Blessings from Chile
FIRST: God has guided us
to an amazing facility at the ‘Hotel Costa Real’ to have our future Fuego
Urbano service(s) in the downtown/beach community of La Serena. It was pretty amazing how
it all worked out and totally evident of God’s guidance. In our own (human)
planning, we wanted to find a place right in front of the beach in order to be
as close as possible to the surfers and beach community, but none of those
hotels and places with large event rooms wanted to rent to a church. After
having all those doors closed we began to get worried and went by one more
place on a whim, the Hotel Costa Real, which is a super nice hotel but a bit
further from the beach then we originally wanted (it’s about 1/2 mile from the
beach). So we went and asked and they said they had a room that goes up to
about 100 people if we liked, and then as we thought and prayed about it God
began to show us how much better this place is than what we originally wanted
at the beach. The beach would’ve been about a 15 min walk for the thousands of
college students who don’t have cars, whereas the hotel is literally within a
few hundred yards of 5 universities and the thousands of university students
who attend them. Not only that, but the fact that it is still super close to
the beach means we can easily get the surfers to head on over because almost
all of them arrive at the beach in cars or transportation anyway; and the
skaters who skate all around the downtown area, including those who will skate
in the new skatepark on the beach, will also still be really close by. As if
that weren’t enough, the hotel is about 100 yards from essentially the biggest
traffic intersection in the city, where just about every bus, taxi, etc. either
comes from or goes through, making it easy for anyone to get there from
literally any part of the city. Below is
a picture of the front of the hotel and the room we’d use is just over on the
left:
The
only downside is that because it’s such a nice hotel, it’s a bit more expensive
then we were hoping. They’ll charge us $320 per week, which works out to $1280
per month, of increased monthly support that we’ll need to come up with before
we begin. But the good thing is that we can have anywhere from 1-4 services
back-to-back in our time-slot without having to pay any additional fees, and
we’ll also be taking offerings each week to help cover the costs. The really exciting
thing is that this situation could sustain our growth all the way up to about 400
people or so, and we’re really excited about the thousands of young people who
will literally be at our doorsteps because we know it has the potential to blow
up very quickly. Because of the increased costs and the additional support
we’ll need to raise to help cover those costs, and in order to launch in summer
with lots of momentum and energy, we’ve decided to begin all this in January
2013. We’ll do the main service(s) at the hotel Sunday nights and then the
service in Las Compañías will change to a mid-week gathering. That way we’ll be
able to fulfill our commitments and grow our ministries in both places. Please
pray God will keep guiding us and putting all this together, and that He’ll provide
the additional finances we’ll need to launch this exciting new phase of
ministry!!
SECOND: After 1.5 years we’ve
FINALLY found a worship leader to develop the worship and music ministry of
Fuego Urbano!
Her name is Erika and she’s an incredibly gifted musician, singer, and worship
leader. I was amazed the first time I heard her sing because she sounded like
the woman from Hillsong, except in Spanish. Erika is 21 years old and really excited
about coming on-board with Fuego Urbano. She’ll be leading worship at all our
services and joining our leadership team as well, so please pray God gives her
grace and favor as she begins to put together that whole ministry. It’s such a
relief to finally have someone who is gifted and passionate about developing
the worship ministry of Fuego Urbano, and with the new services starting in
January we’re hoping the worship will be a powerful part of it.
THIRD: The International
Sports Coalition (ISC) hosted another workshop in sports-evangelism &
outreach here last week and about 75 people came for 3 days to get trained on how to reach their communities for
Jesus through various sports and activities. It went really well and as one of
ISC’s leaders in Chile Ecuador America
FOURTH: I’ll be in CA from
July 20th to early/mid September and would love to meet with you and
share personally about Fuego Urbano. I’ll be around to share with whatever churches,
groups, organizations, small-groups, church-groups, families, ministries,
student ministries, etc. you would like. Or if you’d like to meet up personally
I’d love to do that too. If you’d like to schedule something just email me at greg@fuegourbano.org and we’ll schedule
it right away. Otherwise I’ll be continually giving more info as I get closer
to the dates and schedule sharing events for people to come to as well.
LASTLY: As always there are 3 ways you may give financially to Fuego Urbano. For Automatic Monthly Online Donations you
may sign up for amounts of $25, $50, $100, or $200 per month. Just go to the
right side of my Blog (http://greghaugh.blogspot.com)
where it says ‘Recurring Donation’ and adjust drop-down menu to
the amount you’d like to give each month; then click ‘Subscribe’ and it will
take you through the process. One-Time
Online Donations are available as well: click the ‘Donate’ button on my
Blog just below where it says ‘1-Time Donation’ and it will take you through
the process. Or if you prefer Personal
Checks you can make them out to ‘Fishers of Men Fellowship’ and mail them
to: Fishers of Men Fellowship, PO Box 9284 , Newport Beach , CA 92658
Thank so much for your
continual prayers and support, and I look forward to seeing you all soon!
Greg
Haugh & Jose, Gislaine, Gabriel, and Gean-Felipe Eyzaguirre
