A group of 11 people from Camp Bighorn in Montana arrive tomorrow, to spend the first week of their month in Mexico in Ixtapaluca. The group is part of a program entitled Journey: Discipleship through Adventure. I don’t know a whole lot about the group, except that they just spent the last three weeks hiking […]
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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
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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
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This March a unique Christian wilderness/extreme sports ministry is going cross-cultural, and we’re excited to be involved. Josh Vander Meer coordinates Camp Bighorn‘s Journey program, and visited us for several days earlier this year to talk about how to bring their experience to Mexico. No, the group will not be scaling any cliffs while in
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Had a great time with Matheus, Cheila, Rebecca and about 15 kids from both Sendero de Vida churches this past Saturday. Looking forward to going deep with this group in the months ahead. Great to be able to talk with Bersa and others!
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Rebecca is the third member of a group of students from Word of Life Bible Institute, who will be helping us in the ministry here beginning this weekend and continuing through May, 2017. We are excited about what the Lord is going to do in and through each one of us. If you missed the
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Meet Cheila Fernandes! She and Matheus are both from Portugal, and we met them both last summer at a pastor’s conference. She will be joining Matheus and Rebeca in the ministry here with us every weekend, beginning…well, beginning this week! Hello my name is Cheila, I´m 25 and I´m from Portugal. I was born in
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You may remember (ok, probably not) a post from last Fall that mentioned Matheus and Cheila, and how they are studying at Word of Life Institute Mexico. They are related to a church plant in Portugal, where my uncle and aunt Bob and Jo Fry ministered for many years (15 or so?). Mayra and I
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The two videos below are: 1. A very short visual of some of the food we ate as a church in celebration of Mexico Independence Day September 18. Some of the stars of the video…pozole, tamales, tostadas, pambazos and a big cake. 2. A video put together by co-worker Jim Cottrill of our baptismal service
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It wasn’t more than a couple of months ago that it wasn’t uncommon to see groups of young people walking around all over the place with the express purpose of capturing all sorts of different Pokémon monsters. Our kids were certainly into it. We were able to go to the beach for a few days
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