A group of around 20 people from Mt. Calvary Church, Elizabethtown PA will be arriving June 10, Lord willing, and we just confirmed a hearing aid event for the same day they arrive, at 5 p.m. on June 10, in a poor area on the very edge of civilization. Well, ok, maybe not quite that […]
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Usually when I use the initials “Wol” I’m referring to my home church, Word of Life Chapel. Over the past week, however, when referring to Wol I’m thinking about Word of Life Bible Institute, Mexico (Palabra de Vida PdV in Spanish). This past weekend a group of 9 students from WOL Mexico did 4 different
If you need a prayer request, pray for this woman. Her name is Deborah Giese (pronounced GEESE-Y, yeah, we think it’s a funny last name too!) You can blame her last name on her husband Shawn. Debbie is worship leader for Valley Bible Church, in Hercules, CA. She is in charge of bringing together a
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Every year we think about a general theme to caption the gist of our we do here for our summer team members and interns. This year the theme is “exponential,” with a play on this: 2 (T) 2 x 2, or something similar to this. I can’t do mathematical symbols on this keyboard, but it
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One of the questions I like to ask churches (and ask myself) is this: How do we as a church reach totally un-churched, unsaved people, with the purpose of developing a friendship and telling them about Jesus? You may know that we’ve been doing community center activities as a ministry outreach for a long time.
We have been privileged to work alongside Kaycee Kaba for the last year as she has served the Lord and the community of Ixtapaluca discipling girls, playing in the church praise band, helping out with baking classes, tutoring English, helping with kids clubs, the internship program, judging English competitions and much more! Kaycee was sent
This is going to prove to be a classic post. Below, our daughter Cathy doing a short video thanking all of you for your partnership in helping us distribute about 170 wheelchairs in the past two-and-a-half years. These wheelchairs are purchased for about $20 a piece from Operation Blessing, a non-profit here in Mexico. They
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Many of you know that we like using all sorts of “good works” to reach out to our community. At the heart of this approach are our community center classes. We’ve been doing 12-14 week fall and spring courses since…I don’t know, probably 2011? That means we just finished our 11th semester. At the closing
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This past week has been full of expected and unexpected happenings. It has been a week where we have ventured into Mexico City on four different occasions. Last weekend we received news of the death of Mayra’s aunt, and went to her viewing on a rainy Friday evening. I was asked to officiate the wedding,
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One of the realities of missionary life is that nobody knows your family. In most cases, people you work with have never met your parents, or your siblings. They’ve most certainly never met your uncles and aunts. That part of life is…well…missing. Of course, the positive side of that is that you acquire many spiritual
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