Retro: Welcoming Ashlyn
Only a few days old, Ashlyn is being held by her Grandma Ardys in this picture from 10 years ago today. Big brother Jevon on the left, and Hannah on the right.
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History Week Summary
Here’s a summary of the posts from last week, which add some context and personal connections to this year’s special anniversaries of Camino Global, Camino Global Canada, and Camino’s ministry in Mexico.
- Mary’s Walk, James’ Mules, and a Haystack (notes on history)
- McConnell’s Marvellous Moustache (notes on history)
- The Mission is Founded (video)
- The Vision Expands (video)
- Journeying Together (video)
- Our History (ok, just a bit of it)
- From History to Today – Thanks!
From History to Today – Thanks!
Thanks for taking this walk through some history with me. Today is Camino Global’s 125th anniversary (Happy Anniversary to us!). And tomorrow is our arrival-in-Mexico anniversary! Let’s party!
Seriously, though, we do give thanks to the Lord for all He has done, both in our lives and in the lives of so many others. It’s amazing!
And thanks to so many of you, who have prayed for us and supported us and encouraged us for so many years. Do you realize, some of you have received all 72 editions of our newsletter that we’ve sent out since 1997?! Some of you even knew us before we were married.
Even though we don’t say it as often as we should, we appreciate you all, and we thank God with you for what He has done here in Mexico.
I hope someday we’ll see the eternal fruit of our labour (and I’m talking about all of us). I know we see glimpses today, but they’re just glimpses.
Someday we will see – but we’ll see something else as well. We’ll see the hidden hand of the Lord doing it all. We were here to enjoy His work and give Him glory!
So to end off, we don’t give glory to an organization, or any one person or group of people. We give glory to the only One who changes hearts, who heals lives, who saves the lost – our Great God!
Our History (ok, just a bit of it)
In this month’s newsletter you’ll see, as I mentioned before, a rather egocentric view of history, featuring our own journey. It was actually interesting to track down some of those dates, which I had no clear record of.
The picture to the right is a larger version of the one in our newsletter. It’s Nathanael and Hannah, of course, only three days after we had arrived in Mexico. We still weren’t at our destination (Cuernavaca), but we were staying with our new friends the McManus Family in San Juan del RÃo.
So here’s our very first post from Mexico: The Cottrills are in Mexico
And as a follow-up, The conference (and how I missed it) (by the way, I haven’t been anywhere near that sick since!)
Here’s what I wrote soon before we moved to Ixtapaluca (we moved officially 6 days later): Still in Cuernavaca
From the leadership recognition service in Santa Bárbara, Ixtapaluca – a post and even a video: A Very Special Sunday for Sendero de Vida!
How can I forget the first Sunday service in Jesús MarÃa – even though I didn’t attend! The First Worship Service in Jesús MarÃa
And how about the leadership recognition service in Jesús MarÃa? Leadership Recognition Service in Jesús MarÃa
An early post about ministry in Las Palmas: Classes Among the Palm Trees
Of course there are many more memorable times, but there are just a few I mentioned in our newsletter. Oh, the memories!
Journeying Together (video)
Today, day 5 of our look at history, we’ll watch the last of three videos from Camino Global.
This video takes us from the 1970s to the present. It even includes some glimpses of Ixtapaluca, including the one you see below!
Clicking the image below will take you to Vimeo, where you can watch the video in full!
The Vision Expands (video)
Today, day 4 of our look at history, we’ll watch another of Camino’s videos, made especially for the mission’s 125th anniversary.
By the way, this video has a picture of Clarence Wilbur (right). You’ll see why he’s important to the history of the mission when you get our newsletter.
By the way, this video takes us all the way from the pioneers of the mission to the early 1970s. During this time, a new student movement started, which would help motivate another generation of missionaries.
It all started in 1946, at the University of Toronto. One of the speakers at the conference was Leslie Earl Maxwell, who had founded the Prairie Bible Institute in 1922.
The missions conference, welcoming students from over 150 places of learning, would be repeated over and over. And it will be repeated again this December – in St. Louis, Missouri. The conference is popularly known as Urbana.
If you go to Urbana this year, say hi to our friends at the Camino Global booth!
Clicking the image below will take you to Vimeo, where you can watch the video. Have fun!
