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GRACE UPON GRACE
Beloved friend and partner in the Lord.
I want to start my first Newsletter
of the year expressing my
deepest gratitude to our Lord and
Savior, for the amazing year He
granted to me!
The grace of God was pour out
from the very beginning of the
year. God put the desire to reach
the campus students for Christ, in
the heart of a wonderful bunch of
volunteers from my church,
including my pastor, Luis Azañero
(Picture 1).
I must say that this was the God’s
answer of my prayers, because I
was reaching out the medical
students by myself for many
years. But God was so gracious to
me by motivating these leaders
from my church.
We have received the help
different missionaries. Our first
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partner was our beloved friend
Beau Wilfong, then finally in June
we received the visit of a beautiful
group of young missionaries from
our sister church from
Jacksonville Florida. Many
students heard the gospel and
answered to call of God (Picture
2).
Picture 1.- The volunteers from my church with our
friend Beau Wilfong.
Although the best way the reach
out students for Christ, was
sharing the gospel one to one. For
this purpose, we used an amazing
gospel tool called “The God Test,”
again God showed His amazing
grace during those days at the
campus, we have reached a
bunch of students for Christ and
some students got baptized this
year!
Picture 2.- Our friends from our sister church in Jacksonville
I want to thank you for partnering Florida.
with me, by sending me to
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missions to Krakow, Poland this
past October. This was my
second time in this beautiful
country, because I felt the burden
from God to come back to see my
spiritual family again, and help
them in their effort to reach out
students for Christ. This year I
was greatly amazed seeing how
the grace of God was so powerful,
because many students were
ready to accept Christ in their
hearts!
I know that every missions trip is
never the same, but I should say
that this mission trip was one of
the kind! I am still in awe of the
grace of God in each member, I
really was blessed with friends for
life time! (Picture 3).
Since June 2017, I had the
blessing to start knowing a
precious daughter of God, her
name is Roxana, and here I want
to share with you how we became
more than just friends (Picture 4).
We met 2 years ago during my
first mission trip to Krakow in
2015, but I didn’t remember her
very well, because I was so
focused on my task as missionary.
Although we were friends on
Facebook after my first time in
Krakow, we didn’t interact at all.
However, right after I posted on
Facebook that I officially signed
up for my second mission trip to
Krakow, I received a personal
message from her that said that
she was very happy that I was
going back to her church. After
few weeks later, I asked her if we
can meet up on skype to know
her a little bit better.
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But unfortunately, she thought I
was trying to date her, so she
immediately told me that she
wasn’t interested in any romantic
relationship with me. So, I
answered her that I want to know
her just as a friend.
Thankfully, she was agreed to Picture 3.- With my dream team: Ten Days Krakow 2017.
continue messaging on
Facebook. Few months later, my
interest in her was greatly
increased, so after looking for
counseling from my pastor, I
decided to pray over it, and wait
until God may open her eyes, so
she can see me in the same way I
was seeing her. Finally, God
answered my prayers! She told Picture 4.- Let me introduce you the woman of my
dreams, Roxana!
me if I was still interested in her.
So immediately, I said yes!
After my mission trip to Krakow, I
had to blessing to actual date
with her. She has shown not just
beauty outside, but also inside. I
saw sincere kindness, godly
wisdom, unique courage, and the
most important a genuine love
for God and for His word. Finally,
both we traveled to Paris with our Picture 5.- With Mateusz, our good friend and favorite
third wheel in our adventure in Paris.
very good friend Mateusz (Picture
5).
Thank you so much to each one
of you, I couldn’t go on missions
this year without your help!
Thank you for being part of this
year and my life!
Dimas Guiop
Picture 6.- In Paris with the love of my life!