Texcoco

28 February 2018

Retro: Kentucky (Style) Fried Chicken!

Ten years ago we were in language school, but we were getting ready for the next step – our “orientation year”. It had not yet been decided where we would move to. So we spent some time visiting Cuautitlan Izcalli (north Mexico City) and Ixtapaluca (SE Mexico City). Next was Texcoco, and the area to the east side of the city, with our friends Rollie and Jo Ann Smith.

So that’s where we were as an extra-long February came to a close. We shot a lot of pictures of the rows and rows and rows of houses in the housing developments in the area (similar to the house we now live in!). I believe the picture below was taken in Los Heroes Tecamac.

(Since this picture was taken on the 29th, I’m posting it one day early!)

Some of these houses were also businesses, such as this one, boasting “Kentucky Style Fried Chicken”! See if you can also find the Victoria beer sign, the Bimbo (bakery) sign, the bicycle cart, the water jugs, and the string of shoes (for sale?):

Stores: Los Heroes Tecamac

4 November 2009

Our Weekend in Texcoco and Pachuca (video)

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A report on our weekend in Texcoco and Pachuca. I had to cut out a few clips here and there to make it under 10 minutes, but other than that I think it went all right (yes, and after 10 minutes I still left things out – busy weekend!). 😉 I actually recorded this this morning, but wasn’t able to post it until now, due to unforeseen (by me, not God) circumstances.

Also, I talk about something I got in the mail, and a creative way you might be able to touch a community here in Mexico City if you’re interested. Check it out…

10 March 2009

Answered Prayers

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Thanks for your prayers for Nathanael! He slept very late this morning, and is feeling a lot better today. Rod and Mayra’s son Daniel was in school today, and I haven’t heard the latest about their son David.

If you’re talking to God, be sure to thank Him! And pray that we’ll all be feeling well enough to go to Texcoco and Mexico City tomorrow and Thursday. We’ll be visiting Rollie and Jo Ann Smith in Texcoco, and then heading downtown to visit El Museo Nacional de AntropologÃa (the National Anthropological Museum) (as a part of our Orientation Year requirements). Hannah and Nathanael are looking forward to staying overnight at the Smith’s.

Tonight, Lord willing, I’ll be leading our weekly prayer meeting. Please pray with us that we would learn to trust the Lord more, and that He would do great things here in Ixtapaluca.

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God. Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him. (1Jo 5:13-15)