Camino Global Mexico

22 November 2017

Mega Service and More Meetings

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Mega Service 2017 Panorama
Music at the Mega Service Thanks so much to everyone who prayed for the “Mega Service” this past Sunday at Ecoparque San Pedro. I think the service went fairly well. In the picture above you can see the group in the beautiful outdoor location.

Rod did a great job leading an eclectic collection of music, and I spoke on “The Word of God” from 2 Peter 1:16-21. The picture on the right shows Rod and gang.

After the service we hung out at the park, where there was horse back riding, an outdoor labyrinth, and places to play soccer and other things.

After one day at home I headed to Puebla to meet with the Camino Global team leaders. The altitude changes are usually a health disaster for me, and yesterday was no exception, so it was admittedly a day of pretty severe pain. However, it was a good time with a few of the other missionaries I don’t see often, talking about various issues.

We’ve been trying to get our van verified, which we need to do every 6 months. This time it didn’t pass (due apparently to a sensor issue), and this led to four days at the mechanic’s. We’re hoping that we can get it verified in the next few days. Verification is what allows us to drive without restrictions of certain days.

Just a little news for you! Thanks for reading. 🙂

27 September 2017

Missionary Family: Quick Prayer Requests

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Mexico flag on brick wall We’re meeting with the Camino Global missionaries this week, and so I have some related prayer requests to share.

We have a new missionary family who had a rough night last night. They have three young kids who were quite sick last night, and so they had to go home to Puebla today. So we would appreciate your prayers for them.

Last night was . . . well, LOUD. There was a major thunderstorm here. And the house of another missionary family was flooded. It looks like there will be some loss, and a whole lot of mess. So you could pray for them as they assess the damage, try to get the water out of the house, and start cleaning up. Various others are taking turns going out to the house to help them out today.

Keep praying for our team member who is recovering from cancer treatment and surgery (earlier this month). She and her husband are missing the conference as well.

Although conversations have already been going on, we hope to meet more formally tomorrow with quite a few other missionaries to discuss next steps in earthquake/hurricane relief here in Mexico. Between the missionaries and our networks of churches, we have some interesting contacts. So together, we should be able to make better and wiser decisions.

We’re thankful to see how God has already been working through this situation. But do pray that God would give us wisdom as we meet.

6 December 2016

Prayer Request: When Your World Turns Upside-Down

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Less than two weeks ago, we were meeting with our team of Camino Global missionaries. You remember them, right? We serve in three different cities here in central Mexico. One couple was missing – being currently in the USA for a few weeks.

A couple of days after our meeting, one of our team members (not from our local team – serving in another city) began to experience some flu-like symptoms. When the normal treatments didn’t seem to help, a blood test turned up the real culprit – cancer.

I won’t mention her name here (though it’s not a secret – contact me and I’ll tell you), but I’m sure she would appreciate your prayers. Three days after the blood test, further tests had narrowed down the type of cancer. And five days later, yesterday, treatment began. She will be in the hospital undergoing treatment right up until Christmas, at which point she will take a break before continuing.

Talk about your world being completely turned upside-down in a matter of days. She and her husband were planning to spend Christmas with family in the USA – but it looks like that visit will have to wait for several months now.

Cancer has been a common and unwanted theme. In the spring, a former team member (who is now living in the US) was diagnosed with cancer, a slow-growing form of leukemia. He is doing well but the leukemia is not in remission.

Another team member on temporary assignment in the USA for a few weeks had a checkup and discovered he had cancer as well. After surgery, it looks like he’s free and clear, but we continue to pray for his recovery. They extended their stay out of the country, but plan to travel back to Mexico soon after New Year’s Day.

All three would appreciate your prayers. But I especially encourage you to pray for our friend who was just diagnosed. She has good care here in Mexico, but of course she and her family are concerned. She would especially appreciate your prayers that she would not have nausea from the treatments, and of course that the treatment would be effective, or that God would heal in another way.

28 February 2016

Coordinating Team: Mexico

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As the leader of my team of Camino Global missionaries, I’m also a member of the Coordinating Team for Camino Global in the Mexico field.

Now the Coordinating Team (CT) actually doesn’t coordinate all that much – most decision-making is done at the team level. And most of that tends to be done by consensus (on our team, anyway). You thought I was actually important there for a second, didn’t you? 😉

Camino Global Mexico Seriously, though, the CT does have some important roles. Facilitating communication between the various teams of missionaries, for example. Making sure field-wide events happen, talking about field-wide strategies. And representing Camino Global in communication with certain organizations in Mexico – in our case that includes Camp Koinonia and the Puebla Bible Seminary, as well as the churches that are related to our mission.

There are a lot of seismic shifts taking place among these groups here in Mexico, which makes our job much more interesting – and challenging.

Today I’m on my way to the city of Puebla, where the CT (made up of of missionaries from various parts of the country) will be meeting tomorrow to discuss a variety of things – many of them very important, things that could impact the ministry here in Mexico for many years to come. We would very much appreciate your prayers as we meet!

29 November 2014

Help! We’re Stuck in a Video!

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In fact, our whole team is in it! Jessica Nixon, who is here helping us for a year, put her considerable talents to work to make this video of our Camino team’s ministry! So here it is . . .

20 October 2014

Our Team Today (and one reason why it’s so cool)

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Today we’re heading to the city of Pachuca, north east of Mexico City, for a meeting with our team of Camino Global missionaries.

I’ll be sharing a bit about some of the things we talked about at our meetings in Honduras.

When I was in Honduras, I actually made a bit of a presentation about our team as a part of a Mexico presentation. As I thought about it again on the weekend, I realized again what an interesting team we have.

We are involved in a huge number of very different ministries. And we’re serving in three different cities, and four different locations.

And if I estimate correctly, here’s where our team members are from…

We’re also married and single, no children, with children, and empty-nesters. Our meetings are bilingual. We’re also multi-generational.

So for all our faults, it is pretty cool what a variety of people we have on our team.

And then if you add the people we’re actually working with on a local level, it gets even more interesting. That would bring us to a wide group of people, majority Mexican, from a variety of churches and mission agencies.

And in this global world in which we live, that’s what teams are going to look like more and more. And it’s a very challenging thing, but a great thing, because that’s what the Church is.

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