Blessed Hope International Mission &

Chaplains for Christ International

www.blessedhopemission.org

Mission Trip to Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

February 8th – 15th, 2010

Greetings in the mighty name of our Lord and Savior

Jesus Christ. We have been praying for a long time and
waiting for God’s guidance for this journey. We are so
blessed and delighted to inform you of our first missionary
trip to the city of Monterrey in Mexico. By the grace of our
Lord, we, Edgar Garza, Constantine Lupancu, Pavel Sav from
Golgotha Church, form Gethsemane Church Pastor Aurel
Balici, and brother Toader Dorel Stirbu were part of this
missionary trip.

Monday February 8th we arrived at Harlingen, Texas

Airport. Entering the country of Mexico through the border of
McAllen, Texas drove for four straight hours with Pastor
Cesar, his wife Rebecca, and Edgar’s parents to the city of
Monterrey. Arriving around 9:30 PM to an underprivileged
neighborhood, the service took place in a local mechanical
shop, where followers of Christ gather every Monday night.
There was a tremendous manifestation of the Holy Spirit, we
had an opportunity to pray and lay hands on many of the
people. The Lord touched many hearts that night and we experienced the mighty
power of God among his people. After the service we were
invited to dinner by our brothers, offering us homemade
tamales, ending our night around eleven p.m.

Tuesday, February 9th we departure from Monterrey to

the town of El Carmen, about a half hour away, we where
invited to the Church of El Divino Salvador “The Divine
Savior” by Pastor Josue Murillo for fellowship and breakfast.
Pastor Sergio Castillo and his members of the rehab center
joined us. Pastor Josue showed us the installations of his
church he treated us with a few worship song of his own
inspiration. We then visited Edgar’s
parent’s home and enjoyed one of the
best fresh tangerines and oranges
picked right from the trees with and
unforgettable flavor. We rested to
prepare ourselves for a service in the
town Abasolo scheduled for five p.m.
Arriving to the (El Polivalente), the
town’s outdoors event hall where the
 service took place, we were blessed to bring to the people
the Lord’s good news and the power of the Holy Spirit.
Among all the people that we ministered, there was a blind
woman and a man with Tuberculosis who we prayed to our
Lord to heal them; days later, after our trip, we received a
phone call from our brothers in Mexico giving us notice of the
great miracle of God that gave partial sight to the blind lady
and complete healing of tuberculosis to the man. Being both
touched by the healing power of the Holy Spirit, we rejoiced ourselves every
moment we spent with our brothers, who have such a passionate love for our Lord.
God performs miracles to confirm His Word especially in the places where the
gospel has not advanced to open a way for the gospel to be accepted and people to
be saved. The Kingdom of God is coming in the hearts of people and people turn
from rituals, and forms of religion to the true God; living a life of holiness in the fear
of God Almighty.
We left that night after the service ended to spend the night
at our brother Cesar’s home, spending time with him and his
family in prayer and worship, this was a blessed day full of
joy and happiness to be part of how our Lord moves and
touches peoples heart, any where we go with a strong
burning desire to serve Him with all of our hearts.

Wednesday, February 10 Invited by Pastor Sergio

Castillo and his wife Silvia to visit their rehab center and their
church, they prepared us a delicious breakfast with fresh
baked bread, of which they sell in the streets to support their
ministry. We all traveled joined by all the rehab center
members, to a close by neighborhood called “El Topo Chico”
it was previously a stone query, from which they extracted
stone to make cement and gravel. This same neighborhood
was the home of most of the members from the rehab
center; just to see them doing the work of the Lord, rescuing
their own family and friends from the hands of the devil
under drug and alcohol addictions, shows the love and
compassion of Jesus Christ in action.
A home was visited and had a unforgettable
experience, to see the work of our Lord, the people living in
this home agree to receive Jesus Christ as their Lord savior
and decided to destroy all the images and statues of saints separating them from a
true relationship with Christ; Also visited another home of blind older couple, true
servants of the Lord, we had an opportunity to bring to all the people gather
together the word of the Lord, hot soup was served to everyone, prepared by sister
Silvia, pastor Sergio’s wife, they both have been with this ministry for a few years, it
has been a great blessing for this community, for their continues presence in this
poor areas and their love for the Lord, also plenty of clothing and candies was given
to the people. It was such a nice moment to see all the members of the rehab
center dedicating their lives searching for more people in need of Gods presence
and a better promising future.
 We all returned for lunch to the rehab center, they
have prepared us roasted turkey and fresh baked bread,
spending great time with all this loving servants of the Lord,
after lunch we visited another poor neighborhood, where
Pastor Sergio and wife have been visiting for the last 8 years,
they are building a church of which they only have the walls
up to four feet tall with dirty floor, we experience a
unforgettable moment when all the children form this
community prayed for us I will never forget their prayers with
love for us, thanking God for our visit to their church, to be
finish with the grace of our Lord.
A service was held that evening in the rehab center, where brother
Constantin and Aurel had a tremendous message for the congregation, many souls
where touched by such empowering words that God placed on their hearts that
night, we all rejoiced with his mighty presence, a lady started singing in divine
angelical tones, it was such an anointed experience. Pastor Sergio, gave a warmed
welcome to its newest member of the rehab center a 12 year old boy, drug addict
just brought this morning from our visit to one of the poor neighborhoods, our heart
was broken to see such a young being rescue by one of his own neighborhood
friend, God is real, and continue to see his grace and mercy in action, everywhere
we go in his mighty name, glory be to God.

