Merlin Gonzales

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Merlin founded Faith Hope and Love Intl., which collaborates with churches crossing denominational lines. He has developed the concept of “Mission Trips in Your Own Backyard” to unify the Body of Christ by bringing the love of God into the community. Merlin’s messages and teachings are about raising up a generation passionate for God to build a legacy of transformation. He is an Advisory Council Member for the State of Indiana Office of the Faith-based and a co-host for Religion in the News. Merlin speaks at churches, businesses, government, educational institutions and faith based organizations to encourage people to live out their faith. He is a church consultant helping pastors reach out in their communities to raise and train leaders. Merlin and his wife Annie live in Noblesville, Ind.

After 10 months…

My message has been the same…Below is an excerpt from my Blog dated May 25, 2011:
“This morning, I was reminded that if we meditate on the goodness of God, we will experience His goodness. The more we focus on Him, the more others see Him in us. We are being transformed to His likeness. In the Book of Exodus, Moses ask to see the face of God. He waited on Him without any distractions. When Moses went down from the mountain, his face was transformed because God met Him at the mountain.”

From the Question – What would your neighborhood like if you could say, “The Kingdom of God is here” to, have higher awareness of His Presence. Proverbs 23:7a, “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.” -NKJV. Awareness directs our action and our collective action changes our culture. Therefore, the prayer, “Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven” begin with our awareness and faith backed up by our actions.

Action Steps:

  • Town Hall meetings to gather like-minded individuals who would like to work together towards Neighborhood Makeovers
  • Identify needs and resources and to see how we can mobilize volunteers (“Take the land”-my next Blog)
  • Plan together
  • Implement plan, take Action! during FHL Week (July 22-28)

It’s not too late to start a team in your area. Contact Merlin at 317-578-3370 or [email protected]

Merlin GonzalesAfter 10 months…
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Kingdom in the broken world

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Merlin GonzalesKingdom in the broken world
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Neighborhood Makeovers

Here we are in March and now talking about the neighborhood makeovers that will be happening during FHL Week on July 22-28, 2012. We have several communities who are interested in working together. These makeovers start with Town Hall meetings all around Central Indiana. We had 2 meetings already: Midtown and Martindale-Brightwood area. The next step is the formation of the leadership group. There will be Area Coordinators, Projects, Volunteers and other coordinators available at each community. Each area will start their planning meetings in March. Identification of needs is critical in conceptualizing projects and services to be performed during FHL Week. Next would be refining the realistic projects and then the gathering resources needed to accomplish the projects.
The beauty of this process is that we are training leaders to form their groups, formulate projects and services and getting connected with their respective communities. The end result would be relationship building and then the accomplishment of the projects. We have seen in the past that relationship one of the keys to have a successful neighborhood makeovers. Projects and services are tools to bring the community together. However, much is accomplished through the entire process.
It is exciting to see what could transpire when we are all communicating and working together.
The next Town Hall meetings (to explore opportunities to improve neighborhoods) are:
3/3 11a at FHL office (Hispanic community)
3/7 6:30p West Indy Town Hall at Cloverleaf Baptist 616 Mickley Ave.
3/8 7p Martinsville Town Hall at JK’s Cheesecake Cafe 110 E. Morgan St. 46151
March 19th at Southport IN City Hall 7p
March 28 at Beech Grove City Hall 7P

I hope you can join us at a meeting near you.

Merlin GonzalesNeighborhood Makeovers
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Interview with Greenwood Mayor

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Merlin GonzalesInterview with Greenwood Mayor
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Kingdom perspective from Police dept Chaplain

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Merlin GonzalesKingdom perspective from Police dept Chaplain
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