Stagnation: Not An Option
Construction continues on the church building in the community of Jesús MarÃa. Tiling for the floor of the sanctuary, paint for the walls, and continued brainstorming about how to split up and use the space.
Along with worship and discipleship, the church is pushing ahead with ways to reach out to the community. And that means more community centre classes starting up this year. Here’s the latest poster – advertising a variety of free courses. Baby ballet (!), ballet, folk dance, visual arts, girl’s volleyball, basketball, and in the future guitar, ESL, baking, and more!
Well, there’s certainly something for everybody in that list! Oh, also you can get help with your studying for COMIPEMS, which are tests that qualify you for placement in higher education.
This is just one project of one church here in Ixtapaluca. But for all three churches, I’m encouraged to say – stagnation is not an option! Please pray for all of the believers here, as we try to help the community at large and reach and disciple people in the Lord’s Name.
Todd and Jenn and their family served the Lord in Central Asia for many years, and had recently moved to New Zealand where Todd enjoyed teaching on biblical topics, including church planting, at Eastwest College of Intercultural Studies.
So, this is obviously a time to put up a classic Cathy photo. Here you can see Cathy with Hannah and her brother David (sporting a very cool Canada cap). This was over 8 years ago, when they were all going to school together (though in different grades). Cathy is dressed up in Mexican garb for a special presentation.
We’re finishing up the Gospel of Mark this month, with the climax of Jesus’ death and resurrection. We started Mark a year ago. We’ll be looking at the wonders of our justification and sanctification as well in the next couple of weeks. And we continue with a discipleship study three times a week, taught by three different people. My first study of the year is tonight.