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13.      <link>https://philandcarolyn.com/2024/04/27/youth-connection/</link>
14.      <source url="https://philandcarolyn.com">Mexico</source>
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17.      <description>One week ago we participated in a youth conference in the town of Huitzilan. Our Training Team led most of the presentations and we were simply amazed at the attention and participation of these 90 youth who came from various towns. The overall theme was friendships, with God, with others, and living a pure life.&amp;#8230;</description>
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19. <p>One week ago we participated in a youth conference in the town of Huitzilan. Our Training Team led most of the presentations and we were simply amazed at the attention and participation of these 90 youth who came from various towns. </p>
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27. <p>The overall theme was friendships, with God, with others, and living a pure life.  Almost all of these youth made a commitment to deepen their walk with the Lord. As leaders, we were astonished at the response!  Now, we look forward to following up with many of them. </p>
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44.      <link>https://philandcarolyn.com/2024/03/19/reinforcement-complete/</link>
45.      <source url="https://philandcarolyn.com">Mexico</source>
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48.      <description>Small Project Fund Church Foundation Reinforcement Project is now complete. The church, &amp;#8220;La Hermosa&amp;#8221; in San Miguel del Progresso now has all the reinforcement necessary for their church building structure with a retaining wall and columns reaching from the church foundation to the concrete footings that maintain and support the river water several meters below.&amp;#8230;</description>
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50. <p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f14c4f11dd56e5a662b2b52bc864f584" style="color:#3d464e">Small Project Fund Church Foundation Reinforcement Project is now complete. The church, “La Hermosa” in San Miguel del Progresso now has all the reinforcement necessary for their church building structure with a retaining wall and columns reaching from the church foundation to the concrete footings that maintain and support the river water several meters below.  They have also been able to extend the walls of their church building to provide better security, and replace the basement floor to keep  from further shifting and damage.</p>
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68.      <title>Ecuador: Where the World Divides in Two</title>
69.      <link>https://mexicomatters.org/ecuador-where-the-world-divides-in-two/</link>
70.      <source url="http://mexicomatters.org">Mexico Matters</source>
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72.      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2023 14:15:52 -0500</pubDate>
73.      <description>I was humbled and honored recently to be invited by the Ecuador Liebenzell field director to speak at their annual missionary conference. Good friend and Mexican pastor Fernando Amezcua from Guadalajara, Mexico went with me. The topic that I was given was church planting, and although I have rarely been invited to give a conference, &amp;#8230;&lt;p class="read-more"&gt; &lt;a class="" href="https://mexicomatters.org/ecuador-where-the-world-divides-in-two/"&gt; &lt;span class="screen-reader-text"&gt;Ecuador: Where the World Divides in Two&lt;/span&gt; Read More &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="tptn_counter" id="tptn_counter_8219"&gt;(Visited 1 time, 1 visit today)&lt;/div&gt;</description>
74.      <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;I was humbled and honored recently to be invited by the Ecuador Liebenzell field director to speak at&lt;br /&gt;
75. their annual missionary conference. Good friend and Mexican pastor Fernando Amezcua from<br />
76. Guadalajara, Mexico went with me. The topic that I was given was church planting, and although I have<br />
77. rarely been invited to give a conference, the topic is one I’m familiar with. So, with no amount of<br />
78. trepidation I accepted, and soon the end of August rolled around, and Fernando and I were on a plane<br />
79. to Ecuador.</p>
80. <figure id="attachment_8223" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8223" style="width: 540px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/campamento.jpg"><img decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" class="wp-image-8223" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/campamento.jpg" alt="" width="540" height="405" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/campamento.jpg 2016w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/campamento-300x225.jpg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/campamento-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/campamento-768x576.jpg 768w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/campamento-1536x1152.jpg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8223" class="wp-caption-text">Liebenzell Ecuador’s retreat center, the site of the mission fellowship conference, where Fernando and I spoke</figcaption></figure>
81. <p>Ecuador is a beautiful country, both in terms of its natural features and of the lovely people who live<br />
82. there. Although a relatively small country, it is home to a wide range of environments and ecosystems.<br />
83. Because much of Ecuador rests at between 5000 and 8000 ft, the weather is mild, and not the hot<br />
84. furnace you might expect living at 0 degrees latitude. Coming from Mexico City, I’m used to a similar<br />
85. climate.</p>
86. <figure id="attachment_8228" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8228" style="width: 637px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/group-ecuador.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-8228" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/group-ecuador.jpg" alt="" width="637" height="564" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/group-ecuador.jpg 722w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/group-ecuador-300x266.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8228" class="wp-caption-text">Liebenzell Ecuador group…Ecuadorians, Germans, Americans, Venezuelans and even an Argentinian!</figcaption></figure>
87. <p>Our time was filled with surprises as field director Rainer Kroger took us to an all-Black neighborhood<br />
88. called Chamanal, for the inauguration of a new church building. As we weaved in an out of Ecuador’s<br />
89. northern Andes Mountain range, stretching through the western part of the country, Fernando and I<br />
90. were able to appreciate high mountain villages as well as rushing rivers in the valleys. We were<br />
91. encouraged to pray, also, as we entrusted our lives to the Lord and to Rainer! As we were leaving<br />
92. Ecuador, I thanked him for being a gracious host, along with his wife Katy, and sent him a verse about<br />
93. Jehu, who “drove his chariot furiously.”</p>
94. <figure id="attachment_8220" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8220" style="width: 617px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/rainer-fer-rod.jpeg"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-8220" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/rainer-fer-rod.jpeg" alt="" width="617" height="463" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/rainer-fer-rod.jpeg 2048w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/rainer-fer-rod-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/rainer-fer-rod-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/rainer-fer-rod-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/rainer-fer-rod-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8220" class="wp-caption-text">Rainer Kroger, the field leader in Ecuador, from the roof of the Puente de Amor church</figcaption></figure>
95. <p>I have never participated in such a completely multicultural missionary community before. The majority<br />
96. Liebenzell German missionary presence welcomed several couples from Liebenzell USA (the Bruce and<br />
97. Farnworth families, YAY), and representatives from Argentina and Venezuela. I was nearly overcome<br />
98. with emotion when I saw the sacrifice of young, German families with beautiful little kids, following the<br />
99. Lord’s call to a country far away. Liebenzell Ecuador was composed of some wonderful Ecuadorian<br />
100. families, and Fernando and I were able to speak in several of their churches while during our time there.<br />
101. Enrique and Mayra, pastor and wife of the largest church of the fellowship, were a huge personal<br />
102. encouragement to me. I preached twice the last Sunday we were there, to well over 500 people in the<br />
103. two services. That same afternoon, Fernando and I enjoyed several different presentations and special<br />
104. music times at the annual Mission Fest activity, that also took place at the <em>Puente de Amor</em> (Bridge of<br />
105. Love) Church.</p>
106. <figure id="attachment_8222" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8222" style="width: 627px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/puente-de-amor.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8222" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/puente-de-amor.jpg" alt="" width="627" height="469" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/puente-de-amor.jpg 1600w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/puente-de-amor-300x224.jpg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/puente-de-amor-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/puente-de-amor-768x574.jpg 768w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/puente-de-amor-1536x1147.jpg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8222" class="wp-caption-text">Our last Sunday there was a missions weekend, with a Mission Fest activity in the afternoon. Both morning services were very well attended.</figcaption></figure>
107. <p>Our time was active. I was involved in speaking ten times in nine full days while in Ecuador. Rainer kept<br />
108. up moving! As I look back on my time there, I feel genuinely blessed. Perhaps my most memorable<br />
109. moment…visiting Rio Verde with Kevin Bruce, and hearing him humbly relate how he learned a tribal<br />
110. language, how he aided in the translation of the New Testament, how he picked, cleaned, dried and<br />
111. roasted coffee, how he smoked his own meat and, oh, yeah, the church that he and his wife Kathy<br />
112. planted and the building they physically constructed. I thought missionaries like that only existed in the<br />
113. past. Turns out, they are still very much alive!</p>
114. <p><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/kevin.jpeg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone  wp-image-8221" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/kevin.jpeg" alt="" width="702" height="527" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/kevin.jpeg 2048w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/kevin-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/kevin-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/kevin-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/kevin-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px" /></a></p>
115. <p>(this article will be featured also in Liebenzell USA’s newsletter, coming out soon)</p>
116. &lt;div class="tptn_counter" id="tptn_counter_8219"&gt;(Visited 1 time, 1 visit today)&lt;/div&gt;</content:encoded>
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119.      <title>Short-term adventures, summer 2023</title>
120.      <link>https://mexicomatters.org/short-term-adventures-summer-2023/</link>
121.      <source url="http://mexicomatters.org">Mexico Matters</source>
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123.      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2023 01:04:09 -0500</pubDate>
124.      <description>Mayra and I are taking a deep breath today, after being involved with a series of short-term experiences here, as well as a trip to a very rural (think dirt roads) part of Oaxaca (pronounced Wa-HA-Ka). Our summer started June 10 with a group of 12 students and young adults from Leroy Community Chapel, near &amp;#8230;&lt;p class="read-more"&gt; &lt;a class="" href="https://mexicomatters.org/short-term-adventures-summer-2023/"&gt; &lt;span class="screen-reader-text"&gt;Short-term adventures, summer 2023&lt;/span&gt; Read More &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="tptn_counter" id="tptn_counter_8197"&gt;No visits yet&lt;/div&gt;</description>
125.      <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Mayra and I are taking a deep breath today, after being involved with a series of short-term experiences here, as well as a trip to a very rural (think dirt roads) part of Oaxaca (pronounced Wa-HA-Ka).&lt;/p&gt;
126. <p>Our summer started June 10 with a group of 12 students and young adults from <a href="https://leroychapel.org/">Leroy Community Chapel</a>, near Cleveland OH. They were involved with a number of activities in a local high school, including conferences on sexual relations, eating disorders and anxiety/depression. Conferences were given from a Christian point of view, and although we could obviously not present the gospel in such a setting, the topics were eye-opening for may of the high schoolers, who received a realistic presentation of the risks and dangers of sex outside of marriage, as well as advice as to how to deal with other aspects of adolescent life.</p>
127. <figure id="attachment_8198" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8198" style="width: 690px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-13-at-15.50.23.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-8198" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-13-at-15.50.23.jpg" alt="" width="690" height="388" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-13-at-15.50.23.jpg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-13-at-15.50.23-300x169.jpg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-13-at-15.50.23-768x432.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8198" class="wp-caption-text">Teaching a Biblical view of friendship and sexuality at a local high school</figcaption></figure>
128. <p>The Ohio team was also involved with several baking classes, where upwards of 15 women, all new to these activities, learned how to bake cookies and talk in about the gospel, and their relationship to God. An open gym throughout the week culminated in a volleyball tournament, with 10 teams competing. For the first time, we did a reading glasses donation with a very clear gospel presentation in the third church here, Palmas 1. What a great week!</p>
129. <figure id="attachment_8200" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8200" style="width: 687px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-13-at-16.17.38.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8200" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-13-at-16.17.38.jpg" alt="" width="687" height="385" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-13-at-16.17.38.jpg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-13-at-16.17.38-300x168.jpg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-13-at-16.17.38-768x431.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8200" class="wp-caption-text">A youth meeting with youth from the three Sendero de Vida churches, and the Leroy Chapel group</figcaption></figure>
130. <p>At the end of June, 9 of us, including our three summer interns Amanda, Andrew and Michael, drove 6 hours to Oaxaca City, then another 2-3 hours to a very rural part of Mexico, where small villages are reached by dirt roads that meander through dry agave fields and majestic mountains. Our guides were Gaspar and wife Estela, who have spent years of their lives ministering in these rural areas. They introduced us to Antonio and Reina, and their one-year-old son Samuel.</p>
131. <figure id="attachment_8201" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8201" style="width: 703px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-21-at-17.52.30.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8201" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-21-at-17.52.30.jpg" alt="" width="703" height="527" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-21-at-17.52.30.jpg 1600w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-21-at-17.52.30-300x225.jpg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-21-at-17.52.30-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-21-at-17.52.30-768x576.jpg 768w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-21-at-17.52.30-1536x1152.jpg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8201" class="wp-caption-text">Donating clothing, school supplies and reading glasses in Santo Domingo, Oaxaca</figcaption></figure>
132. <p>It is difficult to overemphasize the challenges of reaching a village steeped in tradition and superstition. But little by little, the gospel is making inroads where Antonio and Reina are ministering. Our church here in Mexico City will very likely commit to supporting these pioneer missionaries. It was a privilege to share in a small way in what God is doing in Oaxaca. Our contribution there consisted of donating a bunch of clothing and school supplies that we took to Oaxaca in the back of the Astro van, and donating reading glasses in three different small towns.</p>
133. <figure id="attachment_8202" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8202" style="width: 710px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-21-at-20.06.04.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8202" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-21-at-20.06.04.jpg" alt="" width="710" height="533" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-21-at-20.06.04.jpg 1600w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-21-at-20.06.04-300x225.jpg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-21-at-20.06.04-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-21-at-20.06.04-768x576.jpg 768w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-21-at-20.06.04-1536x1152.jpg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8202" class="wp-caption-text">Eating pozole after a long day of travel in San Pedro Amantlan, Oaxaca</figcaption></figure>
134. <figure id="attachment_8206" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8206" style="width: 716px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/356431765_1061521148586390_5024615586560484765_n.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8206" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/356431765_1061521148586390_5024615586560484765_n.jpg" alt="" width="716" height="955" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/356431765_1061521148586390_5024615586560484765_n.jpg 1170w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/356431765_1061521148586390_5024615586560484765_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/356431765_1061521148586390_5024615586560484765_n-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/356431765_1061521148586390_5024615586560484765_n-1152x1536.jpg 1152w" sizes="(max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8206" class="wp-caption-text">Please pray for Antonio and Reina, as they share the gospel faithful in creative ways to a village without an evangelical church, in the face of opposition and persecution.</figcaption></figure>
135. <p>July began with a visit from the Smather family, who took advantage of our Come and See in 2023 week, sponsored by <a href="https://liebenzellmission.org/global-ministries/">Liebenzell USA</a>. Mission director Dr. Chris Matthews also was here for that first week in July. During this week, we taught English at a local elementary school, and visited Puebla, Cholula, and several ministries in Puebla; the Puebla Bible Seminary and the Puebla Christian School. Later, we returned to Mexico City and visited the Basilica of Guadalupe and the zócalo area.</p>
136. <figure id="attachment_8203" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8203" style="width: 722px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-03-at-15.59.46.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8203" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-03-at-15.59.46.jpg" alt="" width="722" height="564" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-03-at-15.59.46.jpg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-03-at-15.59.46-300x234.jpg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-03-at-15.59.46-768x600.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8203" class="wp-caption-text">The Smathers family and summer interns Andrew and Michael, with Mayra and me at a farm near Amecameca, State of Mexico</figcaption></figure>
137. <figure id="attachment_8213" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8213" style="width: 718px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/cm.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8213" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/cm.jpg" alt="" width="718" height="538" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/cm.jpg 640w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/cm-300x225.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8213" class="wp-caption-text">Liebenzell USA director Dr. Chris Matthews at the Sendero de Vida Palmas church, teaching on the Spanish Protestant Reformation</figcaption></figure>
138. <p>Mayra and Heather Smathers coordinated several baking classes in Violeta’s house…and it was a huge success! Between 15-18 neighbors showed up to learn how to bake cookies, and hear the gospel.</p>
139. <figure id="attachment_8205" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8205" style="width: 730px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-07-at-10.44.38.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8205" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-07-at-10.44.38.jpg" alt="" width="730" height="730" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-07-at-10.44.38.jpg 1368w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-07-at-10.44.38-300x300.jpg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-07-at-10.44.38-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-07-at-10.44.38-150x150.jpg 150w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-07-at-10.44.38-768x768.jpg 768w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-07-at-10.44.38-50x50.jpg 50w" sizes="(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8205" class="wp-caption-text">Making monster cookies, and sharing the gospel in a new neighborhood.</figcaption></figure>
140. <p>The same day the Smather family returned to Colorado, a group of 20 people, mostly highschoolers, visited us from Mount Calvary Church, in Elizabethtown PA. This was the seventh year that a group from Mt. Calvary has brought a short-term team to Ixtapaluca. This year, the highlights included several days in a local jr. hi school, an open gym with volleyball and basketball, a trip to Val´quirico and Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City, and a reading glasses donation event. At the basketball tournament on Thursday, where some 18 teams competed, a Mexican team wrestled first place from a young, ambitious U.S. team. Congrats to Sammy, Alan and Juan!</p>
141. <figure id="attachment_8208" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8208" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/acozac.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8208 size-full" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/acozac.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="480" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/acozac.jpg 640w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/acozac-300x225.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8208" class="wp-caption-text">A view from nearby archeological site, the pyramid of Acozac, with Ixtapaluca in the background</figcaption></figure>
142. <figure id="attachment_8207" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8207" style="width: 360px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ava-rod.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8207 size-full" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ava-rod-e1689659277171.jpg" alt="" width="360" height="443" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ava-rod-e1689659277171.jpg 360w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ava-rod-e1689659277171-244x300.jpg 244w" sizes="(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8207" class="wp-caption-text">Ava and Rod, enjoying a good Mexican meal</figcaption></figure>
143. <figure id="attachment_8214" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8214" style="width: 657px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/castle.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8214" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/castle.jpg" alt="" width="657" height="493" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/castle.jpg 640w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/castle-300x225.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8214" class="wp-caption-text">Chapultepec Castle, Mexico City.</figcaption></figure>
144. <p>Our summer is not over, though! Tomorrow, well, actually today (as it is after midnight) a group of 6 people visit us from <a href="https://wordoflifechapel.org/">Word of Life Chapel</a>, and will be involved in some remodeling projects as well as baking classes in Jesús María. What a blessing it is to experience the family of God in different cultures!</p>
145. &lt;div class="tptn_counter" id="tptn_counter_8197"&gt;No visits yet&lt;/div&gt;</content:encoded>
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148.      <title>Summer 2023 Visitors, Part 2</title>
149.      <link>https://mexicomatters.org/summer-2023-visitors-part-2/</link>
150.      <source url="http://mexicomatters.org">Mexico Matters</source>
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152.      <pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2023 10:36:40 -0500</pubDate>
