GREG'S MARCH 2012 NEWSLETTER: LA LLAMA

¡¡Bendiciones desde Chile (‘Blessings from Chile’)!! I hope you’re doing well wherever this finds you and that you’re able take a few minutes to read about what we’ve been up to this March with Fuego Urbano, and the super exciting plans we’re shooting for this coming year.

FIRST: I’ve been surfing tons since my wrist got strong enough, since we got a 2^nd car, and since I finally got a board that surfs well in the waves here (thanks to my good friend Dave Allee who is owner of ‘Almond Surfboards & Designs’ and makes sick boards, so go check them out and buy one). I’ve been trying to take advantage of the end of summer with its warm air and water temps to connect as much as possible with the surfers of La Serena, a group we’ve always wanted to reach but haven’t been able to until now (due to not having a 2^nd car, not having a surfboard that rides good here, and the fact that we’ve been focused on the skaters and young people of Las Compañías and not La Serena’s beach community). Well the time has come to begin to really make a push in to the surfers here, as well as the skaters of La Serena’s beach community and downtown areas, and the thousands of university students who live within 15 minutes walk from the beach. So please read below for more details about how we’re going to do this, and please pray pray pray that God continues to open more and more doors with the surfers as I continue to surf with them, get to know them, and share with them.

SECOND: After 15 months straight of intense sports programs and ministry we finally got some time to rest and reflect a bit this March, and we all agreed that while we’ve been blessed in our first 15 months of ministry, its also time to make some changes in order to reach the broader goals we’ve always had with Fuego Urbano: to reach the skaters, surfers, university students, and young people across the entire city, and not just one part of it. Without going into too much detail: we’ve realized there are some real limitations on our ministry in Las Compañías, and specifically 3 huge demographics we simply can’t reach as long as we’re focused exclusively there. Those 3 demographics are: 1) La Serena’s surfers   2) the skaters of La Serena’s entire beach community and downtown area, as well as Coquimbo (the neighboring city)  3) the thousands of university students who attend the 6 or 7 universities all within a 15 minute walk from the beach. Las Compañías is simply too far away for these people to come to Fuego Urbano and this has always been both a frustration and a limitation of ours, but we’ve prayed lots and have decided to prepare to move the main service of Fuego Urbano right into the heart of La Serena’s beach community and therefore enable us to now reach out to literally thousands of young people all over the city who live so close by.  The reason we’re doing this now is to take advantage of a few new developments which have recently opened up as well: 1) As I mentioned above, I’ve been able to start surfing and reaching out to the surfers, which until very recently was basically impossible due to limitations we had of only having 1 vehicle which we all had to share, of not having a surfboard adequate for the waves here, and of my broken wrist; and 2) A brand new skate-park is opening soon right on the beach in La Serena and will be a massive gathering place for all the skaters of La Serena’s beach community and downtown area, as well as neighboring Coquimbo. Until now the only skatepark in the whole area has been in Las Compañías where we work, which is why we decided to focus there in the first place, but this new skatepark will draw skaters from all over La Serena and even neighboring Coquimbo, allowing us to target it just as we have the skatepark and skaters of Las Compañías. And it will be located about 1.5 miles down the beach from where all the surfers surf and hang out, so that stretch of the city will offer huge ministry opportunities for us which we simply did not have a couple months ago. Here’s a picture of Pepe in front of the skatepark. As you can see its under construction but its right on the beach and will be a huge gathering place for all the skaters of both La Serena and Coquimbo. 

Pepe in front of the new skatepark in construction right on the beach in La Serena

I also want you to know that we will not be abandoning Las Compañías or the people there. We’ll continue to do a weekly mid-week gathering there, after-school sports twice a week during the whole school year, and skate in the skatepark a couple times per week. We’ll even be doing our summer sports programs there next summer like we’ve done the past 2 summers, only scaled down a bit. The difference will be that we won’t be exclusively focused there like we have been until now. We’ve also spoken with our leaders and they’re all on-board and excited for the changes and new opportunities as well. So please pray God would pave the way in providing a large salon, event room, or meeting place at a cheap price so we can launch all this in November.

