I felt for a while like we were in a game of Frogger, us being the frog and the goal being getting to PA. Covid, of course, was a big obstacle, but there were others…insecurity on the border, Mayra’s back problems, the high price of plane tickets. But we finally arrived in PA mid-September, and […]
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Need some encouraging news in the midst of ongoing discouraging national and world news about disease and natural disasters? Read on! God continues to work in the hearts and lives of people. Mexico City is probably 2-4 weeks behind much of the U.S. in dealing with the virus. Churches have been re-congregating little by little.
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Whereas much of the U.S. seems to be entering into a second phase of the covid crisis, here in Mexico we’re still in the seemingly never ending first stage. Our last normal Sunday church service was March 15th. That was 13 weeks ago, over 3 months. We continue online this coming Sunday…will we go back
I’ve mentioned this before, but if you’re like me, you’ve gone through various cycles of opinion about COVID. For me it started with, “this is probably no big deal,” to “well, maybe I should be a bit careful,” to “this is crazy, this is a media-driven frenzy” to “you know, people I know around me
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Mexico is a country that thrives, it seems, on making life more difficult than it should be. With additional regulations in place, this is only magnified. I went to The Home Depot yesterday and found myself in person #34 in a long line of people waiting to get in the store. After waiting 10 minutes,
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You may have received a prayer request from us for Juan Martinez. Juan has been in intensive care for the last week, and in the hospital for the last two weeks, on a respirator for much of that time. His wife Blanca was also sick, but has been recovering at home. On a Zoom meeting
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Anyone else feel like that? It just goes ON and ON my friend! Here in Mexico we are supposedly in the very worst part of the pandemic, if the increasingly contradictory information on TV and the Internet is to be believed. I’ve mentioned this before…but the collection and analysis of data is not a cultural
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I will spare you any philosophizing on this current epidemic, and simply mention some news here in Mexico. Today in the Mexico City metro area, the no-drive day that we live with every week has been extended to cars currently exempt, that is, to vehicles under 10 years old. We still have two years to
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I’m sure that you are getting weary of constant talk about the virus, as I am. Unfortunately the missions weekend that we were going to be involved with at Leroy Community Chapel in OH the first week in May has been canceled. Decisions are being made about our possible summer ministry during these days. Interestingly
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Mexico along with much of the southern hemisphere it would seem has been spared from the worst of the virus, but nevertheless social distancing has been put into effect here in Mexico City, with stricter guidelines (site in Spanish) just issued yesterday (Sunday, March 22), calling for the closure of movie theaters, sporting events, churches,
Mexico Ministry Update Read More »