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Dear friends and family in Christ:

Serving the Lord is something exciting. As His servants, we spend our days striving to do what is in our power to be faithful to the Lord. But when we stop and look back we can only acknowledge our many limitations and the great power of the God we serve. Through these words, we wish to emphasize the faithfulness and love of our Lord, who continues to transform lives for His glory.

The study of the book of Galatians on Sunday mornings is being a blessing. At the same time, two groups of discipleship have been formed, one male and one female, who meet weekly to meditate on the grace of God through the reading of the book "Why Grace changes everything." Eunice's parents, Pr. Pepe and Alicia, are discipling a family who gave their lives to Christ earlier this year. They heard of our church through Alicia and Eunice because their children sing in the gospel choir at the local school. We thank God for the transformation we see in the Segovia family. Carmina is a Christian lady who had not been attending any church for different reasons. She heard of our congregation through another believer and is now attending our services regularly.

The Gospel Choir is still a blessing. The next concert will be on June 8th and we expect about 180 people attending. We are excited and we pray that God continues to touch hearts through the message of the gospel preached in the songs.

We are happy to announce that soon we will be a legally constituted church. We have already completed the necessary paperwork and now we are just waiting for the definitive answer. It's exciting to see how the church continues its process, and the Lord makes all things possible. We also have a website where you can listen to the studies on Galatians in Spanish and view other information of interest. This website is: www.icevictoria.com

God has given Pr. Ivan the opportunity of running a youth program in a Hispanic church retreat in Switzerland. He will travel there the first weekend in June, God willing. He has also been invited to teach at a camp for families this summer. We are organizing our church retreat which will take place late September. Pray for these things so that God may be glorified in them.

And we cannot conclude without communicating some very important prayer requests. We continue to hope that God will provide our church with a place of our own to meet. It is becoming more difficult to minister to our children in the hotel and we are quite limited in other areas. We have seen some options, but we need a divine intervention to make it possible. We are very happy that God has given us another baby. Eunice is pregnant but her situation is quite delicate since a couple of months. She continues on bed rest so we ask your prayers for a complete recovery.

Lastly, we would like to share with you a verse that encourages us to live by and for Christ every day of our lives: “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me” (Galatians 2:20). To Him be the glory.