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But on Sunday – Lord willing – we will have an actual church service! Imagine! It’s been 19 weeks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And not just any service – a baptismal service!<\/strong><\/em> So please pray for those getting baptized. Exciting! We’ll be meeting at the facilities of the church in Jes\u00fas Mar\u00eda, so that we can use their baptismal tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of our “re-opening” will really take place gradually over the next three weeks, so every Sunday will be a little different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So please do pray as we prepare and try to meet the government’s requirements and people’s expectations. As you can guess from the graphic, there will be masks in the service!<\/p>\n\n\n\n And then, starting on Monday – a kids’ club!<\/strong><\/em> And we’re back to virtual again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A special ministry in Mexico called “Summer Missionaries” trains believers to lead kids’ clubs all over Mexico, and this year due to the uncertainty of the COVID-19 restrictions, they’ve moved everything online, and organized it so that individual churches can have their own special clubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So our club will be a combination of videos to watch, songs to learn, crafts to do, puppets to watch, and also an interactive time with other kids online and leaders from our church. Pretty exciting! Shari has already been busy registering children for next week’s club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh, and some of you already know, but we’re planning a visit to Canada<\/strong>! Out west, although we are also planning a longer visit to Ontario later on (next year, if God permits). We have some business to attend to, as well as ministry, so it had to be AB, SK (and maybe MB!) this time around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is actually not the time we planned to go, but everything is super-uncertain and complicated due to COVID-19. So our plans have been and ARE in flux – what a surprise, eh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n So we’re really taking our plans one step at a time. Lord willing we’ll be flying to Canada mid-August. But as you know, if someone gets the sniffles the morning of the flight, they won’t let us on the plane. SO – like I say – one step at a time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n We will be looking for places to stay (first of all, a place to quarantine when we arrive), so we would appreciate your prayers – and if you have any ideas\/contacts, do let us know!<\/p>\n\n\n\n And as for our last month in Mexico, who knows what else will be virtual and what else will be in person? Let’s just try to get past this weekend first, and then we’ll see!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s a lot going on right now – and now it’s a matter of juggling both in-person events AND virtual events! So this Saturday we continue our 60 hour Old Testament Survey class – that’s online. But on Sunday – Lord willing – we will have an actual church service! Imagine! It’s been 19 weeks! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16,18,1413],"tags":[2170,2209,2211,645,318],"class_list":["post-10206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministry-glimpses","category-practical-matters","category-prayer-and-praise","category-st-highlight","tag-covid-19","tag-iglesia-biblica-sendero-de-vida-las-palmas-2","tag-kids-club-2","tag-summer-missionaries","tag-vbs","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/summer-missionaries-1.jpg\")
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