Slideshow of Mexico trip

Tobasco, the harvest is ready

What a cool place. Tobasco a little farming town just across the border. People here are farm workers and don’t make a lot of money but they do have a healthy joy. It was amazing to get another opportunity to go to Tobasco and share a message with my friends at Aqua Viva. Pastor Alfredo is a wonderful man that has a huge heart for the people in his church, city, and surrounding villages. People there are ready to hear the gospel, respond and his church is ready to disciple them. He is readying the men in his church to start bible studies or house churches in the small villages around where there is no church.

Personally I was humbled when he shared with Melissa and I that him and his church had been faithfully praying for us this last year. So much has happened in our life since we went there. It was the point we realized now is the time to go. It was the beginning of our preparing to go this July. Here is this little church, in a little town, with so much of their own needs and we have been blessed to be lifted in prayer by them. We don’t deserve it, we don’t deserve such a loving beautiful God.

 

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20 minutes from the border!

There is nothing more striking than driving a little south of the US border to show how blessed we are. I can not imagine my family digging through the trash to recycle stuff for a living. Praise God we were able to give out bags of soup mix and sandwiches.

Brick yards

 

This year we were able to return to the brick yards of San Luis to share God's love with these hard working people. I had the opportunity last year to try my hand at making bricks so I passed this year. How ever our kids and several others gave it a try. People live on land, often owned by others who provide the materials for brick making, and make a living by forming, drying, and firing bricks. They are made from a mixture of soil and manure. A very old way of making bricks. The people here have very little but received us very warmly.

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We are home

We are home from Mexico. What a great time. We spent 4 days driving and 5 days ministering. Well worth it.

Saturday we arrived in San Luis at the Caring Hearts ran Bethel Orphanage. It is a small piece of paradise in a very impoverished city. They have excellent facilities that they use to house around 30 kids that are something in between orphans and foster kids. They also host teams. The kids, ours, the Haile's, the Norem's, all had a great time playing with the children their. It is really a great place to be housed and based. They regularly host teams that minister both in the orphanage and the community. I will post more pics and talk about some of the other ministry over the rest of the week.

Viva la Mexico

We are leaving Friday morning. 1 week in San Luis Mexico working with Caring Hearts and Aquas Vivas. Caring hearts runs an orphanage, boys home, soup kitchen and is involved with many other ministries in the community. Aquas Vivas is a conservative Baptist church in Tobasco Mexico, a small agricultural town. We will be going as a family. We will minister through construction, dramas and street evangelism, food and clothing distribution. Pray for our journey and many open doors as we are there.