153.      <description>Our summer ministry has gone through some significant changes over the past 10 years or so, from being primarily a time we received summer interns (a record number of interns in 2006 and 2007), to primarily receiving church groups (an average of 4-5 groups per summer, from 2016, except during COVID). Last summer, largely due &amp;#8230;&lt;p class="read-more"&gt; &lt;a class="" href="https://mexicomatters.org/summer-2023-visitors-part-2/"&gt; &lt;span class="screen-reader-text"&gt;Summer 2023 Visitors, Part 2&lt;/span&gt; Read More &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="tptn_counter" id="tptn_counter_8186"&gt;(Visited 3 time, 3 visit today)&lt;/div&gt;</description>
154.      <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Our summer ministry has gone through some significant changes over the past 10 years or so, from being primarily a time we received summer interns (a record number of interns in 2006 and 2007), to primarily receiving church groups (an average of 4-5 groups per summer, from 2016, except during COVID). Last summer, largely due to a summer internship emphasis with our new mission, &lt;a href="https://liebenzellmission.org/opportunities/"&gt;Liebenzell USA&lt;/a&gt;, we received 4 interns, and five different church groups. This summer, 3 summer interns will be here, for 4, 6 and 8 weeks respectively, and we&amp;#8217;re receiving four different groups (almost five, but one group canceled due to the leader&amp;#8217;s health issues).&lt;/p&gt;
155. <p>This year is the first time that we’ve sponsored an “open” week, where really anyone from anywhere could come down and experience Mexico with us. The Smathers family took the challenge, a family of 5 from Colorado Springs, CO. They will be living in their own small house, doing life here for a week with us. Their first activity…going to a nearby Walmart and buying food for their breakfasts here! That part of it doesn’t sound too culturally challenging…until they start looking for certain items or brand names!  We’re excited to have our mission director <a href="https://mexicomatters.org/a-visit-to-pa-a-conference-in-guadalajara/">Dr. Chris Matthews</a> and Global Missions director Rev. Mike Branch with us for this week also. Chris will be preaching on the Spanish Reformation while here; a fascinating topic for Spanish-speaking believers!</p>
156. <p>In addition to the Come and See in 2023 week, we are privileged to partner with the following churches this summer:</p>
157. <p><a href="https://leroychapel.org/">Leroy Community Chapel</a>–a group of 12 people, most young adults, will be involved in a local high school teaching several conferences (friendship/relationships and depression/anxiety), as well as playing sports with several of the High School groups (girls–soccer, boys–basketball), and being involved with teaching English. They will also be involved in a baking class or two or three, a reading glasses donation outreach event, and some volleyball games (and possible tournament).</p>
158. <p><a href="http://www.mtcalvarychurch.com/">Mount Calvary Church</a>–a group of 20 people, primarily high school aged kids, will be involved with teaching English at a nearby Jr. Hi. School, inviting students there to participate in an open gym during the afternoons, playing basketball. A 3-on-3 basketball tournament happens towards the end of the week, with a reading glasses donation event (<a href="https://restoringvision.org/">www.restoringvision.org</a>). In all of these activities, the gospel is presented through skits, gospel illustrations and the spoken word.  Mount Calvary Church continues to set participation records for short-term teams, having sent short-term groups 6 out of the last 8 summers.</p>
159. <p><a href="https://wordoflifechapel.org/">Word of Life Chapel</a>–following up on a very successful week of outreach last summer, a group of 6 from Word of Life Chapel will be doing two baking classes per day for their first several days here, culminating in an awards ceremony, with certificates given for completion of the baking classes, and where we have an opportunity to present the gospel in a number of ways, including the <a href="https://thecrosspuzzle.com/">Cross Puzzle</a>, an evangelistic tool used to visually explain the gospel, developed by Ken Rutt, who is a member of Word of Life Chapel.  The men will be involved with several remodeling projects that Samuel is coordinating.</p>
160. <p>Speaking of Samuel, he once again designed our summer logo. The idea is from a popular board game, Settlers of Catan. In this schematic, however, the resource tiles are not sheep, wood, wheat, ore and brick, but rather the spiritual resources of fellowship, prayer, worship and Bible study. May we use all of these tremendous resources strategically as we seek to reach our world with the gospel.</p>
161. <figure id="attachment_8187" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8187" style="width: 839px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/logo-summer-2023-2.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8187" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/logo-summer-2023-2.jpg" alt="" width="839" height="502" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/logo-summer-2023-2.jpg 1117w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/logo-summer-2023-2-300x179.jpg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/logo-summer-2023-2-1024x612.jpg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/logo-summer-2023-2-768x459.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 839px) 100vw, 839px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8187" class="wp-caption-text">Our summer 2023 logo…on t-shirts and orientation manuals.</figcaption></figure>
162. <p><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/settlers.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-8193" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/settlers.jpg" alt="" width="833" height="469" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/settlers.jpg 1280w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/settlers-300x169.jpg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/settlers-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/settlers-768x432.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 833px) 100vw, 833px" /></a></p>
163. &lt;figure id="attachment_8194" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8194" style="width: 720px" class="wp-caption alignnone"&gt;&lt;a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/david.jpg"&gt;&lt;img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8194 size-full" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/david-e1685547297616.jpg" alt="" width="720" height="870" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/david-e1685547297616.jpg 720w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/david-e1685547297616-248x300.jpg 248w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;figcaption id="caption-attachment-8194" class="wp-caption-text"&gt;Shout-out to David Gomez for winning a Settlers game several days ago. Note: This does NOT happen very often &lt;img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f602.png" alt="</content:encoded>
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166.      <title>Gas Prices and Economics in Mexico</title>
167.      <link>https://mexicomatters.org/gas-prices-and-economics-in-mexico/</link>
168.      <source url="http://mexicomatters.org">Mexico Matters</source>
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170.      <pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 18:30:03 -0500</pubDate>
171.      <description>I was watching the news last night here in Mexico City, and was reminded of something that we&amp;#8217;ve become keenly aware of&amp;#8230;prices continue to go up. Not only that, the dollar, which historically has constantly grown stronger against the Mexico peso, is currently at its weakest point since 2016. For several years the peso:dollar ratio &amp;#8230;&lt;p class="read-more"&gt; &lt;a class="" href="https://mexicomatters.org/gas-prices-and-economics-in-mexico/"&gt; &lt;span class="screen-reader-text"&gt;Gas Prices and Economics in Mexico&lt;/span&gt; Read More &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="tptn_counter" id="tptn_counter_8174"&gt;No visits yet&lt;/div&gt;</description>
172.      <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;I was watching the news last night here in Mexico City, and was reminded of something that we&amp;#8217;ve become keenly aware of&amp;#8230;prices continue to go up. Not only that, the dollar, which historically has constantly grown stronger against the Mexico peso, is currently at its weakest point since 2016. For several years the peso:dollar ratio was around 20:1; now it has dropped to 17.4:1. That&amp;#8217;s a decrease of over 15%.&lt;/p&gt;
173. <p>Why, you may ask?  Most economists that I’ve listened to attribute it to several factors. One is high interest rates in Mexico, which attract international investors. The going rate for a mortgage here is 12-14%. An across the board  Value Added Tax (here in Mexico it’s called IVA–<em>impuesto de valor agregado</em>) on everything but some foods and medicine is 16%. Credit card rates are crazy…38.84% (last June, anyway, they likely have gone up since them).</p>
174. <p>Secondly, energy costs, which ultimately benefit the government-controlled energy sector, are high.  I recently paid 23.29 pesos for a liter of gas. Take that amount, times 3.78 for the amount of liters in a gallon (88.04 pesos), divided by the exchange rate (17.4) and the cost of gasoline comes out to <strong>$5.06 a gallon.</strong> Diesel is comparatively priced, at <strong>$5.21 a gallon.</strong></p>
175. <p>Finally, Mexico’s handling of the COVID pandemic (not shutting borders, generally less restrictions) enabled them to be paying back the International Monetary Fund during the pandemic, when many other countries were taking out big loans.  The current president’s increased control over the formal economy has undoubtedly increased overall tax income for the Federal government. An accountant friend likes to call it “fiscal terrorism.” Immigration is no longer an issue in Mexico. Wanna guess why?</p>
176. <p>That’s not to say that all is peachy here. Insecurity continues to increase. Mexico has had to import massive amounts of natural gas and LP gas from the U.S., as well as basic grains, like corn and wheat. Corruption plagues every sector of society.  And the traffic!  During a recent return from northern Mexico City to our home, a normally 90 minute trip took over 2 1/2 hours. (see picture).  An airport run, about 18 miles from our house, often takes two hours. And everywhere you go, you’re paying tolls, not to mention an annual road tax, and a bi-annual emissions inspection. It’s not cheap to have a car here.</p>
177. <figure id="attachment_8177" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8177" style="width: 439px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3268-rotated.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-8177" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3268-rotated-e1684365972297.jpg" alt="" width="439" height="566" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3268-rotated-e1684365972297.jpg 1360w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3268-rotated-e1684365972297-233x300.jpg 233w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3268-rotated-e1684365972297-794x1024.jpg 794w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3268-rotated-e1684365972297-768x990.jpg 768w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3268-rotated-e1684365972297-1192x1536.jpg 1192w" sizes="(max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8177" class="wp-caption-text">Merging on to Zaragoza from Viaducto at 7 p.m. Simply insane.</figcaption></figure>
178. <figure id="attachment_8175" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8175" style="width: 1103px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/eb39f179-51dc-424a-b4eb-d688b31b01ab.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8175" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/eb39f179-51dc-424a-b4eb-d688b31b01ab.jpg" alt="" width="1103" height="529" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/eb39f179-51dc-424a-b4eb-d688b31b01ab.jpg 1600w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/eb39f179-51dc-424a-b4eb-d688b31b01ab-300x144.jpg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/eb39f179-51dc-424a-b4eb-d688b31b01ab-1024x492.jpg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/eb39f179-51dc-424a-b4eb-d688b31b01ab-768x369.jpg 768w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/eb39f179-51dc-424a-b4eb-d688b31b01ab-1536x737.jpg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 1103px) 100vw, 1103px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8175" class="wp-caption-text">A trip into the city to eat lunch with old friends…yes, I guess we are getting older! Thanks, Erik and Patty Morga</figcaption></figure>
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181. &lt;div class="tptn_counter" id="tptn_counter_8174"&gt;No visits yet&lt;/div&gt;</content:encoded>
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184.      <title>Summer 2023 Visitors Part 1</title>
185.      <link>https://mexicomatters.org/summer-2023-visitors-part-1/</link>
186.      <source url="http://mexicomatters.org">Mexico Matters</source>
187.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:6aa8d6c9-45a7-2712-4340-2c0aa5789aed</guid>
188.      <pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2023 11:12:47 -0500</pubDate>
189.      <description>This summer we are pleased to host three Liebenzell USA interns, one for 4 weeks, one for 6 weeks, and one for 8 weeks. Amanda Chacon was here last summer, and will be joining an elite group of repeat interns; helping me coordinate some of the summer.  Amanda goes to Dallas Baptist University, and is &amp;#8230;&lt;p class="read-more"&gt; &lt;a class="" href="https://mexicomatters.org/summer-2023-visitors-part-1/"&gt; &lt;span class="screen-reader-text"&gt;Summer 2023 Visitors Part 1&lt;/span&gt; Read More &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="tptn_counter" id="tptn_counter_8156"&gt;(Visited 9 time, 9 visit today)&lt;/div&gt;</description>
190.      <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;This summer we are pleased to host three &lt;a href="https://liebenzellmission.org/"&gt;Liebenzell USA&lt;/a&gt; interns, one for 4 weeks, one for 6 weeks, and one for 8 weeks. &lt;a href="https://liebenzellmission.org/give/amanda-chacon/"&gt;Amanda Chacon&lt;/a&gt; was here last summer, and will be joining an elite group of repeat interns; helping me coordinate some of the summer.  Amanda goes to Dallas Baptist University, and is one of their track stars! We&amp;#8217;re looking forward to seeing her again.&lt;/p&gt;
191. <figure id="attachment_8158" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8158" style="width: 411px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/amanda.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8158" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/amanda.jpg" alt="" width="411" height="322" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/amanda.jpg 1112w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/amanda-300x235.jpg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/amanda-1024x802.jpg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/amanda-768x602.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8158" class="wp-caption-text">Amanda teaching English (with Joe) at a local high school, summer 2022</figcaption></figure>
192. <p><a href="https://liebenzellmission.org/give/andrew-polizzi/">Andrew Polizzi</a> also visited us last summer, for a week with his church,<a href="https://hopechurchonline.org/"> Hope Community</a>. Andrew is a big dude, works in a large sporting equipment store, and likes to hunt ducks  in his spare time. I told him that we need to take the youth on a camping trip while he’s here…near the volcanoes, at around 12k feet.</p>
193. <figure id="attachment_8157" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8157" style="width: 412px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/andrew.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8157" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/andrew.jpg" alt="" width="412" height="537" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/andrew.jpg 736w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/andrew-230x300.jpg 230w" sizes="(max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8157" class="wp-caption-text">Andrew waiting on tacos, downtown Mexico City, summer 2022. Andrew tends to be in a better mood after tacos than before.</figcaption></figure>
194. <p><a href="https://liebenzellmission.org/give/michael-fanoway/">Michael Fanoway</a> is a student at Liebenzell USA’s Global Impact Academy, initially from the small Micronesian island of Yap.  I met Michael this January after a visit to Liebenzell’s mission center in Schooleys Mountain, NJ. Michael will be a great addition to our summer crew!</p>
195. <figure id="attachment_8159" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8159" style="width: 552px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/mj.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8159" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/mj.jpg" alt="" width="552" height="310" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/mj.jpg 768w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/mj-300x168.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8159" class="wp-caption-text">Michael is studying at Liebenzell’s Global Impact Academy</figcaption></figure>
196. <p><a href="https://liebenzellmission.org/give/jh-smathers/">The Smathers family</a>, from Colorado Springs, Colorado, is taking advantage of our “<a href="https://liebenzellmission.org/go-and-see">Go and See in 2023</a>” week, and is coming as a family of five to experience for one week what living as a family is like in Mexico City. The five of them will be living in a small, two-bedroom home within walking distance of our house.  We’re excited to house our first family of 5!  Our last complete family experience…when the Beenenga family (4) visited some years ago.</p>
197. <p><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/smathers.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone  wp-image-8163" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/smathers.jpg" alt="" width="558" height="470" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/smathers.jpg 1080w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/smathers-300x253.jpg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/smathers-1024x863.jpg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/smathers-768x647.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px" /></a></p>
198. <p><a href="https://liebenzellmission.org/give/amanda-joy-nissely/">Amanda Nissley</a> is more than just a summer visitor. She came to Mexico with us the end of March, and will be with us in Ixtapaluca, Lord willing, for one year, although she has let us know that she might want to stay in Mexico a LONG time! Amanda started with three English classes a week, but is now teaching 5 classes, with people wanting her to offer more classes pretty much every week.</p>
199. <figure id="attachment_8160" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8160" style="width: 422px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/amanda-tacos-rotated.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8160" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/amanda-tacos-rotated.jpg" alt="" width="422" height="563" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/amanda-tacos-rotated.jpg 480w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/amanda-tacos-225x300.jpg 225w" sizes="(max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8160" class="wp-caption-text">Amanda Nissley eating a delicious taco árabe, near Puebla, Mexico</figcaption></figure>
200. <p>If you would like to financial support any one of our short-term staff above, please click on their name, and you’ll be sent to a page on Liebenzell’s website where you can give. Please pray for them and for us as we tackle a busy, fun summer!  A shout-out to Karin Benningfield for helping make short-term summer ministry happen!</p>
201. &lt;div class="tptn_counter" id="tptn_counter_8156"&gt;(Visited 9 time, 9 visit today)&lt;/div&gt;</content:encoded>
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204.      <title>An Important Step in the Life of a Local Church</title>
205.      <link>https://mexicomatters.org/an-important-step-in-the-life-of-a-local-church/</link>
206.      <source url="http://mexicomatters.org">Mexico Matters</source>
207.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:b0bbfa6b-035d-565b-1663-d05e77517345</guid>
208.      <pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2023 11:04:57 -0500</pubDate>
209.      <description>This past Sunday the Path of Life Bible Church&amp;#8211;Palmas celebrated the recognition of its first two Mexican leaders. As we&amp;#8217;ve been mentioning repeatedly in our leadership studies, there are really several terms in the Bible for the principal leaders in a local church: elders, supervisors, bishops, pastors, overseers. The purpose of a church planting missionary &amp;#8230;&lt;p class="read-more"&gt; &lt;a class="" href="https://mexicomatters.org/an-important-step-in-the-life-of-a-local-church/"&gt; &lt;span class="screen-reader-text"&gt;An Important Step in the Life of a Local Church&lt;/span&gt; Read More &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="tptn_counter" id="tptn_counter_8125"&gt;(Visited 3 time, 3 visit today)&lt;/div&gt;</description>
210.      <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;This past Sunday the Path of Life Bible Church&amp;#8211;Palmas celebrated the recognition of its first two Mexican leaders. As we&amp;#8217;ve been mentioning repeatedly in our leadership studies, there are really several terms in the Bible for the principal leaders in a local church: elders, supervisors, bishops, pastors, overseers. The purpose of a church planting missionary is not to establish one church and stay there forever&amp;#8230;that sounds like the role of a pastor. Our function is to help with the initial formation of a church, then to pass on the responsibility of local church leadership to Mexican men and women who will do a much better job at leading a local flock than we ever could!&lt;/p&gt;
211. <p>So it’s always a great day when we are able to begin that transition, convinced that God has called men and women to serve His church. We had around 100 people in attendance, including pastors and elders from four other churches. Ezequiel and his wife Esther, and Oscar with his wife Viriana, were named the Palmas’s church’s first elders/pastors.  In the ceremony we also included several symbols representing pastoral ministry, including a shepherd’s staff (pastoral care), a towel and basic (servanthood), a sign saying “Mi casa es tu casa” (hospitality) and a framed Bible verse, to remind us of the priority of the Word of God in ministry.</p>
212. <p>After the service we had an awesome meal of roast pork, pasta and vegetables, followed by several cakes, one of which had the entire text of 1 Timothy 3:1-7 on it. Games and fun followed. Finally, at around 6 p.m., we finally wrapped up our time. It was quite a day!  Here are some pictures. Thanks, David Gómez, for some of these images.</p>
213. <figure id="attachment_8143" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8143" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/8a388b3d-dee9-4dbb-b316-1946ba6b7ad6.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8143 size-full" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/8a388b3d-dee9-4dbb-b316-1946ba6b7ad6.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="762" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/8a388b3d-dee9-4dbb-b316-1946ba6b7ad6.jpg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/8a388b3d-dee9-4dbb-b316-1946ba6b7ad6-300x223.jpg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/8a388b3d-dee9-4dbb-b316-1946ba6b7ad6-768x572.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8143" class="wp-caption-text">Ezequiel and Esther, Viri and Oscar (left to right)</figcaption></figure>
214. <figure id="attachment_8144" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8144" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/1118b9e7-a08e-4fd5-9c2a-aa282249516a.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8144 size-full" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/1118b9e7-a08e-4fd5-9c2a-aa282249516a.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="720" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/1118b9e7-a08e-4fd5-9c2a-aa282249516a.jpg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/1118b9e7-a08e-4fd5-9c2a-aa282249516a-300x211.jpg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/1118b9e7-a08e-4fd5-9c2a-aa282249516a-768x540.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8144" class="wp-caption-text">Co-worker Jim Cottrill, with Pablo, Nat and Daniel leading worship </figcaption></figure>
215. <figure id="attachment_8148" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8148" style="width: 517px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ebd0592e-4f2c-4c7e-8991-17d0f9ec9c05.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8148" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ebd0592e-4f2c-4c7e-8991-17d0f9ec9c05.jpg" alt="" width="517" height="933" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ebd0592e-4f2c-4c7e-8991-17d0f9ec9c05.jpg 567w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ebd0592e-4f2c-4c7e-8991-17d0f9ec9c05-166x300.jpg 166w" sizes="(max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8148" class="wp-caption-text">Preaching on the importance of pastoral ministry, from 1 Peter 5</figcaption></figure>
216. <figure id="attachment_8150" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8150" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/fc9f48a5-5cc3-4b85-b0a4-7f2b720e7178.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8150 size-full" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/fc9f48a5-5cc3-4b85-b0a4-7f2b720e7178.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="624" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/fc9f48a5-5cc3-4b85-b0a4-7f2b720e7178.jpg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/fc9f48a5-5cc3-4b85-b0a4-7f2b720e7178-300x183.jpg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/fc9f48a5-5cc3-4b85-b0a4-7f2b720e7178-768x468.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8150" class="wp-caption-text">Decorations and table with pastoral symbols</figcaption></figure>
