El Evangelio Cambia
| File:Logo-el-evangelio-cambia-eec.svg Logo El Evangelio Cambia | |
| Abbreviation | EEC |
|---|---|
| Motto | "Cambia vidas para bien y para siempre" (Changing lives for good and forever) |
| Established | 7 April 2007 |
| Founder |  Javier Bertucci |
| Type | es:Organización sin ánimo de lucro (Christian nonprofit organization) |
| Legal status | Active |
| Headquarters | Valencia, Venezuela |
Area served | 35 countries: Latinamerica, USA, Rusia, Ukraine, England , and Spain |
President | Yobany Blanco |
CEO (Director general) | Francisco Barrios |
Volunteers | 110.000 |
| Website | https://www.elevangeliocambia.com |
The most suitable translation for "El Evangelio Cambia" in English is: Change by the Gospel.
The El Evangelio Cambia.[1] (EEC) is an international organization of Christian humanitarian aid founded by Javier Bertucci that is concerned with serving the needed, and the teaching of Jesus Christ's principles and values to restore society. It was established in the 2007, and is headquartered in Valencia, Venezuela. EEC has presence in 35 countries with more than 110,000 volunteers,[2] including Panama, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Spain.
History[edit]
According to Rebecca Bertucci,Javier Bertucci's wife, on YouTube the original activities, before EEC was formed, started in 1996 when they serve the Tinaquillo town while they carried their first one year old baby Raquel Bertucci [3].
In 2006 Javier Bertucci, who was the principal pastor of Maranatha Valencia, now Maranatha Venezuela, with a group of church members used to go on Saturdays to the most needy neighbors of Carabobo to evangelize and serve them. Bertucci felt that God gave him a vision to carry these activities on all Venezuela and in 2007 EEC was founded as a program to teach christian values. Due to the initial success, the EEC program started to be adopted by many Venezuelan christian churches; starting out with more than 50 churches from the Maranatha franchised.
In 2011, was announced on YouTube that in four years of EEC implementation they reached more than 2,000,000 people who received the message of Jesus Christ and were served by the social service events. At that time the number of volunteers from the Maranatha Valencia church were 1,600 [4]
Organization[edit]
Volunteer Groups[edit]
There are 3 main groups in charge of reaching out people to introduce them to Jesus through a theatrical play; providing services like feeding with the famous soup, hair cut, games for children, cleaning, bath, visiting jails and others:
1. Group of evangilizers
2. Theater group
3. Service group
Partnerships[edit]
Generally, ECC partner with christian churches to apply the love for Christ outside the church building. EEC usually partners with the churches of Centro Maranatha Internacional and Iglesia Cristiana Maranatha Venezuela that are present in countries such as Panamá, Colombia, and Venezuela.
Countries of operation[edit]
Serving the needed and proclaiming Jesus Christ's gospel in over 35 countries. They are:
- Argentine
- Aruba
- Armenia
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- France
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Russia
- Salvador
- Spain
- Sweden
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- Uruguay
- USA
- Venezuela
On October 21, 2018, during Sunday worship service on YouTube, the EEC CEO, Francisco Barrios, communicated that EEC is actively present on 26 countries.
Evangelismo Global (Global Evangelism)[edit]
Originally named Evangelismo Nacional e Internacional (National and International Evangelism).
On 2012, the former EEC CEO, Javier Bertucci, announced on the evangelistic crusade named Vision Kingdom (Visión Reino on YouTube) that on Saturday November 17th, 2012 they were going to do the first national evangelism with different christian denominations in Venezuela. On that day, 100,000 evangelizers of Christ will going to the streets to invite people to receive Jesus without discussing rules or doctrines. They were going to share the gospel of salvation in a practical way to people located in public busy places. At the same time 40,000 prayer intercessors were going to support the evangelizers, asking God/Jesus to allow the people to receive the message of Jesus in their hearts and any person who were physically sick were going to be healed. The working day was going to be between 2 PM to 6 PM to allow people to receive Jesus message and make a confession of faith[5].
The evangelizers were divided in two groups. One group was dedicated to present the gospel person to person; while the other group were doing a street theatrical play (teatro de calle on YouTube), being this the most used and effective way to present the message of salvation. The theatrical plays are available in the YouTube channel of El_Evangelio_Cambia for volunteers to learn.
Bertucci communicated through Video on YouTube, that more than 200,000 Venezuelans received Jesus in just four hours. According to him, these is the biggest in the world, since there are not historical christian registries of similar event. Also he mentioned no event has put together so many different christian denominations to go to the streets for a day to communicate their faith, making it a worldwide record in number of converts.
On September 28th, 2013 started the Global Evangelism (International Evangelism on YouTube) in 17 countries, including: Venezuela, Argentine, Rusia, Aruba, Brazil, USA, Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Spain, Ecuador, and Haiti.
On 2018 it is plan to be on November 3. @ElEvangelioC (5 October 2018). "Evangelismo Global" (Tweet) – via Twitter. .
Mega Jornada de Acción Social (Mega Day of Social Action)[edit]
The Mega Day of Social Action is popularly know as the Mega Sopa (Mega Soup) that is the remarking activity of the day. The soup consist in a sancocho with good beef where the making starts very early in the morning with the ignition of the firewood (leña) and the put in place of several big ollas made of metal. This setup starts calling the attention of the neighbors that typically join all the activities of the day.