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.  And all donations are fully tax-deductible.

Thank you so much for all your prayers and support…you make all this possible!

Greg Haugh & Jose, Gislaine, Gabriel, and Gean-Felipe Eyzaguirre

GREG'S FEBRUARY 2012 NEWSLETTER: LA LLAMA

Greetings from the sun and warmth of the Chilean summer in La Serena! As summer here draws to a close over the next 2 weeks, let me fill you in on what we’ve been up to this February.

FIRST: As mentioned in my previous newsletter, we received a YWAM team from LA that was with us from Jan 19^th to Feb 8^th and was a huge blessing. They were 14 young people who helped in our summer sports programs and ministries in tons of different ways. Two of the guys on the team, Shaun & Michael, are incredibly gifted skaters and were able to use their talents to open lots of new doors for us among the skaters of La Serena. They also helped us organize a huge skate-competition and brought really good prizes for the winners so we could do a really awesome event (read more below).  Shaun’s dream is to disciple, train, and send skateboarding missionaries all over the world so we’re already talking about them coming back next Jan-Feb with a team of lots of skaters to hit the skate community even harder next summer; and Shaun’s wife Jessica is a trained dancer so she’ll bring a few girls to help her reach out to the young women by teaching more dance classes. We’re all super excited about how God has brought us together and about continuing to work together in the future.

SECOND: Fuego Urbano organized an awesome regional skate competition where we shared the love of Jesus with everyone there and became much more known among the skaters of La Serena. Most skate competitions here are organized in such a way that the average local skaters never have a fair shot at winning any prizes, so we organized our competition so the local skaters had a fair shot at a bunch of prizes. We had 7 skateboard decks that Shaun’s YWAM team brought from the USA for all the 1^st place winners, and then lots of other clothing items for 2^nd and 3^rd place. Never in any competition around here have there been so many prizes to hand out so all the skaters were super stoked. The competition lasted about 7 hours and there were about 400 people during the day at some point.  As we gathered together at the end to hand out all the prizes for the winners, Shaun shared about how the prizes had all been given as a gift from skaters in the USA who love Jesus and wanted to share that love and gift with the skaters of Chile, and then Michael shared his testimony with the whole skate-park full of people listening to his every word. He then finished up talking about the gospel and inviting people to Fuego Urbano; then we handed out the prizes. It was off the hook and thanks so much to everyone who gave or donated boards, equipment, and clothing to Shaun's YWAM team so they could provide us with awesome prizes for the winners! Here’s a couple pictures below:

A bunch of the local skaters a the Skate Competition Fuego Urbano organized

Local skater William picking out a prize for his 3rd place finish

THIRD: We finished our Summer Sports Programs last week and ended up averaging about 45-75 people per day from 10am-2pm. They went really well all summer but we’re also extremely tired so it’s nice to be able to rest after 15 months straight of sports programs 3-4 days per week.

FOURTH: I’ve been surfing lots and connecting with the surfers as much as possible before summer ends. I’ve already been able to make some key connections so please pray God continues to open the doors among the surfers and beach community. I also got Henry out of the skate-park and taught him how to surf this past week and he loved it. Thanks to all of you who donated or sent boards and wetsuits, and who helped get our 2^nd car because none of this would be possible without all those things.

FIFTH: We have some new and very real financial needs (Do they ever end?) I'd like to share in case you’re able and willing to help. Just after purchasing our 2nd vehicle we had to fix a number of things on it which ended up costing about $400; then just today we had to spend $600 on a new radiator for our 1st car. This comes at a very hard time because we just got a recent and unexpected increase of about $400-$500 in our monthly expenses due to two things: 1^st, Guillerme (the Brazilian soccer player who was trying out for Chilean pro teams and living with us) went back to Brazil suddenly and with almost no prior warning. He decided and 2 days later was back in Brazil. That has means we now have to pay the rent, food, and utilities he was paying. And the 2^nd reason is the monthly cost of gas for the 2^nd car. If you’re able to help with these, there are directions on how to give in the paragraph below, and we would be incredibly grateful as we are once again forced to simply pray and trust in God's provision for us in these matters. 

