So many acronyms! That’s what Mayra often says when she goes to the U.S. and hears and acronym for everything. DMV, DIY, FYI, LMK, BRB and so many more. If you want to know what the acronyms are in this post…read on! Sorry, this entry is rather long…so you’ll have to scroll down to see […]
Veracruz, PdV, WOLC, COG Read More »
Our summer ministry has gone through some significant changes over the past 10 years or so, from being primarily a time we received summer interns (a record number of interns in 2006 and 2007), to primarily receiving church groups (an average of 4-5 groups per summer, from 2016, except during COVID). Last summer, largely due
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Talk about a rebound! After two years with zero visitors because of the pandemic, this summer possibly set a record for visitors. We received a total of five church teams, all of them from Pennsylvania, and four Liebenzell USA interns. Throw in a couple kids (do they count as visitors?) and our grand total is
It’s been a LONG time since I’ve updated this space, so I wanted to take time to do so. I’ll simply list some of what has been going on, with a brief description. Mayra and I both had Covid. I guess we’re sort of late adapters, but we finally caught the dreaded disease, although in
This past Saturday we began our time be checking our average screen time on our cell phones. Turns out the average hours went from 3 to 7 to a record 13 hours daily! We talked about how certain social media (like Facebook) is becoming obsolete to younger users because it requires a bit of data
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
Back in the Keystone State Read More »
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
This is the Song that Never Ends…. Read More »
We very much enjoyed our time with 18 team members from Hope Community, Mt. Joy, PA, here from July 20-28, including the church’s senior pastor, Kirk Belmont. While here, the group of teenagers and adults participated in a soccer tournament, an English class, two hearing aid/reading glasses outreach events, and a visit to a nearby
Hope Community 2018 Read More »
I didn’t have opportunity to post this past week…probably because I was too exhausted to do so! But now that the group from Mount Calvary is probably just about home, I’ll post a quick review of the week. Among the activities…a soccer tournament, two outreach events with about 90 reading glasses and 25 hearing aids
Mount Calvary June 2018 Read More »
This summer Lord willing we’ll be again hosting groups from three different churches and some individual visitors as well, a total of 44 people in all (a rather light summer for us!) Our theme…the banner at the top of this post, Cross the Border. All sorts of meaning there! As you may imagine, a lot
A Preview of Summer 2018 Activities Read More »