217. <figure id="attachment_8149" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8149" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ef111db0-d109-4da3-8acf-dbf5cfa356c5.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8149 size-full" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ef111db0-d109-4da3-8acf-dbf5cfa356c5.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="458" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ef111db0-d109-4da3-8acf-dbf5cfa356c5.jpg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ef111db0-d109-4da3-8acf-dbf5cfa356c5-300x134.jpg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ef111db0-d109-4da3-8acf-dbf5cfa356c5-768x344.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8149" class="wp-caption-text">Laying on of hands, commending our friends to the work of the ministry</figcaption></figure>
218. <figure id="attachment_8147" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8147" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/df805479-3f37-4043-834a-5c692dd7d172.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8147 size-full" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/df805479-3f37-4043-834a-5c692dd7d172.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="865" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/df805479-3f37-4043-834a-5c692dd7d172.jpg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/df805479-3f37-4043-834a-5c692dd7d172-300x253.jpg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/df805479-3f37-4043-834a-5c692dd7d172-768x649.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8147" class="wp-caption-text">Thanks, Martin, for your prayer for us at the end of the service!</figcaption></figure>
219. <p><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ebd0592e-4f2c-4c7e-8991-17d0f9ec9c05.jpg"></a> <a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3195-e1683042209129.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone  wp-image-8139" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3195-e1683042209129.jpg" alt="" width="1008" height="903" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3195-e1683042209129.jpg 510w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3195-e1683042209129-300x269.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px" /></a></p>
220. <p><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3147-e1683041947716.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8132" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3147-e1683041947716.jpg" alt="" width="532" height="408" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3147-e1683041947716.jpg 532w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3147-e1683041947716-300x230.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px" /></a><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3144-e1683041913926.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone  wp-image-8131" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3144-e1683041913926.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="409" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3144-e1683041913926.jpg 486w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3144-e1683041913926-300x256.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px" /></a></p>
221. <p><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3187-e1683042054889.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone  wp-image-8136" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3187-e1683042054889.jpg" alt="" width="493" height="371" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3187-e1683042054889.jpg 580w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3187-e1683042054889-300x226.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px" /></a><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3170-e1683041978465.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone  wp-image-8133" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3170-e1683041978465.jpg" alt="" width="510" height="371" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3170-e1683041978465.jpg 550w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3170-e1683041978465-300x218.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px" /></a></p>
222. <p><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3198.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone  wp-image-8126" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3198.jpg" alt="" width="478" height="358" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3198.jpg 640w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3198-300x225.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px" /></a><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3179-e1683042079763.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone  wp-image-8134" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3179-e1683042079763.jpg" alt="" width="433" height="357" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3179-e1683042079763.jpg 422w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3179-e1683042079763-300x247.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px" /></a></p>
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225. <p> </p>
226. &lt;div class="tptn_counter" id="tptn_counter_8125"&gt;(Visited 3 time, 3 visit today)&lt;/div&gt;</content:encoded>
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229.      <title>Visiting Christian Colleges and Supporting Churches, Being with Family</title>
230.      <link>https://mexicomatters.org/visiting-christian-colleges-and-supporting-churches-being-with-family/</link>
231.      <source url="http://mexicomatters.org">Mexico Matters</source>
232.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:1570e799-ff52-4bc8-1c3e-6cb770f9e34a</guid>
233.      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2023 09:59:25 -0600</pubDate>
234.      <description>Mayra and I have been in PA since mid-January, and during that time have had the opportunity to represent our mission, Liebenzell USA, at Cairn University, near Philadelphia, PA and at Lancaster Bible College. Today, I&amp;#8217;ll be joining George and Steve at Biola University, for their missions conference this week. I&amp;#8217;m looking forward to it! &amp;#8230;&lt;p class="read-more"&gt; &lt;a class="" href="https://mexicomatters.org/visiting-christian-colleges-and-supporting-churches-being-with-family/"&gt; &lt;span class="screen-reader-text"&gt;Visiting Christian Colleges and Supporting Churches, Being with Family&lt;/span&gt; Read More &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="tptn_counter" id="tptn_counter_8111"&gt;No visits yet&lt;/div&gt;</description>
235.      <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Mayra and I have been in PA since mid-January, and during that time have had the opportunity to represent our mission, &lt;a href="https://www.liebenzellmission.org/"&gt;Liebenzell USA&lt;/a&gt;, at &lt;a href="https://cairn.edu/"&gt;Cairn University&lt;/a&gt;, near Philadelphia, PA and at &lt;a href="https://www.lbc.edu/"&gt;Lancaster Bible College&lt;/a&gt;. Today, I&amp;#8217;ll be joining &lt;a href="https://liebenzellmission.org/give/shakwelele/"&gt;George&lt;/a&gt; and&lt;a href="https://liebenzellmission.org/give/stinnette/"&gt; Steve&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href="https://www.biola.edu/"&gt;Biola University&lt;/a&gt;, for their missions conference this week. I&amp;#8217;m looking forward to it!&lt;/p&gt;
236. <p>The past two Sundays I’ve had the opportunity to preach in two supporting churches; <a href="https://etowngrace.com/index.html">Elizabethtown Grace</a>, here where we live, and <a href="https://leroychapel.org/">Leroy Community Chapel</a>, in Painesville, OH.  We’ve had the opportunity to meet with three different church groups that will be visiting us this summer in Mexico. For our last Sunday here, we’ll be back at Elizabethtown Grace, for a commissioning service for Amanda Nissley, who will be serving with us in Mexico City for the next year. Rev. Mike Branch, Global Missions coordinator at Liebenzell, will also be in attendance.</p>
237. <p>Would you like to visit us the first week in July? You still can! Check out this “Go and See” promo <a href="https://www.liebenzellmission.org/go-and-see">HERE</a>.</p>
238. <p>We return back to Mexico the end of March, and hit the ground running! We are super excited about a leadership recognition service that will be taking place, Lord willing, the end of April. We are also beginning to raise support for a property for the third church. The congregation has already saved a significant amount.</p>
239. <p>It’s also been great to spend time with family and friends while here. It’s a bit bitter-sweet for us; we have family on both sides of the border, so we’re always saying goodbye to someone! Here are some pictures of our time here.</p>
240. <figure id="attachment_8114" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8114" style="width: 480px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2710-rotated.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-8114 size-full" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2710-rotated.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="640" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2710-rotated.jpg 480w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2710-225x300.jpg 225w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8114" class="wp-caption-text">Representing Liebenzell at Cairn University</figcaption></figure>
241. <figure id="attachment_8117" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8117" style="width: 480px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2718-rotated.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8117 size-full" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2718-rotated.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="640" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2718-rotated.jpg 480w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2718-225x300.jpg 225w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8117" class="wp-caption-text">Good times with the family</figcaption></figure>
242. <figure id="attachment_8120" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8120" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_4031.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8120 size-full" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_4031.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="800" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_4031.jpg 600w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_4031-225x300.jpg 225w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8120" class="wp-caption-text">A couple of visits to the Mountain, Liebenzell USA, in northern NJ, here with our fearless leader Dr. Chris Matthews</figcaption></figure>
243. <figure id="attachment_8119" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8119" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2862.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8119 size-full" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2862.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="480" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2862.jpg 640w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2862-300x225.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8119" class="wp-caption-text">Cathy and her German Shepherd, Rey</figcaption></figure>
244. <figure id="attachment_8116" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8116" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2729.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8116 size-full" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2729.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="480" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2729.jpg 640w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2729-300x225.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8116" class="wp-caption-text">Amanda Nissley presenting her ministry opportunities in Ixtapaluca</figcaption></figure>
245. <figure id="attachment_8118" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8118" style="width: 480px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2924-rotated.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8118 size-full" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2924-rotated.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="640" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2924-rotated.jpg 480w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2924-225x300.jpg 225w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8118" class="wp-caption-text">Stocking trout in Central PA with my dad (in this picture) and my uncle and cousin</figcaption></figure>
246. <figure id="attachment_8122" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8122" style="width: 480px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2906-rotated.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8122 size-full" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2906-rotated.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="640" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2906-rotated.jpg 480w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_2906-225x300.jpg 225w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8122" class="wp-caption-text">One of Mayra’s favorite friends, a cardinal</figcaption></figure>
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250.      <title>Reaching an Unreached Ethnic Group</title>
251.      <link>https://mexicomatters.org/reaching-an-unreached-ethnic-group/</link>
252.      <source url="http://mexicomatters.org">Mexico Matters</source>
253.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:4b3a7bb2-6e0b-fc72-c966-ed94287f1bcc</guid>
254.      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:35:57 -0600</pubDate>
255.      <description>We hear about unreached ethnic groups, villages scattered all over the world who have never heard the gospel, and that very likely do not have the Bible in their own language. Fernando Amezcua pastors a church in Guadalajara (Iglesia Bíblica Gracia) that decided to take seriously the challenge of reaching a new ethnic group, and &amp;#8230;&lt;p class="read-more"&gt; &lt;a class="" href="https://mexicomatters.org/reaching-an-unreached-ethnic-group/"&gt; &lt;span class="screen-reader-text"&gt;Reaching an Unreached Ethnic Group&lt;/span&gt; Read More &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="tptn_counter" id="tptn_counter_8098"&gt;No visits yet&lt;/div&gt;</description>
256.      <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;We hear about unreached ethnic groups, villages scattered all over the world who have never heard the gospel, and that very likely do not have the Bible in their own language. &lt;a href="https://mexicomatters.org/a-visit-to-pa-a-conference-in-guadalajara/"&gt;Fernando Amezcua&lt;/a&gt; pastors a church in Guadalajara (Iglesia Bíblica Gracia) that decided to take seriously the challenge of reaching a new ethnic group, and in 2002 adopted a small village in rural Oaxaca; Santa Catarina Albarradas. Beginning with medical outreaches, then establishing a physical presence in the town, they saw their first baptisms within a few years. Now, in 2023, a congregation of 35-40 people exists, and they have just purchased land for an eventual church building at the edge of town.&lt;/p&gt;
257. <p>Translation of the gospel of Luke into the town’s unique Zapoteco dialect, as well as the Jesus film, began in 2008, and was finished in 2021. Now, a congregation of 35-45 people regularly exalt the name of Jesus in the town. Miguel, a graduate of La Roca, in Guadalajara (2015-2018) is a key person in the church. Oral translation work continues on the book of Acts, with six representatives from the town assisting <a href="https://untimexico.com/">UNTI</a> (Unión Nacional de Traductores Indígenas) in the translation. While we were there we participated in a church service, with a young lady leading the worship time. Fernando then preached about the cost of discipleship. After Fernando concluded, Miguel summarized the message in Zapoteco. Most of the younger people learn Spanish in school, but many of the older people in the village only speak Zapoteco.</p>
258. <p>Several of us visited Santa Catarina last week. Three of us from Mexico City, David, Juan and myself, drove our faithful Astro van the 6 hours to pastor <a href="https://mexicomatters.org/a-broad-definition-of-faith/">Gaspar’s ranch</a>, near the Oaxaca City airport. Fernando and pastor friend Moisés flew from Guadalajara. We then traveled the rather short distance to Santa Catarina…short, but a crazy 3+ hours! I have never driven so long on curvy, mountainous dirt and stone roads, over a tall mountain range of the Sierra Nevada mountains. It was truly an experience. When we returned, I was so happy for pavement!</p>
259. <p>Gaspar is an expert in rural life and outreach. Our first day was spent at his ranch learning about the importance of drip irrigation, establishing nutrients in the soil through the use of organic compost, and all sorts of insights into everything from how to grow tomatoes to what sort of male sheep you should look for to reproduce suitable sheep. We also spent some time enjoying Oaxaca cuisine, a state that is known for its great food.</p>
260. <p>While in Santa Catarina, as well as participating with the church there, we also distributed reading glasses to the community from 6-7:30 p.m. the day we arrived, as well as from 7-8 a.m. the next morning. Each person was given a free pair of reading glasses, as well as a gospel of John. What a privilege to see first-hand how the gospel is transforming lives in this previously unreached town!</p>
261. <p>Co-worker David Gómez put together a brief video on our time…it’s in Spanish, but it gives a great idea, perhaps more so than just words, of what our time was like in Santa Catarina.</p>
262. <div class="ast-oembed-container" style="height: 100%;"><iframe loading="lazy" title="Oaxaca" width="1200" height="900" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Tk-baCEgZ-4?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
263. <p> </p>
264. <p><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_7795-scaled.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8103" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_7795-scaled.jpg" alt="" width="2560" height="1440" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_7795-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_7795-300x169.jpg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_7795-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_7795-768x432.jpg 768w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_7795-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_7795-2048x1152.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /></a></p>
265. <p><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_2618-scaled.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8104" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_2618-scaled.jpg" alt="" width="2560" height="1920" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_2618-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_2618-300x225.jpg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_2618-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_2618-768x576.jpg 768w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_2618-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_2618-2048x1536.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /></a></p>
266. <p><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_2641-scaled.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8106" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_2641-scaled.jpg" alt="" width="1920" height="2560" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_2641-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_2641-225x300.jpg 225w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_2641-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_2641-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_2641-1536x2048.jpg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px" /></a></p>
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270.      <title>Baptisms! (with photos and video)</title>
271.      <link>https://mexicomatters.org/baptisms-with-photos-and-video/</link>
272.      <source url="http://mexicomatters.org">Mexico Matters</source>
273.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:722ceeae-bf65-b234-560e-937ddebd5d39</guid>
274.      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2022 13:26:24 -0600</pubDate>
275.      <description>Baptisms are always my favorite services, because in baptisms, discipleship comes into focus, and both conversion and commitment are highlighted. This past Sunday, three teenagers were baptized; Emiliano (13), Daniel (16) and Paola (18). We drove our vans and cars, 9 in all, about an hour outside of Mexico City to a beautiful park, complete &amp;#8230;&lt;p class="read-more"&gt; &lt;a class="" href="https://mexicomatters.org/baptisms-with-photos-and-video/"&gt; &lt;span class="screen-reader-text"&gt;Baptisms! (with photos and video)&lt;/span&gt; Read More &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="tptn_counter" id="tptn_counter_8066"&gt;(Visited 1 time, 1 visit today)&lt;/div&gt;</description>
276.      <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Baptisms are always my favorite services, because in baptisms, discipleship comes into focus, and both conversion and commitment are highlighted. This past Sunday, three teenagers were baptized; Emiliano (13), Daniel (16) and Paola (18). We drove our vans and cars, 9 in all, about an hour outside of Mexico City to a beautiful park, complete with a clean stream and water park with a number of swimming pools and water rides. What a wonderful day!&lt;/p&gt;
277. <p>Our time started setting up at small auditorium, made primarily of volcanic rock, which served as a perfect place to sing Christmas carols, listen to a sermon from Colossians 3:1-14, and hear testimonies of how three young people came to faith in Christ. One constant among the testimonies was the influence of going to Word of Life Bible Institute Mexico summer camp, where all three of the kids were confronted with their need for Jesus. During that week of camp they heard many, many testimonies of counselors and students of how they came to Christ, and this was an encouragement to our kids.</p>
278. <p><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.17.01-AM-1.jpeg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone  wp-image-8086" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.17.01-AM-1.jpeg" alt="" width="768" height="432" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.17.01-AM-1.jpeg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.17.01-AM-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.17.01-AM-1-768x432.jpeg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /></a></p>
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283. <p>After our service, those of us who were going to be baptized or help in the baptism changed our clothes, and we met 20 minutes later in a clear, clean and COLD creek, at a place where a brook came into the creek, creating a waterfall. It was a super place to do baptisms! I’m sure we’ll return to this park in the future.</p>
284. <p><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.08.39-AM.jpeg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone  wp-image-8076" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.08.39-AM.jpeg" alt="" width="766" height="431" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.08.39-AM.jpeg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.08.39-AM-300x169.jpeg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.08.39-AM-768x432.jpeg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px" /></a></p>
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286. <p>After the baptisms and lots of rejoicing, we headed back to our place of meeting for a cookout, complete with <em>costilla </em>(rib meat), <em>cecina</em> (a salty beef) and <em>longaniza</em> (in this case, Argentina style sausage), all on the grill. And of course lots of other great stuff, like spring onions, corn tortillas, <em>nopales</em> (cactus), avocado, salsa and more. Sooo good!  Is your mouth watering yet? We enjoyed the water park until 4:30 p.m., then headed back to Mexico City. God is good!  Thank you to those who were praying for this activity.</p>
287. <p><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_2454.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone  wp-image-8074" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_2454.jpg" alt="" width="732" height="549" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_2454.jpg 640w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_2454-300x225.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px" /></a></p>
288. <p><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.11.54-AM.jpeg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone  wp-image-8078" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.11.54-AM.jpeg" alt="" width="729" height="410" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.11.54-AM.jpeg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.11.54-AM-300x169.jpeg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.11.54-AM-768x432.jpeg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px" /></a></p>
289. <p><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.09.37-AM-e1670958673251.jpeg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone  wp-image-8093" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.09.37-AM-e1670958673251.jpeg" alt="" width="729" height="877" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.09.37-AM-e1670958673251.jpeg 576w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.09.37-AM-e1670958673251-249x300.jpeg 249w" sizes="(max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px" /></a></p>
290. <p><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.15.19-AM.jpeg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone  wp-image-8083" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.15.19-AM.jpeg" alt="" width="732" height="412" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.15.19-AM.jpeg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.15.19-AM-300x169.jpeg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.15.19-AM-768x432.jpeg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px" /></a></p>
