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Saturday, 11 June 2011 15:28

Pastor Roberto Rios Visiting Orlando

Pastor Roberto Rios is coming to Clermont TODAY. He has been at a church conference in Miami and will be coming up to the Orlando area to visit with us for a few days.


L-R Tony & Emily, Maria & Roberto Rios, Gardenia & Fernando Ubilla, in Santo Domingo, Ecuador

Pastor Roberto pastors a church in Santo Domingo, Ecuador, a growing commercial center about 6 hours north of Guayaquil at the foothills of the Andes Mountains. He is well known in the area and currently serves as the president of the local evangelical pastors council.

Heart of Titus helps Pastor Roberto and his wife Maria with 2 feeding programs in poor areas of Santo Domingo. Visit the page on Facebook with hundreds of photos of feeding and teaching children by clicking here.

If you would like to visit with Roberto check back here or email us. We are going to try to get a meeting for this coming Monday night.

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Wednesday, 18 August 2010 01:59

Journal from Santo Domingo Part 2

The retreat was to start at 11:00 AM, however many folks were delayed in travel because of an accident on the highway leading to Santo Domingo. The meetings were held at the Balneario Ficus Water Park, which is owned and operated by one of the families of the church in Santo Domingo, pastored by Roberto Rios. This was a really nice place for our meetings. The meeting


	Balneario Ficus Water Park, location of leaders' retreat. Sto Domingo, Ecuador

room was an open-air facility and proved to be a great place for the retreat because of the weather conditions. The weather was overcast the entire time with some rainfall. Because of this, the air was cool and there were not many visitors to the park during our meeting.

The meeting finally got underway around 12:30PM with some great worship. Everyone tied up in the traffic mess was safe and came in just fine. During the retreat Pat wanted to have a different pastor or leader from Ecuador open a session with prayer or close with prayer. As the host pastor, Roberto Rios opened the meetings with prayer and welcomed everyone to Santo Domingo. Fernando Ubilla was the Master of Ceremonies (and Comedy I might add!) throughout the weekend.


Worship at Leaders' Retreat

After an introduction of the team from USA and Ecuador, we broke for lunch. After lunch, the first session began with Pat speaking on being a servant leader. As long as I minister, I will always need to be reminded that Jesus has called us to serve and not be served. I think this session really set the tone for the entire weekend meetings. We then prayed for the Lord to guide our lives in such a way as to live as a servant leader, just as Jesus did.

Dr. Frank spoke in the second session about being spiritually healthy and developing good habits to maintain a strong walk. The part that got to me was when he shared how the Lord showed him to memorize scripture and that he has committed himself to that ever since. Pat and I looked at each other and knew we were both under heavy conviction to learn more of the Word.

After a short break, we separated the men and the women into separate groups to facilitate discussion on how to have healthy families, even though we are in the ministry. I remember that during the ladies session, they all started shouting some time into their meeting. I found out from Becky that a lady, diagnosed with a brain aneurism, was touched powerfully by the Lord. So much so, that there was a noise in their camp for several minutes! They began singing and shouting and then praying some more! I inadvertently led the men’s session as Pat, suddenly, was not feeling well. We talked about balance between family life and ministry; raising children; authority; order in the home and church and hearing God’s direction. It was a great discussion. The men were hanging out after and talking about the meeting with each other. Then we broke for dinner.


They asked me to practice a couple worship songs

After dinner and some worship, Becky and I spoke on Unity and Agreement. We used some material from our Marriage Mystery Bible Study. We spoke on the power of agreement and how it can invoke the blessings of God into our lives, our marriage and our church. As I was speaking on the blessings of God, I had a young man sitting in front of me come up for a demonstration. I was talking about Deuteronomy 28 and through our obedience to the Word, the blessings of God will come upon us and overtake us. As I was saying this, The Holy Spirit came all over me and I realized that this was about this young man. I began to prophesy over him that, as he is obedient to the Word of God – and comes into agreement with what the Lord has said – the blessings of God would come upon him and overtake him. Then, I came behind him and wrapped my right arm over his neck and across his chest and held on to him. The Lord showed me that this was to encourage him that the only thing in his past is the blessings of God coming after him, for his past is broken off of him! This man began to weep and could no longer stand. He sat with his face in his hands almost the rest of our session. Pastor Pat had a testimony time the next day and he came forward and said that he had a rough childhood that always haunted him and told him he could not be in the ministry. His father left him as a very young boy. He said that when I held him, he felt the love of God wash all over him and the torment of his past being broken off of him! He said that he finally felt free. What a great God we serve!

After our teaching session, we had a time of ministry for everyone. Many marriages were touched as well as individuals. The whole team prayed for anyone needing ministry. I prayed for the young man that the Lord would fill him with His love. The Lord really touched this guy and you could see it on his face afterward. We also had some encouraging prophetic words to some as the Lord lead.

