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. 🙂
This past week’s Tweets…
- Please pray for Bible Church pastor in Mexico City who was kidnapped/beaten. Now back with his family at hospital – PTL. #
- Hannah off/Nathanael almost off for a few days for the Days of the Dead. It won't be dead around here, that's for sure! #
- Going to teach a Bible study on about… well, the Bible. No, really — about the Bible itself. How fun is that? #
- What I'm reading: A Friend Has Passed:
I was sitting with my phone in Burkina Faso scrolling through new emails w… http://bit.ly/dt9NSA # - Some good questions in this song – when did the church become… ?? http://htxt.it/gWcI #
- Heading to Puebla for an appointment today, then back home for the homeworkfest. #
- Uploaded a few new pictures… http://htxt.it/TN3f #
- What I'm reading: MapCrunch – Random Google Street View: Random Google Street View. Teleport to a random poin… http://www.mapcrunch.com/ #
- Making pizza from scratch with the fam, 'cuz it's yummy. #
Cartoons, Graphic Art, and Animation…
The other day I was looking for information about one of the available internships here in Mexico City. And I had so much trouble finding it, I decided this must be CAM’s best kept secret!
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So, I’m going to whisper it to you. Please, don’t tell anyone. Unless, of course, they might be interested. 😉
Of course there are various internships and short term trips available if you’re interested in serving in Ixtapaluca. But tucked away in this brochure was the one I wanted to mention. Here’s what it says:
Graphic Arts/Animation (4, 6 weeks)
Work with local designers who are using graphic art and design in ministry. Logo design, Personality Creation, Graphic Arts illustration, Animation & Comics. Live, worship and minister with the Mexican Church.
That’s all it says – looks like a classified ad. If you don’t understand what half those words even mean, this internship probably isn’t for you. 🙂
Apparently the first intern is coming in December. Should be fun!
Oh, by the way, you can get your own copy of the Emerge brochure to get a summary of opportunities in Mexico and other countries by downloading it in pdf format here (2.35MB).
Where did the Bible come from?
That’s the title of the new study I’m working on, which is going to be a lot of fun. I’ve been learning a lot as I’ve been preparing.
I just wanted to mention the book I recently finished reading – actually, in English and Spanish. My friend Antonio recommended the Spanish edition when we were talking about the study, so I got the Spanish version and later got the English version.
Anyway, it’s not a long book… but for it’s size it doesn’t do a bad job getting into the details of how the Bible comes to us through history. I’m not exactly taking the same approach as the book in the study, but the book will certainly be a good quick reference.
Anyway, the book is called (in English) How We Got the Bible by Neil R. Lightfoot. It’s also available for the Kindle. If you’re interested in the Spanish version, it’s called Comprendamos Como Se Formo la Biblia. It’s partly a translation of the English version by Lightfoot, but it’s actually totally revised to discuss how the Spanish Bible came to us. This revision comes from Dr. Juan Carlos Cevallos.
Check one out! 🙂
Wish Lists and Ministry…
Someone in the family was asking about Christmas gifts (yay – we might get something for Christmas!), so I was recently checking out our wish lists. I decided to make a change I’ve been meaning to make for a long time.
So what I did is add a ministry wish list. So this is stuff that is directly related to our ministry here.
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Obviously, some things on our personal lists do relate to ministry (maybe a cookbook that will help with the baking class, or a book about an aspect of ministry). But if it’s something to be used for ministry or it’s very directly related to some aspect of ministry, I’ll try to put it on the ministry wish list.
So there you go! Hannah and Nathanael’s wish list is still a joint wish list, though you can probably figure out which things are better for which. 🙂 Maybe that will be my next task… to split it up!
One more note – if you want to buy something, and you’re in doubt, ask us about where to ship it.
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This past week’s Tweets…
- We're going to the kids' school this morning for book review classes. I'm in Hannah's class with a book about Mozart. #
- Second day pretty sick, but thankfully able to get some things done, including a good keyboard class and family stuff. #
- What I'm reading: Dead Sea Scrolls to be digitized and put online: JERUSALEM – The Israel Antiquities Authority … http://wapo.st/bedO4w #
- Booster Juice Mexico: Why is pineapple, coconut and banana called "Canadian Colada"? http://htxt.it/s4gY #
- What I'm reading: Remarkable results from baby experiment: I find this series of cognitive experiments with small … http://bit.ly/df6IgM #
- Back from the city. We only got stopped by the police twice – not bad! (Charlene is getting the full Mexico experience) #
- Heading into the city with Shari and Charlene. No time like the present for the full Mexico City driving experience! 😉 #
- Melted our house electrical system, and so were without power today. But Magical Miguel came and fixed everything. 🙂 #
- Heading out to tour Ixtapaluca with Charlene and the fam. It's been a cool morning, but it's warming up! 🙂 #
- Back home with Charlene. Hoping to kind of take it easy toni—- oh, I forgot, we still have kids. 😉 #
- Heading to the Mexico City airport to pick up the CAM Canada director Charlene de Haan. Cool! http://htxt.it/PapA #