291. <p><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.12.16-AM.jpeg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone  wp-image-8079" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.12.16-AM.jpeg" alt="" width="731" height="549" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.12.16-AM.jpeg 1024w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.12.16-AM-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-13-at-11.12.16-AM-768x576.jpeg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px" /></a></p>
292. <p>Thanks, David G., for the photos and video!</p>
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299.      <title>6th Anniversary Path of Life Bible Church Palmas</title>
300.      <link>https://mexicomatters.org/6th-anniversary-path-of-life-bible-church-palmas/</link>
301.      <source url="http://mexicomatters.org">Mexico Matters</source>
302.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:366b5880-bd2b-0819-218c-97d2d954bfcb</guid>
303.      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2022 13:41:02 -0600</pubDate>
304.      <description>On Sunday, November 6, 2022, the third Bible Church plant in Ixtapaluca celebrated its 6th anniversary. The church initiated in 2016 in a nearby neighborhood called Palmas 1, thus the name (Iglesia Bíblica Sendero de Vida Palmas, or Path of Life Bible Church Palmas). Since the pandemic, we&amp;#8217;ve been meeting in a different neighborhood entitled &amp;#8230;&lt;p class="read-more"&gt; &lt;a class="" href="https://mexicomatters.org/6th-anniversary-path-of-life-bible-church-palmas/"&gt; &lt;span class="screen-reader-text"&gt;6th Anniversary Path of Life Bible Church Palmas&lt;/span&gt; Read More &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="tptn_counter" id="tptn_counter_8049"&gt;No visits yet&lt;/div&gt;</description>
305.      <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;On Sunday, November 6, 2022, the third Bible Church plant in Ixtapaluca celebrated its 6th anniversary. The church initiated in 2016 in a nearby neighborhood called Palmas 1, thus the name (Iglesia Bíblica Sendero de Vida Palmas, or Path of Life Bible Church Palmas). Since the pandemic, we&amp;#8217;ve been meeting in a different neighborhood entitled Santa Cruz (holy cross). Perhaps we should change the name of the church to &amp;#8220;Path of Life Bible Church of the Holy Cross?&amp;#8221;  Sounds biblical to me!&lt;/p&gt;
306. <p>Although the mood was somber in light of the passing of our brother Edgar, Violeta, Edgar’s wife was in agreement that we should celebrate the anniversary as planned, which we did. It was a joy to see nearly the whole service led and directed by our dear Mexican brothers. Several different people gave testimonies as to how their faith has grown in the past several years, being part of the church. Our friends John Schimmel and Frank Villalobos sent a brief video (below), congratulating the church on this milestone.</p>
307. <p>It was encouraging to look back on how God has been faithful to this little church over the past 6 years, and remember special times when we clearly saw God’s hand in our lives. It was also a time of reflection, recognizing that many people who once faithfully attended are no longer with us, for a variety of reasons. I’m sure nearly every local church could say the same…if everyone who once attended were still here, we’d have to buy more chairs, or rent a bigger facility. It is also exciting to look towards the future, as we will likely see our first elders recognized this next year, as well as  begin raising support for the purchase of a property, a place of more permanent testimony for the church. You can check out more info as well as a video of the service on our co-workers Jim and Shari Cottrill’s website <a href="https://cottrillcompass.com/blog/2022/6th-anniversary-service-video.html">HERE</a>. If you’d like to see a post of our very first anniversary as a church, you can check that out <a href="https://mexicomatters.org/palmas-1-first-anniversary/">HERE</a>.</p>
308. <p>After the service there was, of course, lots of food. Oh, and so good! After the meal, we participated in several group games and Bible trivia dynamics that were lots of fun. Although this past weekend was very difficult in many ways, especially with the home going of Edgar, it was a joy to see a church express their sincere love and support, and become perhaps more unified than ever before. It is truly a blessing when we live together in unity.</p>
309. <figure id="attachment_8054" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8054" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_2332.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-8054 size-full" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_2332.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="480" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_2332.jpg 640w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_2332-300x225.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8054" class="wp-caption-text">Oscar leading the service</figcaption></figure>
310. <figure id="attachment_8055" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8055" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_2334.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8055 size-full" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_2334.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="480" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_2334.jpg 640w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_2334-300x225.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8055" class="wp-caption-text">Esther sharing her testimony</figcaption></figure>
311. <figure id="attachment_8058" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8058" style="width: 480px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_2338-rotated.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-8058 size-full" src="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_2338-rotated.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="640" srcset="https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_2338-rotated.jpg 480w, https://mexicomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_2338-225x300.jpg 225w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8058" class="wp-caption-text">Great food…and a birthday cake for the church. 6 years!</figcaption></figure>
312. <div class="ast-oembed-container" style="height: 100%;"><iframe loading="lazy" title="John and Frank's Congrats" width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MHpmCECYzn4?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
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316.      <title>HMA #16 – “The Trip”</title>
317.      <link>https://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com/2021/09/14/hma-16-the-trip/</link>
318.      <source url="http://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com">Knowing Your ABCDs</source>
319.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:2c15085a-971a-0abe-af92-e18c9f7461b1</guid>
320.      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2021 11:44:25 -0500</pubDate>
321.      <description>One of our major decisions for this year&amp;#8217;s home ministry assignment (HMA) has been whether or not we should make a trip out to the western half of the USA. We don&amp;#8217;t have a lot of ministry partners out West, &amp;#8230; &lt;a href="https://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com/2021/09/14/hma-16-the-trip/"&gt;Continue reading &lt;span class="meta-nav"&gt;&amp;#8594;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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323. <p>One of our major decisions for this year’s home ministry assignment (HMA) has been whether or not we should make a trip out to the western half of the USA. We don’t have a lot of ministry partners out West, but we do have some, and we very rarely get to visit with them in person. In fact, we’ve only traveled out West on one occasion which was 11 years ago in 2010.</p>
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331. <p>I will share some photos of the trip in one or more future posts, but I will start with this post giving a rundown of the circuitous route we have ended up taking. BTW, we’re still on the trip, but now that we’re in west Texas in El Paso, the big loop out West is completed and we’re in the “final stretch” as we head back east starting this coming Monday.</p>
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339. <p>On July 30 we left Manton, MI and headed south to visit with friends/ministry partners (in Xenia, OH, Pickens, SC, Dayton, TN, and Chattanooga, TN), to take Dayton to an MK Transitions Retreat (helping MKs understand the American culture and way of life since they’ve missed many of even some of the most basic experiences of growing up and living in the USA), and subsequently taking him to Longview, TX to begin his education and experience at LeTourneau University beginning there as a sophomore with 39 online credit hours already applied to his Computer Science degree requirements. </p>
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343. <p>One other important reason for taking this trip has been to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. We didn’t really get to celebrate our 25th anniversary due to that being the year I suffered a near fatal heart attack and was still recovering throughout that summer. Come to think of it, over these 17 years of ministry in Mexico, we’ve never really been able to celebrate our anniversary because we were either involved with summer work teams, traveling on a summer home ministry assignment, always had the boys with us, and just didn’t have time for more than maybe a quick meal out somewhere. So, with this being our first major trip without our boys and with some extra time on our side, we decided to be sure to take some days here and there along the route to enjoy the scenery and call it a celebration! Others may take a cruise or trip to Disney or whatever floats their boat, but this seems to fit us even though we aren’t what anyone would call “outdoorsy.” </p>
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347. <p>From the Dallas area we headed north and stayed a couple nights with ministry partners in Kansas City, MO and then headed north to Minnesota where we met up with Kristin and her son Justin who had only been in the USA for about two months after years of efforts to return to the USA from San Juan del Río. Her husband Jason hopes to be able to join them in the next couple of years pending the legal process to make that happen. It was great to see her again and to see Justin adapt to life in the USA as a quiet young teenager.</p>
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351. <p>We made our way to Grand Rapids, MN way up north and enjoyed visiting with ministry partners there who we haven’t seen since our last visit there in 2009. We enjoyed a couple of days with their family on a relatively secluded lake at their rustic cabin. The scenery was beautiful and we appreciated the opportunity to rest, relax, and enjoy conversation and laughter together. We also shared a ministry update in Grace Chapel there which is officially a partnering church with us.</p>
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355. <p>From northern MN we pushed off and headed west, west, west. We enjoyed lunch with ministry partners who have retired to Fargo, ND and then kept pushing westward. Along the route, we were able to take a couple hours off from the road grind and make a quick pass through Theodore Roosevelt National Park. This made first use of our America the Beautiful National Parks Pass that cost us $80 and allows us unlimited free entries into national parks across the USA. So, we recouped $25 and were hoping we’d eventually make the $80 investment pay off before the year is over!</p>
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359. <p>After our 2nd day of driving to the west, we were in Livingston, MT and were ready to dive down into Yellowstone National Park ($35 more recouped from our pass!) for a reminiscent tour of our 2010 visit with the boys. We stayed two nights a couple hours away in a relatively inexpensive Airbnb (if you don’t know this, it’s very expensive to stay near Yellowstone, so we ended up in Victor, ID on the back side of the Grand Tetons). We drove up and back out of the park and from Livingston, we headed west once again stopping for a couple nights with MK friends who grew up in our mission and knows Beth’s family very well. In fact, the husband was in 9th grade when he joined his parents and older brother by playing an instrument in our wedding! He is now the music pastor of a Bible church in Spokane Valley, WA.</p>
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363. <p>From this musical interlude, we continued on to Goldendale, WA where we spent a night with a ministry partner who is one of Beth’s aunt. Sadly, her husband (a brother of Beth’s dad) had recently passed away from Covid (the second of her dad’s brothers to pass from Covid in the past few months). We shared a ministry update with her and her two sons and daughter and their families. </p>
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367. <p>After our brief time in Goldendale, we passed by Multnomah Falls and enjoyed a brief visit with one of our former PCS students who just graduated this past May and is now attending a Bible college in Portland. It was great to see him and leave him with a little pizza money as we said goodbye. We remember what it’s like to be a poor college student, so we’re sure that was an appreciated gift.</p>
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371. <p>We took a slight detour from Portland and traveled up to historic and scenic Astoria for night overlooking the Columbia River before heading south down US 101 and taking in the Oregon coastline. We added a couple of nights to our anniversary celebration near Newport and enjoyed the ocean air and the lighthouse and tidal pools at what is now a national recreation area (instead of a state park; this saved us $7 more toward our America the Beautiful pass price…we’re up to $67 saved so far!).</p>
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375. <p>From Newport, we headed south to visit with ministry partners and co-workers in central California. I had planned on just following the coastal highway so we could drive through the Redwoods and enjoy the beauty of the drive, so we ended up needing two days to make it to Lodi, Tracy, and Delhi, California where we met with them all. In Delhi, we were able to spend two nights and enjoy visiting with all four kids that we had worked with for years as homeschooling MKs in Querétaro. It was so good to see them all again. All adults and three of them now married. You know you’re getting old when your former students have kids who are students!</p>
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379. <p>At that point, the trip was pretty at the midpoint and at the end of all but one of our West-based ministry partners. We drove south around the mountains and east across the desert and stopped in for one more day of anniversary celebration with a quick drive through along the southern rim of the Grand Canyon (another $35 saved…we’re now up to $102 worth of park fees saved…we’re making money now! haha).  Driving south from there we passed through a couple of beautiful national forests and arrived at Tucson, AZ where we have a ministry partner we haven’t seen in 20 years! Unfortunately, we had trouble connecting with her and despite our hopes that she would be home, we came up empty on the attempt to stop by on the fly. She lives within a few minutes of Saguaro National Park (another $25 saved!), so we drove through the park and were no worse for the wear as we were heading on to El Paso from there anyway, and we had a “day to burn” before needing to be in El Paso. </p>
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383. <p>That’s the “short version” of the long trip. At this point, since arriving from Mexico to the USA and purchasing a car here in El Paso, we’ve passed through 27 states and racked up 13,000 miles of driving. We’ve seen many of our ministry partners and most of them are ones we rarely get to see, so that has been especially gratifying. We’ve celebrated our 30th anniversary, visited a couple days with our son Cameron and have been able to see Dayton start his university and USA experiences.</p>
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387. <p>From here, we’ll be heading to stop by LeTourneau and check in on Dayton and encourage him with some homecooked meals while staying in a special apartment for missionaries to visit with their students there. We’ll be heading back to Dayton, TN where our alma mater will be having homecoming during the first weekend of October. We missed our 25 year homecomings, but this year is Beth’s 30th which may be nice for catching up with old friends. We’ll be sharing a ministry update with a partnering church there, Westminster PCA. We’ve also been invited to participate in a special meeting with those in missions ministry with the purpose of developing ideas for involving Bryan College students with ministry overseas.</p>
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391. <p>From Dayton, TN, we’ll head north with a couple of visits in Indiana and maybe a chance to see Cameron on a weekend and then finally arriving back to Manton, MI 74 days after departing there. Isn’t it great that we have a full year to rest and relax up here in the USA?! Well, this is the life we signed up for, so we’re content with what it takes to follow Jesus wherever he leads. There is certainly joy in the journey, and we’re grateful we’ve been able to have a safe and enjoyable trip. May the Lord see us safely back to Michigan and eventually back to Puebla, Mexico next year. Until then, there are many miles to go before we sleep…many miles to go.</p>
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395. <p>Pics to come later! (I need a break from the screen for now.)</p>
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399.      <title>A Tribute to Marilyn Laszlo (copied with permission from a Facebook post)</title>
400.      <link>https://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com/2021/09/14/a-tribute-to-marilyn-laszlo-copied-with-permission-from-a-facebook-post/</link>
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403.      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:57:05 -0500</pubDate>
404.      <description>&amp;#8220;My Aunt Marilyn Laszlo passed away on Thursday, September 9, 2021. The work she accomplished in her life was amazing and she inspired so many people. I would encourage you to read her story.Marilyn Joyce Laszlo went to be with &amp;#8230; &lt;a href="https://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com/2021/09/14/a-tribute-to-marilyn-laszlo-copied-with-permission-from-a-facebook-post/"&gt;Continue reading &lt;span class="meta-nav"&gt;&amp;#8594;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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406. <p>“My Aunt Marilyn Laszlo passed away on Thursday, September 9, 2021. The work she accomplished in her life was amazing and she inspired so many people. I would encourage you to read her story.<br>Marilyn Joyce Laszlo went to be with her Lord and Savior on September 9, 2021. She was 88.</p>
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410. <p><br>She was born on July 20, 1933, in Gary, Indiana. She was the daughter of Martin and Lois (Jewell) Laszlo, who preceded her in death.</p>
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414. <p><br>Marilyn was raised on the Laszlo Family Farm in Liberty Township, and she loved helping her dad in the fields. In 1951, she graduated from Liberty Township High School. Starting in 1949, her sophomore year in high school, Marilyn began to play on the championship softball team of the Valparaiso Strongbow Queens and continued with the team through 1960. In 1959, she received her Bachelor’s Degree from Bryan College in History and her Master’s Degree in Education from Indiana University in 1961. In 1986, Marilyn was awarded the Alumni of the Year Award from Bryan College, and in 2003 Bryan College bestowed their honorary Doctorate of Letters upon her.</p>
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418. <p><br>Marilyn started her professional career as a high school teacher in Michigan and Indiana. Soon after beginning her teaching career, she answered the call of God to become a missionary. In 1965, Marilyn joined Wycliffe Bible Translators and studied linguistics at the Summer Institute of Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma. Wycliffe chose Marilyn to be a Bible Translator, and in 1968, Marilyn and her translation partner arrived in Hauna Village. Hauna is located deep in the jungles on the East Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. </p>
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422. <p><br>Marilyn, along with her original translation partner, had to take the unwritten language of Hauna, which is the Sepik Iwam language, and create a written language. Developing the language entailed creating an alphabet while also learning how to speak the language. Unfortunately, Marilyn’s original translation partner left after five years for another assignment. Marilyn was then joined by her sister Shirley Killosky. As Marilyn translated the Bible, Shirley taught the people of Hauna to read and write their language. Together, Marilyn and Shirley also did medical work and trained the people of Hauna to operate a local school, store, medical clinic, and church. </p>
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426. <p><br>Marilyn completed the Bible translation in 1990, and the Bible was dedicated in 1991. One of Marilyn’s most memorable moments during this time was bringing a team of six men from Hauna for a speaking tour throughout the United States. They even spoke at a Billy Graham Crusade. </p>
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430. <p><br>Marilyn retired as a translator in 1991 and became a national speaker for Wycliffe through 2003. In 2003, Marilyn started Laszlo Mission League. She continued as a national speaker and raised money for special projects around the world and in Papua New Guinea. In 2012, Marilyn retired from speaking due to the advancement of Alzheimer’s disease. In 2013, Marilyn returned to Hauna to say her final goodbyes to the people of Hauna. <br>During her lifetime, Marilyn recorded four record albums, with her singing partner Beverly Entz, at Pinebrook Recording Studios (owned by Gaither Music Group and now called Gaither Studios) in Alexandria, Indiana. In addition, she had three books written about her work in Hauna: Miracle in Cannibal Country; Mission Possible; and A is for Airstrip. She also had three movies created about her work: Mountain of Light, Come By Here (Angel Award winner), and Return to Hauna (Angel Award winner). </p>
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434. <p><br>Marilyn was passionate about: her work in Hauna, the importance of missionary work, helping young people discover their career path, her family, her Hungarian heritage, and her upbringing in Liberty Township. Today, there are thousands of missionaries on the mission field worldwide because of the impact of hearing Marilyn speak, reading her books, or watching her films. She was a true inspiration. Marilyn’s work is continuing in the Sepik River region through her organization Laszlo Mission League. </p>
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438. <p><br>Marilyn is survived by her sisters Shirley Killosky of Garden City, ID and Fay (Lou) Popp of Chesterton and her nieces and nephews, James Killosky of Porter; Lisa (Jim) Holm of Boise, ID; Don Killosky of Garden City, ID; Lorelei Weimer of Chesterton; Robert (Carla) Laszlo of Issaquah, WA; Tracy Popp of Key West, FL.; Martin (Brandi) Miller of Murrells Inlet, SC; Carrie (Steve) Cieliesz of Valparaiso; Jody (Tom Barrineau) Miller of Murrells Inlet, SC; Suzanne (Michael) Olson of Knoxville, TN; and Leo (Natalie) Miller of Chesterton. <br>She was preceded in death by her parents, sister Carolyn Miller Prosser, and niece Michele Weimer Tribole. </p>
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442. <p><br>The family wants to extend a special thank you to Glenna Amburgey, Karen Garza, and Audrey Swieczkowski for taking such wonderful, loving care of Marilyn during her final years.</p>
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446. <p><br>A Celebration of Life service will be held on October 5, 2021, at 6:00 p.m. at Liberty Bible Church at 824 North Calumet, Chesterton, Indiana. Topher Philgreen will officiate. The service will also be livestreamed. Visit <a href="http://www.laszlomissionleague.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.laszlomissionleague.com</a><br>for information on the livestream. </p>
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450. <p><br>Donations in memory of Marilyn can be made to Laszlo Mission League for the Marilyn Laszlo Legacy Fund. This fund will endow a perpetual scholarship to women pursuing mission work or Bible translation. You can donate at <a href="http://www.laszlomissionleague.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.laszlomissionleague.com</a>.<br>Edmonds and Evans Funeral Home made arrangements.”</p>
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454.      <title>HMA #15 – Lit’l Cuppa Tea ~ An Experience, a Business, a Ministry</title>
455.      <link>https://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com/2021/07/27/hma-15-litl-cuppa-tea-an-experience-a-business-a-ministry/</link>
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458.      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2021 22:57:52 -0500</pubDate>
459.      <description>Brenda Wilson is one of our many new friends up here in Manton, Michigan at Rollins Church. She serves in the church&amp;#8217;s missions outreach and has been our main contact here helping us to get settled into the missions house. &amp;#8230; &lt;a href="https://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com/2021/07/27/hma-15-litl-cuppa-tea-an-experience-a-business-a-ministry/"&gt;Continue reading &lt;span class="meta-nav"&gt;&amp;#8594;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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461. <p>Brenda Wilson is one of our many new friends up here in Manton, Michigan at Rollins Church. She serves in the church’s missions outreach and has been our main contact here helping us to get settled into the missions house. </p>
