Puerto Rico - Nearly 4 million souls in need of the Lord Jesus Christ.
***LATEST UPDATE - Jan. 19, 2010***
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Bro. Manny, Sis. Maria, Jasmine (5 yrs), Clarissa (4 yrs), & Mia (less than 1 yr old)
Thank you for visiting our site. We hope that you will receive a blessing from our ministry and from the information found within this site. Please pray for us as we are finishing up deputation. We are excited to see the Lord providing our every need. We are currently making preparations for a permanent move this year to the island of Puerto Rico to preach the Gospel and to plant Bible-Believing, Independent, Baptist Churches.
For more information about our ministry you can reach us at - mannyisback@yahoo.com.
Be sure to check back with this page from time to time to stay updated on our progress. We want to communicate with you. So if you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or prayer requests, contact us.
Dios le bendiga!
- Population Projection for 2010: 4,438,000
- The major religions are: Catholic (85%), Protestants (8%), non religious (2.3%), and others (3%).
Churches of many denominations can be found throughout the island. Some islanders ascribe to spiritualism (espiritismo), and others practice Santeria, an Afro-Caribbean belief system brought to Puerto Rico from Cuba. There is also a small Jewish community. - About 40 municipalities in need of a Baptist church.
- Divorce rate: 50%
- Average family size: 3.5 people
- Major causes of death per 100,000 population: 142.6 heart and cardiovascular disease, 95.4 cancers, 55.1 diabetes, 38.0 cerebrovascular disease, 29.2 pneumonia and influenza
For more information about Puerto Rico go here.
News!
Jan. 15, 2010 - HAPPY NEW YEAR!
We had the privilege to experience great things from God in 2009. Many good memories in the service of the LORD have been established. But now its time to go forward in 2010 for the glory of God!
We are currently above 80% of our financial support. God continues to provide our every need on a daily basis. Praise the LORD! We anticipate great things from God in this new year! We have a busy year ahead of us.
We are making plans for a trip to Paraguay, South America where we will work with Missionary Mike Wilps and national Pastor Nelson Gimenez for about 3 months. To learn more about these men of God and their ministry go to our LINKS page and visit their websites. We look forward to seeing souls saved and saints edified during our time there.
We are also making our plans to be in Puerto Rico sometime in the middle of this year. After our 3 month stay in Paraguay, we plan to come back to the US long enough to pack our belongings onto a container and ship them to PR. Then it's off to PR! Words cannot express the excitement that fills our hearts as we continue to follow the LORD in His service.
To all of our supporting churches and friends we say THANK YOU for all of your prayers and support. Please continue to pray as we seek God's direction this year.
Chick Publications Publishes Book Supporting the RVG!
This is the Spanish version of Chick Publications' book entitled Why the King James Bible is the Perfect Word of God by Gary Miller. This new, inexpensive, 48 page booklet is an excellent primer for those who need to learn the basics of the Bible text issue. It deals with God's promises to preserve His perfect Words and shows how God did that for the Spanish-speaking world through the Reina Valera Gomez Bible just as He did for the English-speaking world through the King James Bible. Missionaries around the globe are purchasing multiple copies of this booklet to distribute to their congregations and are testifying how God is using it to educate their people about the background of the Bible!
To purchase your own copy of Por Que La Biblia Reina Valera Gomez Es La Perfecta Palabra de Dios just go to www.chick.com/articles/rvg.asp.
Also check out the following articles put out by Chick Publications endorsing the RVG as the best Spanish Bible available today:
New Spanish Bible Corrects Alexandrian Pollution
Chick Publication's Endorsement of the RVG
WHAT IS THE RVG?
For those not familiar with the situation of the Spanish Bible let me define for you what the RVG is. The RVG is an acronym for Reina Valera Gomez. The RVG is simply a revision of the 1909 Antigua edition of the Spanish Reina Valera Bible. Cassiodoro de Reina and Cipriano de Valera were the 2 Protestant Reformers that produced what has become the standard Bible text in Spanish since 1602. Humberto Gomez Sr, a native Mexican, is a Fundamental Independent Baptist Bible-believing preacher who has served as a Missionary to his own people as well as the Aztec Indians in Mexico for over 30 years. He simply revised the 1909 edition of the Reina Valera by totally eradicating all Alexandrian Critical Text corruption, and bringing it more in line with the Textus Receptus and the King James Bible. Thus, the RVG is essentially the 1909 Antigua version of the Reina Valera Bible minus the Critical Text. The first edition was printed in 2004 and has enjoyed much fruit in Spanish-speaking countries all over the world. The printing of the latest edition has just recently been finished by Victory Baptist Press in Milton, FL. Consequently, the RVG is more equivalent to the King James Bible than any other Spanish Bible. It is this Spanish Bible that we use and promote. Information on this Bible can be found all throughout this website as well as it's official site www.reinavaleragomez.com.
