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10 years ago today, a team of people met at our house<\/a> – one of several meetings – to discuss planting a church in a new area. We didn’t know what area that would be at this point, but in the next few months it became clear that it would be the community of Jes\u00c3\u00bas Mar\u00c3\u00ada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Team Ixtapaluca” June 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

June 2009 was really an amazing month. The church in Santa B\u00c3\u00a1rbara had newly recognized leadership, and their building was undergoing some major construction. There was a baptism service, in which many people were baptized who would eventually serve the Lord in the new church in Jes\u00c3\u00bas Mar\u00c3\u00ada. Hannah and Nathanael were hard at work at school. And by the end of the month we would be crossing the border on our way to Canada for the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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