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465. <p>For many years Brenda desired to have a tea house to host tea parties, but the Lord never allowed that desire to come to fruition until a few years ago with the idea of using retro-trailers. She and her husband Don invited us to enjoy a personal tea party today. It was relaxing and delicious with her special English-style black tea blend and home-baked scones and cookies along with a couple of homemade toppings. It was a delight to chat with her and Don and enjoy the afternoon together.</p>
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469. <p>Here are a couple of local news pieces that explored her story during her first two seasons: </p>
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473. <p id="https://www.9and10news.com/2018/07/19/mtm-on-the-road-exploring-litl-cuppa-tea-trailers-in-manton/"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.9and10news.com/2018/07/19/mtm-on-the-road-exploring-litl-cuppa-tea-trailers-in-manton/" target="_blank">https://www.9and10news.com/2018/07/19/mtm-on-the-road-exploring-litl-cuppa-tea-trailers-in-manton/</a>   </p>
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477. <p id="https://www.9and10news.com/2018/07/19/mtm-on-the-road-exploring-litl-cuppa-tea-trailers-in-manton/"><a href="https://www.9and10news.com/2019/07/08/mtm-on-the-road-litl-cuppa-tea-trailers-in-manton/">https://www.9and10news.com/2019/07/08/mtm-on-the-road-litl-cuppa-tea-trailers-in-manton/</a></p>
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484.      <title>HMA #14 – Petoskey, MI</title>
485.      <link>https://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com/2021/07/21/hma-14-petoskey-mi/</link>
486.      <source url="http://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com">Knowing Your ABCDs</source>
487.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:2db5fdc2-24b3-c9f6-ace1-0bce01d3e1b8</guid>
488.      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2021 22:03:41 -0500</pubDate>
489.      <description>One of our 30th anniversary items we hoped to accomplish was to retrace a bit of our honeymoon travel route here in the Traverse City area. We were married in Traverse City and spent a couple nights up in Petoskey &amp;#8230; &lt;a href="https://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com/2021/07/21/hma-14-petoskey-mi/"&gt;Continue reading &lt;span class="meta-nav"&gt;&amp;#8594;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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491. <p>One of our 30th anniversary items we hoped to accomplish was to retrace a bit of our honeymoon travel route here in the Traverse City area. We were married in Traverse City and spent a couple nights up in Petoskey and also visited Mackinac Island. We were hoping to take a trip up to the island while we’re here in the area this month, but it looks like we’re not going to make that happen.</p>
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495. <p>However, today we did get to drive up to Petoskey (about 80 miles north of where we’re staying) and spend a couple hours in a park on Lake Michigan. It was a warm, sunny day with a constant and comfortable breeze. As we racked up steps on our pedometer app, I took some pictures of anything that looked more or less interesting. I’m still trying to get back into the swing of taking pictures with the DSLR camera. I’m not really doing too much with the settings, mostly just moving the aperture dial around and zooming in and out. Nothing exciting in that regard. My skills are limited for sure.</p>
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554.      <title>HMA #13 – Sunset, Moonrise, Homeset</title>
555.      <link>https://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com/2021/07/21/hma-13-sunset-moonrise-homeset/</link>
556.      <source url="http://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com">Knowing Your ABCDs</source>
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558.      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2021 20:38:56 -0500</pubDate>
559.      <description>We have been richly blessed by Rollins Christian Fellowship Church in Manton, MI to live in this house which for us has become a respite and home for these months of home ministry assignment in the USA. We really didn&amp;#8217;t &amp;#8230; &lt;a href="https://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com/2021/07/21/hma-13-sunset-moonrise-homeset/"&gt;Continue reading &lt;span class="meta-nav"&gt;&amp;#8594;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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561. <p>We have been richly blessed by Rollins Christian Fellowship Church in Manton, MI to live in this house which for us has become a respite and home for these months of home ministry assignment in the USA. We really didn’t know just how much we needed this time to rest and recoup from urban, cross-cultural living and to address some nagging physical issues that will take months to resolve (at least, we hope we can see them resolved).</p>
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565. <p>I actually took this photo simply because we had been out picking up our much-needed new glasses from Costco, visiting ministry partners from Tennessee, and then driving up to Petoskey, MI where we stayed a couple nights on our honeymoon 30 years ago (in about 2 weeks from now). </p>
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569. <p>Upon returning home 12 hours from when we left this morning, I decided to check the mailbox across the rural highway. I noticed the sun was setting. As I turned to look for traffic, I noticed that 180 degrees opposite the position of the sunset was the moonrise. I snapped a panoramic shot trying to catch them both before the sun disappeared. Can you spot the moon? It’s just a bright blip on this pic, but it was actually clear and large in the eastward sky.</p>
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577.      <title>HMA #13 – Traverse City, MI (West Bay)</title>
578.      <link>https://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com/2021/07/20/hma-13-traverse-city-mi-west-bay/</link>
579.      <source url="http://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com">Knowing Your ABCDs</source>
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581.      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2021 23:12:35 -0500</pubDate>
582.      <description>Bethie and I enjoyed an early dinner with her cousin Scott and his wife Dianne who are from Georgia and are in Traverse City visiting his family. We took a leisurely stroll along the waterfront on a cloudy and cool &amp;#8230; &lt;a href="https://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com/2021/07/20/hma-13-traverse-city-mi-west-bay/"&gt;Continue reading &lt;span class="meta-nav"&gt;&amp;#8594;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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584. <p>Bethie and I enjoyed an early dinner with her cousin Scott and his wife Dianne who are from Georgia and are in Traverse City visiting his family. We took a leisurely stroll along the waterfront on a cloudy and cool evening (temps in the 60s). </p>
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588. <p>I haven’t taken many pics yet this summer, but I was glad I carried the camera bag along and ended up took some shots mostly just to get back into the practice of taking pics. I need to keep at it as I feel like I’m a little lost on finding the right settings. </p>
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647.      <title>HMA #12 Butterfly Wings</title>
648.      <link>https://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com/2021/07/16/hma-12-butterfly-wings/</link>
649.      <source url="http://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com">Knowing Your ABCDs</source>
650.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:242776a1-a37a-e3c9-2927-d28822f3f079</guid>
651.      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2021 20:43:41 -0500</pubDate>
652.      <description>During our short drive into Cadillac, MI to run some errands today, we stopped by Cadillac Lake to explore the walking trail lined with little parks. We discovered this wall with butterfly wings painted on them. Beautiful.</description>
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654. <p>During our short drive into Cadillac, MI to run some errands today, we stopped by Cadillac Lake to explore the walking trail lined with little parks. We discovered this wall with butterfly wings painted on them. Beautiful.</p>
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666.      <title>A Reminder of Prayer and Faith</title>
667.      <link>https://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com/2021/07/09/a-reminder-of-prayer-and-faith/</link>
668.      <source url="http://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com">Knowing Your ABCDs</source>
669.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:ac30d88a-5483-b1c7-9180-a9545dab51c1</guid>
670.      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2021 16:18:57 -0500</pubDate>
671.      <description>A good friend posted this as a reply on FB to something else&amp;#8230;worth sharing here: Shortly after [Dallas] Seminary was founded in 1924, it almost folded. It came to the point of bankruptcy. All the creditors were ready to foreclose &amp;#8230; &lt;a href="https://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com/2021/07/09/a-reminder-of-prayer-and-faith/"&gt;Continue reading &lt;span class="meta-nav"&gt;&amp;#8594;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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673. <p>A good friend posted this as a reply on FB to something else…worth sharing here:</p>
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681. <p><em>Shortly after [Dallas] Seminary was founded in 1924, it almost folded. It came to the point of bankruptcy. All the creditors were ready to foreclose at twelve noon on a particular day. That morning, the founders of the school met in the president’s office to pray that God would provide. In that prayer meeting was Harry Ironside. When it was his turn to pray, he said in his refreshingly candid way, “Lord we know that the cattle on a thousand hills are Thine. Please sell some of them and send us the money.”</em></p>
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685. <p><em>Just about that time, a tall Texan in boots and an open-collar shirt strolled into the business office. “Howdy!” he said to the secretary. “I just sold two carloads of cattle over in Fort Worth. I’ve been trying to make a business deal go through, but it just won’t work. I feel God wants me to give this money to the seminary. I don’t know if you need it or not, but here’s the check,” and he handed it over.</em></p>
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689. <p><em>The secretary took the check and, knowing something of the critical nature of the hour, went to the door of the prayer meeting and timidly tapped. Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer, the founder and president of the school, answered the door and took the check from her hand. When he looked at the amount, it was for the exact sum of the debt. Then he recognized the name on the check as that of the cattleman. Turning to Dr. Ironside, he said, “Harry, God sold the cattle.</em>“</p>
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693. <p><em><strong>Howard Hendricks: Stories for the Heart</strong></em> compiled by Alice Gray (Portland: Multnomah Press, 1996), p. 272.</p>
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697.      <title>HMA #11</title>
698.      <link>https://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com/2021/07/09/hma-11/</link>
699.      <source url="http://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com">Knowing Your ABCDs</source>
700.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:5c98bf2b-bdba-6a6b-6015-0ebeb588aac6</guid>
701.      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2021 16:12:22 -0500</pubDate>
702.      <description>Family times</description>
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704. <p>Family times</p>
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708. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/abcdselfie_july2021.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="9677" data-permalink="https://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com/abcdselfie_july2021/" data-orig-file="https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/abcdselfie_july2021.jpg" data-orig-size="1408,1080" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="abcdselfie_july2021" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/abcdselfie_july2021.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/abcdselfie_july2021.jpg?w=640" src="https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/abcdselfie_july2021.jpg?w=1024" alt="" class="wp-image-9677" srcset="https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/abcdselfie_july2021.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/abcdselfie_july2021.jpg?w=150 150w, https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/abcdselfie_july2021.jpg?w=300 300w, https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/abcdselfie_july2021.jpg?w=768 768w, https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/abcdselfie_july2021.jpg 1408w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><figcaption>ABCD</figcaption></figure>
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712. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/adselfie_july2021.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="9679" data-permalink="https://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com/adselfie_july2021/" data-orig-file="https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/adselfie_july2021.jpg" data-orig-size="1408,1080" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="adselfie_july2021" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/adselfie_july2021.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/adselfie_july2021.jpg?w=640" src="https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/adselfie_july2021.jpg?w=1024" alt="" class="wp-image-9679" srcset="https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/adselfie_july2021.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/adselfie_july2021.jpg?w=150 150w, https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/adselfie_july2021.jpg?w=300 300w, https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/adselfie_july2021.jpg?w=768 768w, https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/adselfie_july2021.jpg 1408w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><figcaption>Two Happy Campers…well…maybe just one and a half</figcaption></figure>
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724.      <title>HMA #10</title>
725.      <link>https://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com/2021/07/04/hma-10/</link>
726.      <source url="http://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com">Knowing Your ABCDs</source>
727.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:e3547718-fd75-2709-aa1c-873de5864cc7</guid>
728.      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2021 17:12:04 -0500</pubDate>
729.      <description>3 of my most favoritest peoples.</description>
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731. <p>3 of my most favoritest peoples.</p>
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735. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="9674" data-permalink="https://abcdmcmanus.wordpress.com/2021/07/04/hma-10/img_20210704_170740100_hdr2038026339646798690/" data-orig-file="https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/img_20210704_170740100_hdr2038026339646798690.jpg" data-orig-size="3000,2250" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="img_20210704_170740100_hdr2038026339646798690.jpg" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/img_20210704_170740100_hdr2038026339646798690.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/img_20210704_170740100_hdr2038026339646798690.jpg?w=640" src="https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/img_20210704_170740100_hdr2038026339646798690.jpg?w=1024" alt="" class="wp-image-9674" srcset="https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/img_20210704_170740100_hdr2038026339646798690.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/img_20210704_170740100_hdr2038026339646798690.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/img_20210704_170740100_hdr2038026339646798690.jpg?w=150 150w, https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/img_20210704_170740100_hdr2038026339646798690.jpg?w=300 300w, https://abcdmcmanus.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/img_20210704_170740100_hdr2038026339646798690.jpg?w=768 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption>The blessed rarity of being together.</figcaption></figure>
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739.      <title>Perspectives Missions Course in Puebla - Aug 2019</title>
740.      <link>http://grewatz.blogspot.com/2019/10/perspectives-missions-course-in-puebla.html</link>
741.      <source url="http://grewatz.blogspot.com/">Multiplying Churches in the World's Largest City</source>
742.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:d636d00b-d903-a2cd-7d53-13b1e54df5e9</guid>
743.      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2019 15:14:00 -0500</pubDate>
744.      <description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;We are halfway through this 15-week missions course that God has used around the world to mobilize His church for His global purpose.&amp;nbsp; We are excited to be part of that history here in Puebla!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MHeI7AvF1eE/XZl0dejS4GI/AAAAAAAABBs/spMbLENStJYrcU0fuDR4UMB36P2wykEWQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/POSTER%2B3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1600" height="259" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MHeI7AvF1eE/XZl0dejS4GI/AAAAAAAABBs/spMbLENStJYrcU0fuDR4UMB36P2wykEWQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/POSTER%2B3.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;We meet every Monday night from 6:30-9:30 pm at the Puebla Bible Seminary with over 50 students.&amp;nbsp; The first half of the course was focused on the Biblical and historical perspectives, and the remainder is on the cultural and strategic perspectives.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TAahNrzKnnU/XZl0hT6wzYI/AAAAAAAABBw/tWmLdlJ1musHC8f4X7eb_g0my6PMxMKngCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_2956.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TAahNrzKnnU/XZl0hT6wzYI/AAAAAAAABBw/tWmLdlJ1musHC8f4X7eb_g0my6PMxMKngCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_2956.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The Mexico Perspectives Director and his team came to Puebla for a weekend in June to train our team to facilitate the course.&amp;nbsp; God has given us a great coordinating team including the Seminary, Avant missionaries, the Puebla branch of Comibam, and other missions leaders to recruit lots of students and make this happen!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KMqcUDY0PXI/XZl0leITYuI/AAAAAAAABB0/Pslsmth7fXgFSoSHOJgh6oHkfESICo5XgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8100.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KMqcUDY0PXI/XZl0leITYuI/AAAAAAAABB0/Pslsmth7fXgFSoSHOJgh6oHkfESICo5XgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8100.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Most of the 15 speakers are Mexican pastors with a vision for missions that have taken Perspectives.&amp;nbsp; This first session on August 12 was full with nearly 80 participating--more than 50 students, our team of about 10, and 20 visitors that were welcome during the first 2 weeks only--perhaps they will take the course the next time!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VEk3Kncus5o/XZl0ovCbuaI/AAAAAAAABB4/OCbD5HkcKj8UcyNSXrAHpTSypqBgJrqQwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8135.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VEk3Kncus5o/XZl0ovCbuaI/AAAAAAAABB4/OCbD5HkcKj8UcyNSXrAHpTSypqBgJrqQwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8135.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Our church in Roseville helped with scholarships for 13 seminary students taking the course (pictured here), and also to provide discounts for the 10 pastors participating.&amp;nbsp; We also have 6 Avant missionaries enrolled.&amp;nbsp; Praise God!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ygPk1zpbPWA/XZlxNkhqQ1I/AAAAAAAABBg/JqZLkox2f1Up9T11aBHCyI-ar80rwKsfwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_2264.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ygPk1zpbPWA/XZlxNkhqQ1I/AAAAAAAABBg/JqZLkox2f1Up9T11aBHCyI-ar80rwKsfwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_2264.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Stu coordinates the 7 mentoring groups at the Seminary--here are Stu's guys and Cristina's gals in our home for a combined session after lunch.&amp;nbsp; Four of these students are taking Perspectives.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DYNgdbiw7z4/XZl0sKhvF5I/AAAAAAAABB8/5zDaEfyt050oE51YGcXHIsFSj6-_L6s2ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8193.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DYNgdbiw7z4/XZl0sKhvF5I/AAAAAAAABB8/5zDaEfyt050oE51YGcXHIsFSj6-_L6s2ACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8193.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Stu shared lesson 6 as an instructor on September 23, and will also teach the final lesson 15 which has a focus on ongoing application of what we have learned following the course which ends on December 2.&amp;nbsp; Pray for opportunities for collaboration among this large class!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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747.      <title>A Visit from our Sending Church - August 2019</title>
748.      <link>http://grewatz.blogspot.com/2019/10/a-visit-from-our-sending-church-august.html</link>
749.      <source url="http://grewatz.blogspot.com/">Multiplying Churches in the World's Largest City</source>
750.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:3baf2c23-ec07-202e-2065-4c28b0942240</guid>
751.      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2019 15:03:00 -0500</pubDate>
752.      <description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wivo4eANPW4/XZlHL401QrI/AAAAAAAAA-A/fhpRjV6LfRE7Igd9IkKerOPEpccXfSPvQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8174.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wivo4eANPW4/XZlHL401QrI/AAAAAAAAA-A/fhpRjV6LfRE7Igd9IkKerOPEpccXfSPvQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8174.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Jan and Pam from our sending church in Roseville, Minnesota, came to visit us for a week (Aug 9-17).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cIOW2QSZMwg/XZlKFQXzrNI/AAAAAAAAA-s/87Ne9rU2ujsBR9BhV5elJEgm6ER3KhfCwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8074.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cIOW2QSZMwg/XZlKFQXzrNI/AAAAAAAAA-s/87Ne9rU2ujsBR9BhV5elJEgm6ER3KhfCwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8074.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;There was lots of work preparing sandwiches for nearly 80 people for our first Perspectives class--50 students, 10 team members, and 20 visitors.&amp;nbsp; Thanks!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ewhypgbLTX4/XZlHQ354SRI/AAAAAAAAA-I/zUKqSaC5dOkhMaK-Ah0sNKALnUYyzyjHgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/KJAC3641.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="296" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ewhypgbLTX4/XZlHQ354SRI/AAAAAAAAA-I/zUKqSaC5dOkhMaK-Ah0sNKALnUYyzyjHgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/KJAC3641.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Jan and Pam had a chance to share a meal with our team of Avant missionaries--four couples and a single.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9a1Pn53n-T8/XZlG_801z4I/AAAAAAAAA9s/_HS_84UDqMQ85Kb-KGCrh3ui3ZNJpJzDgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8140.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9a1Pn53n-T8/XZlG_801z4I/AAAAAAAAA9s/_HS_84UDqMQ85Kb-KGCrh3ui3ZNJpJzDgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8140.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;They also met with Seminary students after chapel&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3oJFAsxjK54/XZlHDOiS9vI/AAAAAAAAA9w/gUPJ0a4GwVcbR8mlft6aQ5u_R8v88KvAQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8159.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3oJFAsxjK54/XZlHDOiS9vI/AAAAAAAAA9w/gUPJ0a4GwVcbR8mlft6aQ5u_R8v88KvAQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8159.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We traveled to Mexico City to see Pastor Erik and his wife Patty with whom we served for 17 years planting churches together.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MBw7EBJ1FkU/XZlHF3YUl8I/AAAAAAAAA90/5imypCa9S8QiTAwdxK5n5QeULo3L8Jw_ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_3183.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MBw7EBJ1FkU/XZlHF3YUl8I/AAAAAAAAA90/5imypCa9S8QiTAwdxK5n5QeULo3L8Jw_ACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_3183.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Villa mother church where Pastor Erik serves is progressing in the construction of a second floor for Sunday school rooms.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lR28heawyx8/XZlHInQ-sqI/AAAAAAAAA94/Uuj0Ek5dFfcpFQ1FsQWfXvlxh60-8I9rwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_3188.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lR28heawyx8/XZlHInQ-sqI/AAAAAAAAA94/Uuj0Ek5dFfcpFQ1FsQWfXvlxh60-8I9rwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_3188.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We also visited Rodrigo at his shoe repair shop.&amp;nbsp; He and his wife Julie lead the Joyas Church that we started before moving to Puebla.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P0DQHXDg494/XZlJaFMFx6I/AAAAAAAAA-c/2-h-M7MBKGIbIXAmMSetwuQktKPu1SU6wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8181.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P0DQHXDg494/XZlJaFMFx6I/AAAAAAAAA-c/2-h-M7MBKGIbIXAmMSetwuQktKPu1SU6wCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8181.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Jan and Pam also joined the Church Missions Network session where we prayed for the Andrade family that hopes to serve with Pioneers in Italy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--9ngZHauAa0/XZlJaCvf7hI/AAAAAAAAA-g/RFAc4OmvIRMPRoJYU-z-LeLrCsHHI1TFACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8183.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--9ngZHauAa0/XZlJaCvf7hI/AAAAAAAAA-g/RFAc4OmvIRMPRoJYU-z-LeLrCsHHI1TFACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8183.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;After the Mission Network, tacos of course!&amp;nbsp; We were joined by Pastor Pablo and his family and a member of his church, Isai, who produced the puppet show we presented in the Zoquiapan Easter missions trip.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pPlvSXWNQRQ/XZlG6obn-qI/AAAAAAAAA9o/bN3fA5eFiBUvm3rrhWADm78DvwC2rZ_hgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8083.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pPlvSXWNQRQ/XZlG6obn-qI/AAAAAAAAA9o/bN3fA5eFiBUvm3rrhWADm78DvwC2rZ_hgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8083.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Jan prepared her world famous lasagna for us!&amp;nbsp; Jan and Pam, thanks for coming to Puebla!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