From all countries where ECC is located the Mega Soup is done primarily in Venezuela, which is needed by several people with the present economical situation. The MS is an event done in different Venezuelan states where in one day gives away 150,000 soup plates[6].
Other events that are included during the day are: inflatable bouncers and face-painting for kids, street theater, painting, personal care[7], basic medical dentistry and legal services[8], physiatry, and sometimes vaccination[9].
The event also includes special services for homeless people that are: medical attention, personal care including washing of their feet, and a shower.
According to 2017 report on YouTube EEC made 275 social action days totaling: 95,000 medical care services that were done with medical volunteers, 590,000 personal care services, 234,000 special services for homeless people, 236,000 services to children, 4,000,000 soup plates and some donations of clothing, shoes and medicines.
[edit]
Every year since 2009,without interruption, EEC with church Maranatha Venezuela performs the well known event named "Navidad Alegre" which includes theatrical children plays with Jesus as a main character, see Navidad Alegre 2013 Changing toys for smiles on YouTube . Each Christmas EEC provides about 60,000 toys to children of low income families in Venezuela, in 2015 50% of the toys were given in Carabobo, and the rest in Táchira, Bolívar, Lara and Zulia[10]. On December 2014, was the first time the "Navidad Alegre" was done on Brígido Iriarte Stadium, Caracas where 20,000 toys were given away [11]. In 2011, "Navidades Alegres" was done in conjunction between church Maranatha Ciudad Bolívar and EEC and the event was showcased on YouTube.
Congreso Nacional de Jóvenes (National Youth Conference)[edit]
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Since 2014 EEC started organizing a yearly weeklong national youth conference, offering food, stay for 15,000 people [12], transportation, music, games and a special message by Javier Bertucci. The place were the conference is hosted is the Parque Recreacional Sur de Valencia (Valencia's Recreational Southern Park) 10°8′24″N 67°59′24″W / 10.14000°N 67.99000°W
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This conference gathered more than 200,000 people and includes a virtual audience via YouTube live streaming. On 2018 conference on YouTube, even with Venezuela economical downturn, ECC was able to improve quality of plays at the conference on YouTube .
The event is usually performed during the Holy Week free of charge. The event can gather about 200.000 people per day, making it the biggest event in Venezuela and the world [13].
El Evangelio Cambia YouTube Channel[edit]
The El Evangelio Cambia YouTube Channel with more than 90,000 subscribers and 376 videos, as of October 29, 2018, is an important media to show volunteers theatrical plays, music movements, Christian songs, international training, Bible messages, the yearly conference and the service labor done to people in need. The EEC together with its interrelated partner Maranatha-Venezuela church might be considered the Hillsong for Spanish speaking countries.
Music[edit]
EEC is a dynamic, fresh and multifaceted organization where volunteers develop their artistic talents, such is the case of musical group JEF CREW on YouTube that was created in 2013. JEF CREW is formed by choreographers and urban music singers developing Christian hip hop music. The group released an album with the name "El Evangelio Cambia[14]" which is available on iTunes, Google Play Music, Amazon, Spotify, Deezer and Apple Music. In there oficial Facebook page it is mentioned that the group turn out to be an important tool for evangelism, playing at the EEC events such as "Merry Christmas with toys," "National Youth Conference," and "Mega Day of Social Action."
References[edit]
- ↑ "El Evangelio Cambia Who we are?". EEC. Retrieved 16 October 2018.
- ↑ "Venezuelan presidential candidate poses to incorporate Christian values to Venezuela's politics". MUNDO CRISTIANO. Retrieved 16 October 2018.
- ↑ "Cinco claves sobre Bertucci, pastor evangélico y candidato a Presidente acusado de contrabando". Efecto Cocuyo. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ↑ "Si los venezolanos asumen valores cristianos, tendremos un mejor país". Notitarde. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ↑ ".:Diario Caribazo:". www.diariocaribazo.net. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
- ↑ ""El evangelio cambia" invita a mega jornada de acción social en Maracaibo". Panorama (in español). Retrieved 2018-10-17.
- ↑ "El Evangelio Cambia realizó jornada social en Portuguesa". Notitarde - Sucesos de hoy - Noticias - Venezuela - Valencia - Bejuma - San Diego - Guacara - Los Guayos - Naguanagua (in español). 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
- ↑ Globovision. "Más de 100 mil sopas repartió El Evangelio Cambia en Catia". Globovisión (in español). Retrieved 2018-10-20.
- ↑ "El Evangelio Cambia" hará una jornada social en San Francisco". Panorama (in español). Retrieved 2018-10-20.
- ↑ ""El Evangelio Cambia" entregó 30 mil juguetes en el estado Carabobo - Verdad y Vida". Verdad y Vida (in español). Retrieved 2018-10-17.
- ↑ ""El Evangelio Cambia" entregó 30 mil juguetes en el estado Carabobo - Verdad y Vida". Verdad y Vida (in español). Retrieved 2018-10-17.
- ↑ "Más de 110 mil personas asistieron al Congreso Nacional de Jóvenes 2015 - Verdad y Vida". Verdad y Vida (in español). Retrieved 2018-10-17.
- ↑ "Más de 600 mil personas participaron en el Congreso de Jóvenes "Jesús no me condena"". El Venezolano (in español). 2016-03-27. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
- ↑ "El Jef Crew lanzó su nuevo sencillo "Jesús trae esperanza"". 2017-04-20. Retrieved 2018-10-22.
External links[edit]
Coordinates: 10°11′23″N 67°58′08″W / 10.18972°N 67.96889°W
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