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
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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
If you need a prayer request, pray for this woman. Her name is Deborah Giese (pronounced GEESE-Y, yeah, we think it’s a funny last name too!) You can blame her last name on her husband Shawn. Debbie is worship leader for Valley Bible Church, in Hercules, CA. She is in charge of bringing together a
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Every year we think about a general theme to caption the gist of our we do here for our summer team members and interns. This year the theme is “exponential,” with a play on this: 2 (T) 2 x 2, or something similar to this. I can’t do mathematical symbols on this keyboard, but it
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After our week in CA with Valley Bible we arrived home on a Monday night. On Tuesday I was able to get some donated medicine from a local non-profit, and on Wednesday morning, seven of us were on our way to Oaxaca for Adventures in Life Ministry‘s annual men’s week. You can read Dave Miller’s
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The last two weeks for us have been a blessed blur, as we spent a week with friends at Valley Bible Church in the San Francisco Bay area, California, then Rod and David in Oaxaca with Dave, Gaspar and other friends of Adventures in Life Ministry. We participated in their annual Men’s Week. More on
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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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We have been privileged to work alongside Kaycee Kaba for the last year as she has served the Lord and the community of Ixtapaluca discipling girls, playing in the church praise band, helping out with baking classes, tutoring English, helping with kids clubs, the internship program, judging English competitions and much more! Kaycee was sent
This is going to prove to be a classic post. Below, our daughter Cathy doing a short video thanking all of you for your partnership in helping us distribute about 170 wheelchairs in the past two-and-a-half years. These wheelchairs are purchased for about $20 a piece from Operation Blessing, a non-profit here in Mexico. They
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