Jim

Tomorrow we’re having a special service in Chalco to thank God for His mercy during the Chalco Flood. We’ll be providing some more clothing to those who lost so much in the flood, and also have Bibles to give them.

There will be some singing and a devotional during the service, but it’s especially a time for the people of Chalco to give testimonies and talk about everything that has happened.

Below is a (mostly) English version of the presentation we hope to show during the service (there’s still time to change a few things in it, but I think this is more or less how it will be – except in Spanish, of course!). It gives a bit of an overview the flood and some of the clean-up and relief efforts.

There’s still LOTS to be done, of course. The photos at the end were actually taken before the flood, so don’t be deceived by how nice it may look.

We would appreciate your prayers that the service on Sunday would be glorifying to God.

Here’s the video:

10 March 2010

Anthems and Churches (podcast)

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This podcast includes some exciting news – the special service in Chalco on the 14th of March, and the first service of a brand new local church on the 28th of March! Also, news about something that happened at one of Shari’s Amigas del Alma baking classes. But to begin – the story of the national and state anthems at Hannah’s school…

5 March 2010

New CAM Canada Director

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Thanks to all of you who have been praying for a new executive director for CAM International of Canada! We’re happy to let you know that, as of the 1st of April, our new director will be Charlene de Haan.

Charlene de Haan grew up in Vancouver, BC, and now lives in Scarborough, Ontario. She comes to us with a wealth of experience, having been the executive director of Pioneer Clubs Canada, and Manager of Human Resources with Interserve Canada. She also has experience teaching missionary kids overseas (Guatemala), founded stepUP Transitions Consulting, does freelance writing, and is involved and has been involved in many other things.

We haven’t yet met Charlene, but Lord willing once she’s settled in she’ll be able to come visit. Welcome to the team, Charlene! 🙂 You can send her a note here if you like.

Our current director and his wife, Larry and Jayme Hower, will be moving on with their ministry in the CAM office in Dallas.

Larry is an administrative assistant to the president, and will be involved in bringing new missionaries to the field. Jayme will be involved as well in this work, and they both hope to continue serving in a short term capacity in other countries as they have done in the past.

Words can’t express our appreciation for all that the Howers have done for us and for the kingdom in general over the years – both on a business level and a personal level. We look forward to many more years of friendship (with fewer questions about what the number in D4 of this spreadsheet means, and so on!)!

Please pray for all these people as they go through this transition.

3 March 2010

Bringing Provisions to Chalco (video)

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Today we brought provisions to a few dozen of the families affected by the flooding in Chalco. We also invited them and others to the special service on the 14th.

I didn’t take a lot of video of actually handing out despensas (provisions), because I don’t want to embarrass anyone. However, we had some good talks with some people – many people remembered us from when we served the breakfasts (and we remembered some of them). Eventually word got around and we attracted a crowd of neighbours – there were about 20 people around us for a while.

With four vehicles and lots of helpers, we were done in about an hour. Now, we’ll see what happens on the 14th!

Here’s the video:

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