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 […]
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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.
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
Confirming Details Read More »
This past week I was involved in a series of meetings, and there are a lot of details, but the summary is this: We can go ahead with construction on our larger all-purpose building at the church, and have one year of municipal “grace.” All the construction on the property will then be formalized next
This past week we put on two major sports outreach events. The first was our 5th soccer tournament on March 21 in Palmas 3 neighborhood, this time with 14 teams registering for team play. As always, before any team was eliminated we had the opportunity to share a gospel testimony. Thanks, Daniel Martinez, for your
Our own Sweet 14, and the “Undefeated” Soccer League Read More »
The picture at the top of this post is an actually picture of the wall in front of our church building. The picture below is an artist’s rendering of what we hope the front of the church will look like in the near future. On Friday we plan to purchase sod and a bunch of
Make our World Beautiful Read More »
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.
Our relationship with Uncharted Waters Sports Ministry in Ixtapaluca goes way back to 2007, when a team of students did an international sports ministry club here in Ixtapaluca. Since then, UW was visited us at least five times. Mike Contreras, UW’s international director and former missionary to Mexico has visited three times over the last
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