such need of love
and nurturing.
Following that week, Valley
Community Church came and hosted a
marriage conference weekend.
The
program started out on Thursday night
with the movie “Fireproof.”
This
was followed by two days of
conferences with the couples from our
church. It was truly an incredible
weekend.
In addition to the
conference, VCC left us with 40 books
of a follow-up small group curriculum
for married couples. Pablo and I are
currently meeting with 5 other
couples that are leaders in our
church, every Wednesday night, and we
are equipping them to each lead a
small group.
In 4 weeks we will
finish this time of equipping and
immediately will open 6 small groups
for the couples at our church as well
as neighbors and friends that we
would like to reach out to. We are
so excited! Each couple that we are
equipping is in a different age
group, most with kids at all
different stages.
One couple has
only been married 1 ½ years and has
come from a really hard background
and they will be able to reach a
whole different set of couples in
need of mentoring and healing…Praise
the Lord!
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Weekly Constants in
our Ministry...

I continue to play the
violin for Jesus on the
worship team through the
many changes that we have
gone through this year
after losing our music minister.

Pablo continues to meet with the
men weekly in our home. They are now
going through the book “The
Man in the Mirror” by
Patrick Morley and are being
challenged to live as “Biblical
Christians” as opposed to
“Cultural
Christians” or
“Defeated Christians”!

Pablo leads the Discipler Training
Class every Sunday morning for the new
believers at our church.

We continue to work,
both equipping leaders for
youth ministry (twice a
month activity).
And
Pablo is leading the youth
group on a weekly basis –
playing
with,
loving,
teaching and praying for
them to become “young
people of conviction” in
this world lacking of a
moral compass.

Sunday afternoon’s Pablo plays soccer
and continues to coach two teams of
unruly youth up here in our community.
There was a huge brawl in August and
Pablo was the person who took people
to the hospital and ran interference with
the kids involved. They know, after so
many years of being a stable person in
their lives, who they can turn to…And a
very
fun
note...On
October 10th, both of
his soccer teams will
play in the final for 1st
and 2nd place!! And
then we are going to
party!!
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The Family Corner:
♥ Benjamin is living in San Diego and attending Southwestern Community College. (We miss him so much!) He is working on completing his
studies for EMT certification. He and Jeanelle were engaged on July 4th
and barring any changes due to finances or school…they will be married
on July 2nd of 2011.
♥
Jacob is in 11th grade…wow – our baby is so grown up! It is a great year as far as class
schedule goes but homework is a heavy load! His passion in life is surfing and he makes a dash
for the beach at any chance he can get! He also is taking formal swimming lessons as a part of his
PE this year and since he is a self taught swimmer, he is excited to learn the techniques. His
teacher is Melissa Stocking, a young woman that works out at Agua Viva and goes to our church.
She was on the swim team during high school and college so of course, Jake’s goal is to beat her
when they race the laps!
♥
Pablo is doing great! He is invigorated by the activity and his
favorite part of ministry are those one on one moments during the
week with either men, youth or soccer players. He works hard at
spending sweet time with both Jake and I. Recently, the three of us
went to the local museum and saw an early 1970’s Mexican movie (for
free!!) called “Santo and the Mummies of Guanajuato.” (Santo is a
wrestler) It was a hoot and a fun way for us to have a cheap date! He
is a great husband and dad…
♥ I am homeschooling Jake again this year and we have a little experience under our belts now
so this year is going smoother! I seem to always be juggling something and praying that the balls
don’t go flying but God is good and He is faithful and we always make it through! My favorite
moment during the week is tea with my dear friend Allyson at Starbucks in Ensenada! Woohoo!
♥ My mother came through her back surgery very well. She had a great physical therapist and
I was privileged to get to go and be her helper for the month of August as she recuperated. We
stayed at my sister’s home with her family so I was doubly blessed to spend more time with my
baby sissy than I have since I moved out at 18! My sister and mom will be flying out on the 3rd of
November to move mom back into her apartment here in Mexico! Double woohoo!
♥ Pablo’s mom hurt her back mid-September. She was in the hospital for a
week and now is at home with an in-home therapist coming to help her. She
slipped a disk and it is resting on the sciatic nerve. Please pray for her as she is
in so much pain.
Minis ries
Financial Support
may be sent to:
Pablo & Martha Garcia
Link International Ministries
PO Box 4092
Orange, CA 92863
Phone numbers:
011-52-6461-75-3529 Home
011-521-6461-71-6205 Cell
714-875-8982 Financial Ofc
E-Mail address:
[email protected]
Personal Correspondence
may be sent to:
Pablo and Martha Garcia
4492 Camino de la Plaza
PMB #503
San Ysidro, CA 92173
Web-site
www.linkintl.org
We thank you so much for your prayers and for your financial
support. Financially things are so difficult – all over the world –
and your faithful monthly giving keeps us afloat. We can’t express
our thanks enough.