Finding direction

25 August 2004

Back to the Buhlers

Our last newsletter featured the Buhler family, CAM missionaries in Pachuca, Mexico (north east of Mexico City). One thing that we wrote about was the Summer Missionary Program. In the program, Mexican youth are trained and sent out to do Bible clubs in various parts of central Mexico. Our newsletter included a picture of last year’s summer missionaries, but I didn’t yet know what had happened this summer. But now I do!

This summer between July 4 and 10, 30 Mexican Christian youth were trained. Over the following three weeks they taught 45 children’s clubs, with 1800 children hearing the Gospel! Many many children made confessions of faith. Please keep praying for the youth, future leaders and missionaries (well, actually, present leaders and missionaries, but you know what I mean!). Pray also for the children who met the Lord this summer, and for their families.

There was no way in our little newsletter that I could really give you a picture of the Buhler’s ministry, but I encourage you to visit their website for more! It’s located at www.buhlersinmexico.com.

18 August 2004

First Passport

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We just went to get passport photos today, and this is Nathanael’s. As you know, you’re not allowed to smile in passport photos here in Canada, so he fits in just fine. 😕

Anyway, this will be his first passport, and Hannah’s too I suppose. It’s a great day for the young travellers!

Speaking of travelling, yes, we did get back from camp. It went well, but you can read more about it on our main page (unless you’re reading this blog in the archives, in which case you might have to just ask us how it went!). We’re just getting back into the groove here in Calgary, and we’re just about over our colds or flus or whatever they all were! So there’s lots to thank God about. 😎

12 August 2004

On our way

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We’re just about to leave for Camp Little Red. We’re able to all go together (we were wondering for a while because we’re all sick – but I think we’re going to make it! 😛 ), and we’re looking forward to it. Camp Little Red is away from electricity and all such stuff, and they run a great program for kids and teens. This camp is for 11-13 year olds, and I’ll be speaking to them about 7 or 8 times at their chapels.

We would appreciate your prayers while we’re gone! Please pray that the Lord would speak through me, and all of us, and in fact all the Christians there, to the campers. Please pray that God would give me special wisdom as I make last minute preparations for the sessions, and energy as I speak. Pray that God’s Spirit would do some special things in all of our lives! I’ll tell you how it went when we return. 😎

2 August 2004

Trips, Camp, Verses and more…

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I’m just writing this one on the fly because I realized that I haven’t written for quite a while. But that’s the whole point of a blog, right, that you should feel free to write on the fly!

Life is very busy right now. We’re trying to plan our trip to Ontario, for one thing. We’re still looking for a place to stay, such as a basement apartment or something, in Southern Ontario for about 6-8 weeks around late October, November and early December. If you hear about anything that might be available, please let us know.

We’re also getting ready to go to Camp Little Red, where I will be speaking to the 11-13 year olds. There’s a tremendous amount that needs to get done before then, so that’s keeping us busy too. But we’re looking forward to it!

And there’s a host of other things we’re trying to get done, a lot of logistical things related to getting ready for our move to Mexico, and the normal household things we all have.

We’re still working on getting unpacked from our move. We got a little behind on working with Hannah on her verses, but she was very excited to learn 1John 4:19 in Spanish. She was so excited when she first learned it that she wanted to say it for God. I’m sure He was delighted! 😀

I enjoyed the opportunity to speak at our church on the 25th. It was a reworking of a message that I actually first shared back in the summer of ’93 at Grace Church in Newmarket, Ontario. My how time flies! 😉

I won’t babble on forever, I do need to get back to work. Have a great day!

14 July 2004

Photo Gallery

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Yes, it’s me again. We’ve done a couple fun things over the last week or so, so I just added a bunch of pictures to our photo album. If you haven’t visited it for a while, check it out.

Are you curious to know what the top viewed picture of all time is in our photo album? It may surprise you. I was curious myself, so I added a little page that would tell me. To see what our most popular pictures are, visit the new Top 20 page [sorry, this page is not currently available]. I’ll have to put a permanent link to that page somewhere, but meanwhile come back to check once in a while, it’s updated automatically. 🙂

If you’re visiting, please take the time to leave a comment under one of the photos – even if it’s a short one! 😎

13 July 2004

Prayer cards galore

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If you know a lot of missionaries, chances are you have a lot of prayer cards. For the uninitiated, a prayer card is usually a small card, often the size of a post card or smaller, with a picture of a missionary or missionary family, and their names, organization and maybe an address or prayer requests.

So where are your prayer cards? In a stack? On a bulletin board? Plastering your fridge? I just came across a great suggestion, especially if you have a family with children. [Edit: This link is no longer available. The idea uses a cloth world map, on which you pin cards. I believe you took them down one by one and prayed for them, or vice versa. The map is listed on Wycliffe’s resource page here, and you can email them for more information.] It’s fun, inexpensive and yields eternal rewards! 😀

As a family, we pray by name for each person that gets our newsletter. We have thier pictures, prayer requests and names in an album that we pray through at meal times. As missionaries ourselves, this technique works well for us, and helps our kids to get to know our friends, especially the ones we rarely see.

In case you’re wondering, no, we do not yet have a prayer card, but if the Lord provides we hope to have one by the end of the year, so keep your eyes open! Meanwhile, ask for our business card or Ministry Vision brochure.

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