Dominican Republic...

Christian, along with 4 pastors from our the national committee of UNIFAM (the denomination we work with here) are in the Dominican Republic for 9 days of training and meetings regarding church multiplication!
Please pray for them as they seek to form a unified vision.
We ask for prayer for their safety and rest as well.

A team from CCG

It is a blessing to have a team here this week from the Community Church of Greenwood in Indiana. It is an all woman team of six ladies and it has been such a blessing to have them minister here in Mexico. I wanted to share with you a few photos with you.Maggie, age 14, played her harp at Ethan's school. (Notice Amelia sitting on the far right?) She thinks she is a big kid! Maggie played Amazing Grace and Jesus Loves Me. It was wonderful!
These next two photos are from our MOPS meeting on Tuesday. Notice how we are growing! Amy Jones spoke to our MOPS group and her message was outstanding. We had a time of questions afterwards and the women stayed way over to keep asking questions of Amy. One lady broke down and shared how the Lord touched her heart and convicted her during Amy's talk. She confessed that she had been abusing her 5 year old son. God was working mightily!
I wanted to include this photo from MOPS as well. These are the women who will lead the new MOPS group starting at the church in LaLoma. What a privilege to pray over them during our MOPS meeting! Please pray for Carol, an amazing Godly missionary mom, who will have the responsibility of coordinating this new MOPS program.

Watch OUT!

When you ask God to give you opportunities to serve Him, to place people in your path who need Him WATCH OUT! Get ready! He will answer. We have been blown away by the people and opportunities God has placed in our path in the past few weeks. For example, some dear friends of ours called and asked Christian if he would be willing to visit their aunt's new store (she is opening a small grocery type store) to bless it. While we know full well that the aunt or our friends themselves could simply pray over the store (we ALL have equal access to God!) Christian felt led to go and he prepared himself to share the gospel. What a joy to hear that he was able to share about Jesus and that the uncle accepted Christ into his heart. He had previously been very anti- Christian!

A photo of the store being set up....

This week Robin had the chance to invite one of our new neighbors to MOPS. She is a young mom with a four month old little boy. It was amazing to see her respond to her time at MOPS... upon returning home she shared with Robin that she had once been a Christian and had walked away from the Lord. Her hearts desire is to return! She also shared her burden for her brother in law and sister in law (who also live next door) who are practicing witches. They regularly participate in witch craft, live sacrifices and worship of satanic idols. Robin assured her that Jesus is more powerful than anything evil and they prayed for her safety, her family and salvation for her husband and brother and sister in law.
Jesus is working! Are you joining Him? One of our favorite Bible studies is "Experiencing God" and it teaches that we should look for places where God is working and join Him! Ask God today to show you where He wants YOU (yes, YOU) to join into His work - Ask Him to send people your way that need to hear about Him.... and then get ready! God will surely place in your path opportunities to shine for Him.

5-5-5...

To say that we are excited about the way God is moving here in Mexico would be an understatement..... Wonderful things are happening and we are so thankful to be a small part of the work here. We are so very aware that we would NOT be here without your support and prayers. THANK YOU for partnering with us in reaching Mexico for Christ!

5 weeks ago our pastor challenged us to pray 5-5-5 meaning 5 minutes a day, 5 days a week for 5 weeks. Our prayers were specifically to be targeted at praying for the salvation of others around us and to pray for us to be ready to share the Good News of Jesus! We have been blown away by the response! In just the past two weeks at our church 5 house churches (daughter churches that meet in homes) have begun.... Just this week alone the Lord allowed Christian to lead two people to Christ and we have three different couples who have expressed to us this week that they would like to start a house church!

The Lord promises us that if we seek His face and turn from our sins that He will hear us and He will heal our land! How we are praying for revival to spread fast and wide in Mexico and that we will be willing servants to do our part in reaching Mexicans for Jesus.
(The above photo is one of two 555 banners hanging in our church to remind us to be praying!)