Dear Pastors, Churches and Friends,
December 1, 2017 (Oct. – Nov. ’17)

I hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving. They don’t celebrate that holiday here, but I was able to find a restaurant that served turkey and Mary & I went there to eat on Thanksgiviing day. It has been a good couple of months since our last printable prayer letter. We continue to have some small earthquakes but our building is built on bedrock so it is pretty stable when there in minimal activity. In the 30 days there has been 76 earthquakes, many in the mid 4s on the Richter Scale. Schools here just reopened after a couple months. The majority of them were poorly built to begin with and many others suffered structual damage. The volcano Popocatepetl is less than 50 miles southeast of us and recently starting having violent erruptions.

Church has gone well with souls saved and baptized since we last wrote. We still have new first-time visitors regularly. Our church continues to grow. Not only am I making two trips in our 15-passenger van to pick up people for church, but we also had to divide our adult Sunday school into two classes, as well as … Read More »

Dear Pastors, Churches and Friends,
October 1, 2017 (Aug. – Sep.  ’17)

It has been a good and interesting couple of months since our last printable prayer letter.  We held our first V.B.S. in August with the theme of Daniel.  It went very well until Hurricane Frank hit Mexico, and the rain made the last couple days difficult.  We did have some kids saved so that was a blessing.  We have had a lot going on in our church recently.  We had a baby shower in August and September.  We also celebrated our church’s one-year anniversary and Independence Day on the same day last month.  It was a nice time of mexican food & decorations and dressing up in authentic mexican clothing.

About a month ago we had a 8.2 earthquake felt strongly in Mexico City.  Two weeks ago we had the devastating 7.1 eathquake that killed over 300 people, injured about 5,000 and collapsed over 50 buildings downtown, just six miles from our home.  Praise the Lord that we are fine as are our church people.  Two aftershock quakes hit last week measuring 5.8 and 6.2.  In the midst of such sadness, God has used this tragedy to allow some to be … Read More »