Prayer and Praise
Just checking in…
Hi everyone!
I just wanted to check in quickly to let you know some of the things we’re up to (Shari and I), since we haven’t communicated much lately. This will give you a bit of an idea…
- Preparing for a Sunday School lesson
- Trying to get the van repaired (not as easy as you might think!)
- Sending out our newsletter
- Preparing for the CAMex Fellowship Conference (our team is in charge this year, so there are seemingly endless details to work out, endless things to prepare!)
- Preparing for a team which will be coming from Calgary
- Preparing a sermon
- Preparing a Bible Study series
- Preparing for the next 5 weeks of keyboard classes
- Helping kids with homework
- Christmas shopping (hey, when you need to ship things you need to start early! It’s not early anymore…
- Trying to get some important paperwork from Canada (trying… and failing…)
- Trying to work through some policy issues with CAM Canada
- Preparing for upcoming baking classes
Plus, of course, all the other normal things of life… Bible studies, meetings, and hanging out with people. Today Hannah and Nathanael didn’t have school. I spent all morning helping Nathanael with homework, while Shari was at her baking class. Then some of the neighbourhood kids came in to play, so we hung out with them. Then I did some errands (mostly related to conference), came home, ate, got Nathanael supper, got him to bed (while Shari and Hannah worked on yet more homework), and somewhere in there I sent a bunch of emails, printed envelopes, took care of some financial paperwork, did some laundry, dishes, talked on the phone, wrote this blog post…. and I’m just getting going. 😉
All right, so it’s a busy month! And a lack of internet access and water pressure today made things even more interesting.
Anyway, I still have lots of work to do tonight, so I’d better run! Thanks for stopping by for this day-in-the-life…
Women’s Retreat Tomorrow (Saturday 30 Oct)
If you’re praying, you could pray for the women’s retreat tomorrow at Iglesia Bíblica de Tlalpan, Mexico City. The theme is Overcoming Adversity. Here’s the promotional poster to inspire you. 🙂
Just a quick hello…
I haven’t recorded a podcast in a while, so I took a quick break today to say hello to you all…
From Calgary to Mexico City (exciting news)!
I’ve been very slow in making a very exciting announcement! Here’s the news: We’re looking forward to hosting a team from Calgary’s First Evangelical Free Church this fall!
The team is Walter, LeAnn, Amy and Christine. They come with a lot of talents and skills, many of which I’m sure they’ll put to good use!
Their time here will be divided up half and half. First, they’ll be helping out at our annual CAM Mexico conference. There they will be serving the missionary kids.
This is a huge help to the CAM missionaries here in Mexico. They’ll be teaching God’s Word to the kids, and also giving the adults a chance to attend their own sessions. We’re so thankful that they can serve in this way!
But that will only be half of their time here. The other half will be spent in Jesús María, Ixtapaluca. There they will be serving the church and the community. They’ll be a part of our worship time Sunday morning, and during the first part of the week they will be helping out at the community centre.
It will be a great encouragement to us and to many others here to have them come. It will be another chance to build on current relationships, and maybe make some new ones, and continue to share God’s Word here.
Please pray for the First Free Mexico Team as they prepare for this adventure, and for us as we work to make sure their work will fit well into the big picture here. They’re coming in November – only a few weeks away!
Where the First Free Mexico Team meets to worship together
Photo courtesy of Google
Fall Activities Begin, and a Letter from the President
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Today I opened the door to our street, letting in the mail lady on her motorcycle, so that she could deliver these flags. It was actually a package with the words to the national anthem, and a letter from the President! Imagine! 😉
So, the celebration of Mexico’s bicentennial continues!
Meanwhile, fall activities are starting up at the community centre (Centro Cultural Tiempo de Vivir). Tonight the English classes start, along with basketball. And I hear that Tiffany will be starting a line dancing class – Ixtapaluca will never be the same again!
By the way, if you click on the church logo to the right – it looks like this –
– you can see a calendar of community centre and church related events. It’s in Spanish, of course, but it will give you an idea what’s going on at the moment.
I’m busy with some things that aren’t on the calendar (all right, gaZILLIONS of things that aren’t on the calendar!). Back at the church in Santa Barbara, I’m teaching a class on playing keyboard for worship.
We had a good time this morning at the first class, learning about what Colossians 3:9-17 can teach us about music and worship (of course, worship can be music, and music can be worship, but worship is much more than music… music is the minority of worship…. at least, it should be!), learning chords and the use of the sustain pedal, and other stuff like that there.
I’m also working on the next study. We’re doing a Tuesday night study now on some of the basics of the Christian life. But after that is coming something new – it’s going to be a blast – I’ll tell you about it once it has formed some more! 🙂
Shari is working on baking classes and Bible studies. And she’s been busy putting together the fall schedule for Sunday School. They’re going through the Bible chronologically with the kids – fun stuff! And in spite of the fact that they’re packed in like sardines in a small space, the kids keep coming!
And Hannah and Nathanael – wow, they only have 2.5 weeks left until their first exam week. Ah, the wonderful things we get to look forward to!
But after exam week, we’re looking forward to a visit from the director of CAM Canada, Charlene de Haan. How cool is that? Now that is something we can look forward to. 🙂
Anyway, I need to get back to helping Nathanael with his homework… then I’m going to see how the English classes are going. Bye for now!