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Friday, 02 July 2010 15:12

Video on Expansion of Feeding Program

Thanks to a generous supporter we support a feeding program for the poor children of Santo Domingo. Here's Pastor Roberto Rios explaining how the program has expanded to the neighborhood of Nuevo Amanecer (New Dawn):

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Thursday, 01 July 2010 13:22

TEAM IS BACK FROM ECUADOR

The team is back, tired but happy that they got to see God do so many wonderful things for our Ecuadorian friends. Emily and I greeted them at the airport last night and they couldn't stop talking about the love of our team, the miracles God did, and the growth of the good works our Ecuadorian friends are doing for the glory of the Lord.

In the next couple of days we will have their reports and photos here. Here's a sample of what I heard:

Monday night a blind woman received her sight in CEAD, our host church in Guayaquil.
Our Santo Domingo feeding program has now expanded to 3 locations in poor neighborhoods.
Judy Saez is doing much better after her second surgery.
Last weekend about 50 people participated in our Leadership Retreat in Santo Domingo. Here's a short video with Becky Blystone ministering at the Retreat:

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We also had the privilege of having with us author and doctor Frank Bruyere from South Carolina. This was Dr. Frank's first trip with us. Frank travels on missions very frequently, especially to Kenya and Ghana. He has written 9 books and is a gifted teacher. Here is a excerpt of one of Dr. Frank's teachings at the conference:

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While we are at it, let me show you just a short video of Chuck Blystone talking about how to have a good marriage:

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Friday, 25 June 2010 16:26

Pat and Team Arrive in Ecuador (We hope!)

Pat McGuffin, Chuck and Becky Blystone and Dr. Frank Bruyere left yesterday for Guayaquil, Ecuador, where they were scheduled to arrive late last night. We haven't heard from them so assume all is ok.


	Pat McGuffin with Pastor Francisco Loor, our host in Guayaquil

This morning they were scheduled to start the 5 hour drive to Santo Domingo. Please pray that they have a safe trip with good fellowship along the way.

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Tuesday, 22 June 2010 17:49

Another Team Readies to Leave

This Thursday Pat McGuffin will be leading a team to Ecuador which includes Chuck & Becky Blystone and Dr. Frank Bruyere. They will spend some time in Guayaquil but most of their time will be in Santo Domingo. In Santo Domingo they will be conducting a leadership retreat for people related to our ministry.

We have about 40 pastors and church leaders coming to the retreat to receive personal ministry and receive teaching on topics regarding marriage, conducting home groups, counseling, and receiving the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.

We are excited that our Guayaquil team will be assisting in the leading of the retreat. Please pray that God gives them a spirit of unity and peace to work well together and that the language differences would not be impediments to the work God wants to do in each heart. Pray also that the Lord emboldens them and empowers them to do their part to "make disciples of all nations."

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Wednesday, 24 March 2010 01:18

Supernatural Events in Santo Domingo, Ecuador

Wednesday night was our first night of ministering. I preached in a church in Vinces where there was no pastor appointed yet, but was led by a group of leaders.

I preached on "Restoration" encouraging the people that God's will is to heal, prosper, and save our families. I gave the altar call and about 75% of the congregation came forward. After the service I was taken to Dr. Manuel’s house and there I spoke to worship leaders and prayed for them. There was about 20 in attendance.


	Pastor Scott Lee near Santo Domingo, Ecuador

Friday night I preached at Pastor Roberto Rios’ church in Santa Domingo. I was compelled again by the Spirit to preach on "Restoration." I gave testimonies of Cindy's healing and also how God restored my daughter's marriage. When I gave the altar call there was a strong presence of the Lord, my translator Maria could not even translate because of such a heavy presence.

After several minutes of not being able to talk I began to minister to those who responded to the altar call. People were falling out in the Spirit. A woman came forward with her husband and said she was having a hard time trusting her husband because someone had told her that he had an affair with another woman, but the person who told her that came back later and said she lied. The wife still had her doubts so she went to a witch doctor to find out if he did have an affair. I had her pray a prayer of repentance and had her denounce her involvement with witchcraft, which caused the demons in her to manifest. I took authority over them in the Name of Jesus and she was set free. Her countenance changed from cold, angry, and withdrawn to joyful, loving and hugging her husband. Several were saved, and one was healed of a stomach condition.

Saturday afternoon I had a worship workshop with the worship leaders in participating churches in Santo Domingo. There were about 30 to 40 in attendance. To be honest I felt inadequate and intimidated because their style of music is different from ours. But I went ahead and taught on the heart of worship and afterward we worshipped together.

After the teaching I called them up so I could pray for them. The power of God was present, the gift of prophecy was operating and all the leaders went out in the Spirit except for a few. Praise God! After the service I sang a couple of songs in Spanish which they wanted to learn. It was a wonderful time getting around the keyboard and singing with them.

Editors note: This is part of Pastor Scott's journal from when he travelled as part of a Heart of Titus team to Ecuador in February, 2010. This was Pastor Scott's 2nd trip to Ecuador. He is a member of the Heart of Titus Board of Directors and pastors New Life Praise Worship Center in Apopka, Florida.

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