We received word yesterday that Andrea, Alex and Paty’s grandmother, trusted Christ on Monday. Andrea had heard the gospel several times, and Mayra talked to her for a while about two weeks ago on a Sunday here at the house. Andrea is a special lady, probably at least 70 years old, but with a sense […]
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Here’s a picture taken last Sunday after our Sunday service. From left to right, me (bad hair day), Voltaire Cacal, Susan Malphurs, Alejandra, Alex, Paty, Alberto and Brad Bridges. The four young people have all come to know the Lord as a direct result of the influence and evangelistic activities that happen during our summer
Tomorrow we begin a three-day mobilization summit to evaluate our short-term program as a mission and seek ways to make it better and make it grow. Mark and Michelle Fittz are coming from Honduras, Mike Glick from Guatemala, and Susan, Voltaire and Brad from CAM Dallas. This graphic is what we used for the program
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Today I was in a 5-hour training time, a requirement for those church leaders interested in taking part in Samaritan Purse’s Christmas project, a project in which kids in the U.S. and Canada pack shoe boxes full of gifts. These boxes are then wrapped and sent to Mexico and to many other countries. I have
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We met with the school counselor or shrink or whatever tonight, and she is pretty sure that David probably suffers from ADD…boy, big surprise there for those of you that know our Davey! Anyway, she is going to talk to the school teacher and have her ease up with the homework, and suggested some steps
For a while now Mayra and I have wanted to visit Spain, partly because of an interest on her part to see Europe, and partly to see how we could potentially help in the missionary endeavor there. Spain is .4% evangelical…that’s less than 1%. It is also a very secularlized, postmodern state, where questions of
Please pray for our son David. He is really struggling with his classes in school…he is 5 years old and is having trouble learning how to read, which causes quite a bit of additional stress with his homework, etc… Here in Mexico there are actually 3 years of kindergarten, starting at age 3. His teacher
This past Friday we began to meet two times…once at 9 a.m. and again at 8 p.m. During both time slots, David and I simultaneously teach two different discipleship studies. The first, more basic study starts with salvation, the security of salvation and so forth. The second study goes into more depth as to the
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I mentioned before that we are planning an event around Halloween to present a biblical view on life and death. Our idea has morphed quite a bit…but we’ve decided to turn the church into a giant maze, walking people through different sections of the up and downstairs and portraying different scenes that teach about God
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This past Tuesday the whole family went along with Elena and another new believer, Juanita, to visit a couple that live here in our neighborhood–Juanita and Pascual. Juanita suffers from bone marrow cancer, and has had some real ups and downs of late. Just recently she began chemotherapy. The Juanita that is a new believer