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755.      <title>Summer Missionary Training &amp; Clubs - July 2019</title>
756.      <link>http://grewatz.blogspot.com/2019/10/summer-missionary-training-clubs-july.html</link>
757.      <source url="http://grewatz.blogspot.com/">Multiplying Churches in the World's Largest City</source>
758.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:30face0d-7991-6b2d-fc46-92d9ac9e37f2</guid>
759.      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:56:00 -0500</pubDate>
760.      <description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IU9FUoaju0o/XZk9drlRugI/AAAAAAAAA8U/SBN_aUVLzAEPZ0TdZ4KXmCuJTCihY_G1gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_7725.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IU9FUoaju0o/XZk9drlRugI/AAAAAAAAA8U/SBN_aUVLzAEPZ0TdZ4KXmCuJTCihY_G1gCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_7725.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We trained 23 youth for a week that were sent to serve among 20 local churches to evangelize children for 3 weeks throughout 6 states in Mexico (July 12-Aug 10)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8fTffrZykZM/XZk_fSbKIUI/AAAAAAAAA8k/77qf0SJiff8aZav263uMFW4LoiPhxhH8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_7859%2B%25282%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="771" height="183" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8fTffrZykZM/XZk_fSbKIUI/AAAAAAAAA8k/77qf0SJiff8aZav263uMFW4LoiPhxhH8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_7859%2B%25282%2529.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Our youth and leadership team are excited to be celebrating 20 years of ministry this year.&amp;nbsp; In February 2020 we are planning a big event with past youth that have served and churches that have received our teams.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_5jsZSnYqCE/XZk_XZuYQrI/AAAAAAAAA8g/v4QliCaZZLMMJDYQna556CobH5mFTX3ZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8599.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_5jsZSnYqCE/XZk_XZuYQrI/AAAAAAAAA8g/v4QliCaZZLMMJDYQna556CobH5mFTX3ZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8599.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We always enjoy teaching the youth to prepare Bible lessons for children to share the gospel with unbelievers and discipleship teaching for believers.&amp;nbsp; This year the lessons were based on the life of the apostle Peter.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OGn1dwuVjPY/XZlDJUM8N9I/AAAAAAAAA9Q/yq_DLWegNN43erINWGkWfHXUTvZiOZOZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_3028.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OGn1dwuVjPY/XZlDJUM8N9I/AAAAAAAAA9Q/yq_DLWegNN43erINWGkWfHXUTvZiOZOZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_3028.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Oscar shared the missionary story for this year, Ti-Fam of Haiti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XhLCnhOFrHc/XZlBbnxZNRI/AAAAAAAAA9A/B3Zv_weVHko8XJgNfuEhqifg0hVhDg2KwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_3039.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XhLCnhOFrHc/XZlBbnxZNRI/AAAAAAAAA9A/B3Zv_weVHko8XJgNfuEhqifg0hVhDg2KwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_3039.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Our youth learn the songs for the kids clubs with lots of aerobic exercise.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iSh9gSufNJs/XZk_pK1mT2I/AAAAAAAAA8s/Yg-Lmq--UE0zbUcztudM3SHo2x4BgenmACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_3159.JPG" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iSh9gSufNJs/XZk_pK1mT2I/AAAAAAAAA8s/Yg-Lmq--UE0zbUcztudM3SHo2x4BgenmACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_3159.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Our leadership team rejoiced to hear testimonies of the youth at the end of the summer.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FXn6bsg8Olo/XZlBOeip3xI/AAAAAAAAA88/S2Qkz2L0iBQVWWbu_OwCAdyMaBnpupwXgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_7936.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FXn6bsg8Olo/XZlBOeip3xI/AAAAAAAAA88/S2Qkz2L0iBQVWWbu_OwCAdyMaBnpupwXgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_7936.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We attended the last day of the Summer Missionary kids club in the Sembrador Church where we served for two years.&amp;nbsp; In the 20-plus clubs throughout Mexico, we had 885 total children participate and 203 of them put their trust in Christ as Savior!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
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763.      <title>Erica's Graduation and Trip to England - May 2019</title>
764.      <link>http://grewatz.blogspot.com/2019/10/ericas-graduation-and-trip-to-england.html</link>
765.      <source url="http://grewatz.blogspot.com/">Multiplying Churches in the World's Largest City</source>
766.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:332b927b-d658-3904-3e14-ffc47d66e75c</guid>
767.      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:52:00 -0500</pubDate>
768.      <description>We are so proud of Erica's graduation as a nurse from Liberty University in May!&amp;nbsp; Here are some pictures of our celebration with her, and a family trip to England.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ykZ2vDExC8g/XZk5TU4wXqI/AAAAAAAAA7U/cIf3buQS6kcYOEyTaQp5MsPuNcTCH2JXACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8545.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ykZ2vDExC8g/XZk5TU4wXqI/AAAAAAAAA7U/cIf3buQS6kcYOEyTaQp5MsPuNcTCH2JXACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8545.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We had to get to the stadium very early to find a seat on May 11.&amp;nbsp; The processional of 8,000 graduates took 2 hours!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-teg2ngTs--c/XZk7X5fzRcI/AAAAAAAAA70/2ge4u5jMir4BeUIL6_TFC5yNHX1OgyfMgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/aYahoo-99a9afab2178c157dc9171ebba0cc480%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="640" height="265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-teg2ngTs--c/XZk7X5fzRcI/AAAAAAAAA70/2ge4u5jMir4BeUIL6_TFC5yNHX1OgyfMgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/aYahoo-99a9afab2178c157dc9171ebba0cc480%255B1%255D.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We actually saw this photo on Yahoo News--can you see Erica playing cards with her classmates during the processional?&amp;nbsp; A politician made a comment that nurses spend much of their 12-hour shifts playing cards, so they built that theme into graduation day!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R39mlKF8ERA/XZk5jVWq_yI/AAAAAAAAA7k/_88ADIcM2AEfGAFY_C8vAoeOMVEmsrnOgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8576.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R39mlKF8ERA/XZk5jVWq_yI/AAAAAAAAA7k/_88ADIcM2AEfGAFY_C8vAoeOMVEmsrnOgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8576.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;We are very proud of Erica!&amp;nbsp; She studied very hard at nursing school--and she did it!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AmxPfiUHSyo/XZk7gbZ885I/AAAAAAAAA78/nP0aIqBQ9nwM4_MMC6mVfbqd8U8AnmI8wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_0338.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1197" data-original-width="1600" height="296" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AmxPfiUHSyo/XZk7gbZ885I/AAAAAAAAA78/nP0aIqBQ9nwM4_MMC6mVfbqd8U8AnmI8wCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_0338.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We planned a 2-week family trip to explore England and enjoy time together as a family, and with dear friends who live near London.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-brfDe0oer6I/XZk7eFP3aNI/AAAAAAAAA74/5P0xAZ4tbPcUMOAEizkeDOw0PAotdnxtwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_0249.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-brfDe0oer6I/XZk7eFP3aNI/AAAAAAAAA74/5P0xAZ4tbPcUMOAEizkeDOw0PAotdnxtwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_0249.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Danny thought we were so close to Paris--we just had to visit!&amp;nbsp; Two overnight buses, 15 miles of walking along the Seine River, and 14 hours in Paris!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y1WMFpJ2kx8/XZk7kCkLdAI/AAAAAAAAA8A/FKGRE9DSGOUW7rMPNrOzIYaLeWux5U42ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_2927.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y1WMFpJ2kx8/XZk7kCkLdAI/AAAAAAAAA8A/FKGRE9DSGOUW7rMPNrOzIYaLeWux5U42ACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_2927.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We even got a picture at Downing Street! :-)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-erhhhWHrw2o/XZk5Zz1MMqI/AAAAAAAAA7Y/qeL4zHzKTZU-ao2H8r296PaUo_Rbkyo5gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_2614.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-erhhhWHrw2o/XZk5Zz1MMqI/AAAAAAAAA7Y/qeL4zHzKTZU-ao2H8r296PaUo_Rbkyo5gCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_2614.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;This is the hospital where Erica began working in the emergency department in August.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
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771.      <title>Missions Trip to East Huicholes - April 2019</title>
772.      <link>http://grewatz.blogspot.com/2019/10/missions-trip-to-east-huicholes-april.html</link>
773.      <source url="http://grewatz.blogspot.com/">Multiplying Churches in the World's Largest City</source>
774.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:5c324b66-bd00-1c5a-4731-f4efe7140f79</guid>
775.      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:45:00 -0500</pubDate>
776.      <description>Several of our experienced Summer Missionary youth are interested in serving as career missionaries.&amp;nbsp; This year we coordinated a missions trip for them west of Guadalajara with the East Huichol ethnic group.&amp;nbsp; Fernando Amezcua led the trip as president of our missions agency FAMEX.&amp;nbsp; The only downside was that the dates coincided with our trip to Zoquiapan--so we were not able to join them!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xrl5n_aHbZI/XZlVET0hK_I/AAAAAAAAA_s/didpmpdTsnwtXSOTPdHz7jyhj2gw2-HggCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Huichol-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xrl5n_aHbZI/XZlVET0hK_I/AAAAAAAAA_s/didpmpdTsnwtXSOTPdHz7jyhj2gw2-HggCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Huichol-3.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The team included 13 from our Summer Missionary ministry (mostly in back row), plus some from Fernando's church in Guadalajara about 4 hours away.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U2oUF81nweQ/XZlVEnGOUvI/AAAAAAAAA_w/RAYWmnibYG0Jyp4BjQgdNHJqyLR2zBMEgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Huichol-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U2oUF81nweQ/XZlVEnGOUvI/AAAAAAAAA_w/RAYWmnibYG0Jyp4BjQgdNHJqyLR2zBMEgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Huichol-1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Our Summer Missionaries sit in the front of the church service.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LQYTczRs0QE/XZlWQbnSVII/AAAAAAAABAQ/4Q10Ns-YtJo6VNbM4Qf8TAvsohPTrMXKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Huichol-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LQYTczRs0QE/XZlWQbnSVII/AAAAAAAABAQ/4Q10Ns-YtJo6VNbM4Qf8TAvsohPTrMXKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Huichol-8.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The week was primarily an exposure trip with a relational focus, but they did plan specific activities for the children.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0q5FnPcPDPA/XZlVED5v8oI/AAAAAAAAA_o/lBR54ChzFjkVUVg1-0qV1Wcl4rBPucf-QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Huichol-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0q5FnPcPDPA/XZlVED5v8oI/AAAAAAAAA_o/lBR54ChzFjkVUVg1-0qV1Wcl4rBPucf-QCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Huichol-2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Huichol dress is very formal and colorful.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fIg9YL79wv4/XZlVFEASd4I/AAAAAAAAA_0/rXcloiv_2MQ0z3mYH7bs49PCNNwfN0uXACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Huichol-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fIg9YL79wv4/XZlVFEASd4I/AAAAAAAAA_0/rXcloiv_2MQ0z3mYH7bs49PCNNwfN0uXACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Huichol-4.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The women usually wear long colorful skirts.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yhRrL7zMqAI/XZlVGKUwxII/AAAAAAAAA_8/izeeoXLK8BA_LiGrtXdoD8mw5Ie-KFXswCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Huichol-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yhRrL7zMqAI/XZlVGKUwxII/AAAAAAAAA_8/izeeoXLK8BA_LiGrtXdoD8mw5Ie-KFXswCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Huichol-5.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Huicholes are known for the artisan work including these woven beads.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vqNrT9IfYYs/XZlVGNUDsDI/AAAAAAAAA_4/fLOXMc8V1NAaL8uE_OO7W6Qj5zFlxKLZgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Huichol-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vqNrT9IfYYs/XZlVGNUDsDI/AAAAAAAAA_4/fLOXMc8V1NAaL8uE_OO7W6Qj5zFlxKLZgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Huichol-6.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Our youth love to work with children.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xMUZxhS6H_A/XZlVGlXi6tI/AAAAAAAABAA/HVvssG4ucOEXzRjYLvTRwy4GX8gHY7wlQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Huichol-7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xMUZxhS6H_A/XZlVGlXi6tI/AAAAAAAABAA/HVvssG4ucOEXzRjYLvTRwy4GX8gHY7wlQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Huichol-7.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Huichol children also like to laugh and have fun.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
777.    </item>
778.    <item>
779.      <title>Church Missions Network Missions Trip - April 2019</title>
780.      <link>http://grewatz.blogspot.com/2019/10/church-missions-network-missions-trip.html</link>
781.      <source url="http://grewatz.blogspot.com/">Multiplying Churches in the World's Largest City</source>
782.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:4a403005-e198-5f8b-d48b-6d7209d58449</guid>
783.      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:41:00 -0500</pubDate>
784.      <description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y6tmLOFmZho/XZky-_jvCxI/AAAAAAAAA5c/_3KwP1na9wMUhxa8CSSI3xNA2crdU1s3QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_2272.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y6tmLOFmZho/XZky-_jvCxI/AAAAAAAAA5c/_3KwP1na9wMUhxa8CSSI3xNA2crdU1s3QCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_2272.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Last fall Pastor Pablo suggested that our Church Missions Network plan a missions trip during Easter.&amp;nbsp; During February, March and April we did training to help prepare the team to evangelize adults, children and youth.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QUwUi0zwM0I/XZk2veG7IOI/AAAAAAAAA7A/FJyQavqzWLoG002ysmcnFFrXmrgRYmDdgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/zoq-van.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1248" data-original-width="936" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QUwUi0zwM0I/XZk2veG7IOI/AAAAAAAAA7A/FJyQavqzWLoG002ysmcnFFrXmrgRYmDdgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/zoq-van.jpg" width="298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;One of the churches lent us this van for transportation of 15 members and lots of clothes, medicine, and materials for the week of ministry (April 22-26).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R6oUUyX9NB0/XZkzUAv1SFI/AAAAAAAAA54/412Lo-b3r4wB6c3TFN299HvOdQ1V4vnlQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8538.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R6oUUyX9NB0/XZkzUAv1SFI/AAAAAAAAA54/412Lo-b3r4wB6c3TFN299HvOdQ1V4vnlQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8538.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;On the left, Luis and Julie are the Mexican missionary couple in Zoquiapan, 3 hours north of Puebla.&amp;nbsp; Our team included 15 members from six churches in Puebla--most had never been on a missions trip.&amp;nbsp; Luis was a Summer Missionary with us in 2010, his wife is a medical doctor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fWLDg4ozLK0/XZkzP__iDbI/AAAAAAAAA5w/958WpAI839coGestcgQk4qjmrSzX_BiRwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_2521.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fWLDg4ozLK0/XZkzP__iDbI/AAAAAAAAA5w/958WpAI839coGestcgQk4qjmrSzX_BiRwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_2521.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Here are the kids activities in Zoquiapan among the ethnic group Nahuatl Puebla Sierra (descendents of the Aztecs).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KQDN5jFbSx4/XZk2gq66Z1I/AAAAAAAAA6s/Ge39t_q8GH8wvcCm3KECQ4ISEAZcuj32QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Zoq-clothes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="1500" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KQDN5jFbSx4/XZk2gq66Z1I/AAAAAAAAA6s/Ge39t_q8GH8wvcCm3KECQ4ISEAZcuj32QCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Zoq-clothes.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The residents of nearby Ecatlan, just 20 minutes from Zoquiapan, were excited to look for clothing for their families.&amp;nbsp; This built trust and relationships in this community where Luis was just beginning to contact this Coyutla Totonaco ethnic group.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6VfA6Lwnh8g/XZkzDpchGlI/AAAAAAAAA5g/QWf3DunNDEAlof5XtZBwyFRhel22ijf7QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8499.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6VfA6Lwnh8g/XZkzDpchGlI/AAAAAAAAA5g/QWf3DunNDEAlof5XtZBwyFRhel22ijf7QCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8499.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Our team planned lots of fun activities for the kids as well as Bible lessons.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bbFnaG5_Lb8/XZkzGD2n0LI/AAAAAAAAA5k/WBDvSeIfjHgaDI2C9fYuioRd_Y9QsXCnACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_2500.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bbFnaG5_Lb8/XZkzGD2n0LI/AAAAAAAAA5k/WBDvSeIfjHgaDI2C9fYuioRd_Y9QsXCnACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_2500.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Dr. Julie gave free checkups and two nurses on our team helped her distribute medicine and explain instructions.&amp;nbsp; We had great conversations in the waiting room (a local government building).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--D6IIBFterA/XZk2mFpYisI/AAAAAAAAA60/pTuVyMeCAy8aW5MbHvhYAWk4ktuKeS-wwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/zoq-massage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="1500" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--D6IIBFterA/XZk2mFpYisI/AAAAAAAAA60/pTuVyMeCAy8aW5MbHvhYAWk4ktuKeS-wwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/zoq-massage.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Javier gave massage therapy to many people with injuries.&amp;nbsp; Pedro is one of the believers in Luis' church in Zoquiapan.&amp;nbsp; God used Javier to open doors by treating some that turned out to be family members of leaders in the community.&amp;nbsp; One couple who trusted Christ though contact with him was baptized a month after we left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CqP4sN7ArAo/XZk2sKrM7gI/AAAAAAAAA68/2m8y_HzG1ecg4SOFUIewKyx8snzVl4VsgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/zoq-pompeyo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="648" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CqP4sN7ArAo/XZk2sKrM7gI/AAAAAAAAA68/2m8y_HzG1ecg4SOFUIewKyx8snzVl4VsgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/zoq-pompeyo.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Pompeyo was so excited about the team's arrival, that he invited me to his house to give me a basket of fruit for the team.&amp;nbsp; Since Spanish is his second language we were not sure he was understanding spiritual truth we shared with him, but see what happened below...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JTwaWQ6Hp1s/XZk0kct_WfI/AAAAAAAAA6g/FM4HYd1CC385aMCW32lQv2MMSfVD5ryBwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8509.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JTwaWQ6Hp1s/XZk0kct_WfI/AAAAAAAAA6g/FM4HYd1CC385aMCW32lQv2MMSfVD5ryBwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8509.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;A member of the team who is a musician and architect designed a puppet show for the kids.&amp;nbsp; The team practiced their parts to follow the recorded music and voices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QkOQliBj3YQ/XZk2oi2LC5I/AAAAAAAAA64/IHLyHifpzhkeciDIRcDZ1cYbM0_m6hLyACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/zoq-obra.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QkOQliBj3YQ/XZk2oi2LC5I/AAAAAAAAA64/IHLyHifpzhkeciDIRcDZ1cYbM0_m6hLyACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/zoq-obra.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Several kids and adults as well were very attentive to the message, "You are special to God."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HI2hGMWdAlo/XZkzLiHzB3I/AAAAAAAAA5o/22Jazz78g0o_O-fzuwRGwFaBCWYZkj2HwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8511.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HI2hGMWdAlo/XZkzLiHzB3I/AAAAAAAAA5o/22Jazz78g0o_O-fzuwRGwFaBCWYZkj2HwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8511.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Several from the community came to sit down, but others watched and listened from their homes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lz2xjYQAhkg/XZk2jfD7uiI/AAAAAAAAA6w/i8rm7DyDa_Mf59sPZjkzoRzSiYeTpiRygCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/zoq-invitation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lz2xjYQAhkg/XZk2jfD7uiI/AAAAAAAAA6w/i8rm7DyDa_Mf59sPZjkzoRzSiYeTpiRygCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/zoq-invitation.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Luis gave an evangelistic message to repent of sin and trust in Christ, and seven people came forward to pray with him-- which is a big step in a small town to make a public decision for Christ.&amp;nbsp; One of them was Pompeyo--Luis is praying with his hand on Pompeyo's shoulder.&amp;nbsp; After the team left, Luis began Sunday studies with these new believers to start a new church plant!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
785.    </item>
786.    <item>
787.      <title>Summer Missionary Ministry in Tlapa - March 2019</title>
788.      <link>http://grewatz.blogspot.com/2019/10/summer-missionary-ministry-in-tlapa.html</link>
789.      <source url="http://grewatz.blogspot.com/">Multiplying Churches in the World's Largest City</source>
790.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:7b11e3c7-65ea-3684-f23c-c8048b8f6b49</guid>
791.      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:11:00 -0500</pubDate>
