In May 2010 a vision came under a strong anointing of the Holy Spirit: it was a high mountain, where Pastors Diego and Cristina were going up, and behind a crowd of people, who filled the mountain. "What is this sir?" And the Holy Spirit answered: "… Revival will come in San Ramón." Now our church was located in San Jose, California and God was prospering the ministry. The uncertainty was the usual when God speaks:
Could it be that God was the instruction?
We have learned over time that when God is in the business, He will always make a way where there is none. Time passed and little by little we realized that that call to the Tri-Valley that God had made us, still stood. He himself took care of the people, he took care of the place that the American Evergreen Valley Church lent us, he took care of our children's schools, he took care of everything!
It was there that we received confirmation from Him, as if saying "If it was I who gave the instruction. Now is the time. "
OUR HISTORY
“Do not remember the things of the past, nor remember the old things. Behold, I do a new thing; it will soon come to light; Will you not know it? Again I will make a way in the desert, and rivers in solitude. "
Isaiah 43: 18-19
Finally, on January 27, 2014… .the Name came: REGENESIS , together with the vision of the eagle and its history: in the middle of its life, the eagle must make a decision to change:
Either it is renewed and transformed, or it dies. In order to live ... the decision is painful .
Pluck its feathers : that coverage that makes you feel safe. It can be your job, your family, your parents, your money, your vices that fill you with apparent pleasure, your religion ...
Tear off its claws : it is all forms of religion and wrong rites that do not bring God closer but separate you from Him, and,
Smash its peak : it is the total surrender of the "I". The moral seat of your soul, where decisions are made ... the government of every area of ​​your life.
Surrender all this to God, it costs, it hurts, it is uncomfortable, we do not like it, it gives us fear, we do not want to be uncomfortable, we want an easy, methodical religion, nothing different, nothing that costs us, no sacrifices, no compromises. You can stay stagnant, agreeable, mediocre, safe, stable ... and be nothing or nobody. Or you can risk and die to yourself, give up everything and surrender into His hands, and start true life, a new beginning. A REGENESIS in your life, the opportunity to start over. Higher, better, new, different, free from the past, free from fear, safe… in HIM!
By understanding all of this that the Lord was showing us, we knew that not only was He changing places for our church, but He wanted to do something completely new in the ministry, in our family and in our individual lives. To that challenge, we said YES, and began to prepare the new ground.
Finally came the order on April 02, 2014: "Open the doors"
“Lift up your heads, O gates, And be lifted up, you everlasting gates, And the King of glory shall come in.
8. Who is this King of glory? Jehovah the strong and mighty, Jehovah the mighty in battle.
9. Lift up your heads, O gates, And be lifted up, O everlasting gates, And the King of glory shall come in.
10. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts,
He is the King of glory. " Psalm 24: 7-10
Isaiah 26: 2 "Open the doors, and the righteous people, keepers of truths, will enter"
We already had God's call, we had the name of our new church, we had orders to open the doors for Him to enter, even advertising flyers. We were missing an important detail. The place was missing .
But again God came in and said
"It is better to trust Jehovah than to trust man, better to trust Jehovah than to trust princes."
Psalm 118: 8-9
And he also added a rather unusual instruction: " Find something unusual, and there will be the place ."
One day, while checking our old mail, we found an advertisement that arrived last November and we had saved. I think we keep it with the hope of visiting one day that Church that was advertised there, which had the peculiarity of meeting in a Public School. When we went to visit them, there was the unusual:
The pastor of BLUE OAKS , an American Church, received us and treated us very cordially, and in a few minutes we learned that this church had a facility, close to where we lived with a capacity of 150 people
Unused on Sunday morning! We immediately made the announcement and began our meetings.
But the adventure with Jesus did not end there . In the summer of 2016, God led us to an even better place, a small theater in San Ramon. The change, we felt, was the right time to find our own home. And it has been 2 years experiencing the power of God in our church and our members. It really has been a REGENESIS.
