Celebrating in May (podcast)
News about some of the celebrations around here in May, the team from Corban University that just left, the first Chronological Bible Study, and other past and upcoming events.
This past week’s Tweets…
- Pretty sick today, but still going to go to Nathanael's big Mother's Day performance. He's on the "baton team"… #
- What I'm reading: Canadian beaver dam can be seen from space: Technology, science, business, blogs and columns, bl… http://bit.ly/aNawVh #
- What I'm reading: Connected Kingdom Podcast, Episode 3: Shared by Jim
Don't miss this – especially the last par… http://bit.ly/dgA8Va #
- What I'm reading: Tuesday, May 04, 2010: Shared by Jim
15th birthdays for girls in Mexico – this is pretty typi… http://bit.ly/aPIb6B #
- New pictures of Children's Day event and more right here: http://htxt.it/PIjB #
- What I'm reading: It’s Getting Dangerous Out There — A Preacher Is Arrested in Britain: We have seen this coming f… http://bit.ly/94GalM #
- What I'm reading: Dog Hair Helps in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Cleanup: Shared by Jim
You learn somethin… http://bit.ly/bawi9m #
- Heading to Ciudad Azteca, Mexico City, for a meeting with one of our teams. Today's family outing. 🙂 #
- Back from a successful Children's Day event – about 150-175 children plus adults. #
- Heading to our big Children's Day event in Jesús MarÃa, Ixtapaluca. It's going to be fun – games, cake, piñatas, & more! #
- What I'm reading: Canadian sailor rescues kiteboarder in Mexico – Montreal Gazette: Canadian sailor rescues kitebo… http://bit.ly/ce12Ma #
Next Week: The Chronological Bible Study
Right at the moment I’m in a meeting to talk about the Chronological Bible Study, which will Lord willing be beginning next week. (No, I’m not typing in the meeting – this is a post-dated post. Now you know my secret!)
This will be a first-run of a 15 week study designed for Mexico’s urban context. Being a first-run, I’m sure there will be a lot of changes and adjustments made!
As I’ll be telling the teachers, our overall goal is to help people see the world in the light of the Scriptures (2 Corinthians 10:4-6) and to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ (repentance and the forgiveness of sins) (Luke 24:44-48).
Please pray for the five of us that will be involved in leading this study, and for those who will be taking it (we hope everyone in the church will take it at one point or another). We would also appreciate your prayers as we continue to evaluate the study – I’ll need a lot of help from my Mexican friends for that, who know the subtleties of the language and culture.
Our friend Samuel created the poster below (on very short notice!) to remind people about the study. I think it’s brilliant.
Do you think it would be all right if I got Samuel to take a billion or two years in Heaven to teach me graphic design? Or will we all just be getting better at what we’re already good at? That’s something I would love to learn, but he has more talent in his baby finger than I’ll probably have in my whole glorified body. Just a little speculative question for you there…
Top left is our church logo. At the top it says Chronological Bible Study, and below it says the world in the light of the Scriptures.
She’ll be comin’ ’round the mountain …
… or is that the volcanoes? I just read an update from Tiffany Taylor, who will be coming to Ixtapaluca Lord willing this month. She’ll be joining our team in ministry, so we’re pretty excited about that! I thought the first words of her note were very appropriate, and not only for her, so I’m sharing them here. Please pray for Tiffany as she makes this transition and begins her service of the Lord here!
It’s official, I leave May 22…in 3 weeks I will be in Mexico!
The Lord graciously brought to mind the following hymn this week
"Jesus the name that calms our fears,
That bids our sorrows cease,
Tis music in the sinner’s ears,
Tis life and health and peace.My gracious Master and my God,
Assist me to proclaim,
To spread thro’ all the earth abroad,
The honors of your name."Charles Wesley
In other news, I recently had the pleasure of talking with a man from Chalco who just trusted Christ as his Saviour this past week! Praise the Lord, and thanks for your continuing prayers for Mexico!
Finally, be sure to check our Photo Gallery for pictures from the Children’s Day event and more.
Children’s Day Event 2010 (video)
On the 1st of May, our new community centre in Jesùs María, Ixtapaluca (the community centre is now called "Tiempo de Vivir") hosted a Children’s Day event.
Children’s Day in Mexico is on the 30th of April, but of course there are events all around that time. The day landed on a school day, so there were big parties in both our children’s schools.
But let’s get back to the event in Jesùs María, which was the next day (Saturday). The event was a big success. We had lots of amazing help from all sides – people really gave to make this event happen! Shari was heavily involved, being in charge of children’s ministry in the church.
About 150-180 children were there, plus all the adults, so it was a big crowd. It was also a very windy day, as you’ll see. So that made things interesting!
Anyway, thanks to those of you who prayed! Here’s a few minutes from the day so you can see what it was like:
Last 90 Days Most Popular Posts – (1 May 2010)
Here are the most popular posts from the last 90 days, the most popular first – more or less.
However, next to the first one our border story (in multiple posts) was the most popular, so I grouped those together so you can read them in order. Actually, the last one on the list is from before our trip, so if you really want to go in order, you can read that one first. 😉