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 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.  And all donations are fully tax-deductible.

Thanks as always for all your prayers and support…we couldn’t do any of this without you!

Greg Haugh & Jose, Gislaine, Gabriel, and Gean-Felipe Eyzaguirre

GREG'S JANUARY 2012 NEWSLETTER: LA LLAMA

“Today I met new people and a new world…the strangest thing is that I liked it…” These are the exact translated words from the Facebook status of one of the local skaters (Francisco) who came to his first Fuego Urbano meeting last Saturday after a year of us skating and spending time with him in the skatepark. Francisco’s favorite shirt has a huge marijuana leaf on it that says ‘Addicted’ and the first time I saw him I knew I’d like him but also knew he’d be tough to break through to; but after a year of spending time with him skating and talking, and after meeting and skating with some of the skaters from our visiting YWAM missions team, he came to our Fuego Urbano service last Saturday and left those thoughts on his Facebook status that night. Please join us in prayer for Francisco and the other skaters and young people like him who we’re constantly reaching out to, and read below to hear more about all God is doing through Fuego Urbano this January.

FIRST: Our summer sports, arts, and music programs are cranking along and we have about 45-75 people who participate on any given day. The programs run Tues., Thurs., Fri., from 10am-2pm and include basketball, futsal, soccer, volleyball, guitar, singing, and dance/drama classes, all of which we offer to the community free of charge in order to serve them and share our faith with all who come. We also began our skateboarding workshops/classes on Saturdays from 10am-noon and lots of people have started coming to that too. Here’s a picture of Henry and I closing the skateboard classes in one of the bowls, where we always end with a short biblical reflection, apply it to our lives, pray, and then invite all the people to Fuego Urbano. Henry is one of the most committed young people we have and is the best local skater in the bowls of the skatepark, and he and I are partnered to grow and develop the skating ministry of Fuego Urbano and reach the skaters of La Serena, so please pray for us as we move forward.

SECOND: We’ve received 2 missions teams this summer who’ve both been HUGE blessing to us. The first was a team of 12 Brazilians who came for 3 weeks in Dec-Jan, and the second from a YWAM base in LA that is here now and has been an incredible blessing among the skaters and young people. They’ll be with us until Feb 8^th and we’re trying to take advantage of the incredible skaters in their group to really reach the skaters here in force over the next couple weeks. We’ll also be hosting a big skate competition with their help, so please pray all goes well and that through this competition tons of the skaters and young people find out about Fuego Urbano. And thanks so much to all of you who offered your own resources and prayers to this team in order to get them much of the boards and equipment they’ve brought down to us…we’re so thankful for all you’ve done.

THIRD: We bought a 2^nd car and are SO grateful to all who gave and made that possible! Having it has already made such a huge difference that I don’t know how we ever made it so long with only one!! We still owe, however, between $600-$700 to pay for it completely so if you feel led to help with that, that would be a huge blessing and directions for how to give can be found in the final paragraph below.

FOURTH: CIMA is a Christian missions and evangelism conference held in different countries of South America each year, and this year it’s in the neighboring city of Coquimbo. Our ministry partners in Sinergia are in charge of organizing the event and asked Pepe and I to each teach different workshops, so Pepe is teaching ‘Sports-Evangelism’ and I taught ‘Surf Culture’…anyway, there are over 600 young Latin Americans here for the whole week to be challenged in their faith, and learn how to reach the world around us for Jesus. Its been a great experience being linked with the conference, and it will serve as the basic model for an annual Sinergia event we want to host here in La Serena each year. Here’s a picture of some of the people from the first night of the event:

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.  And all donations are fully tax-deductible.

