Dear Pastors, Friends and Family,
February 1, 2026 (Dec. ’25 – Jan. ‘26)

Greetings in  Jesus’ Name & Happy New Year!  We trust you all had a Merry Christmas.  Thank you for your prayers & support, as well as for the extra that some gave to us for Christmas.  Mary & I celebrated our 37th wedding anniversary in December.

One blessing of being on furlough is visiting family, especially for special holidays like Christmas.  In the last couple months we have been in Ohio, West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Colorado. We have enjoyed seeing family and being in some supporting churches & a couple new churches.  What an encouragement to see God at work in so many good churches.  We miss Mexico very much, but it was great recently to be in one of our supporting churches and then the same day to be in their Spanish church.  As we travel during this furlough, we have seen so many more hispanics that have arrived in the U.S. in the last several years.  We love witnessing to them though many hispanics here have becomed “Americanized” and less receptive to the gospel, due to the money & benefits received in the U.S.  It is … Read More »

Dear Pastors, Friends and Family,
December 1, 2025 (Oct. – Nov. ’25)

I hope all you that are my fellow veterans had a good Veteran’s Day. It was nice to be in the U.S. for this occasion. I enjoyed being able to witness to veterans last month. As Christians, we should witness to everybody, but it is often easier to gain confidence of someone when we can personally relate to them. Mary and I were both raised Catholic which has been helpful in Mexico. We all have other common relations to others like where we were born & live, what we studied in school, where we worked, as well as struggles we’ve had and even our hobbies. Jesus told His disciples in that He would make them fishers of men.

Sometimes we can become better spiritual fishermen if use the right “bait” by relating our experiences to others. Such was the case last month when I witnessed to a veteran named Adam. He was not just a veteran, but like me, served both in the Army and in Field Artillery. That got talking about physical things easy and made it easier to ease into the gospel. Many Latinos are surprised when Mary & … Read More »