792.      <description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mXIjDssuBzs/XZkvK2RlAUI/AAAAAAAAA4Y/jgS0czokMs0xKJPySiYpti9hyQ5YEz2FQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_2319.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mXIjDssuBzs/XZkvK2RlAUI/AAAAAAAAA4Y/jgS0czokMs0xKJPySiYpti9hyQ5YEz2FQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_2319.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;From the left, Stu is with Benito (who is a Tlapaneco Bible translator with Wycliffe), Fernando (our director of the Summer Missionary Project) who traveled to see the ministry in March, and Galo (with his son) who is coordinating the Summer Missionary Project in the Tlapaneco mountains.&amp;nbsp; Galo received our training as a newlywed in 2008, and invited us to start this youth ministry with the 70-plus Tlapaneco churches.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VNfoxfvjpTM/XZlEVAeZ2sI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/Pa6GFTE-UrsapV7oXcwpdisQFT64AwJSQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Tlapa-song1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="956" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VNfoxfvjpTM/XZlEVAeZ2sI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/Pa6GFTE-UrsapV7oXcwpdisQFT64AwJSQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Tlapa-song1.jpg" width="296" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;This song, "My God is everywhere," is shown in the MePhaa language.&amp;nbsp; Please note all of the vowel combinations in this tonal language.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MEVNx-crULE/XZlEZFcCt5I/AAAAAAAAA9c/Ni6sZ7GUGkkdqMk3JBa5vinu1IIovvtjwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Tlapa-song2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="963" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MEVNx-crULE/XZlEZFcCt5I/AAAAAAAAA9c/Ni6sZ7GUGkkdqMk3JBa5vinu1IIovvtjwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Tlapa-song2.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Tlapaneco leadership team introduced this year some songs and verses in their MePhaa language.&amp;nbsp; Since they have 7 different languages among their peoples, we needed to form a leadership team to coordinate those decisions.&amp;nbsp; Benito who is the translator finishing the New Testament is a great asset on this team.&amp;nbsp; He wants the Summer Missionaries to promote the NT translation available as an app on their cell phones!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7vY0vgGOI-M/XZkuoa7ZIaI/AAAAAAAAA4Q/2l-8IL15LbQU82miF-6Js5wds_F1k5piACEwYBhgL/s1600/IMG_8355.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="264" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7vY0vgGOI-M/XZkuoa7ZIaI/AAAAAAAAA4Q/2l-8IL15LbQU82miF-6Js5wds_F1k5piACEwYBhgL/s400/IMG_8355.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;This is the Tlapaneco leadership team chosen by Galo to be the new trainers for the training week.&amp;nbsp; Most of them have participated in all 3 of our training weeks.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qNEKoeaniAM/XZkxcpltWDI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/tvf0w6Z41NA2B_BM1yGR3tmuTFabc1f-ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8403%2B%25282%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1175" data-original-width="1600" height="293" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qNEKoeaniAM/XZkxcpltWDI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/tvf0w6Z41NA2B_BM1yGR3tmuTFabc1f-ACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8403%2B%25282%2529.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The week before Easter we trained these 25 Tlapaneco youth in this very remote church where Galo was the pastor.&amp;nbsp; Every year we change the hosting church.&amp;nbsp; This year they sent youth teams to 12 different churches to teach the lessons about Joseph during July.&amp;nbsp; A total of 870 children in very remote areas were reached in these clubs!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yEZWrxmsKvk/XZkvbPdWkvI/AAAAAAAAA4g/fIxF2W3rPQYT-J6Gb1EIepEYswsJIZ_MwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8413.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yEZWrxmsKvk/XZkvbPdWkvI/AAAAAAAAA4g/fIxF2W3rPQYT-J6Gb1EIepEYswsJIZ_MwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8413.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The 3 experienced "city" youth beside us helped during the training week. Though the Tlapanecos did most of the teaching, their presence and suggestions were a great encouragement to these new trainers.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YYWYUmHeKNA/XZkveO6J9oI/AAAAAAAAA4k/FT31F-azLjgOkImIENIdhSH9xCctRQlPQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_2442.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YYWYUmHeKNA/XZkveO6J9oI/AAAAAAAAA4k/FT31F-azLjgOkImIENIdhSH9xCctRQlPQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_2442.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;On Good Friday, we left the training week to help during the annual Tlapaneco church conference of nearly 1000 attendees.&amp;nbsp; For the first time, the leaders asked the summer missionaries to teach the 200 children present for 5 hours each day.&amp;nbsp; This gave our ministry a lot of visibility with the churches, and they saw the value of training their own youth to work with children.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9v2o1nH7JZQ/XZkviBzTgEI/AAAAAAAAA4s/emDUvopL8y8qvC-vkafs4DA_VPWgCMA-ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8422.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9v2o1nH7JZQ/XZkviBzTgEI/AAAAAAAAA4s/emDUvopL8y8qvC-vkafs4DA_VPWgCMA-ACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8422.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Tlapaneco Summer Missionaries had their hands full with all these 200 children for 3 days, but they realized they were prepared to do something they never imagined doing!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ILktOHn1bgs/XZkvmG-hXeI/AAAAAAAAA4w/WMcBusJ49Z8wcXhfioCuMZWvFiRQyWFCwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8459.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ILktOHn1bgs/XZkvmG-hXeI/AAAAAAAAA4w/WMcBusJ49Z8wcXhfioCuMZWvFiRQyWFCwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8459.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;On one day, Cristina helped to teach the group of older kids.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XgBLnsvSuF4/XZkvp8sOtNI/AAAAAAAAA40/hhu7vG4SQmkC6KC8NCfzebtOfAJLRD3FACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8483.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XgBLnsvSuF4/XZkvp8sOtNI/AAAAAAAAA40/hhu7vG4SQmkC6KC8NCfzebtOfAJLRD3FACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8483.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Last year Benjamin trusted in Christ with Galo just before the training camp, and he served last summer as a Summer Missionary.&amp;nbsp; The training was a real challenge for him, because he barely speaks Spanish (in his village almost everyone speaks only MePhaa).&amp;nbsp; He is the only Christian in his family, and God is using him!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ukxsCY6q7D8/XZkvu3a2E_I/AAAAAAAAA48/-pIQYwK-n0AO2L384H9n2sUVYmfptxAlgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8497.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ukxsCY6q7D8/XZkvu3a2E_I/AAAAAAAAA48/-pIQYwK-n0AO2L384H9n2sUVYmfptxAlgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8497.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Nehemiah has served for 3 summers as a Summer Missionary and is on the leadership team now.&amp;nbsp; He had the opportunity to go to the Amazon jungle in Colombia during June-July with his cousin who studies at Rio Grande Bible College.&amp;nbsp; Pray for God's leading in life toward missions.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
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795.      <title>Church Plant of "Safe Refuge" Church - Feb 2019</title>
796.      <link>http://grewatz.blogspot.com/2019/10/church-plant-of-safe-refuge-church-feb.html</link>
797.      <source url="http://grewatz.blogspot.com/">Multiplying Churches in the World's Largest City</source>
798.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:3ad94176-25a0-d6bc-ffe7-a7316a191956</guid>
799.      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2019 13:52:00 -0500</pubDate>
800.      <description>God has been at work in so many ways this year, and we are excited to share pictures of how He is touching lives.&amp;nbsp; We cherish your prayers for these people and these ministries!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HJnbRwkymQU/XZkqsZtGrkI/AAAAAAAAA2o/yHBBDUXLabkf7eShcItFhAC2FpHl6pGSQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8541.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HJnbRwkymQU/XZkqsZtGrkI/AAAAAAAAA2o/yHBBDUXLabkf7eShcItFhAC2FpHl6pGSQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_8541.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;In September 2018 we began to attend the Safe Refuge Church led by Pastor Bezaleel and Lydia (on the right), and Oscar and Rosy (in the middle).&amp;nbsp; We meet every month to implement plans for disciple-making and to advance plans for local and global missions.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cXPiKa9tnHc/XZktVypi55I/AAAAAAAAA4I/WwmfVRl3gx0JnXghosBfnAvHBCTWSqG7ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_2248.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cXPiKa9tnHc/XZktVypi55I/AAAAAAAAA4I/WwmfVRl3gx0JnXghosBfnAvHBCTWSqG7ACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_2248.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;In 2017 the church received our Summer Missionaries to do an evangelistic kids club in this needy neighborhood called Jorge Murad.&amp;nbsp; A family trusted in Christ and is attending the church, and&amp;nbsp;since then&amp;nbsp;there has been much interest among the children .&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C5oyACmqdIs/XZkqxmW0DyI/AAAAAAAAA2s/Aw2vQwBjxQkgcUhdJfIjF76ieL_0bkmmACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_2249.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C5oyACmqdIs/XZkqxmW0DyI/AAAAAAAAA2s/Aw2vQwBjxQkgcUhdJfIjF76ieL_0bkmmACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_2249.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"&gt;The church began to rent this space in February to offer several activities during the week, including baking classes, English and math, and a kids club on Fridays.&amp;nbsp; The property has 2 classrooms, a large patio and a bathroom.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LoqS60RZIWU/XZkr7gjWzzI/AAAAAAAAA3g/cgrfiE6KmAIiumqj4b6Lm88NMFVEJDAWACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_3199.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LoqS60RZIWU/XZkr7gjWzzI/AAAAAAAAA3g/cgrfiE6KmAIiumqj4b6Lm88NMFVEJDAWACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_3199.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"&gt;Several members of the Safe Refuge mother church are involved in the weekly activities and followup with the families of these children.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LwJn1W9WT6g/XZn-6zNB9lI/AAAAAAAABCY/bVUMIPt6iCAgV8MWppLEEst7tKfYpGXUgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_2287.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LwJn1W9WT6g/XZn-6zNB9lI/AAAAAAAABCY/bVUMIPt6iCAgV8MWppLEEst7tKfYpGXUgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_2287.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Every Saturday, members of the church share day-old bread donated by a Christian baker with neighbors to express love and build relationships.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Gr1-Hravuy4/XZps49ZqeXI/AAAAAAAABCk/ki7dWAsJIbAot-264RN0dZPTFptW0EZfgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/EKEM6808.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Gr1-Hravuy4/XZps49ZqeXI/AAAAAAAABCk/ki7dWAsJIbAot-264RN0dZPTFptW0EZfgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/EKEM6808.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Rosy leads the youngest of the 3 groups in the kids club.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3HupdO0zNww/XZkrnucBIFI/AAAAAAAAA3M/yBEUOvWIhXQgSFp_0MtIG2idiQ6ITA0pACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_3113.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3HupdO0zNww/XZkrnucBIFI/AAAAAAAAA3M/yBEUOvWIhXQgSFp_0MtIG2idiQ6ITA0pACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_3113.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;July 22-26 was the Vacation Bible school in the mother church and this church plant.&amp;nbsp; Over 50 children participated and enjoyed this evangelistic puppet show on the last day.&amp;nbsp; Many children have put their trust in Christ, and we are trying to reach their parents.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0rUNZAVE3L8/XZkrzjx0NlI/AAAAAAAAA3U/vO-kMQ3HbwEsalTbp6D3tARDeddWK8N9gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_3140.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0rUNZAVE3L8/XZkrzjx0NlI/AAAAAAAAA3U/vO-kMQ3HbwEsalTbp6D3tARDeddWK8N9gCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_3140.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We teach English and math classes every Thursday 4-6pm.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tXPJ0go-pP4/XZkr4PxW_jI/AAAAAAAAA3c/PIX7ZEUemC8YBzN-VSzq2apZwu8GCmwqwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_3210.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tXPJ0go-pP4/XZkr4PxW_jI/AAAAAAAAA3c/PIX7ZEUemC8YBzN-VSzq2apZwu8GCmwqwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_3210.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Salvador is 11 years old, but has never attended school.&amp;nbsp; He is interested to learn to read and learn math, so Cristina is working with him to get caught up while investigating options&amp;nbsp;enter a school.&amp;nbsp; His mother abandoned him and his father is busy with work.&amp;nbsp; Please pray for Salvador.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ST1ZyDndpVo/XZksANyFmxI/AAAAAAAAA3o/kg0oFdrzHqItN0ZW5wiNZR4OviK0zdX0ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_3258.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ST1ZyDndpVo/XZksANyFmxI/AAAAAAAAA3o/kg0oFdrzHqItN0ZW5wiNZR4OviK0zdX0ACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_3258.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Child Evangelism Fellowship in Mexico (APEN) coordinated a combined field trip of several Bible clubs in Puebla, and the parents of several of our children gave them permission to participate all day (Sept 21)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
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803.      <title>My Name is Mahtob</title>
804.      <link>https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2019/03/20/my-name-is-mahtob/</link>
805.      <source url="http://icecreamgram.wordpress.com">icecreamgram</source>
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807.      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:26:41 -0600</pubDate>
808.      <description>The daughter at the center of the international bestseller Not Without My Daughter completes her story: escaping from Iran, growing up in fear, battling deadly disease, and learning to forgive. Two decades ago, millions of readers worldwide thrilled to the story told in the international bestseller Not Without My Daughter—subsequently made into a film starring Sally [&amp;#8230;]</description>
809.      <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2019/03/20/my-name-is-mahtob/51wefccpm-l-_sy346_/" rel="attachment wp-att-6954"&gt;&lt;img data-attachment-id="6954" data-permalink="https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2019/03/20/my-name-is-mahtob/51wefccpm-l-_sy346_/" data-orig-file="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/51wefccpm-l._sy346_.jpg" data-orig-size="228,346" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&amp;quot;aperture&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;credit&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;camera&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;caption&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;created_timestamp&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;copyright&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;focal_length&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;iso&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;shutter_speed&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;title&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;orientation&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;}" data-image-title="51WEFcCpm-L._SY346_" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/51wefccpm-l._sy346_.jpg?w=198&amp;#038;h=300" data-large-file="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/51wefccpm-l._sy346_.jpg?w=228" class="size-medium wp-image-6954 aligncenter" src="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/51wefccpm-l._sy346_.jpg?w=198&amp;#038;h=300" alt="" width="198" height="300" srcset="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/51wefccpm-l._sy346_.jpg?w=198&amp;amp;h=300 198w, https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/51wefccpm-l._sy346_.jpg?w=99&amp;amp;h=150 99w, https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/51wefccpm-l._sy346_.jpg 228w" sizes="(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
810. <p><strong>The daughter at the center of the international bestseller Not Without My Daughter completes her story: escaping from Iran, growing up in fear, battling deadly disease, and learning to forgive.</strong></p>
811. <p>Two decades ago, millions of readers worldwide thrilled to the story told in the international bestseller <em>Not Without My Daughter</em>—subsequently made into a film starring Sally Field—that told of an American mother and her six-year-old child’s daring escape from an abusive and tyrannical Iranian husband and father. Now the daughter returns to tell the whole story, not only of that imprisonment and escape but of life after fleeing Tehran: living in fear of re-abduction, enduring recurring nightmares and panic attacks, attending school under a false name, battling life-threatening illness—all under the menacing shadow of her father.</p>
812. <p>This is the story of an extraordinary young woman’s triumph over life-crushing trauma to build a life of peace and forgiveness. Taking readers from Michigan to Iran and from Ankara, Turkey, to Paris, France, <em>My Name Is Mahtob</em> depicts the profound resilience of a wounded soul healed by faith in God’s goodness and in his care and love. And Mahmoody reveals the secret of how she liberated herself from a life of fear, learning to forgive the father who had shattered her life and discovering joy and peace that comes from doing so.</p>
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816.      <title>Little Britches and Man of the Family</title>
817.      <link>https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/little-britches-and-man-of-the-family/</link>
818.      <source url="http://icecreamgram.wordpress.com">icecreamgram</source>
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820.      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:52:46 -0500</pubDate>
821.      <description>Little Britches. Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there early in the twentieth century. Auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms give authentic color to Little Britches. So [&amp;#8230;]</description>
822.      <content:encoded>&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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824. <div><a href="https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/little-britches-and-man-of-the-family/51udd0eagal-_sy346_/" rel="attachment wp-att-6948"><img data-attachment-id="6948" data-permalink="https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/little-britches-and-man-of-the-family/51udd0eagal-_sy346_/" data-orig-file="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/51udd0eagal-_sy346_.jpg" data-orig-size="230,346" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="51UDd0eagaL._SY346_" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/51udd0eagal-_sy346_.jpg?w=199&h=300" data-large-file="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/51udd0eagal-_sy346_.jpg?w=230" class="size-medium wp-image-6948 alignnone" src="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/51udd0eagal-_sy346_.jpg?w=199&h=300" alt="" width="199" height="300" srcset="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/51udd0eagal-_sy346_.jpg?w=199&h=300 199w, https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/51udd0eagal-_sy346_.jpg?w=100&h=150 100w, https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/51udd0eagal-_sy346_.jpg 230w" sizes="(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px" /></a><a href="https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/little-britches-and-man-of-the-family/41tszdxy9rl-_sy346_/" rel="attachment wp-att-6947"><img data-attachment-id="6947" data-permalink="https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/little-britches-and-man-of-the-family/41tszdxy9rl-_sy346_/" data-orig-file="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/41tszdxy9rl-_sy346_.jpg" data-orig-size="235,346" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="41tSZDxY9RL._SY346_" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/41tszdxy9rl-_sy346_.jpg?w=204&h=300" data-large-file="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/41tszdxy9rl-_sy346_.jpg?w=235" class="size-medium wp-image-6947 alignleft" src="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/41tszdxy9rl-_sy346_.jpg?w=204&h=300" alt="" width="204" height="300" srcset="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/41tszdxy9rl-_sy346_.jpg?w=204&h=300 204w, https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/41tszdxy9rl-_sy346_.jpg?w=102&h=150 102w, https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/41tszdxy9rl-_sy346_.jpg 235w" sizes="(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px" /></a></div>
825. <div></div>
826. <div></div>
827. <div></div>
828. <div>Little Britches. Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there early in the twentieth century. Auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms give authentic color to <i>Little Britches</i>. So do adventures, wonderfully told, that equip Ralph to take his father’s place when it becomes necessary. <i>Little Britches</i> was the literary debut of Ralph Moody, who wrote about the adventures of his family in eight glorious books, all available as Bison Books.</div>
829. <div></div>
830. <div>Man of the Family: Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch early in the twentieth century. Father has died and Little Britches shoulders the responsibilities of a man at age eleven.</div>
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834.      <title>The World is Bigger Now</title>
835.      <link>https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2018/03/27/the-world-is-bigger-now-2/</link>
836.      <source url="http://icecreamgram.wordpress.com">icecreamgram</source>
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838.      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:05:18 -0600</pubDate>
839.      <description>For the first time, Euna Lee—the young wife, mother, and film editor detained in North Korea—tells a harrowing, but ultimately inspiring, story of survival and faith in one of the most isolated parts of the world. On March 17, 2009, Lee and her Current TV colleague Laura Ling were working on a documentary about the desperate [&amp;#8230;]</description>
840.      <content:encoded>&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2018/03/27/the-world-is-bigger-now-2/51zafcem6el-_sy346_/" rel="attachment wp-att-6943"&gt;&lt;img data-attachment-id="6943" data-permalink="https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2018/03/27/the-world-is-bigger-now-2/51zafcem6el-_sy346_/" data-orig-file="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/51zafcem6el-_sy346_.jpg" data-orig-size="229,346" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&amp;quot;aperture&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;credit&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;camera&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;caption&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;created_timestamp&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;copyright&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;focal_length&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;iso&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;shutter_speed&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;title&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;orientation&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;}" data-image-title="51ZafceM6eL._SY346_" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/51zafcem6el-_sy346_.jpg?w=199&amp;#038;h=300" data-large-file="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/51zafcem6el-_sy346_.jpg?w=229" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6943" src="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/51zafcem6el-_sy346_.jpg?w=199&amp;#038;h=300" alt="" width="199" height="300" srcset="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/51zafcem6el-_sy346_.jpg?w=199&amp;amp;h=300 199w, https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/51zafcem6el-_sy346_.jpg?w=99&amp;amp;h=150 99w, https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/51zafcem6el-_sy346_.jpg 229w" sizes="(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
841. <p>For the first time, Euna Lee—the young wife, mother, and film editor detained in North Korea—tells a harrowing, but ultimately inspiring, story of survival and faith in one of the most isolated parts of the world. On March 17, 2009, Lee and her Current TV colleague Laura Ling were working on a documentary about the desperate lives of North Koreans fleeing their homeland for a chance at freedom when they were violently apprehended by North Korean soldiers. For nearly five months they remained detained while friends and family in the United States were given little information about their status or conditions. For Lee, detention would prove especially harrowing. Imprisoned just 112 miles from where she was born and where her parents still live in Seoul, South Korea, she was branded as a betrayer of her Korean blood by her North Korean captors. After representing herself in her trial before North Korea’s highest court, she received a sentence of twelve years of hard labor in the country’s notorious prison camps, leading her to fear she might not ever see her husband and daughter again.</p>
842. <p><i>The World Is Bigger Now </i>draws us deep into Euna Lee’s life before and after this experience: what led to her arrival in North Korea, her efforts to survive the agonizing months of detainment, and how she and her fellow captive, Ling, were finally released thanks to the efforts of many individuals, including Bill Clinton. Lee explains in unforgettable detail what it was like to lose, and then miraculously regain, life as she knew it.</p>
843. <p><i>The World Is Bigger Now </i>is the story of faith and love and Euna Lee’s personal<br />
844. conviction that God will sustain and protect us, even in our darkest hours.</p>
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848.      <title>The Body on the Porch</title>
849.      <link>https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2018/03/20/the-body-on-the-porch/</link>