Thanks so much for all your prayers, love, and support…we couldn’t do any of this without you,

Greg Haugh & Jose, Gislaine, Gabriel, and Gean-Felipe Eyzaguirre

GREG'S DECEMBER 2011 NEWSLETTER: LA LLAMA

Merry Christmas and Happy New Years from Chile!! Writing monthly newsletters are like writing sermons: for me, the key is not trying to find something to say but figuring out what not to say, because I always have million things I want to say but only a few things I have time or space to say. Newsletters are like that…and this one more than most because it’s the end of the year; but please read on and look at the pictures at my feeble attempt to capture all God is doing among us.

FIRST: Our Summer Community Sports Programs launched Dec 13^th and will go until the end of Feb. We have more programs planned then last summer and the city has once again asked us to basically run as many community programs, classes, and workshops as we can; and as always they allow us to share the gospel and invite all who participate in these programs to Fuego Urbano, because we run them at no charge to the city or to the community. They are a free gift of service to the community from Fuego Urbano, and our attempt to show them a picture of God’s love and grace in action. They are also our primary way of not only serving the community but evangelizing it, so please pray God will bless our efforts and bring loads and of people to Him through them. We’ll be offering basketball, futsal, soccer, sand-volleyball, skateboarding, music/guitar, singing, dance, and drama classes at different times, so it’ll be a busy but exciting summer for sure!

SECOND: We’ve just received a mission team of 12 Brazilians who are serving in our sports, dance, and music classes until Jan 7^th. The team was organized by a couple long-time Brazilian friends of Pepe from when they lived in Brazil as missionaries developing sports-evangelism programs there, so they’re well-prepared and already a huge blessing. Another team from a YWAM base in LA will be coming from late-January to mid-February, and they’ll be helping as well to serve in our sports, dance, and skateboarding ministries. We couldn’t do this without the help from teams like these and all who pray for them, encourage them, and give to them, so thanks so much from us! Here are a couple pictures from the Brazilians first few days with us this week in our sports and dance workshops:

The Brazilian mission-team leader Roberto giving reflection after basketball

Brazilian mission team leading dance workshops

THIRD: Gean Felipe and Gislaine are doing great and they’re all adjusting to a new member of the family, but all in all they are strong and healthy.

FOURTH: After 5 months my fractured wrist is (finally) almost all-better. I fractured my right wrist back in July while skating in the skate-park here and have not been able to skate or surf since. I should be ok to start next week but please pray for God’s protection as it’s not fully healed.  

Fifth: We now have a real need, as well as an unexpected opportunity, to buy a second vehicle. Because Pepe & Gislaine are now living with their family and I am now living with Guillerme in a nearby apartment, it is extremely difficult for us to take care of all our personal as well as ministry needs with just one vehicle. We’re constantly dropping it off and picking it up as we need it, and it really limits what we can do as far as ministry goes because it makes it really hard for us to be in more than one place at a time. With 2 vehicles we could accomplish much more and focus on our unique areas of ministry, instead of having to always be at one place at the same time, because we only have one car. I bring this up because we have a friend whose father in-law is selling the same vehicle we have now for a really good price, and to buy it we would need to come up with about $1500-$2000 more. So if you would like to help towards that then that would be a huge blessing and open up even more doors for ministry for us!

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.  And all donations are fully tax-deductible.

Thanks so much for all your prayers, love, and support during 2011 and I wish you and yours the absolute best in 2012!

