June , 2012
Dear brothers and Sisters in Christ!
My God bless your life, your family and your ministry.
My name is Alejandro Bravo, my wife´s name is Jennifer, we are from Nicaragua. My wife and I are working full time at Nicaragua, we hope your pray for us, in this moments, we don´t have support.
I want present to you our work plan.
In this letter I present to you:
1. Our plan
2. Information to us.
May the Lord bless you in all you do.
In Christian love,
Alex and Jennifer Bravo
WORK PLAN
- TISMACHURCH OF CHRIST-
Tisma City, Masaya, Nicaragua.
….And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached to all the world, for a testimony to all nations: and then shall the end come. (Matthew 24:14)
I. REPUBLIC OF NICARAGUA
A. Populations: 6.793.000 million people. (in 2005)
B. Geography: 130.000km² of extension.
1. Location: on America Center.
2. Neigh bores: Costa Rica on the south, Honduras on the north, Pacific Ocean on the west and Caribbean Ocean on the East.
C. Cities
1. Capital: Managua
2. Local Divisions: 17Departments (including the Department of Masaya)
3. Tisma City: Tisma is a city from the department of Masaya,Tisma is to 14 kilometers (8.70 miles) from Masaya City.
D. National Economy
1. Nicaragua produces: are an agricultural country, livestock, fisheries, textiles, and mining.
II. TISMA CITY
A. Populations: approximately 12,681 people (in 2010)
1. Location: Masaya´s north (45 minutes from Managua)
B. Local Economy
1. The people from Tisma are agriculture people and fishermen. They are very poor people. 2. Tisma is a town established at the edge of a lake (Tisma´s Lake)
C. Religious History
1. Tisma’s people have very Catholic traditions, but now different evangelical groups are establishing different churches at Tisma and his different communities and towns.
2. At Tisma NO exist a Church of Christ, is a new campus and is a virgin place for planting the Christ's gospel.
| Jennifer is teaching Bible class to kids from Tisma City |
- Work’s Methodology.
1. Through of the children: The Tisma’s people are very young; the 38% of the people are children. Jenny will be working to the Children’s Ministry,
a) Jennifer will start a program of schooltutoring for kids in the schools.
b) And special program for kids that they are not in the school for will teach to read and write and general culture. In all programs Jennifer will teach Bible class and Christian educations.
2. We start Growing Groups
a) Small groups (very important): we will establish Small Groups in different families.
b) Evangelistic Campaigns: we will work with Evangelistic Meetings and campaigns.
c) Seminars: we will found seminar/month for all families (Family’s Topics)
d) Personal evangelism (I NEED WORK A FULL TIME): This is very important here, we need visit the families at their homes in good time for the people.
e) Bible courses.
f) And others: I talking with to directors from the schools for teaching Bible Class at the State Elementary Schools in Tisma.
3. Counseling Ministry
a) Counseling Ministry for married people.
b) Counseling Ministry for Young people
c) Counseling Ministry for Children
d) Counseling Ministry for all family
- GOALS
1. To bring to the people a dynamic gospel in
Tismaand near other community’s.
2. To have a strong church with leadership.
3. To form leader´s meetings in the area.
C. SO TOO.
1. Preachingand visit all day, Monday to Friday, the Saturday is for work with Youth Ministry.
2. We need working in Counseling Minister, the Tismapeople they are a very humble and very poor. They need very spiritual and material support.
3. Develop different program for Educational Ministry, this is very important for church growth.
4. This work will achieve this out through visits to the families of new members of the church, once you attain them, develop evangelistic activities where we are visiting people interact and feel part of the local church. Also conducting evangelistic crusades where the people who have already spoken have the opportunity to feel a call to conversion through baptism.
So, this work is carried out by retaining new members, as this is one of our weaknesses in the Latin American churches of Christ, and here in Tismais no exception as only a man cannot do everything, hence the need to change strategy and team work, that would give a good result in the distribution of ministries in the Church. We will also begin as a working team to involve other siblings through a mentoring project.
