God the father's vision was meant to bring change through the birth and sacrifice of Jesus Christ which opened up for us and opportunity to receive an eternal reward in heaven.

   We want to thank so many of you that are a part of the vision for change down here and have made sacrifices which in due time will bring forth its reward.

Vision for change this last year:

• Angela and I went on our 25th anniversary trip to a prophetic conference in Dallas Texas and a Dallas Cowboys football game and then visited friends in Temple, Texas.

Melinda and Celestino had their civil wedding this September and will be having the celebration and formal church wedding on January 12th of 2008 while Joshua is here. So now we're looking forward to the next stage of life, the arrival of our grandchildren.

• John has written several books in Spanish, on Giving, Dating and The Priorities of a Disciple.

Joshua graduated from Hillsong Leadership College in December and will be returning in February to work at the church there as he follows his vision to develop relationships with artists and to develop expertise so that he can open an international recording studio here in Mexico with his future wife in a few of years.

• As a ministry this year we were invited by several political parties to be involved in serving the municipality in social issues. One of these parties won the election and in his victory speech he recognized God and thanked the Christians for their votes.  The photo above in the tent is the victory party where they celebrated by barbecuing 5 cows and several goats and invited the town to lunch.

With the Prophetic word of Pastor Dave and the help of teams from Canada we raised the roof on half of the church building and put in a second floor with a general office, creative arts office, institute dorm for young men, Sunday School rooms, bathrooms and nursery.

•   As a Church Organization we are redefining our legal structure so as to align it with our relational infrastructure with KCC and our extension churches.
   

• Our pastor in Pinotepa ( Bismarck ) has been discipling a leader in another large church there and is seeing the fruit as their church and leadership becomes more stable.
   

God decided to make a change in living conditions for one of our graduates from our institute and took her home with him. We miss her and we are thankful for what she deposited into our lives while here.  (Mari here with Pastor John ) She is one of the young ladies that went to Canada with us this summer.

• We are seeing prodigal sons & daughters return to fellowship with our church as prophesied by Pastor Dave.
   

Angela started a prison ministry to the women this last year and is seeing lasting fruit as these women grow in their faith. They have been witnessing to the men in the prison, causing the men to want to know more about Christ.  They have seen incredible answers to prayer for healing, deliverance and baptism of the Spirit.

VISION FOR CHANGE FOR 2008

• January 1st, we will be officially in charge of the social development for the region authorized by the new municipal president in San Pedro Mixtepec. For our first project we will be bringing an international ex-drug addict and ex-con to share at the city plaza on January 14 & 15th with a projected audience of 2000 to 3000 people in attendance mostly funded by the municipality. Also projected are Mercy Ministries like a Single mom's house, weekly food hampers, a food kitchen for the street people, Rehab center, Youth counselling center and quarterly municipal youth conferences like the one in January.

This is Judith discipling Suri one of our first students that is deaf and mute, she is learning to cook and attend customers in the restaurant helping her to  become useful in the society. In the meantime Angela and the girls are learning sign language.

• Joshua will return to Australia in February to continue developing his vision for the production studio.

• We are looking at establishing a ministry of reconciliation for prodigal sons & daughters.

• This new year John desires to finish some books on; Eating the Fruit of the Tongue, The Power released through and under Authority, God's Order in the Marriage, and translate his Dating booklet into English. As well, he wants to produce Messages Series for distribution with the books.

This is John with our "adopted" grandchild, Evelyn who was born while her mother attended our Discipleship Training Institute last January 1st 2007.

• As a church we have gone through a restructuring this last year and look forward to  rebuilding and edifying leaders with the disciplines that are spoken of in 1 Timothy so that they can become solid pillars for the church of tomorrow.

• We will continue our building project in Puerto Escondido this year which includes finishing the bathrooms and Sunday school rooms and then extending the auditorium to be able to house large conferences as prophesized by Pastor Dave.

• We will continue the building project in Zicatela to finish the Sunday School rooms with floors, doors and windows.

• Building project in San Pedro is to build another bathroom and a shower stall for the pastors family.

• Building project in Pinotepa is to build the walls around the other two sides of the property.

We would like to wish you a very Happy and Prosperous New Year

John & Angela, Joshua Nickel & Melinda &Celestino Rodriguez