Report #3 - Loreto Conference

Morning Meetings!
The morning meetings have been excellent!  The Pastors have been coming to church with their notebooks and Bibles, ready to get into God’s word.  Rev. Sanchez has been preaching for the last two days on “A Kingdom Mentality” (the mind of the Spirit) and it has challenged and blessed the pastors.  Everyday so far, we have had a mighty visitation from the Lord and throughout the teaching pastors have been just crying out to God! He has ministered and answered prayers through His word while the pastors were still in their chairs.  At times we just had to stop and glorify God because His presence was so strong that nobody could contain it.  What a blessing it is to watch the Holy Spirit minster to so many different pastors through out the church. 

When the altar call was given, the presence of God was so strong that, even before they could get to the altar, pastors fell to the floor, shouting and crying out to God!  Rev. Sanchez saw hands raised up to Heaven and tears flowing from many eyes as the Lord continued to move on his people.  There was a pastor who had pain in his stomach for months.  No matter what he did, the pain did not get better.  He went to the doctor and got medicine, but the pain just got worse and he could hardly rest or eat.  But thank God, this morning, while the power of God flowed around the altar, he felt something move in his stomach and then all at once his pain was gone!  There was another sister who had serious back pain for years.  It has hindered her from doing many things for God and this bothered her because she is a pastor’s wife, but while she was praying around the altar for somebody else she realized that for the first time in years she had no pain!  She even moved around looking for the pain but could not find it!  Her back pain was completely gone!  There was also a young man who recently got saved and he came to the conference looking for a touch from God.  While Rev. Sanchez was preaching, and the people were shouting, this young man felt like shouting too, but when he opened up his mouth to shout something else happened!  He felt a fire drop down all over his body and he started talking in tongues!  God filled him with the Holy Ghost!  Today was truly a day of breakthrough!


God has done so many things during these services, we can’t help but to shout and praise His name!  There was also a pastor praising God at the altar and the Lord showed Rev. Sanchez that he was worried about his child that had left the church.  Rev. Sanchez went over to him and told him not to fear because God was going to bring his prodigal child home.  This pastor started jumping and shouting because he was just praying about his daughter and only God could have known that!  After lunch, the pastor told Rev. Sanchez that he got a call from his daughter, whom he has not heard from in almost a year, and she is coming back home!  Glory to God!  So far, we all agree that this has been the most powerful conference we have ever been in and we are looking for God to do more!


Fellowship!
This year more than ever, the pastors are making friends!  It is such a blessing to hear that they are visiting each other and helping one another.  This conference has truly broken down many walls that have kept these them separated.  People are in groups, laughing and singing.  Others are playing the guitar, while some are going over their notes from the meetings with new friends.  It is the most beautiful thing to see the young and old fellowshipping together.  Many of the younger pastors and leaders played soccer during the breaks, when it wasn’t raining!  People are just being blessed and having fun!  The food is awesome and the best words we can give you to sum up our time together is Abundant Joy!



Evening Services!
The night services have been filled with great singing and worship.  Bro. Ken Erha has been teaching on the Armor of God!  He has used props and examples to demonstrate the tactics of the enemy and how the armor of God is used to defeat him.  We just had a great time in God’s word.  Bro. Ken used the pastors here to help with examples, which caused great laughter at times and shouting!  The pastors and leaders really received the Word with applause and praise!  They always came to the altar looking for God to meet their needs and to add to their lives.  Bro. Ken said he is humbled to be in the presence of such great men of God!

God bless & thank you for praying!
Rev. Sanchez & Bro. Kenneth Erha