Kid’s Club

3 August 2017

People Under Construction

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Yesterday Shari and Hannah were in the community of JesÃºs MarÃa, lending a hand at the kids’ club that the church is putting on this week. Quite a crowd, as you can see!

Under Construction Kids' Club
More construction at the kids' club The theme of the year is “Under Construction”, and so there are lots of hard hats and safety vests to be seen. Yesterday, a large group from the power company happened to be meeting right by the club, getting ready to do some repairs. So some people from the church invited a few of them over to stand at the front while the kids sang one of their songs – adding an extra “construction ambience”, and hopefully being a bit of a witness to the workers too! 🙂

Moms under construction
As is often the case, there was a little class for the Moms who were hanging around. Shari joined them toward the end, and had a good chance to talk with them.
Stickers!
There are so many challenges that people (including Moms!) go through, and it’s hard to see them struggling to find answers without really knowing Christ. Please pray that God would work in their lives, so that they would accept God’s gift!

And please pray for the church and for the kids as they continue to learn about the Lord today and tomorrow!

16 November 2016

Mid-November Mania

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Laura and Shari Last Tuesday we travelled to the north part of the city to celebrate a 15th birthday party with our friend Laura. Yes, Shari made the cake, and we enjoyed some Chinese food (P.F. Chang’s). Too short a visit, but a good time.

Last week 3 of the 4 interns who come each weekend were here for the whole week, so the Frys kept them pretty busy. They spent a lot of time in public schools here, Junior High Schools, where they shared about values and God with about 2700 students (yes, you read that right!).

On Friday night we had a really good study with a woman we’re just getting to know. We read about how Jesus calmed the storm.

On Saturday there was a youth event, and a few of the youth from the public schools came, and showed interest in spiritual things.

Saturday morning, the weekly kids’ club. I think there were over 20 kids there – it’s been growing every week!

On Sunday we had our second service in Las Palmas. This week, due to a conflicting event at the party hall, we had rented another room in the neighbourhood. But no one was there to let us in! After many phone calls, someone finally came 15 minutes after the service was supposed to start!

Locked out! — Locked out before Sunday service #2

In spite of getting in a little late, we had a good service. I preached about the gospel from Paul’s discussion of Abraham in Romans 4 (thanks to those who prayed!).

Today, the first day after our first 10 years in Mexico, I did homeschool with the kids, and sent many of you our newsletter (let us know if you’d like to get one!).

Aside from these things, there are a lot of background things we’re working on, which are keeping us busy. There are more activities coming up on the weekend — and a wedding, in fact!

Oh, by the way – if you’d like to see a few recent pictures of what’s been going on, I just uploaded a whole bunch to our Recent Shots… album.

22 February 2016

A Visit, and This Week

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Visiting Laura - February 2016 — Visiting Laura – February 2016

Thanks to those who prayed for Laura and her Mom last week. We enjoyed a good visit with them, and made some new friends along the way. If you want to continue praying, that would be great. Lord willing He will allow us to visit again later this year.

For those who have our prayer calendar and are following along, you can most certainly pray for the children at the orphanage this week. However, it looks like Hannah’s visit there on Saturday has been cancelled.

But there are other things coming up this week! I have a couple of English classes on Tuesday (my regular class, plus I’m filling in for Tina). Shari has her baking class on Thursday, and the kids’ club and Bible study is on Saturday. We had a great kids’s club on Friday, but no one came for the adult study. But we did have a youth study, led by Rod.

We’re also gearing up for an anniversary service in March, which means that both Shari and Nathanael are going to music practices this week.

I’m also preparing for my last sermon in a series this Sunday – dealing with some pretty major topics, so hopefully my brain will be awake!

Thanks for your prayers – have a great week!

5 September 2014

Kids’ Club!

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Thanks for your prayers for the kids’ club! It went well today…

Story Time

5 September 2014

Acts, Outreaches, and Other

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We’ve been having a good time and a not-so-good-time here. Maybe that’s not so unusual.

We would appreciate your prayers as we join with our friends at Path of Life Bible Church in Santa Barbara to reach out into a new neighbourhood with kids’ clubs and a special study for parents. Last week’s turn-out wasn’t great, but Shari, Julian, Malu and some from the church handed out some more flyers yesterday, so we’re hoping for better things this week. 🙂

On Sunday we had a special service at Path of Life Bible Church in JesÃºs MarÃa. All through the month of August, the congregation was encouraged to study the book of Acts. Last Sunday, we had a special quiz to see who knew their stuff. It was a competition between the women, the men, and the youth.

I got to make up the questions – from easy, to normal, to hard, to very hard, to “almost impossible”. (And they were.)

One group worked particularly hard to prepare, and it showed. Congratulations to the women! (The men challenged them for a while, but eventually fell behind).

If you know Spanish, you can take a look at the questions here.

The not-so-good has been health. I’ve been sick since Thursday noon, and last night was the worst night yet. Which means I’m getting better now, right? Right?

It looks like Shari has decided to join the ranks of the sick today as well. 🙁

But we’re pushing ahead, trying to get some other outreaches up and running here, getting some Bible studies going, and of course getting Hannah and Nathanael edykated.

9 August 2013

A Week of Kids’ Club!

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It’s been a busy week! Which at least partly explains why I haven’t written more. Oh, and we’ve been sick over the past week. So – yeah.

But I just wanted to stop by to let you know that the kids’ club went well. I would say we had around 80 children each day, and not always the same ones, so the total may have been more. Shari helped keep the littlest ones busy!

The club closed with – lots of piÃ±atas of course! And a closing program, where the kids recited verses and sang songs.

So we’re thankful for opportunities to share with so many people.

Thanks to SO MANY who helped out!

Tomorrow Hannah is off (at 6:30am) with the youth group to swim! And I’m preparing to preach on Sunday. So I guess I’d better get some rest!

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