This past Wednesday, son David and I, along with pastor friend Erik Morga and his wife Patty and daughter Annie left Mexico City around 4:45 a.m. to start what has become our annual trip to the missions conference at Rio Grande Bible Institute. Erik and I went to represent our little Mexican mission called FAMEX, […]
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Here are the top ten posts from 2015. A sincere thanks to those of you who occasionally visit this site, pray for the ministry here and are interested in the happenings of the Fry family in Mexico City. If you missed some of these popular posts…check them out! 1. Yeast (March 19) Developing intentional relationships
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Don’t beat around the bush. Just tell me! Generally speaking, U.S. culture values clarity and honesty in communication. We value details. Facts. We are pretty good in analyzing information. In our communication we are direct, explicit and to the point, literal, and informal. We do not use a whole lot non-verbal communication. We are practical,
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One of the realities of missionary life is that nobody knows your family. In most cases, people you work with have never met your parents, or your siblings. They’ve most certainly never met your uncles and aunts. That part of life is…well…missing. Of course, the positive side of that is that you acquire many spiritual
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About a month ago, Mayra and I were invited to a missions conference at the Villa de las Flores Bible church in northern Mexico City. There we ended up sitting with José (Pepe) Rivero and his Uruguayan wife, Selva. Pepe and Selva work as missionaries at the Word of Life camp outside of Bernal, Querétaro,
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As a family we literally have nearly 30 passports in a drawer in our house, most of them with holes punched through or stamps in them marking them “canceled.” Why? Well, first of all, everyone in the family has dual citizenship except me. That means everyone has a passport from both Mexico and the U.S.
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Being bi-cultural is wonderful, but it’s also challenging. Probably the biggest area of difficulty for a bi-cultural family is learning and maintaining both cultures. This becomes especially relevant when considering children’s education. No matter how you slice it, educating kids in two languages and two educational systems is complicated. Home schooling has offered a legitimate
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GETHSEMANE The image of a cross I see in the tear of Him who would die for me, a tear, or is it blood, I cannot tell. Underneath the stars is He, fallen in such agony, then His eyes meet mine. Could it be He is telling me that He is going to Calvary for
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This past weekend I drove to Oaxaca with three friends from the church. Oaxaca is beautiful and very different from the chaos of Mexico City. The fields and mountains, the warm wind, the swaying grass…oh how I needed to see and feel that. We packed the van with supplies for a medical mission with AIL
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We feel very blessed to be able to spend several weeks with our son Daniel, my parents and family in PA. Among the highlights so far…Cathy’s 15th birthday party! A big thank you to my parents John and Arlene, sister Beth and friend Peggy for preparing everything, decorating Cornerstone Youth Center and for helping make
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