Video Blogs

16 March 2013

An EGGciting Event! (shell I tell you about it?)

As you might know, the day started off rather cold and gloomy. And frankly, it didn’t get any better.

But enough about the weather! Preparations for the community centre’s Easter egg event continued. As we prayed a few minutes before we were supposed to begin, some of us were wondering if God had other plans. Would anyone come in this cold and rain?

Well, they certainly did. I’m not yolking. We’re guessing around 150 people showed up to decorate eggs, decorate cookies, and go on an Easter egg hunt (1200 plastic eggs. Yes, 1200. When the time came for the hunt the kids just scrambled!)! Oh, and let’s not forget – they got to hear the Gospel!

Still, as you can see from the pictures, people were dressed pretty warm!

It’s still a pretty gloomy, rainy day (especially for “dry season”!), but the event went very well. Our friend Jos did a Gospel presentation, and things got cleaned up before it rained too hard.

For some reason I didn’t get any video of the Easter egg hunt, but you can see last year’s here (quite a difference in the weather!).

But anyway, here are a few clips from the rest of the activities…

6 February 2013

It’s Rocket Science (Nathanael’s school project)

Jim Family, Just for fun, Video Blogs 1

In science, Nathanael is learning about our solar system. Today he had a cool project – to make a rocket! So here he is, with an increasing number of neighbourhood friends, and help from Mom, trying it out…

5 February 2013

The Littlest Hobo

Jim Just for fun, Video Blogs 0

If the words “The Littlest Hobo” don’t mean anything to you, move along. Nothing to see here.

But for all you cultured (Canadian) folk, you might be familiar with this song:

Well, you haven’t heard the song until you’ve heard it in ~~the original Klingon~~ Spanish. Here it is:

Who knew?

(And yes, the text you see on the screen is French. Talk about a multicultural experience!)

Song available in English on iTunes – Terry Bush’s Maybe Tomorrow.

2 February 2013

Mariachi for MartÃn’s Birthday

Jim Just for fun, Mexico, Video Blogs 1

This week we went to Pastor MartÃn’s birthday party. And guess what showed up? You guessed it, a Mariachi band!

Since you weren’t able to come, I thought I’d share a clip of the music with you. Of course, I can’t send any of the delicious pozole that we ate – sorry. Why don’t you come visit? 🙂

Here’s another short clip from Rod Fry…

4 January 2013

Land for the Church? Let’s do it!

Jim Ministry glimpses, Missions, Prayer and Praise, Video Blogs 2

Many of you know about the land we’re hoping to buy as a church here in Ixtapaluca. I wanted to explain things in a little more detail, so that’s what the video below does.

Update: I have discovered there actually are one or two things to be fixed in the original video! The numbers were accurate, as I said in my original post (though estimates), but I’ll be making some corrections. If you’re on our support team and would like to see the new & improved version, let me know and I’ll try to make sure you see it when it’s done! 🙂 Update to the Update: The video is done – if you’re on our Support Team, let us know if you would like to see it and all the latest information about the project.

Meanwhile, for more information, be sure to bookmark the Ixtapaluca Project page.

19 December 2012

English Christmas Song Competition (video)

Jim Mexico, Video Blogs 1

This past Friday I was one of the judges at an English Christmas song competition at a local junior high (here’s a post from another time when we did the same thing). Now’s your chance to see clips of the performances, and decide who you would pick!

Yes, at the end of the video you’ll see the actual results (if you behave yourself).

Don’t feel bad if you get it wrong. The judges had some disagreements too. 😉

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