Visas – Another step forward (podcast)
I was able to make some progress on our visas today! For more details, listen to the podcast. 🙂
(Can’t see it? Click here and scroll down a bit.)
Prayer and Praise
Please Pray: Preaching Tomorrow!
I could write out a big prayer request every time I was about to preach – and maybe I should! But I know a lot of people pray even though I don’t ask. Thanks! 🙂
Tomorrow I’ll be at Iglesia BÃblica Sendero de Vida Santa Barbara (the first church plant we were involved in in Ixtapaluca) to kick off a series on Isaiah. No, I’m not preaching the whole series, just the first sermon – and maybe others down the road!
Anyway, it’s a great book and a fascinating chapter and I hope I can share the truth faithfully and get people excited about the chapters to come.
And as with any sermon, I want to let the Spirit work in a powerful way – without getting in His way!
But I’m particularly asking for prayer this time because my health has been rather rotten the last couple of days. So please pray that either my health will be good in the morning, or that God will use me in spite of bad health. Actually, pray whatever you want – that’s between you and God! 🙂
And to close, here’s one of the less-quoted but more fascinating verses from chapter 1:
and those in her who repent, by righteousness.
Isaiah 1:27
How’s that going to work? Well, come tomorrow to the service and you might find out! 😉
Women’s Conference Today!
Today there’s a women’s conference in Jesús MarÃa! Women from many churches in Mexico City will be coming, and the speaker will be Karla Topp.
Karla is one of our team members who serves with her family in another part of Mexico City. The theme is Is your heart an altar for God?
Visas: Day 526
Today, on day 526 of working to get our visas for Mexico, I emailed some more documents.
Yup, we’re still moving forward. At least, I think it’s forward… wait – what direction am I facing?
Hopefully I’ll have more interesting news for you soon!
The Community Centre (is not asleep)
At our community centre in Jesús MarÃa (Centro Cultural Tiempo de Vivir), we have had two semesters of classes each year. One runs from January until March or April (Easter break in Mexico), then another from September/October until December (Christmas break).
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But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a lot going on at other times of the year! Especially when you have someone like Tina (who is in charge of the centre) coming up with new ideas all the time. 🙂
For example, a series of “conversational English” classes are beginning today. Each class will feature a special theme.
In a couple of weeks we’ll have another baking class. Next month, a nurse will be coming from the United States to give health talks on various topics. With some other interns and short term teams on their way, I have no doubt we’ll be seeing more English, sports, baking classes, and who knows what else through the summer!
Do you have a skill or a hobby you’d like to share?
Sendero de Vida Jesús MarÃa – 3 years!
On the 24th of March we celebrated three years of meeting as a church in Jesús MarÃa! And what a service it was.
We had some special music during the service, and I preached. But what was truly amazing was to hear the testimonies of people in the congregation.
Wow.
And I mean all kinds of testimonies. People who have come to know the Lord through the ministry of believers of the church. People who maybe aren’t doing so well, and who shared that. People who have been searching, people who have been finding God’s truth. People whose marriages have been healed. And some of these have amazing stories – I won’t share them publicly here, but that gives you an idea of what God has been doing!
Afterwards we went over to the community centre for a potluck (since we rent a place just for Sunday mornings, we get “kicked out” after the service – in a nice way!). We finally took the picture below later in the afternoon – by that time a lot of the people who had come to the service were gone (although we may have picked up a person or two who didn’t come to the service!), but it will show you a few of the faces you can pray for! (There’s currently a high resolution version of this photo in our photo gallery).
