Nothing but the best for Family and friends on this Sunday.

My best for my family and friends.

I just read that the best products of a country are destined for exportation.

The leftover is for the countrymen.

Something is wrong when money determines the value and priority in a man.

The Day I surrendered my life to Jesus I went to my grandma whom I love the most on earth and I told her about Jesus in fear and trembling that she might not believe me ... to my amazement ... grandma believed my story.

I was so happy to know that no matter what; my grandma will be forever with me and Jesus in heaven.

Then I ran in search of my adopted brother German Gerardo and shared Jesus with him ...he was hesitant at first ...but soon he too surrendered his life to Jesus and we have followed Jesus together for Fifty years out of the seventy years we have known each other.

Later I heard German say, “Gerry was the black sheep of our family... but when I saw the brutal change that Jesus made in Gerry’s life ...I could no longer ignore Jesus.” German went to Seminary and was Ordained as Pastor of the San Pablo Church for many years and he became the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Peru. German became the National director of the Nehemiah Corporation and traveled the world over and came to Washington to preach at the McLean PCA.

Presently he is the Director of Radio Amauta up in the Andes Mountains of Peru, which I hear early in the mornings in Quechua via Internet in Flintstone Georgia.

Jesus alone can make lifelong friends out of two strangers. German was only two weeks old when his mother handed him over to my grandmother late one afternoon and walked away (I was 4 at that time.)

My grandmother mentored German and me while my tall older sister Adela was mentored by my grandfather. Like Miriam, Moses and Aaron, Adela, German and I have been very close friends to this very day. Whenever I think of my best testimony to my family I fear that I am not what I would like to be, nor I am what others would like me to be, neither am I yet what the Lord expects me to be, but I thank the Lord Jesus that I am not what I used to be.

In a way I am like the leper whom Jesus healed and instructed just to show himself to his people.

If God has worked out the miracle of conversion in an individual like that of water into wine, the wine does not need to say “I am wine, hear me hear me I am wine.” No! All the wine needs is “To be” ...‟What it has become by God’s grace” ... and just show itself in the new nature of the transforming power of Jesus.

Our best for family and friends is not to be oral or verbal only but visible. Salvation is a “New Song in our mouth that MANY WILL SEE AND FEAR AND PUT THEIR TRUST IN GOD.” Read Psalm 40: 1-3.

“I waited patiently for the Lord, he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a new place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord.”

I confess that I cannot sing like my brother and friend Carl, but I can show myself even though Albert does not like me. My testimony might not be export quality, but my family and friends like it.

My report card to the Most High God will always be like stick figures of a grandchild on the refrigerator of his grandma in God’s kitchen.

This was a little grape being squeezed into a little wine for you.

Gerry Gutierrez.

PS. The picture is of Vice-President Dan Quayle in his visit to German's ministry in Peru. The others are some secret service agents and Congressman Charles Rangle.