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Copying the Cottrills?

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So, we love my parents, and we certainly want to emulate them, most of the time.

But, perhaps this is not the way to do it.

As usual, we haven’t reached their high standards, but – well, when my Dad completely lost his voice (while preparing to preach on Sunday), I decided that some voice problems, and a cough, would be the closest I could get. And yes, I’m preaching on Sunday as well. Hopefully!

AarrrrrggghhhhSo I’m sure the Cottrill men would appreciate your prayers! Actually, I think I’m starting to finally get over this sickness I’ve had for almost two weeks. But the bug is attacking my voice as its last stand.

And since my Mom has been struggling greatly with back pain, Shari decided to join the club, and sadly has been suffering a lot. She’s actually planning to go to a conference tonight, I’m not sure how she’s going to do it, but I’m sure that both the Cottrill women would appreciate your prayers as they try to serve in spite of the back pain.

(In case you somehow actually think we decided to copy my parents on purpose, I’m adding this addendum to clarify things for the most literalistic readers. The point is, the health hasn’t been great lately, and we would appreciate your prayers as we try to serve through this weekend!)

‘Tis the Season for … Meetings?

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It’s an interesting season around here right now. No, I don’t mean autumn – that doesn’t start for a few days.

It’s “conference season”! Well, that’s what it feels like. It just so happens that there are three different conference-type events coming up right now.

First, Camino Global missionaries in Mexico all get together for three days every year to do “housekeeping”, to worship together, to pray for needs across the nation, to be fed from the Word of God, and to relax!

Last year we enjoyed having the Brubacher family here, and they provided the worship music for the conference. This year I’ll be leading a little team, so I’m busy getting all the music ready for that.

Next comes a women’s conference, which is for the women of the “Bible churches” in Mexico City and area. Shari is the conference speaker this year, so she’s been busy studying and preparing for that. The theme is “Finding Peace” (see the graphic below, which is being used for promotion of the event).

Finding PeaceBetween that and preparing to lead worship at the first conference, there have been a lot of books and Bibles open all over the place!

After that (this brings us toward the end of October) is the week of meetings for Camino Global team leaders from all over the world. Last year the meetings were Guatemala, and this year they’re in Mexico.

Thankfully, there are a lot of other kind people who have been putting the work into that, but there are some things that I need to do by way of preparing for the meetings (being a team leader myself), and organizing some things for our visitors to the country.

So there’s lots to keep us busy up until the end of October!

Adding to the fun lately have been some – somewhat mild – sort of – computer issues lately, which need to be solved especially so that school work can go smoothly ahead.

Anyway, that’s just a little summary of some of the projects we’re working on right now!

Women’s Conference Today!

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Today there’s a women’s conference in Jesús María!  Women from many churches in Mexico City will be coming, and the speaker will be Karla Topp.

Karla is one of our team members who serves with her family in another part of Mexico City.  The theme is Is your heart an altar for God?

Women's Conference in Ixtapaluca

Women’s Conference Video from the 19th

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A little late, I know, but this is a brief video of the Women’s Conference in Jesús María from the 19th.  The theme was Being a Mother: A Rewarding Challenge, and the speaker/singer was Becky Baron de Muñoz.

The turnout might not have been quite as good as expected, but there was still a good group that seemed to really enjoy the conference.  It’s encouraging to see some new faces and some repeat visitors (this being the second conference like this), as well as some familiar faces.

Thanks for your prayers for the conference!  It went well overall, it was lots of fun and Becky shared a lot of practical advice.

A full weekend (gifts, keys and a ball)

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There was a lot going on this past weekend.  On Saturday, our local church hosted a Mexico City and area women’s conference.  Actually, it was held in Nathanael’s school.

Our worship group was playing for a couple of music times, so we set up Friday night and had a little practice.

Groups of women from many churches came to the conference, many from our church (including Shari of course!).  I think in the end there were around 80 there.  The theme was how to love unconditionally.

A couple of women from our church invited some family members who were not believers, and were so excited that they actually came.  One of their family members shared how happy they felt, and how much they were enjoying the conference, and how they were interested in coming to more activities in the future.

Jim preaching on Romans 6
Jim preaching on Sunday

 I think the Lord is working there!

On Sunday I played the keyboard in the band, and then preached.  The sermon topic was given to me – Romans 6:1-7.  We’re preaching through Romans right now.

It was a challenging passage to preach on.  Being an introduction to a major section of Romans, a lot of the "answers" come later on in the book.  Of course there was also the challenge of preaching in broken, heavily accented Spanish!  But I have to trust the Lord to use something.  I sure learnt a lot.  🙂

We were able to take it easy a bit Sunday afternoon, resting up for another full week.

Thanks for your prayers!  And yes, the ball was part of the sermon.  Too bad you weren’t here to find out what it was for.  Want to come next Sunday?  😉

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