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A Week With Camp Bighorn

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The team from Camp Bighorn’s Journey program is here for one more night, before leaving for other parts of central Mexico. We’ve had some good times with them – hopefully it was useful for them too!

Some of the highlights of their visit included going up to the pass between the volcanoes, some “cultural challenges” such as eating some very strange tacos (you probably don’t want to know), and learning to get around on public transportation, a trip downtown, serving here in Ixtapaluca (getting to know some of the people here, helping with some construction-related stuff), and a visit to a public high school in a nearby town.

The school put on a “Mexican Traditional Fair”, a carnival with various stations where the team members played different games along with the students. In this case, it was an excuse for the students to practise their English.

Mexican Traditional Fair
Photo shoot with the superstars from the USA!

Here’s one of the girls trying out a trompo, a traditional spinning top. Mexicans grow up with these, as did our kids here in Mexico. For the newbie, though, it’s not so easy! But these guys learn fast.

Sonya and the trompo challenge

A visit from a team like this brings new opportunities to share God’s Word, and to demonstrate a Christian character to the community. And its a chance for us to see things through new eyes! Especially in the case of the teams from Camp Bighorn, it’s a chance to continue discipleship in a (very) different context, and learn about the joys and challenges of serving in that culture.

Thanks, team, for visiting! Many more pics and videos from Rod here – Camp Bighorn 2019.

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Camp Bighorn in Mexico

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This week a group from Camp Bighorn‘s Journey program will be here in Ixtapaluca for the third year. They arrive tomorrow.

Camp Bighorn

You can pray for them as they travel tomorrow. We pick them up at the airport first thing in the morning, and they’ll get to know Ixtapaluca a bit throughout the rest of the day.

Rod has organized an interesting and unique schedule for the team! Throughout the next seven days they will be enjoying many eclectic and challenging activities, learning how to navigate in one of the largest cities in the world in another language and culture. Then, next Tuesday, we’ll send them off to Puebla to continue their central Mexico adventure.

Here’s the group from last year, getting their first street tacos of the trip!

Camp Bighorn team - tacos 2018

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Contact Us!

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Someone was having some problems with one of our contact forms, so they have now been updated – hopefully all functioning!

Mailbox in Canada

Here are the forms I updated, in case you want to try one:

  • Contact the Cottrills: Pretty simply – this is how you can contact us via email. Also remember that our email address can be found on the newsletters we send you, if you’re on our Support Team.
  • Join our Support Team!: If you would like to receive our newsletter and be a part of our team, this is where to go! There are a lot of things that we don’t post online, so if you’d like to be a part of the ministry here, be sure to sign up.
  • Change Newsletter / Update Options: Change of address? New email? Want to receive our email update as well as our quarterly newsletter? Here’s where you can change your options.
  • Other Contact Information: Other ways to contact us.
  • Donation information: Up-to-date information about how to donate to the ministry.

If you have problems with any of the above, please contact us (obviously, you may need to contact us a different way!) so that we can fix it.

Welcome Back – and Thanks for Praying!

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The Fry family – in this case, Rod, Mayra, and son David – returned to Ixtapaluca full of excitement and energy on the evening of the 21st of January!

Ok, well – maybe the excitement and energy came later. After many hours of driving, we should probably say that they arrived “alive” and leave it at that. 😜

Mayra and Rod share pictures (last Sunday morning) of something called “invierno” that they apparently experienced in Pennsylvania.

But, in spite of many hours of travel, and some van issues back in the USA (not to mention the threat of gas shortages here in Mexico!), they returned safely. And so – thanks to those of you who prayed for them!

We’re thankful to have the Frys back here on the team, and already they appear to running way ahead of us as they pursue God’s work here in Ixtapaluca.

The other day I was sorting through some old papers, reviving memories of some past ministry, such as the initial stages of church planting in the community of Jesús María. I was reminded of the incredible amount of work that Rod and Mayra have put into the Lord’s work in Mexico City.

Perhaps most of the things that missionaries do are not seen by most people. And that makes it all the more amazing – the things that the Frys have done, that we know about – well, we’re so thankful! And God knows the many things they have done, prayers they have prayed, tears they have shed – that few people, if any, see.

And before they get too annoyed with me for writing this post, I’ll just leave it at this – we’re thankful for many years of working with the Fry Family – Rod, Mayra, Daniel, Cathy and David – and we pray that God will continue to use them as He has in the past.

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