Thursday, February 11 early that morning we started a

four-day seminar titled “Baptized by the Holy Spirit”, such
anointed event was initiated with a breakfast at: Centro de
Amistad Cristiana, by Pastor Cesar Betancurt and all his
family giving all their unconditional support to the work of
our Lord. Brother Constantin & Pastor Aurel initiated the
event with a message that had tremendous impact, all the
present congregation responded in with an enlighten
presence of the Holy Spirit, as we looked around the church it
was inevitable to ignore the presence of the mighty power of
God touching everyone that morning,
we couldn’t wait to continue with the
following day with Gods call to serve him. That evening we
departure back to the town of Abasolo, town located in the
“Sierra Madre Occidental” in a stretch of two unique
formations of mountains. Visiting the neighboring town of
Hidalgo, that produces many tons of cement, extracting all
the stone from their huge mountains, also visited by many
professional mountain climbers from around the world,
claiming to be just perfect for their passionate sport.
Admiring such a beautifully scenery in this canyon of vast
size of blue stone mountains, we can admire Gods lovely
creation. We had an opportunity to pray for an older couple
from Switzerland, that our Lord may bless and protect them
from this dangerous sport. The day ended with prayer and
fellowship at Edgar’s parents’ home that evening, again with
the presence and anointing of the Holy Spirit filling our souls
with fire and ready for another blessed day in Mexico.
 Friday, February 12 after a good night sleep, we woke
up by a delicious breakfast prepare by brothers Edgar’s
mother, we departure to the town of
Mina, being the only archaeological
site of its kind with many paintings on
large stones. Delighting our self’s with
the serenity that the desert provides,
where we all agreed to be a good
place for a prayer seeking the
presence of our lord. Driving another
thirty minutes in to another mountain
we visited an orphanage, unfortunate the children were not
in campus, we had an opportunity to talk and pray for one of
the staff members, leaving for the children some bags of
candy. Pastor Aurel suggested he wanted to visit a spring of water in the town of
Hidalgo, it was quite an adventure driving to this place, our van started to heat up
and the road was a bit rough, but manage to arrive safely. It was a great experience
to be high in the mountains and breathe such a clean fresh air. That evening we
returned to Monterrey to the church of Centro de Amistad Cristiana with Pastor
Cesar Betancurt.
Bringing word of knowledge and encouragement to the
people that attended the seminar, we where all filled with the
fire of the Holy Spirit being such a blessing and
encouragement for all of our brothers in Monterrey City. After
the service ended we arrived at brothers Cesar’s home,
spending great time of prayer and worship with all his family
members. That night in Monterrey was a bit cold, since we
didn’t have any heating, but with the fire of the Holy Spirit
kept us warm.

Saturday, February 13 starting the day at church with

a home made breakfast prepared by Rebeca Pastor Cesar’s wife. The service
started with the active participation of all the mission members, it was a great
honor to serve our Lord in bringing the good news and blessings to our brothers in
Monterrey Mex. During the service a young lady was mighty blessed with the Holy
Spirit with the evidence of speaking in heavenly tongues as it is written in the book
of Acts 2. Brother Toader Stirbu had a vision from God that a beam of light
appeared onto the pulpit platform where this woman was praying and seeking
fervently the Holy Spirit’s mighty power. As she was praying, brother Toader asked
Pavel Sav to go onto the platform where the lady was praying in order to help her
prayer because the light was shining on her. As they were approaching the side
where she was praying, she started speaking in other tongues as the spirit gave her
utterance. I asked brother Edgar Garza, who translated for us – what she was
saying. He told me the language she was speaking was not Spanish anymore – It
was a heavenly language and she was full of Joy. That same night, Pastor Balici had
words of knowledge from God to different people from the congregation. One was
for brother Edgar’s parents to not look back on the old path of tradition they came
from but to move forward, following the true living God, which saved them. It was
such a rewarding moment to see Gods glory manifest in such a divine way, touching
everyone in the congregation including all the members of the rehab center. We will
never forget this mission trip, bringing to our lives a purpose to continue serving our
mighty God. The seminar concluded late that night with plenty of joy and anointing
that was felt amongst everyone present.

Sunday, February 14 early Sunday service initiated that morning with the
fervent participation to serve our Lord. Church service and family prayer meeting
were a blessing for all of us. God confirmed once again through a godly woman
from Mexico City that the project of school in Romania is in God’s will. Words from
Isaiah 44:1-3 were given as a reference to that project.
“1. This is what the LORD says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take
hold of to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their armor, to open doors
before him so that gates will not be shut:
2. I will go before you and will level the mountains; I will break down gates of
bronze and cut through bars of iron.
3. I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that
you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who summons you by name.”
That evening we where invited for dinner to a restaurant named “El Rey del
Cabrito”. They specialize on charcoal grilled tender goat meat. There is a saying
that if you visited Monterrey and didn’t go to this restaurant you did not visit
Monterrey (very authentic food from the state of Nuevo Leon).

Monday, February 14 we departed from Pastor Caesars home early that

morning, driving back for approximately four hours to Harlingen Texas to catch our
plane that would take us back home to the States.
We saw once again his mighty work as we see in every country that our Lord
permits us to visit. Our thanks are to Him because he gave us the honorable
privilege to plant Gods word in Churches and under privilege communities in yet
one more country. We ask you brothers to please pray the lives of those who gave
their own lives to Jesus that they will become light in the darkness.

Blessed be the mighty name of our Lord Jesus!