Greg Haugh & Jose, Gislaine, Gabriel, and Gean-Felipe Eyzaguirre

GREG'S NOVEMBER 2011 NEWSLETTER: LA LLAMA, 15

Happy Thanksgiving from Chile and blessings to you all this Thanksgiving and holiday season! Being in Chile, I haven’t even thought about Thanksgiving until sitting down to write this letter, but I quickly realize just how thankful and grateful I am for each of you and the various roles you play in my life and ministry; and for the roles you all play in the family of Pepe & Gislaine and our vision and calling with Fuego Urbano here in Chile. From friends to family, prayer-warriors to financial supporters, you all make what we are doing in Chile possible and we want you to know how grateful we are for you all. I also hope that during this holiday season we all might be able to reflect not on what we don’t have, but on the blessings and gifts God has given us this past year, even if many of those things have come in the midst of very difficult circumstances. When we take time to think and reflect on God’s goodness and provision of the things we do have, we realize how fortunate we are and how grateful we should be. So from the bottom of our hearts, thank you all so very much.

FIRST: Gean Felipe Eyzaguirre was born on Thursday, Nov 18^th and everyone is doing great. It was a very difficult pregnancy for Gislaine so she’s relieved it’s now over and that Gean Felipe has arrived. Pepe and Gabriel are also excited, and Gabriel is ecstatic about having a brother now. Gabriel actually took some of his old toys to the hospital to give to Gean Felipe as a welcome-present the first time he saw him, as you can see below in these pictures from about 2 hours after the birth.

Pepe holding Gean Felipe while Gabriel gives him a kiss 

Gabriel giving Gean Felipe some of his old toys as a welcome present

Gabriel, Gislaine, Pepe, Gean Felipe

Pepe and Gislaine want to especially thank all of you who asked about them and prayed for them during this pregnancy, as well as those who gave financially to help them cover the special costs of the pregnancy and birth. All together the costs add up to around $1,000-$1,200 which sounds inexpensive when compared to USA costs but is rather expensive when you’re in a ‘developing’ nation like Chile. And thanks so much to all of you who have committed to give monthly so we can cover the increasing costs of this new member of the Eyzaguirre family.

SECOND: Our summer is going to be packed with awesome stuff but please pray God moves and draws people to Him through everything we’ll be doing. Our Community Summer Sports Programs begin Dec 13^th and we expect to have fairly easily about 80-100 people participating each day with us, which could very easily reach around 100-130 daily. That would be roughly twice as many people as last summer’s programs so we’ll have our work cut out for us, and we ask for your prayers that God would give us wisdom, discernment, energy, and that He would draw people to Himself through these programs. And these numbers don’t take into account the skaters and the skate ministry we’re constantly developing, and the upcoming surf ministry and outreach we hope to launch this summer. So there's lots happening!

It would be impossible to do all this on our own but we will have help this summer from at least 2 missions teams, and possibly a third. One will come from Dec 19^th – Jan 6^th from Brazil, the second from roughly Jan 23^rd - Feb 14^th from a YWAM base in Los Angeles, and the potential third team would come during the last week of February from St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach, which is probable but not 100% as of yet. Because the 2^nd and 3^rd teams will be coming from the Los Angeles area, it will be rather easy to send stuff down with them as long as we don’t over-load them. For example, there are things like soft-top surfboards (7ft-8ft) which they could bring down if any of you were able and willing to buy or donate one, which we could then use to launch our surf ministry here. So if you’d be interested in doing that, please let me know and I can let you know where to purchase them and how to look for them. Other things we could use would be skateboard equipment and wetsuits, all which could be brought down with those teams and put into service in our ministries and programs. If you would like to give or have any questions regarding that, please contact me and I can give you advice and directions on what to do. And if you have lightly-used equipment you’d like to donate we would love to receive those donations as well. If you have any doubts or concerns, please feel free to contact me and ask and I’ll help you out as best as I can.

THIRD: We continue to develop our website so go check it out at  http://fuegourbano.org  if you haven’t. There is lots of info about Fuego Urbano and lots of photos and videos too. Click on the ‘Photos’ link for photos, on our Facebook link to go to our Facebook group, or on the ‘Videos’ link to see our videos on You Tube. Its all in Spanish but you’ll get the idea of what’s going on.

