Hi everyone! Just a reminder that you can see us this Sunday in Calgary if you missed us last time. We will be sharing briefly on Sunday morning at the South Chinese Evangelical Free Church at 340 39 Avenue SE.
The service is at 9:30am, and will be a joint service in English and Cantonese.
We’re looking forward to coming back to SCCEFC!
So, today we got our (used) new van! If you know the van we had before, you know which one is the new one and which one is the old one in the picture below:
We still have some work to do on it (which is why we wanted to get it as soon as possible), so we’ll be taking it in for some maintenance and getting a few things for it that it will need before our long trip to Mexico. Hopefully we can finish all that this week.
Thanks so much for your prayers! We pray that this will be a tool that God will use.
Speaking of being thankful, this is a great time to be thankful for our old van. God used it to take us a lot of places, to move a lot of people, to move our things and other people’s things – it was a great vehicle for us and we’re thankful. I hope someone else can get as much use out of it as we did!
Tomorrow I’ll be looking at some vans again, and we have some in mind, so here’s hoping!
I do have some good news in the mean time. All of the funds for the Van Project have now been promised. Praise the Lord! And thanks so much to all of you who have helped with this project.
So here’s the little chart, just to prove it. Thanks for your prayers! Keep praying, we have a long way to go still . . .
I wanted to let you all know that we will be sharing this Sunday (that is the 16th of August 2015) at First Evangelical Free Church in Calgary. The service starts at 10:30am. I will be preaching and also sharing about our ministry in Mexico.
If you miss that, the week after we will be at South Calgary Chinese Evangelical Free Church (23rd of August). We will just be sharing briefly. There will be a joint service at 9:30am, so it will be in both English and Cantonese.
Hope we can see some of you there! 🙂
So we have arrived in Canada and are getting to work on the various tasks we need to accomplish before we drive back to Mexico! As most of you know, one of the key things we’re planning to do is replace our van. For more information on why we need to do this at this time, read The Van Project.
Because of these particular circumstances, we received permission from our mission agency to do a personal project for the van (I believe this is the only personal project we’ve done during our almost 9 years in Mexico). As of the last report, we now have 10% of the total that we’re raising for the van and related expenses.
If you would like to give to this project, it is open until the end of the month. However, because we are planning to buy the van this month, it would be very helpful for us to know what funds we have available.
So if you are planning to give, it would be great if you could let us know, so that we can make our purchase based on what is actually in the project fund.
To give in Canadian dollars, you can donate toward the Cottrill Van Project, project #082708V. The project will be open until the end of August. Visit our Canadian donations page here.
To give in US dollars, please donate to our general fund and not to the project. In other words, you can just make a special gift as you normally would. For information on how to give in $US, click here.
Thanks so much to those who have given to this project! And thanks for those who have asked for an update and shown interest. As you know, our van has been an important tool in our ministry. Please pray with us that we can find a reliable vehicle which can be used in the work in central Mexico. God knows what we need, and He can provide!
We are so thankful for the 11 people who were baptized this past Sunday at Path of Life Bible Church in Jesús MarÃa! This is a big step, and it’s amazing what God has done!
We were unable to be there, but have been rejoicing as we hear the news and see the pictures. God is working – Rejoice with us! 🙂
