Blessings dear friends and family,  

We first want to send our sincere thanks to you for opening this newsletter and taking the time out of your schedule to read about what the Lord has been up to in our ministry.  Your prayers and partnership support are crucial to mobilizing our efforts, thank you for being a blessing!   It honestly feels like we have been going non-stop since the summer of 2020, and we are overwhelmed with gratitude for all that is still ahead and going to take place to advance the Gospel of our King Jesus!  🙌 

You may remember back in December of 2018, we were blessed to gather 1,096 undergarment items for men, women, and children suffering from homelessness in Miami, FL.  It was an unforgettable experience that continues to inspire us today to do more in the communities we visit.  The emergency shelter we chose to take the donations to was the Miami Rescue Mission who also permitted us to lead a Christmas worship service in their multipurpose room.  With that said, next month we are headed to another big city to host a chapel service at the Jacksonville Trinity Rescue Mission Homeless Shelter.   We will be bringing a supply of free Bibles to give away after the service, and with your help, we’d like to take undergarments as well.  Since the school year is approaching, we would also like to bring backpacks with back-to-school supplies for children at the shelter.   Special thanks to First Baptist Church of Boulougne for already collecting undergarments, backpacks, and school supplies!   It is our fervent prayer that God will work in a mighty way at this upcoming service, and that through hearing, they may believe and be changed forever through the power of the Holy Spirit.  

In case you didn’t know, 2021 marks ten years of ministry for “Livingsong”!  To God alone be all the praise and glory for all that He has accomplished through our little ministry with a big vision to reach the lost.   It would be dishonest to say that we have operated this ministry all on our own, because there is much more work that occurs behind the scenes to make our services possible.  From all the administrative help from the A.C.T. Int'l staff, to all of you who continue to pray for us, mentor us, partner with us monthly, and the fellow worship leaders, and pastors/ministers who help us gather the substantial amount of necessary organization details to enable our stateside mission to be possible.   After considering several ways to celebrate a decade of ministry, we kept coming back to the thought of sharing this Undergarment Drive as an invitation to celebrate with us!  Please feel free to reach us through email at livingsongministry@gmail.com if you would like more information, and to view the Undergarment Drive progress, please visit us on Instagram @ livingsongministry.  Until next time, we wanted to leave you with one of our favorite scriptures, definitely one to memorize as Apostle Paul reminds us how to guard our hearts and minds by re-focusing our thoughts and meditating on the Holy things of God!  We love you dearly, grace and blessings.  “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” (Philippians 4:8)

Manny & Erika Lynn Garcia
Livingsong

• livingsongministry@gmail.com
• non-profit ministry since 2011

Undergarments, Backpacks with Back-to-School supplies can be mailed to...

Attn: Livingsong 

First Baptist Church of Boulougne

28226 Church Drive, Hilliard, FL 32046 

Praise Reports 

• Thankful to our new friend, Lee Anne Wollitz, (First Baptist Church of Boulougne staff member) who recently donated 40 blankets for our upcoming service at the Good News Shelter in Gainesville, Georgia. 

• We are so grateful to our newest ministry partner and dear sister in the Lord, Kanani Kimmanee. Thank you Kanani, for believing and partnering in our mission. 

• Thanks to our team member (Mary Allen), who found an RV shop in Jacksonville willing to look at our generator!  🙌  Stay posted for the diagnosis update!

Prayer Request

• Prayers are greatly appreciated for God's protection during our trip to Powder Springs (recovery program) and Gainesville, Georgia (homeless shelter) on July 19th and 21st.

• We are humbly asking for your prayers for our dearest friends/brother and sister in Christ, Pastor Dennis and  Tamara Jones's son, Jesse, who is going through a difficult season.  It is an unspoken prayer request but please lift up Jesse with us. 

• Our hearts and prayers go out to the families of the residents who tragically lost their lives in the recent Miami condo collapse. 

Testimony

“Thank you for your presence today at First Baptist Church of Sanderson! Your example and your music lifted me...indeed you lift us all. May you be blessed each day”  - Duane Gildea