Since last March I find myself as the senior pastor of the Jesus Maria church, and it has been a learning and growing experience. A special shout-out to pastors Rick Clark of E-town Grace and Kirk Belmont of Hope Community Church for helping me think through sermon series creation, thinking through the advantages of expository, […]
Local Church and Mission Ministry Early 2025 Read More »
I know that “Giving Tuesday” has passed, but most of you I imagine aren’t into the hype of giving on a certain day. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while now, and as Christmas is coming, perhaps our hearts and minds are more oriented towards giving, as certainly we Christians have been given
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Mayra and I have been in PA since mid-January, and during that time have had the opportunity to represent our mission, Liebenzell USA, at Cairn University, near Philadelphia, PA and at Lancaster Bible College. Today, I’ll be joining George and Steve at Biola University, for their missions conference this week. I’m looking forward to it!
Visiting Christian Colleges and Supporting Churches, Being with Family Read More »
Shortly after surviving a busy summer (see last post), we finally were able to do something we’d been planning to do for the last several years: take Mayra’s mother Hilda and sister Monica to visit PA. They were thankfully able to apply for and receive tourist visas back in Feb. 2020, a month before the
A Visit to PA, a Conference in Guadalajara Read More »
Our summer started off with a bang, receiving three Liebenzell U.S.A. interns (Joshua, Amanda and Rafael), as well as a team of 18 people from Mount Calvary Church. A couple notables about the Mt. Calvary team…there were a lot of father/mother and son/daughter combos, the guys outnumbered the girls 12 to 6, and nearly everyone
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These last several weeks have been very significant, especially having been able to participate in the pastoral recognition service for Josué Rodriguez, and Daniel Martinez’ wedding. In both cases I first met these two young men when they were 12 years old. Now Josué is married to Patty, with a 2-month-old baby, Caleb, and pastor
Summer 2022 has Officially Started Read More »
Yes, it’s starting to get cold in PA after a remarkably beautiful and relatively warm autumn. So beautiful to see the changing of the seasons. It’s a changing season for us, too, in several ways. We are excited about a transition to a new mission, Liebenzell USA. Never heard of it? Neither had we, until
Heading South for the Winter Read More »
This past year has been different in many ways, but still good. Still very good. Our time in PA has afforded us the opportunity to experience the changing of the seasons…now that we can once again see winter around the corner…well, we need to head to Mexico! What a privilege to serve at Word of
Changes and Transitions Read More »