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It seems like I haven’t been updating you all very much on what’s been going on, so let me just give you some general news.<\/p>\n

These have been days of great – variety, shall we say.  We like variety, but sometimes it does seem like you’re getting pulled in multiple directions.<\/p>\n\n\n
\"Craft<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Activities at the community centre are still in full swing.  Shari continues to be involved in the baking classes, and we helped out last week with a kids’ craft class, which was fun.<\/p>\n

I’m continuing my series on Spiritual Discernment (and I’ve been sharing some thoughts here on the blog, as you’ve seen).  We had a really great discussion on Tuesday, focusing on how to respond to sin and error that we see (or think<\/i> we see!) in someone else.  (Responding to it in our own lives is maybe simpler – and much harder!)  Next week we’ll be talking about specific issues that are familiar with people in our context here in Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n
\"Mexico<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

We’re trying to get Hannah and Nathanael through their school in time for our spring\/summer trip<\/a>, a task that often seems impossible. \ud83d\ude2e <\/p>\n

Speaking of our trip, I have a whole long list of things to get done every week from now until then – the countdown is on.<\/p>\n

Communication is a big thing right now – planning for the future, working through various issues.  Talks, phone calls, letters, emails.<\/p>\n

We’re welcoming Jessica<\/a> here this week!<\/p>\n

Health struggles have slowed us down considerably the last few weeks.  Not much out of the ordinary, but enough to take away a day here and there and here and there again.<\/p>\n

But there are encouraging things going on.  As I write, I think of more and more that’s going on that I could write about.  But you have other things to do!  So let’s just say there are encouraging things happening.  People with a hunger for God’s Word.  God working in people’s lives.  Grace and love.  Thank God for His Spirit, who is at work even in our corner of Mexico City.<\/p>\n

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