Here is my Cuba Trip Update. ¡Cuba Para Cristo! The word Wow continues to be a key expression in my life and vocabulary as I serve and minister through the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention. I have just returned from my third trip to Cuba. While serving as pastor of the First Spanish Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, I made two trips to the island and fell in love with the Familia Cubana, and that love was enhanced this past week. I was honored to be a part of a preaching and teaching team, sponsored by the International Mission Board and the Cuban Western Baptist Convention, that included Frank Page (CEO/President, SBC Executive Committee), IMB Staff-Kurt Urbanek, (Strategy Leader for Cuba), Roy Cooper (Leadership Development), Dirce Cooper (Worship Leadership Development, Jason Carlisle (Hispanic Mobilization), David Garrison (Author of the book on Church Planting Movements) and Tim Simpson (IMB Trustee). We all delighted in connecting with the leadership in Cuba. There was something different about my third visit to Cuba. It was evident that God was up to something extraordinary! Every event that we participated in this week gave evidence of the overwhelming presence of God. We experienced extraordinary prayer, powerful worship services and a visible union among the pastors and church planters. We participated in services where several house churches were constituted; new converts were baptized in a river; house church pastors gathered to celebrate what God is doing in Vueltas de Villa Clara and a Christmas program at Iglesia Bautista El Calvario in Havana. What a wonderful way to usher in the Christmas Season-an overflow crowd singing Christmas songs & praises unto God, and at the end of the service, more than 30 people responded to the gospel message. Thats a true Merry Christmas. From Havana, our center of operation, we moved to Camp Yumuri, in Matanzas, to minister to over 200 pastors and church planters. What a wonderful time of prayer, proclamation, teaching, worship and fellowship. It was also a great opportunity for the Cuban leaders to have a time of spiritual, mental and physical refreshment. Gods Holy Spirit was all over our time at Yumuri. The Cuban Church is experiencing a spiritual revival . . . that is evident in the hundreds of house churches that have been planted. We were privileged to see, with our own eyes, a church planting movement in Cuba. This week the 420th church was added to the Western Baptist Convention list of the names of the new churches for 2014. Juan Carlos Rojas, president of the Western Baptist Convention shared that they are projecting 450 churches by the end of the year. To God be the glory! I am praying, that I will have the privilege to see a spiritual awakening in North America too. Join me in praying for Cuba and for the United States. Doing together, what we cant do by ourselves Dr. Bobby S. Sena Hispanic Relations Consultant. Executive Committee, SBC 404-432-2786 [email protected]
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 23:35:10 +0000
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