Help! We’re Stuck in a Video!
In fact, our whole team is in it! Jessica Nixon, who is here helping us for a year, put her considerable talents to work to make this video of our Camino team’s ministry! So here it is . . .
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New Community Centre
Things are moving ahead with a community centre in a new area of Mexico City.
Since September there have been having activities in a new community here in Ixtapaluca, but they have been in peoples’ homes. Now it’s time for a place that can be known as the community centre.
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Our coworker Tina will be moving into a house in the area in January. This is a very special house, because it has a store front attached to it – a significant space that can be used for English classes, baking classes, and so on and so on.
I was actually waiting to get a look at the house to write this post, but things were pretty topsy-turvy this week so I haven’t seen it on the inside yet. But from the sounds of it and from the pictures I’ve seen, this will be a great space!
Over the next few days we’ll be “finalizing” plans for the classes for the new year. It’s a challenge to be in a new place – a very different place. Even though we have spent time there this fall, it will be a learning curve as we get to know people and learn how we can best help the community.
But this is one VERY EXCITING step!
PS No, it doesn’t already have the community centre logo painted on the front. Just playing with the picture!
Joint Service in the Forest (video)
So – the mega culto went very well on Sunday! We estimate there were somewhere around 415 in attendance. The theme was “Unity”, and is was wonderful to worship and study and learn and pray together.
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Just making this happen was a wonderful show of unity – making sure that there was sound, chairs, shelter, food (and we had waaaaaay more than enough of that!), functioning bathrooms, child care, and so on and so on and so on.
We talked and prayed about how we can reach more people with the love of the Lord, and demonstrate that love to one another.
Anyway, if you would like to see some clips of what went on, check out the video below. I also uploaded a few pictures into our Photo Gallery – check those out here.
A November Prayer Request (video)
Just stopping by via this video to share a special prayer request. Thanks!
Chalo’s 1922 Model T Ford
One of our team members, Chalo, lives in the city of Puebla, the fourth largest city in Mexico. He owns two antique cars, one of which is a 1922 Model T Ford.
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Chalo and his wife Beth are church planters. So Chalo not only has a Model T, he has a tract to go along with it. The tract tells people about the car, about Henry Ford, and invites them to give Chalo a call so that he can give them a free ride. Oh, and he can also tell them how God has made a difference in his life. The tract also includes a simple explanation of the Gospel.
As the car cruises down the street (and it can actually go pretty fast – about 72km or 45mi per hour), peoples’ faces light up. People point, and conversations start.
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As we drove behind Chalo the other day, he started talking to someone in the car next to him at a stop light. The person was interested in his car – and so, of course, they got a free pamphlet!
Once a week Chalo goes down to the main square of Puebla, parks his Model T, and hangs out. Conversations start. And in the end – many, many, many people have come to know the Lord.
What do you like to do? What are your interests? God is everywhere – He might even be sitting next to you in an antique car!
At the moment I have a few more pictures of the car right here.
MEGA CULTO
You may be wondering – what on earth is a MEGA CULTO?! Some evil villain that fights Spiderman?
No, actually. It’s kinda like a SUPER Sunday Service. With a whole bunch of churches together.
And why do I mention a mega culto? Because tomorrow we’re going to be having one – a whole bunch of churches from the Mexico City area will be getting together for worship and fellowship at a campground out near our favourite volcanoes.
This is not a normal thing – quite unusual, in fact. Have we done it in the last decade?
Anyway, these are small churches that can feel pretty alone in an area like this where there simply aren’t many churches at all.
So do pray that this will be a time of great encouragement and unity for these churches. It’s a wonderful thing to be together in the unity of the Spirit, to work together, to worship together.
We’ll be having a service, a communion service, and special classes for all age groups afterwards. Then some food, some games – it will be an all day affair.
So – sometime next week I’ll try to fill you in on how it went! For now, I’d better make sure I’m ready.