BUY THE RVG!
You can purchase your own copy of the Reina Valera Gomez Spanish Bible through the ministry of Victory Baptist Press of Milton, FL. Just go to www.rvg.bz.
The RVG is also available at the following links:
- http://www.thekjvstore.com/ - The KJV Store
- http://www.biblefortoday.org/ForeignBibles/spanish_bible.asp - The Dean Burgon Society
- http://www.beamsbibles.com/ - BEAMS ministries
THE PARALLEL RVG/KJV BIBLE IS NOW AVAILABLE!!!
The bilingual edition of the Reina Valera Gomez Bible is now available with the King James Version side-by-side. These leather bound Parallel RVG/KJV Bibles can be purchased for only $50.00 at Victory Baptist Press of Milton, FL. Click this link to purchase your own copy today.
"Bro. Manny, what is your ministry?"
While on the deputation trail, we are continually asked this question, "What is your ministry?" This always comes across to me as a strange question because I take it for granted that God's people are all on the same page as to what the work of missions is all about. But the more I get out, the more I'm finding out that this is really not the case. There is actually a little bit of confusion as to what exactly the work of missions is. Over the past few decades so many different types of "ministries" have passed through the church in the name of "missions" seeking financial support. The true meaning of missions has been somewhat skewed. As a result, those with a sincere desire to invest their money in true mission work have developed an extra sense of skepticism whenever someone calling himself a "missionary" walks through the doors asking for their support. And I don't blame them.
Without going into all the details, I just want to make a simple statement here for the sake of those interested in our ministry. Perhaps in the near future I will write a little more in detail concerning what the Bible teaches about missions. But let it be made plain what exactly our ministry is for those who want to know.
Our ministry is to plant local New Testament, Bible-believing, Independent, Fundamental, Baptist churches in Puerto Rico. In a nutshell, church planting is what God has called us to do. We plan to accomplish this, through God's leadership and power, by aggressive soul winning and intense discipleship. For soul-winning, we plan to spend hours upon hours of door-to-door visitation on a weekly basis. I intend to fall back on my 10+ years of experience in "door knocking" and to apply that experience to the communities of Puerto Rico. We also plan to saturate the areas with Gospel tracts, Church invitations, Bibles, and other Gospel literature. We will go to the plazas and preach the Gospel in the open-air and on the street corners just as I have done all over the US for the past 10 years. One of our goals is also to preach on the radio airwaves as there is an open door in Puerto Rico to preach the Gospel on the radio. We will pursue every avenue we possibly can to get the unadulterated Gospel out. We will not wait for sinners in need of Christ to come to us, we will go to them wherever they are. Aggressive pursuit of souls is what we have employed in the US, and we intend to continue that same tactic in the field of Puerto Rico by God's grace. The weapons of our warfare are prayer and God's holy word. And we still believe that red-hot, old-fashioned, straight-laced, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring preaching gets the job done!
So to those who are already financially supporting us, let it be clear that what you are investing your money in is a ministry to win souls and plant local churches in the island of Puerto Rico. To those considering supporting us, this is what we are presenting to you. We are asking you to see whether or not God would have you to allow us to be an extension of you and your church in the field of Puerto Rico. We are asking you to let us represent YOU on the field. We are asking you to do something about the 4 millions souls in Puerto Rico that are neck deep in Roman Catholicism and other false religions by allowing us to propagate the truth of the Gospel in Puerto Rico on your behalf. We are offering you an oppurtunity to have a part in the salvation of needy souls in Puerto Rico.
Will you go? And if you cannot go, will you support those whom God has called to go? It is YOUR responsibility to go into "all the world" and preach the Gospel. Puerto Rico is part of "all the world". What are you doing about this part of the world? God has called us to give you an oppurtunity to help reach this part of the world for his honor and glory!
One way or another, will you work with us? I write this in tears because my heart's desire and prayer to God for Puerto Rico is that they might be saved. Dear brother and sister in Christ who stand for the fundamentals of the faith and the Bible, let's put petty differences aside and work together to rescue the perishing and care for the dying in Puerto Rico.
Luke 10:2 "Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest."
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The Mission agency that takes care of our finances is Word For The World Baptist Ministries.
All financial support and donations should be directed to the following address:
Word For The World
P O Box 849
Rossville, GA 30741
(706) 866-8826
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