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.  And all donations are fully tax-deductible.

Thanks so much for all your prayers, love, and support!!

Greg Haugh & Jose, Gislaine, Gabriel, and the newly-born Gean Felipe Eyzaguirre

GREG'S OCTOBER 2011 NEWSLETTER: LA LLAMA, VOL 14

Blessings from Chile where summer is right around the corner and we’re busy getting ready for it! Please read below to get all the details of everything going on here, as there’s quite a bit to tell.

FIRST: Our website is finally up so go check it out at http://fuegourbano.org  and you’ll see lots  of info about Fuego Urbano and lots of photos and videos too. Click on the ‘Photos’ link for photos (https://picasaweb.google.com/105080357708029119224) , or our Facebook link to go to our Facebook group, or on the ‘You-Tube’ tab on the lower right side of the website to see our videos on You Tube (http://www.youtube.com/user/iglesiafuegourbano). The rest is in Spanish but you’ll get the idea.

SECOND: In our bible-study & leadership-development group ‘PROFUNDO’ we just finished our study on the Gospel of John and everyone received free New Testaments, thanks to a ministry partnership we have. We’re now starting the Gospel of Mathew and when everyone finishes that they’ll receive a free hard-cover bible. Please pray God would continue to draw young leaders of Fuego Urbano to Him through His word. None of the people from Fuego Urbano have bibles at home unless we’ve given them one, so this is a very important ministry and a way for us to not only get bibles in their hands but also to get them reading and discussing them. Here’s a picture with all the New Testaments:

THIRD: About 250 young people from the region gathered for ‘PRE-CIMA 2011’ which is a foretaste of a week-long conference called CIMA this January, and which will probably have about 700-800 young people from all over South America. Through our Sinergia ministry partners we were highly involved in the event. About 8 people from Fuego Urbano participated and Pepe & I were asked to co-teach on evangelism and then to lead separate workshops: Pepe with ‘sports evangelism’ and me with ‘skateboarding.’ During our teaching on evangelism we really wanted to challenge and knock down the stereotypical ideas everyone here has of ‘evangelism’ and give them a much deeper, richer, broader, life-encompassing, Jesus-centered vision of what it is and what it can be. Then during the workshops the idea was not only to teach the sport but to also show how to use it to introduce people to Jesus, and the reception was really positive. CIMA is this January and we’ll be teaching again. Below is a picture...

 

FOURTH: We’re already preparing all our summer community sports programs with the municipality, so please pray our plans go well. School gets out for summer in the first week or two of December so we’ll be launching our summer programs Dec 13^th and expect to have pretty easily about 75-100 kids each day. We’ll also be launching community skateboard classes for the first time as well as receiving a team of 17 Brazilians from Dec 19^th – Jan 7^th, so please pray everything goes well and that they’ll able to impact the community during their stay. We’re not sure now if CPC will be sending a team down but please pray God would make that clear as well. These programs are our primary way of not only serving but reaching and evangelizing our community, and especially the young people in it who don’t know Jesus and never go to church, so please pray God would bring lots of people to Him through them!

FIFTH: Gislaine’s due-date for their new baby is Nov 23^rd so please pray for a safe delivery, and that her, Pepe, and Gabriel all adjust well to a new member of the family!

SIXTH: I (Greg) found an apartment near the other house and am in the final stages of moving in. Thanks so much to all of you who have given financially and sacrificed in order to make this a reality, and to those of you who have committed to support us on a monthly basis in order to help us cover the new cost of another apartment and a new baby for Pepe & Gislaine. We’re so grateful to you all and none of this would be possible without your generosity and gifts!

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.  And all donations are fully tax-deductible.

Thanks so much for all your prayers, love, and support!!

