Video Update
Several videos from this past weekend.
Community Center
Weekend Update in Pictures
Weekends are such fun times around here. Productive ones, too, with a Bible study, kids club, soccer league, youth group meeting and Sunday church service happening. This weekend, Canadian friend Shelli Nuefeld gave a 5-hour conference on kids ministry at the Jesus Maria church also, with people from four different churches attending. Here are some …
Community Center Events January 2017
This past week we created and had printed out 3 foot by 4.5 foot vinyl banners to promote various activities that will be cranking up this week. The banners below invite participation in a new English class for two hours every Tuesday and Thursday in the same space that we rent for Sunday church. Jonathan, …
Soccer, English, Growth
After a wonderful time in PA (coming…a post on pig stomach), we returned to Mexico in time to receive Mike Conteras and Joseph Keith from Youth Missions International. I could have taken several picks of us eating tacos together! This past weekend, good friend Gaspar Chable visited us for a couple of days. Always great …
Church Plant Update
Thanks to so many of you who have been praying for the new church plant in another of the neighborhoods here in Ixtapaluca, an area called “Palmas 1.” We were back in our rented building yesterday, after having to find a different place to meet on our second Sunday due to a previous commitment at …
Auditorium Progress
There are a lot of parallels to the construction of a building and the formation of a life. After a period of time, it is nearly impossible to remember who the land once was, how the plot used to be, how a life used to be. Look at the pictures below. The rubble and grass …
Hydroponic Projects (and submersible pumps)
I had the unexpected treat of spending the weekend with Gaspar Chablé, a pastor, rancher and friend from Oaxaca. The gospel of Jesus is Gaspar’s passion, and he is constantly looking for ways to help people fight both spiritual and material poverty. His understanding of agriculture as it relates to life in rural Oaxaca is …
Hope Community and DVBS 2016
It’s been an exciting week for our annual church DVBS, this week setting some records as far as attendance. Usually we start the week with about 50 kids, this week 120 showed up on Monday. Then 150 on Tuesday. Yesterday we reached 165. Many committed people from the church are being supported by a team …
Mt. Calvary Church–Review of the Week
These past 9 days we were privileged to host a group of 20 people from Mt. Calvary Church, Elizabethtown. This is the second consecutive summer a group from the church has been down, and we’re already talking about 2017. It was a great week once again this year, with Jonathan Witmer’s capable leadership and a …
Wheelchairs!
I finally got word mid-week last week that I could deposit funds for 30 wheelchairs and go pick them up. Murphy’s Law was, of course, in effect. The only day to pick them up was Friday. Friday afternoon. And the warehouse where they were stored…the whole way across Mexico City in another city called Toluca. …