D. INFORMATION TO US.
1. ALEX BRAVO
a) PERSONAL INFORMATION:
i. NAME: ALEJANDRO ENRIQUE BRAVO JOSE.
ii. NATIONALITY: Nicaraguan.
iii. BIRTH: Masaya City – January1th of 1988.
iv. AGE: 24 years old
v. CIVIL STATUS: Married with JENNIFER BRAVO
vi. CHILDREN: we don´t have children.
vii. BAPTISM:March 21th, 2001. Sacuanjoche Church of Christ, Masaya.
Married with Jennifer since 2009
b) EDUCATION INFORMATION
i. Secondary Education
· INMARE High School, Masaya-Nicaragua, 2005.
ii. College:
• Central American University (Course), Nicaragua,2005, “Diploma in Human Resourcesand Interpersonal Relations”.
· Masinfa College, Nicaragua, 2006, “Diploma in Tourist Business Administration and Hotel”.
iii. Bible and Christian Formation
· Nicaraguan Bible Institute, Nicaragua, 2008, “Diploma in Theology”.
· Sunset International Bible School, Sunset, TX, 2008 “Certificate In Ministry Training”
· Baxter Institute, Honduras, Two years “BA in Theology”
• Baxter Institute, Honduras, 2011, “Diploma in Bible Studies”
• Many seminars and training for ministry.
c)EXPERIENCE IN THE MINISTRY
i. Worked:
· Minister in Sacuanjoche Church of Christ 2006-2009 (Masaya, Nicaragua)
· Organizing the national youth meeting/year (UPLIF) 2007-2008 (Nicaragua, 2,000 people for meeting)
· Youth Minister in Mogote Church of Christ, 2010 (Tegucigalpa, Honduras)
· Youth Minister and Educational Minister in Los PinosChurch of Christ, 2011 (Tegucigalpa, Honduras)
· Founder of the YOUTH VIGILS IN HONDURAS, to which hundreds of people attending.
a) PERSONAL INFORMATION:
i. NAME: JENNIFERFAJARDO DE BRAVO.
ii. NATIONALITY: Nicaraguan.
iii. BIRTH: Masaya City – April 28th of 1984.
iv. AGE: 28 years old
v. CHILDREN: we don´t have children.
vii. BAPTISM: August 28th, 1997. Central Church of Christ, Masaya.
Married with Alex since 2009
b) EDUCATION INFORMATION
i. Secondary Education
· ICCVB High School, Masaya-Nicaragua, 2002.
ii. College:
· CommercialScienceAcademy, Nicaragua, 2004, “Diploma in Techniques in Handling Cash”.
iii. Bible and Christian Formation
· Nicaraguan Bible Institute, Nicaragua, Two years (2008-2009).
• Baxter Institute, Honduras, Two years “BA in Theology”
c)EXPERIENCEIN THE MINISTRY
i. Worked:
· Children´s Ministry in Central Church of Christ 1998-2005 (Masaya, Nicaragua)
· Children´s Ministry in Nindiri Church of Christ 2006-2009 (Nindiri, Nicaragua)
· Children´s Ministry in Mogote Church of Christ, 2010 (Tegucigalpa, Honduras)
· Teenager´s Ministry in Los Pinos Church of Christ, 2011 (Tegucigalpa, Honduras)
· Share the Christian ministry withher husbandAlexsince 2009
- CONCLUSION
In this moment my wife and I, we don´t have support, we hope your help for this work. (In the next page is the distribution of our expenses)
We believe the only hope for humanity is God´s messenger.
Nicaragua has an urgent need for preachers to share the message.
Help us to help!!!
- CONTAC US:
Alex & Jennifer Bravo
E-mail: encuentroconlaverdad@yahoo.es
Phone: 00505-2522-9604
Cell phone: 00504-8650-4095
www.facebook.com/alex.bravo
Budget our expenses/month
| Needs | Cost |
| Rent of house | $ 100 |
| Food | $ 280 |
| Household Expenses | $ 114 |
| Transport to Tisma (in bus) | $ 103 |
| Total | $ 597 |
Note 1: These are our needs, but if you cannot with this, you can help with part, my family and I don’t have support. So all or part is very important to us in this moment. Thank you very much for all!!!
Note 2: The new church need: Chairs for adults and children, Christian materials for children's Sunday school, and others.
