A man by the name of Jorge Torres has been visiting our church a couple of times on Tuesdays. He's a part of a larger church called Visión del Futuro and works in the production of a TV show called La Otra TV on the channel "Canal Luz". On it they interview different kinds of people working for God´s Kingdom, and he asked me to be on his show as a guest. I gladly accepted and had a great time witnessing and sharing about our work here in the center of Buenos Aires with people who need Christ so much. I also enjoyed sharing about my work in music. He says the program is seen throughout Latin America and Miami.

And since we've had Father's Day since my last update, I'd like to give a shout-out to my dad who spent hours taking my brother and I to our music lessons every week in the car. He's been an excellent example of what it means to live by faith, completely dedicated to God's calling even when you don't know exactly what God has next for you.

Please pray that as soon as the institute is started, God will annoint it and everything we teach there. Pray that God will use us to help people discover their calling in God's Kingdom and invest everything in it. We're expecting great things to come!

Hi everyone! CPC Ministries has a new member! His name is Lucas Ramos, he´s 12 and has been attending our church with his mom for a couple months now.

It´s refreshing, because over the last year and a half or so, I've lost a lot of violin students in our church for several different reasons. In about a month or 2, I plan to have Lucas, David, and Melina play the violins out on the street alongside the evangelism team. Pray that God will use us to attract attention to our work here in Congreso.

By August I would like to begin the music institute in our church that specializes in stringed instruments and has several different music and Bible courses. It´s a good time since we have the facilities in our new building. It´s also important so the students see it less as a violin club and more as a ministry, a calling.

And since it was just Mother's Day, I'll give a recognition to my mom. I'm thankful for her Godly example and that, unlike so many people, she took my music education seriously and taught me how to work hard at it, so I could become God's musician that I am today.

Blessings! Sorry it's been so long since my last update; there's a lot that's happened. During the church move which was a big job, we were able to get together some decent Christmas music to perform this year. My students played Jingle bells and Silent night.


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The delay in my newsletter is because I've moved out of my old apartment and because the phone company was very slow installing it in my new apartment. Starting in December there was a major infestation of cockroaches where I was living before. Aside from it being summer here, it happened because most of the people in the building do not fumigate since they use it for office space and are not there when the fumigator arrives. I had to leave because they would get into my electronic equipment and destroy it. So I moved back in with my parents for a couple of weeks, looking for an apartment. Then God blessed me. The Landins are staying in Paraguay again this year until December, which is unfortunate since they will be missed, but they are renting out their small apartment to me which is very nice and just around the corner from the new church building. They plan to rent a larger apartment for themselves when they get back.

The Landins also invited me to spend a couple of weeks with them in their town in Paraguay which is San Juan Nepomuceno. Since I've never really been on vacation, I accepted. It was really nice to get to know their friends and family. I also ministered in music in their local church. They are very kind-hearted people.

I came back the first week of February. I'm finally settled and am setting up projects for this year.

No dream is completely isolated from all others.

It´s something I believe is very important to remember, so we don't get caught up thinking only about where we are at and forget about Jesus' body as a whole, because God puts dreams in all his servants' hearts, and He expects us to work together to reach them. God says what we sow we reap. So if we sow time and effort into other people's ministries, He will bring people into our lives who will sow time and effort into our ministries, so that they can be enriched. For 2 years now, I've had the opportunity to teach music theory on Saturday mornings at an evangelical church just outside the beltway. Their music school is called Instituto corazón de adorador (Heart of a Worshiper Institute). I can tell they are motivated to raise up worshippers for God's kingdom in their area of the city and that they value their teachers, so I was happy to prepare and play an arrangement on the violin at their end-of-year celebration.

Melina and Yasmín are progressing well. Here's a video they made with their dad.



Melina has completed Suzuki book 1, although Yasmín has had to miss some classes because Stefanía has been too bogged down with high school to teach her. Please pray that high school studies don't get so demanding that my students don't have enough time for their musical development in God's kingdom. Also pray that God protects my students from physical harm. This year 3 good students of mine in our church have had to miss classes because of injuries to their left wrist (Stefanía, Miguel, and Melina). Also pray that God uses our music to reach new people this Christmas season.

Extreme Christmas blessings!

Here are a couple of songs we played in the park on the first day of Spring. Here the seasons are reverse so the first day of Spring is on Sept. 21. Spring day is like a holiday down here because when it doesn't fall on the weekend, students take the day off from school and have fun in the park which makes it a great opportunity to evangelize. We also did a drama and shared testimonies.

The Twinkle Twinkle Little Star variations for all beginners:



I also put Nothing but the Blood in my teaching repertoire.



God bless, and to all the Canadians, Happy Thanksgiving!!

Here´s one of our recent presentations.

For our last youth service I got a pickup for my cello to amplify it and show people what it can do in the band. Praying that it will inspire people to take up the instrument for God´s kingdom in spite of what it costs to buy one. This month we are preparing a special evangelism event for the first day of Spring when everyone will be out in the park. 

Last Saturday we had a very special event: Yasmín, Melina's little sister, is four years old and had her very first violin class! She had been wanting learn how to play for quite a while, so I got one of our old one-eighth size violins from storage and gave it to her to start on. But I didn't teach her. I'm having Stefanía do it to provide her with her own experience as a violin teacher. Stefanía is my most advanced student, and she already has some experience helping out my other students, so I feel led to compliment that with her own classes that she teaches so she can be trained as a violin teacher. She is thrilled to have this opportunity. Pray that Yasmín will grow up to be an excellent musician in God's kingdom!

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