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 …
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!
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 …
The Fry family had a great time this past weekend visiting friends in Rio Blanco, Veracruz, very close to Orizaba. Karen Mendez spent around 7 months with us last year, visiting us every weekend and helping with the ministry here as a Word of Life Bible Institute Mexico intern. Karen’s parents are in leadership at …
Hard to believe it’s been a year already! Yesterday our service was dedicated to celebrating the goodness of God towards our little congregation, that had its first birthday yesterday. The service itself was full of special participation from several different groups in the church (women, youth, kids), as well as special music and skits. We …
It’s been great to get back into a bit of a routine with the ministry in Palmas 1. So encouraging to see around 15 young people regularly show up for youth meeting, which began again last Saturday after a break during August. Exciting to see the small facility we rent filling up on Sundays also. …
The following schedule will give you an idea of what we attempt to do with short-term teams. Obviously it is a bit challenging to involve non-Spanish speakers in meaningful, effective outreach (does this statement surprise anyone?). Nevertheless, it can be done with a little creativity and a lot of availability! Among the activities this past …
