Harrisburg, PA

We arrived Harrisburg safe and sound. Praise Him.

  While we were there, we stayed with our Fire & Fragrance family. Fire & fragrance started a school in Harrisburg just this fall. It used to be only in Kona, but now they have a base here and are running a DTS. They have a deal with a Howard Johnson hotel so that's where we stayed. It was nice staying in a big room. Even if it was four us in there.

  We had an awesome time blessing the F&F there. We helped them with worship in the prayer meetings, ministry nights, worship nights, and in their very first 24 hour burn. As well as small stuff like helping some of their staff get to the prayer meetings on time by washing dishes and cleaning up the kitchen. We also got to minister to a youth group. That was was really good, we prayed over a lot of those kids, prophesied over them, encouraged them, basically just helped them on their walk with Jesus.

  But alas, tuesday came, and we left for Hartville, Ohio. We survived another long ride in our van, "the orca". It was a good 5 hour drive, give or take, which isn't quite as bad as our future 7 hour ride from here to DC. Oh gosh.. pray for us... Anyways, thank you for reading, this was another step in the life of Julio Guillermo Garcia Arguedas. Yall come back now.

All we need is love

Love is a man

His name is Jesus

-Julio

P.S.

If you're interested in a really good book, and in getting a sneak peek of what I might do in the future, I suggest the book "Under the Overpass"...

JERSEY

  I’ve never seen family displayed so well in a church before like it was at King’s Gate Church in New Jersey. That’s what church was intended to be. It’s not a building where people go every sunday, it’s a group of people that have a commitment with each other, live life with each other and love each other with a covenant love. Family.

  I’m so blessed to have been able to spend time with them. We hung out mostly with our contact, Ali, and the rest of the family there. They were such good hosts and treated us so well. It was great.

Here are some of the things we did in Jersey/New York:

  Friday night we went to help at this church in the Bronx and had an awesome worship time, Holy Spirit showed up and the whole place went crazy. It was great. We were there from like 6pm to 1am, and after that they took us to Times Square to eat.

  On sunday we went to King's Gate church and had an awesome time. They treated us like family. They gave us a time to come up front to tell them what we're doing and our vision. We gave them a prophetic word we felt that the Lord was telling them, and afterwards prayed it over them. They were super nice, they even picked up an offering for us. Thanks to them, the people on my team that couldn't buy their plane ticket to Israel, now have their tickets bought. There were a lot of Costaricans in that church too, it was so good to see people from my country, it made me happy.

  On monday we went to a prayer meeting at Resting Place, which is a house of prayer that is part of King's Gate. They both use the same building. We helped lead a set from 9 to 11. It was a great opportunity to bless, pray for and minister to the pastors.

  On tuesday we went to the mall to evangelize and reach out to people.

  On wednesday we went to Montclair University in the morning and to Rutgers University in the afternoon. We just hung out at both, did worship, talked to a lot of students reached out to them, and prayed for them.

  Jersey was such a good location, we loved it. I hope I get to go back some day.
We left Jersey on thursday.

And arrived at...

PHILLY
  One of the girls on our team is from Philadelphia, so we stayed in her sister's house. It was a huge blessing! We only stayed there for 3 nights though. But it was still good!
  On friday we went to our teammate's old youth group and did worship, Holy Spirit showed up, we shared some testimonies, prayed for them, got words for them... it was a really good time.
  On saturday night we went to the area where all the bars are at. We took a guitar and started worshiping on the sidewalk. We had a lot of people come up and talk to us and we got to pray for a lot of them and tell them about Jesus.
  On sunday morning we went to our teammate's church and they gave us some time to come up front and minister to the church. So we went up, did some worship, asked who needed healing, prayed for them, and people got healed. 
  That afternoon/night, we left Philly and arrived at Harrisburg, PA!


I'll probably be able to update my blog more often here since I now have internet. In Jersey and Philly I didn't have internet where I was staying. We're gonna be here for 8 days. We leave for Hartville, Ohio the 26th.

Thanks for keeping

up with my life!

-Julio

P.S.

Philly Cheesesteaks are freakin awesome.

Boston Mass...

  I love Boston!! It's a beautiful place, especially in the fall! All the colors everywhere are amazing. And the weather feels so good! Last time I was in cold weather like this was in April last year. Since then it's been nothing but warm weather, especially in Haiti being woken up every morning drenched in sweat inside a furnace of a tent. It was awesome. But, I'm really glad I get to be in cold weather for now. Thank you to all my supporters for making that possible!

  Our time in Boston has been a great start to this outreach. We were there for a little less than 2 weeks and in that time we have done a lot of praying, interceding and worship. We were staying at the JHOP (Justice House Of Prayer) Boston house. The people there were amazing and really made us feel at home. We partnered with them in prayer for Harvard, New England, Boston.. We also went to Harvard a couple of times to pray for the campus and the people there. There's so much atheism and humanism there.

  We also did a what's called a life siege. A life siege is a silent stand in front of abortion clinics and congress buildings. People wear red tape that say "LIFE" on it. It's not a protest but a silent prayer meeting. By putting the red tape on our mouths we are identifying ourselves with the silent cries of the unborn who have no voice. For more information you can go to http://bound4life.com/the-silent-siege. Here are a couple of pictures of our life/silent siege:

 

  We did many other things, we have a very musical team so we helped lead worship at churches, a conference, and a high school where we got to speak as well. It all went really well in Boston. Now we're here in New Jersey. It's going good too. I'll try to keep my blog up to date but it's really crazy right now! I'm also leading our time in Jersey which makes it even harder. But I'm really excited about it!

  Also just an update on my financial situation, I'm still in need of $2500 for the rest of my outreach. Please pray about partnering with me, keep me in your prayers please!

Thanks for reading!

Much love to all of you!

-Julio

P.S.

Here are some really good videos you might want to check out:

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