Ten years ago today (2012) we were having a closing program for the community centre. Part of the program was to give out some wheelchairs to people who had been identified as having a special need.
These are the “old style” wheelchairs provided by another mission. The new ones are a lot better and more sophisticated. But for someone who had no access to any chair, these were a good start!
10 years ago today – a closing program at the community centre in the community of Jesús María. Along with various other classes (including Shari’s baking class), I had a presentation for my keyboard class.
For the keyboard class, we had a game show – Todo el Mundo Cree Que Sabe (Everyone Thinks They Know), which is the Mexican version of Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?.
So here’s a photo of the show in action. But as a bonus, a short video from the whole event below.
That’s right – ’tis the season for all our clausuras – that is, closing programs for the community centres!
You can read more about the idea behind clausuras here.
Tonight we’ll be having a special program for those in Las Palmas who have been involved in activities like English classes, baking classes, kids’ clubs, crafts classes and the “School for Parents”. Julian will be sharing a special message with everyone.
Tomorrow night we’ll be up the hill in Jesús MarÃa. As usual, there was a plethora of classes up there – music, exercise, baking, and much more. I’m getting ready to give a little Christmas message during the program, so I would appreciate your prayers for that.
On Monday there will be a little Christmas party for those who have been involved in classes even further up the hill in Acozac.
Speaking of Christmas events, don’t forget the Christmas concert in Puebla on the weekend. We will be going, Lord willing, with some of our neighbours. You could certainly keep praying for everyone who’s organizing this big event – I just received another plea for prayer via email today. Watch a clip of the concert from a previous year, and a prayer request for the event here.
And now – it’s time to run to Las Palmas! Talk to you later! 🙂
As usual there’s a lot going on! We would certainly appreciate your prayers for the next couple of weeks…
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Over the next couple of days, the semester at the community centre is wrapping up. Today and tomorrow there are regular classes – and then tomorrow evening will be the big closing event (more on these special events here)! Shari will be making presentations to those who have been involved in the baking classes since January. And I’ll be giving a short Gospel presentation.
On Saturday, another big event – an Easter Egg hunt! An extreme novelty for Mexico, this is something we’ve done – what – is this the 3rd time? Anyway, great fun for the kids of Jesús MarÃa.
On the home front, school continues for the kids, and lots of preparations for ministry which will take place over the summer.
Regular activities continue next week. I’ll be closing out another Chronological Bible Study on Monday. And – oh yeah, sometime next week we start driving north.
And we’re just going to keep driving north, visiting friends and driving driving driving. Lord willing, two weeks from now, we will have driven over 3500km (2200mi) north. But it will be about another 10 days after that before we actually arrive in Canada.
So I seriously need to catch up on the many things that have been happening here. We had a busy weekend and then took some days off, so I haven’t had time to write.
SO – we did have a closing program for the latest semester of classes at the community centre (Centro Cultural Tiempo de Vivir) In my opinion, it was one of our best closing programs ever. Not a huge group, everyone involved did a great job, people were into it, and paying attention – it was fun.
Shari made a presentation to the women who came to the baking class this year. Less than half came, sadly, but the ones who came got a special surprise! Here they are…
On Saturday we joined the church in Santa Barbara, Ixtapaluca – and several other churches from Mexico City – for a day of evangelism and outreach in Santa Barbara. It was a “spring festival” theme – people dressed in “springy” costumes, carried signs, sang, played instruments, etc, as we paraded through the neighbourhood. Then we stopped at a park and did some face painting, Gospel-sharing, and gift-giving.
They also promoted the wheelchairs that we can offer thanks to Operation Blessing. We tried to get the word out to those who may be in need of a wheelchair but can’t afford one.
Praise the Lord that the Gospel was shared at these two events, and people did respond!
I’ll write more about March (and maybe some other things) shortly. Meanwhile, if you haven’t visited our photo gallery for a few days, you might want to see our newest photos.
Tonight – our closing program for the community centre. Shari is getting ready for a special presentation for those who have come to the baking class.
Tomorrow – a special day of evangelism in our neighbourhood (hosted by the “first church” here). It should be quite a day!
Sunday – Palm Sunday and our anniversary service (at the “second church”). Yes – it’s been three years since we started meeting! I’ll be preaching, and we might be doing something else special in the service (if we can figure out who’s leading so we can ask them).
We would certainly appreciate your prayers as we share the Good News this weekend!