Church Planting Seminar and Wedding

What a boring title. I was going to get creative – like, “Brides”, as in the bride of Christ and the bride at the wedding. But I opted for boring. Oh well.

So this past weekend I had the opportunity to give the charge to the couple (the devotional) at a wedding of some friends from the Santa Bárbara church. I spoke on Ecclesiastes, in case you’re wondering (although I did end on a more positive New Testament note!). You can certainly pray for this couple as they seek to be a testimony among many who do not know the Lord.

I can’t comment on the speaker, but otherwise it was a nice wedding. The couple really tried to make it glorifying to the Lord. It was fun to see the bride and groom lead a worship music time along with some others from the church!

On Sunday we had a church planting seminar with some of the upcoming leaders in the church, along with Rod and Mayra Fry. It was a very encouraging time to talk about the church and think about areas we can work on in the future.

Some of our old VTI cohorts will recognize the activity in the picture that I pulled out of moth balls. This is one of two groups:

On the right, hidden behind a vase or something, is David Gomez. Some of you may remember that David served with us early in our time here in Ixtapaluca. He has been serving as a missionary in Uruguay, but is back home in Mexico for a few months and will be helping us with the church. He’ll also especially be helping Rod and Mayra with teams that are coming over the summer.

Coming up this weekend, our next Church History class, bringing us all the way to the coronation of Charlemagne in 800 AD. My, how time flies!