Acting Field Director

As the current acting field director Christian has gotten to view all the ministries for OMS Mexico while our field director is out of the country. It is interesting to see how all the OMS Missionaries and the National UNIFAM Church work together at all levels. Please pray for us as we balance having a new baby and manage the OMS Mexico Field.

Sowing Seeds......from a long time ago

We received news the other day that a good friend of ours Israel just accepted Christ. His story is a typical one (in the states and in Mexico) where the wife is a Christian and church member and the husband does not want anything to do with church or Jesus. But praise God that he just accepted Christ. He is attending another church, but his wife Alejandra assures us that he is growing. I (Christian) remember a cold night about 7 months ago when he and I stood outside of the church during a holiday program. During that conversation we talked about religion and Christianity. I simply asked him the 4 questions to Christ. He was not ready though, but it goes to show that we must always sow seeds - we never know when the truth of each seed will sprout into a relationship with Jesus for a particular person. I remember being nervous as I shared - but I praise God that he was able to listen and take to heart what the scripture says.

MOPS Year Finale

We celebrated our "closing" MOPS for this school year last Tuesday. It was a wonderful day of testimonials from the MOPS leadership team and the women who had participated during the year. Several women shared how they regretfully used to scream and yell at their children or discipline them too harshly and how different speakers during MOPS had changed their parenting. Others commented on their growth in the Lord and still others about how they have learned how to play with their children..... so many lessons learned through the year. I praise God for the beautiful opportunity He has given me to work with these precious moms and look forward to the coming year.
Adrianna, one of the moms serving on the leadership team shares the lessons that the Lord has taught her this year through MOPS.

MOPS moms gathered at our closing celebration.

Breakfast for MOPS

Our church has allowed our MOPS (Mothers of Pre-schoolers) group to be in charge of cooking and selling breakfast at church one Sunday a month to raise funds for MOPS. This allows us to invite women to participate in MOPS free of charge.
Here we are selling breakfast after our church service. (Notice my big belly.... only two more weeks until due date!)
Two of our MOPS moms looking out of the kitchen area of our church.... We generally have 6 or 7 moms helping to cook and serve and we earn around 70 dollars towards each time towards paying for the expenses of our MOPS meetings.

Foundry Team

Last week our second team for June worked on the drop in center for street kids. During the week of construction I had the opportunity to lead part of the team to the Niños Heroes group.

Pictured are 2 street kids (Salvador and Carlos) that listened to the gospel message. We are very hopeful as they both were very receptive to the word.

Ardamore Team

Two days ago I had an opportunity to lead a team from Ardamore, OK to the streets. They have been working on the drop in center construction as their main focus for the trip. On this day though I was touched by what one team member had to say...

...."The experience of going to the place where the young people hang out was
very heartbreaking. It was sad to see young kids ages 12 to 13 years
old high on sniffing glue and other substances. We were greeted with
smiles and a special handshake, but as they spoke to us, they weaved back
and forth trying to keep their balance. They would only make slight eye
contact with us and many times we would have to repeat ourselves. We
spoke with women who looked older then they really were because of being
years on the streets as prostitutes. One young man who was 24 years old
said that he had been on the streets for 20 years. This was a great eye
opener for the team. We will return home to relate this to our
church, encouraging prayer support for the Street Kids and the
missionaries working with them."

Pictured is the team praying after the gospel had been shared.