Greg Haugh & Jose, Gislaine, Gabriel, and (coming soon) Gean Felipe Eyzaguirre

GREG'S SEPTEMBER 2011 NEWSLETTER, VOL 11

 Greetings from Chile!! After 5 weeks in the USA I’m back in Chile and moving forward with Fuego Urbano. It was great to see so many of you when I was home and I look forward to seeing you all again when I’m home next August. As for what’s going on now, please read below for all the latest:

FIRST: Upon arrival to Chile I found Pepe, Gislaine, & Gabriel doing well and Gislaine’s belly much more noticeable from her pregnancy. She’s feeling a bit better physically but is getting bigger as their Nov due-date approaches. They now know it’ll be a boy and will name him Gean Felipe, and Gabriel is super excited to have his first brother.

SECOND: I never thought I’d find a country more patriotic (for better or worse) then the USA but Chile might just be, and September is the month when it all comes out. Sep 18^th is Chile’s Independence Day from Spain but they celebrate Chilean history, freedom, and culture all month long in their ‘Fiestas Patrias’, many of them even taking a whole week off from school. And perhaps the most surprising of all: you can actually be fined for not flying a Chilean flag on your house premises during these celebrations. Anyway, it has been fun and interesting to experience this for the first time and learn to appreciate more of the Chilean culture. In fact, Fuego Urbano actually participated in the ‘Fiestas Patrias’ parade in Las Compañías, marching along with a few thousand other people. Then on Sep 10^th we had Fuego Urbano’s ‘Pampillada,’ which is the typical Chilean BBQ and all-day party they have for these celebrations. It was lots of fun and there were about 30 of us there. Below is a picture of the majority of the group, with about 5-10 more who aren’t in the photo. 

THIRD: Our sports programs continue strong but we ask for your prayers regarding a few things. Recently the local neighborhood gang in Las Compañías has given us some small problems, though nothing too serious. Instead of responding to them with anger or hate, we’ve tried to take the way of Jesus and continue to love them by inviting them to our programs. To our surprise, they’ve started coming but push our rules and structure whenever they can. We hope this will be a door through which God might reach these guys but also realize we need your prayers for us and them.

FOURTH: The jail-ministry of Sinergia is growing and now we’re being asked to visit more jails to play soccer and do bible studies with the inmates. Our methods seem un-orthodox to many here (and they are) but they’re effective and more jails and people are realizing this. Please pray for us and Esteban who is our Sinergia ministry partner in charge of leading the weekly prison bible studies.

FIFTH: We’re still hoping & praying to be able to afford the apartment for me & Guillerme before November when Pepe & Gislaine’s new baby is due. I’ll keep you posted and thanks so much to all of you who have said you’d like to support us on a monthly basis to help with our monthly expenses; truly you’re all such a blessing. And like I’ve been sharing for the past couple months, those ongoing monthly financial commitments continue to be our greatest need at this point, though we greatly appreciate any and all the support we can get. Please pray for us regarding this and if you’d like to give financially there are directions how in the final paragraph below. And on a personal note, my wrist is still fractured and limits me but it gets better each day and I’m hoping to be at full strength in a couple weeks.

FIFTH: The ‘Lou’s BBQ Grill’ fundraiser for Fuego Urbano continues through Sep & Oct so go grab some incredible BBQ & country food at Lou’s and help support Fuego Urbano at the same time! Just print the Lou’s BBQ Fundraiser Flyer I attached to my monthly newsletter email and take it to Lou’s; then order some killer food and present the Fundraiser Flyer when you order and Lou’s will give 15% of all proceeds to Fuego Urbano whenever the Fundraiser Flyer is presented. You can print as many as you can and go as many times as possible (valid for dine-in or take-out) in Sep & Oct so go for it!! Lou’s is located at: 21501 Brookhurst Street, Huntington Beach, CA  at Brookhurst & Hamilton.

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.  And all donations are fully tax-deductible.

Thank you so much for all your prayers, love, and support!!

Greg Haugh & Jose, Gislaine, Gabriel, and Soon-To-Be-Born Gean Felipe Eyzaguirre