June 2013 Council Agenda - International Pentecostal Holiness ...

their parents and people from the neighborhood to retrain and learn skills to become more employable.
It also gives them experience to be able to compete in a difficult work environment. We also use the
same building for our discipleship classes and leadership meetings. Then every night at 10:00 PM we
have a team of intercessors come in to pray until 6:00 AM. This goes on 7 days a week.
This cultural center is also becoming a magnet for folks in the neighborhood. It has given a bridge of
hope in difficult times. It is called CREA (“Creatividad Renacida Entre Amigos”, (Creativity Reborn Among
Friends). We just shifted the $300 a month that we were receiving from the coffee house/cultural center
in Toledo to CREA in Madrid to help cover some of the expenses. The rest of the $3000+/month cost is
paid from the activities of the cultural center and the Madrid IPHC church.
The IPHC church in Toledo, Spain began a Food Bank a last year. Recently the local politicians
acknowledged the good work of the church people. Now the church has partnered with the local
government to open and run a soup kitchen. The government has donated a building and some funds to
get the project going. The church people are doing all the work and will run the kitchen that has opened
in April.
Madrid IPHC Cultural Center in operation
Eastern Europe/ Middle East
Ukraine: There has been nothing earth shattering in the Ukraine, but this is the strong area of
IPHC ministry, with 150 Churches and 15,000 members. I would mention one village that is
typical of thousands ( about 28,000 villages) and that is Volytsya. In need of an Evangelical
Church and a Drug Rehab Center. We are on the home stretch, if you count an $18,000 need to
get everything finished, the home stretch. Because we are so far away it is difficult to get teams
there and without teams the funds are slow. Our goal is to get this finished by the end of 2013.
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