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News of December 2004
A LOOK INSIDE:
Christmas in Santa Clara
Santa Clara, Cuba
Santa Clara Church celebrated Christmas with joy, by different activities
on December. We can mention a special concert and some other programming
by Youth Ministry, Sabbath School and other departments. Also the Small
Groups made their own activities.
Sabbath January 1st was made a brotherhood activity in the temple. At
night, a social activity at the Pastor’s home.
The Small Group of the Las Antillas made a spiritual service on December
25th, where participated some members and a big number of visitors, what
revealed that a seed expanded by the people of Las Antillas College didn’t
die with the closing of the institution. The siblings who still live there,
some of that years, as Pr. Virgilio Zaldivar and wife Clara del Castillo,
Irone Mc Zeno and Bernardo Calvo together with the new fruits of the gospel,
they revive the flame of evangelism and the love of God to the world,
proclaiming that Jesus’ coming soon.
District Campaigns
Santa Clara, Cuba
These campaigns are made after door-to-door ministry where missionaries
offer different options to children, youth and adults such as: Voice of
Hope Courses, courses to cook, to stop smoking, videos, etc. Then, they
were offered five days in each neighborhood.
The topics were previously selected by a missionary commission to study
the needs of each group.
The assistance was relevant; this campaign is a preamble to the next
crusades, January 15th. Groups all over the city are working hard, inviting
friends, neighbors, and partners to this important event. They are also
getting ready to the Festival of Small Groups next to celebrate.
Santa Clara reports: “Birthday in Internet”.
http://www.tagnet.org/iasdsc
Santa Clara, Cuba
This month, (exactly December 6th) our site is celebrating its 2nd year
of active life, the first and unique web site to Christ’ service
on Adventist Church in Cuba.
This web originally was launched December 3rd, 2002, on a sever of the
Brinkster Enterprise. Then, December 3 2003 in its first anniversary it
was changed and redesigned to the Three Angels Global Networking (TAGnet)
in this new address: http://www.tagnet.org/iasdsc
Speaking with Mrs. Coralia García, President of Communication
Department about her dreams and challenges, she said: “We’re
dreaming to have our own org domain and to automate some tasks using a
database. These are services TAGnet offers, but they are non free and
we don’t have any possibility to pay them. Also we need other means
to support our work, such as a digital camera and a better equipments
to design the site.”
“Among our challenges -continues Coralia- is to update the site,
weekly our semimonthly, not possible in this moment for the cost of the
services here in Cuba. Though the costs are paid by the church in Santa
Clara, it is not enough. Also to get other Cuban churches send their news
to be publish. Besides, to gain move visitors to the site; in this moment,
predominating visitors of South America countries, Unites States, Mexico
and Argentina. The most-visited sections are “Resources”,
“Downloads”, and “Sabbath Scholl Lessons”. It
is not a big number of visitors but they had been special to us. It is
there fore our challenge to enlarge our offers with more options to supply
all preferences and needs.
This site counts with 9 sections: “Who are we?”, “Resources”
(articles, studies, investigations, sermons, health, symposium works,
etc), “News”, “Bible Courses” (to children and
grown ups), “Our History”, “Downloads”, “Friends
in touch” and Map of the site”, been translate into English
just some of the sections.
Other alternatives are Sabbath School Lesson of this quarter; Morning
Devotional; a plan to study the Bible in 2 years and Prayer Club, which
receives the asking of brother and sisters through the mail: iasdsantaclara@yahoo.es,
the most of the prayers have been answered by God, allowing also brotherhood
among friends and siblings.
In these two years we have had an unconditional support of Present Truth
News Team, leading by Rolf Baier Schmidt, who translates into Spanish
the 100% of ANN news, and he send us to be publish. He also promotes our
site and news among the members of his team.
Moreover, the Radiobroadcast “Super TNT 90.1” from the West
Mission Panama, visit frecuently our site, in its program “Adventist
Church promote or news and have been in touch with us throught Inter-American
Division thanks to Pastor Luis Fajardo, who has support us with excellent
seminaries on Evangelism and Sabbath School, those you can find among
“Special Offers.”
We’ve got to mention the precious help of students of Adventist
Collage of Havana with some materials; and secretaries of Communication
Department and Youth Ministry of the Cuban Union, with materials to School
Lesson and others. Also our thanks to Pr. Marcelos Solis, from Tocoa 2
District, in Colon, Honduras.
Communication Department Team is thanking our God first of all to Brinkster
and TAGnet servers, and everyone who has support us, spiritual and material
way. Mrs. Coralia said everyone “Thanks brothers and sisters, the
glory and honor to God”. You can send your suggestions to enrich
and improve our work.
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