We very much enjoyed our time with 18 team members from Hope Community, Mt. Joy, PA, here from July 20-28, including the church’s senior pastor, Kirk Belmont. While here, the group of teenagers and adults participated in a soccer tournament, an English class, two hearing aid/reading glasses outreach events, and a visit to a nearby […]
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We’re looking forward to a great time with Hope Community Church, coming soon to help with our first DVBS in the new church in Palmas 1. Here is a brief summary of what’s been going on here so far this summer, with two videos at the end of this post. A group of 19 (plus
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I didn’t have opportunity to post this past week…probably because I was too exhausted to do so! But now that the group from Mount Calvary is probably just about home, I’ll post a quick review of the week. Among the activities…a soccer tournament, two outreach events with about 90 reading glasses and 25 hearing aids
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This summer Lord willing we’ll be again hosting groups from three different churches and some individual visitors as well, a total of 44 people in all (a rather light summer for us!) Our theme…the banner at the top of this post, Cross the Border. All sorts of meaning there! As you may imagine, a lot
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We are excited to announce that Matheus da Silva, a young man who served with us on weekends from October, 2016 through May, 2017, and recent graduate of Word of Life Bible Institute Mexico, will be once again joining the ministry team here in Ixtapaluca! Matheus returned to Portugal after graduation last May, and has
This past weekend was the third year in a row that a group of young people from Word of Life Bible Institute Mexico came for a weekend of outreach and activity. Check out 2016 and 2017 too. It was a full weekend, with the Fusion Group from WOL doing three presentations of their “The Great
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These past two weeks have sort of been a blur…but I did want to post a short video of a Saturday before Easter youth activity, here at our house. About 32 kids attended, and as always, Cuco and Connie did a great job. Yes, and we had hot dogs; a far cry from the usual
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Below is a video and some pictures of this past Sunday, when we celebrated the 8th anniversary of the Jesus Maria church and also participated in baptisms…5 from JM and 7 from the relatively new Palmas 1 church. Great time!
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We’re always thinking about ways to improve community, and foster outreach. One project for this summer is to improve our facilities here to be more conducive to reaching our community. This involves some remodeling and some modest purchases. Below, a ping-pong table which we can purchase at a local box store. Friend Gaspar was visiting
For the second year, we had the privilege of hosting Camp Bighorn‘s Journey program. They spend just over 1 month in Mexico doing all sorts of outdoors and wilderness related activities, as well as some limited ministry. Their first week is spent here, in Ixtapaluca, where we give them a bunch of cultural and ministerial
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