850.      <source url="http://icecreamgram.wordpress.com">icecreamgram</source>
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852.      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 21:14:00 -0600</pubDate>
853.      <description>&amp;#160; At first I thought this would just be one of these silly &amp;#8220;nothing&amp;#8221; books that I would close after less than a dozen pages. But it wasn&amp;#8217;t! It was a murder mystery, yet full of laughs and fun and totally drew me into the story. A fun read! When a retired detective encounters a [&amp;#8230;]</description>
854.      <content:encoded>&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2018/03/20/the-body-on-the-porch/611jgoewdl-_sy346_/" rel="attachment wp-att-6939"&gt;&lt;img data-attachment-id="6939" data-permalink="https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2018/03/20/the-body-on-the-porch/611jgoewdl-_sy346_/" data-orig-file="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/611jgoewdl-_sy346_.jpg" data-orig-size="224,346" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&amp;quot;aperture&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;credit&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;camera&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;caption&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;created_timestamp&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;copyright&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;focal_length&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;iso&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;shutter_speed&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;title&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;orientation&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;}" data-image-title="611J+goeWdL._SY346_" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/611jgoewdl-_sy346_.jpg?w=194&amp;#038;h=300" data-large-file="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/611jgoewdl-_sy346_.jpg?w=224" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6939" src="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/611jgoewdl-_sy346_.jpg?w=194&amp;#038;h=300" alt="" width="194" height="300" srcset="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/611jgoewdl-_sy346_.jpg?w=194&amp;amp;h=300 194w, https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/611jgoewdl-_sy346_.jpg?w=97&amp;amp;h=150 97w, https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/611jgoewdl-_sy346_.jpg 224w" sizes="(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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856. <p>At first I thought this would just be one of these silly “nothing” books that I would close after less than a dozen pages. But it wasn’t! It was a murder mystery, yet full of laughs and fun and totally drew me into the story. A fun read!</p>
857. <p>When a retired detective encounters a stranger standing outside a restaurant when both of them are on vacation and the stranger finds out what he did before he retired, the detective jokingly tells the stranger that he will come and solve a murder for him if he goes home and finds a body on his front porch.</p>
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897.      <title>The Good Nearby</title>
898.      <link>https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2018/03/20/the-good-nearby/</link>
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901.      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 21:11:05 -0600</pubDate>
902.      <description>Sometimes good things are nearer than expected. Margery has a nothing job, a nothing marriage, and zero self-esteem. Angie has everything she could ever want, except a life of her own making. Talia is overwhelmed by her pregnancy, by handling her career, and by caring for her toddler and a home-bound husband who needs a [&amp;#8230;]</description>
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904. <p>Sometimes good things are nearer than expected. Margery has a nothing job, a nothing marriage, and zero self-esteem. Angie has everything she could ever want, except a life of her own making. Talia is overwhelmed by her pregnancy, by handling her career, and by caring for her toddler and a home-bound husband who needs a new heart. Gennifer has a high-powered career and a family that’s learned to fend without her. Gladys has never been married and approaches her golden years alone with failing eyesight. For the patrons of Neighbor’s Drugstore, the key to a rich, fulfilled life is closer than they think, if only they can open their hearts to the good nearby.</p>
905. <p>This is such a sad story, yet emphasizes the good nearby, even when we can’t see it or even dream it’s there.</p>
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945.      <title>But Not Forsaken</title>
946.      <link>https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/but-not-forsaken/</link>
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949.      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2018 06:16:29 -0600</pubDate>
950.      <description>&amp;#160; Maria, Hansie and Rosie fled their home, not knowing where to go or what would happen to them. Hans returned after a tragic trip to find his family gone, not knowing where they were and if they were safe. But God proved over and over in their lives that they were not forsaken, that [&amp;#8230;]</description>
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953. <p style="text-align:left;">Maria, Hansie and Rosie fled their home, not knowing where to go or what would happen to them. Hans returned after a tragic trip to find his family gone, not knowing where they were and if they were safe. But God proved over and over in their lives that they were not forsaken, that He was with them every step of the way. A classic. We need to be reminded of the hardships some have gone through and many still go through every single moment of their lives. We also need to be reminded that God loves us and takes care of us.</p>
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957.      <title>A Certain Legacy</title>
958.      <link>https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2017/12/27/a-certain-legacy-2/</link>
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961.      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2017 18:02:06 -0600</pubDate>
962.      <description>Three days after their wedding in 1950, David and Helen Ekstrom began a journey that would last for sixty plus years. Living and working in the northern highlands of Guatemala they saw a world before cell phones and television. Theirs is a sweet story of God&amp;#8217;s grace and mercy, and what He can do through [&amp;#8230;]&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=icecreamgram.wordpress.com&amp;#038;blog=43140789&amp;#038;post=6926&amp;#038;subd=icecreamgram&amp;#038;ref=&amp;#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" /&gt;</description>
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964. <p>Three days after their wedding in 1950, David and Helen Ekstrom began a journey that would last for sixty plus years. Living and working in the northern highlands of Guatemala they saw a world before cell phones and television. Theirs is a sweet story of God’s grace and mercy, and what He can do through faithful servants. What motivated them? What made them stay? Be encouraged and inspired as you read the story of their life.</p>
965. &lt;p&gt;I spent a day with Helen while in Guatemala last October. What a blessing to see her again after so many years and to listen as she talked of so many memories of how God has blessed her. She&amp;#8217;s 89 this year and going strong! She&amp;#8217;s in the care of Dr. &amp;amp; Mrs. Arturo Herrera who provide for her with incredible loving care.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/icecreamgram.wordpress.com/6926/"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/icecreamgram.wordpress.com/6926/" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=icecreamgram.wordpress.com&amp;#038;blog=43140789&amp;#038;post=6926&amp;#038;subd=icecreamgram&amp;#038;ref=&amp;#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" /&gt;</content:encoded>
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968.      <title>Wingtown Parson´s Linen Duster</title>
969.      <link>https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2017/10/18/wingtown-parsons-linen-duster/</link>
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972.      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2017 07:39:01 -0500</pubDate>
973.      <description>Lookee what I found in my &amp;#8220;stuff&amp;#8221;! A book written in 1903! A short story that shares a pastor´s heart for the people God has called him to minister to. And the sacrifices this pastor &amp;#8211; and his family &amp;#8211; make to reach these folks. Written in &amp;#8220;very old&amp;#8221; English, I nevertheless found it so [&amp;#8230;]&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=icecreamgram.wordpress.com&amp;#038;blog=43140789&amp;#038;post=6922&amp;#038;subd=icecreamgram&amp;#038;ref=&amp;#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" /&gt;</description>
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975. &lt;p&gt;Lookee what I found in my &amp;#8220;stuff&amp;#8221;! A book written in 1903! A short story that shares a pastor´s heart for the people God has called him to minister to. And the sacrifices this pastor &amp;#8211; and his family &amp;#8211; make to reach these folks. Written in &amp;#8220;very old&amp;#8221; English, I nevertheless found it so interesting and challenging. Am I as dedicated as this young pastor? If you can find it, I highly recommend this book &amp;#8211; it will challenge you and remind you why God has put you where you are &amp;#8211; to be His witness of course!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/icecreamgram.wordpress.com/6922/"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/icecreamgram.wordpress.com/6922/" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=icecreamgram.wordpress.com&amp;#038;blog=43140789&amp;#038;post=6922&amp;#038;subd=icecreamgram&amp;#038;ref=&amp;#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" /&gt;</content:encoded>
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978.      <title>A Train near Magdeburg</title>
979.      <link>https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/a-train-near-magdeburg/</link>
980.      <source url="http://icecreamgram.wordpress.com">icecreamgram</source>
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982.      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2017 17:55:16 -0500</pubDate>
983.      <description>What do you do if you are a reluctant soldier, having been shot at, seen your friends killed, and can no longer even remember what your own mother looks like? As a combat soldier fighting your way across Europe, what is the plan when you come across a Holocaust train full of suffering humanity that [&amp;#8230;]&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=icecreamgram.wordpress.com&amp;#038;blog=43140789&amp;#038;post=6918&amp;#038;subd=icecreamgram&amp;#038;ref=&amp;#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" /&gt;</description>
984.      <content:encoded>&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/a-train-near-magdeburg/511qu1ykjvl-_sy346_/" rel="attachment wp-att-6919"&gt;&lt;img data-attachment-id="6919" data-permalink="https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/a-train-near-magdeburg/511qu1ykjvl-_sy346_/" data-orig-file="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/511qu1ykjvl-_sy346_.jpg" data-orig-size="217,346" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&amp;quot;aperture&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;credit&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;camera&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;caption&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;created_timestamp&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;copyright&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;focal_length&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;iso&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;shutter_speed&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;title&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;orientation&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;}" data-image-title="511qU1ykJVL._SY346_" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/511qu1ykjvl-_sy346_.jpg?w=188&amp;#038;h=300" data-large-file="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/511qu1ykjvl-_sy346_.jpg?w=217" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6919" src="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/511qu1ykjvl-_sy346_.jpg?w=188&amp;#038;h=300" alt="" width="188" height="300" srcset="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/511qu1ykjvl-_sy346_.jpg?w=188&amp;amp;h=300 188w, https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/511qu1ykjvl-_sy346_.jpg?w=94&amp;amp;h=150 94w, https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/511qu1ykjvl-_sy346_.jpg 217w" sizes="(max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
985. <h2>What do you do if you are a reluctant soldier, having been shot at, seen your friends killed, and can no longer even remember what your own mother looks like?</h2>
986. <p>As a combat soldier fighting your way across Europe, what is the plan when you come across a Holocaust train full of suffering humanity that shocks you to your core, even after you think you have seen it all? And what happens when you get to meet the survivors face to face, two generations later?</p>
987. <hr />
988. <p><b><i>~ ‘After I got home I cried a lot. My parents couldn’t understand why I couldn’t sleep at times.’-Walter ‘Babe’ Gantz, US Army medic</i></b><br />
989. <i>In this book, the true story behind an iconic photograph taken at the liberation of a DEATH TRAIN deep in the heart of Nazi Germany—brought to life by the history teacher who discovered it, and went on to reunite HUNDREDS of Holocaust survivors with the actual American soldiers who saved them! </i></p>
990. <hr />
991. <p><b><i>~ ‘I grew up and spent all my years being angry. This means I don’t have to be angry anymore.’-Paul Arato, Holocaust Survivor </i></b></p>
992. <hr />
993. <p><b>~THE HOLOCAUST was a watershed event</b> in history. Drawing on never-before published eye-witness accounts, survivor testimony and memoirs, wartime reports and letters, Matthew Rozell takes us on his journey to uncover the stories behind the incredible 1945 liberation photographs taken by the soldiers who were there. He weaves together a chronology of the Holocaust as it unfolds across Europe and goes to the authentic sites of the Holocaust to retrace the steps of the survivors and the American soldiers who freed them. His mission culminates in joyful reunions on three continents, seven decades later. Rozell offers his unique perspective on the lessons of the Holocaust for future generations, and the impact that one person, a teacher, can make.</p>
994. <hr />
995. <p><b><i>~ ‘I survived because of many miracles. But for me to actually meet, shake hands, hug, and cry together with my liberators—the ‘angels of life’ who literally gave me back my life—was just beyond imagination.’-Leslie Meisels, Holocaust Survivor </i></b></p>
996. <hr />
997. &lt;p&gt;-Featuring testimony from 15 American liberators and over 30 Holocaust survivors&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/icecreamgram.wordpress.com/6918/"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/icecreamgram.wordpress.com/6918/" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=icecreamgram.wordpress.com&amp;#038;blog=43140789&amp;#038;post=6918&amp;#038;subd=icecreamgram&amp;#038;ref=&amp;#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" /&gt;</content:encoded>
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1000.      <title>He Still Moves Stones</title>
1001.      <link>https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2017/09/29/he-still-moves-stones/</link>
1002.      <source url="http://icecreamgram.wordpress.com">icecreamgram</source>
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1004.      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:36:28 -0500</pubDate>
1005.      <description>People with questions. The Bible is absolutely full of them. A crook on a cross. A wild man in a cemetery. A five-time divorcée. A despondent cripple. A grieving sister. A father at the end of his rope. Why are these portraits in the Bible? So we can look back in amazement at what Jesus [&amp;#8230;]&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=icecreamgram.wordpress.com&amp;#038;blog=43140789&amp;#038;post=6914&amp;#038;subd=icecreamgram&amp;#038;ref=&amp;#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" /&gt;</description>
1006.      <content:encoded>&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2017/09/29/he-still-moves-stones/51n9owoqobl/" rel="attachment wp-att-6915"&gt;&lt;img data-attachment-id="6915" data-permalink="https://icecreamgram.wordpress.com/2017/09/29/he-still-moves-stones/51n9owoqobl/" data-orig-file="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/51n9owoqobl.jpg" data-orig-size="328,500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&amp;quot;aperture&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;credit&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;camera&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;caption&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;created_timestamp&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;copyright&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;focal_length&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;iso&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;shutter_speed&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;title&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;orientation&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;}" data-image-title="51n9OwOQOBL" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/51n9owoqobl.jpg?w=197&amp;#038;h=300" data-large-file="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/51n9owoqobl.jpg?w=328" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6915" src="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/51n9owoqobl.jpg?w=197&amp;#038;h=300" alt="" width="197" height="300" srcset="https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/51n9owoqobl.jpg?w=197&amp;amp;h=300 197w, https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/51n9owoqobl.jpg?w=98&amp;amp;h=150 98w, https://icecreamgram.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/51n9owoqobl.jpg 328w" sizes="(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1007. &lt;p&gt;People with questions. The Bible is absolutely full of them. A crook on a cross. A wild man in a cemetery. A five-time divorcée. A despondent cripple. A grieving sister. A father at the end of his rope. Why are these portraits in the Bible? So we can look back in amazement at what Jesus did? No &amp;#8230; these aren&amp;#8217;t just Sunday school stories. They are historic moments in which a real God met real pain so we could answer the question. &amp;#8220;Does God care when I hurt?&amp;#8221; On every page of this powerfully moving book, New York Times best-selling author Max Lucado reminds us that the God who spoke to Moses at the burning bush still speaks to you today. The God who forgave King David still offers you forgiveness. The God who helped men and women in ages past still comes into your world, and he comes to do what you can&amp;#8217;t, to move the stone away so you can see his answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/icecreamgram.wordpress.com/6914/"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/icecreamgram.wordpress.com/6914/" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=icecreamgram.wordpress.com&amp;#038;blog=43140789&amp;#038;post=6914&amp;#038;subd=icecreamgram&amp;#038;ref=&amp;#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" /&gt;</content:encoded>
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1011.      <link>http://grewatz.blogspot.com/2016/12/happy-new-year-from-costa-rica-we-are.html</link>
1012.      <source url="http://grewatz.blogspot.com/">Multiplying Churches in the World's Largest City</source>
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1014.      <pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2016 18:11:00 -0600</pubDate>
1015.      <description>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Happy New Year from Costa Rica!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EfdofJlDLJY/WGg85lW7a2I/AAAAAAAAAs4/yk1uOjzwLpEfgs3Lg57a7YpwVOeM2vHGACLcB/s1600/DSCN4006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EfdofJlDLJY/WGg85lW7a2I/AAAAAAAAAs4/yk1uOjzwLpEfgs3Lg57a7YpwVOeM2vHGACLcB/s320/DSCN4006.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We are enjoying our Christmas and New Years celebrations with Cristina's family in Costa Rica (Dec 21- Jan 10). &amp;nbsp;We're so glad that Erica was able to join us this year during her semester break from Liberty University. &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot; , serif;"&gt;¡Feliz A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot; , serif;"&gt;ño Nuevo &amp;nbsp;2017!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uY0TRODNGoc/WGfPh5uztMI/AAAAAAAAAq8/fdg-38IhtqkWHmxmEAf-npHkHzlxb16IwCLcB/s1600/IMG_4658.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uY0TRODNGoc/WGfPh5uztMI/AAAAAAAAAq8/fdg-38IhtqkWHmxmEAf-npHkHzlxb16IwCLcB/s320/IMG_4658.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Stu has been working with Chalo (4th from the right) to coordinate a monthly pastors breakfast since May to build relationships and encourage collaboration. &amp;nbsp;At this breakfast, the men presented an electric wheel chair to Pastor Moises (left, in the middle).&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gg9D0QPVpBs/WGfPwumBfoI/AAAAAAAAArE/n1XUztldRfE3CgU8tAbhbwEccRio0f4wgCLcB/s1600/IMG_4660.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gg9D0QPVpBs/WGfPwumBfoI/AAAAAAAAArE/n1XUztldRfE3CgU8tAbhbwEccRio0f4wgCLcB/s320/IMG_4660.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Stu participated in the Camino Global conference&amp;nbsp;in Puebla of 27 team leaders from around the world for a week of trai&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;ning&amp;nbsp;(Oct 24-31).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NGLxGFCZ8-0/WGfPwYlvlUI/AAAAAAAAArA/duF75JHFbcMyF2wY6UZxrVxZIaAuDmwGgCLcB/s1600/IMG_4688.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NGLxGFCZ8-0/WGfPwYlvlUI/AAAAAAAAArA/duF75JHFbcMyF2wY6UZxrVxZIaAuDmwGgCLcB/s320/IMG_4688.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Leaders of our mission Camino Global met with pastors in Puebla at the end of the week at the Puebla Bible Seminary (Oct 31).&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PCCr3vWDDdA/WGfPyGrK3lI/AAAAAAAAArI/tdQAEEgSAk0vH5N4ZW2CkWWKhm1YLTqQACLcB/s1600/IMG_4690.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PCCr3vWDDdA/WGfPyGrK3lI/AAAAAAAAArI/tdQAEEgSAk0vH5N4ZW2CkWWKhm1YLTqQACLcB/s320/IMG_4690.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Stu shared a message about "Love and Respect" at a couples dinner at our previous mother church Villa de las Flores in Mexico City (Nov 12).&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WwBp-fWNo3c/WGfP-5nBMLI/AAAAAAAAArM/f8hzyG6ItfET1sxNnujb7HqdSy1ysewzQCLcB/s1600/IMG_4705.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WwBp-fWNo3c/WGfP-5nBMLI/AAAAAAAAArM/f8hzyG6ItfET1sxNnujb7HqdSy1ysewzQCLcB/s320/IMG_4705.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Joyas Church that we planted in Mexico City invited Stu to be the speaker for their 6th anniversary celebration. &amp;nbsp;He shared a challenge to reach out to new families from John 4 (Nov 13)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BVqSoKohLjs/WGfQDPEjZ1I/AAAAAAAAArQ/yXwOnRMci1IeE_uOsP8Cqs-5S9xuJksvQCLcB/s1600/IMG_4714.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BVqSoKohLjs/WGfQDPEjZ1I/AAAAAAAAArQ/yXwOnRMci1IeE_uOsP8Cqs-5S9xuJksvQCLcB/s320/IMG_4714.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;After the anniversary worship service, we enjoyed a great time of fellowship with the Joyas Church in their freshly painted and decorated expansion of the church building.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hPAlOVuPLg4/WGfQVibjcLI/AAAAAAAAArk/iURmELhja9UMgEejvKZIoNwCONsspOXcgCLcB/s1600/IMG_4815.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hPAlOVuPLg4/WGfQVibjcLI/AAAAAAAAArk/iURmELhja9UMgEejvKZIoNwCONsspOXcgCLcB/s320/IMG_4815.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Stu continues to maintain contact with the church leaders in Mexico City. &amp;nbsp;He participated in a weekend men's retreat by the Teotihuacan pyramids near Mexico City (Nov 20-21).&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dcMS7BiUJZU/WGfQGsD_9cI/AAAAAAAAArY/eJBodXIRFkwmyW2hNIVfvkZc1tY2LZRDACLcB/s1600/IMG_4763.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dcMS7BiUJZU/WGfQGsD_9cI/AAAAAAAAArY/eJBodXIRFkwmyW2hNIVfvkZc1tY2LZRDACLcB/s320/IMG_4763.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Esteban and Ivana were married last month in Puebla. &amp;nbsp;They met serving together in the Summer Missionary Project in recent years, and they plan to serve as missionaries with an ethnic group in Oaxaca, south of Puebla (Nov 19).&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-912oZUnZ-Cs/WGfQPBKzqyI/AAAAAAAAArc/2Qf9jnduF8cwxYUeze7A5xxqtt1N4D31QCLcB/s1600/IMG_4795.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-912oZUnZ-Cs/WGfQPBKzqyI/AAAAAAAAArc/2Qf9jnduF8cwxYUeze7A5xxqtt1N4D31QCLcB/s320/IMG_4795.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We have been worshiping with the Eternal Rock church since August exploring possibilities for missions involvement. &amp;nbsp;We hosted the families of the church leaders in our home, from the right are Pastor Juan Manuel, Delfina and&amp;nbsp;Bernie, Axel and Carol (Nov 20).&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZiCPAsdbmI4/WGfQT8B8O4I/AAAAAAAAArg/zyUCI7MJuZU1EiCa0PFzOyFQF8NCc9f8ACLcB/s1600/IMG_4802.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZiCPAsdbmI4/WGfQT8B8O4I/AAAAAAAAArg/zyUCI7MJuZU1EiCa0PFzOyFQF8NCc9f8ACLcB/s320/IMG_4802.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We are enjoying getting to know Pastor Juan Manuel and his wife Rocio, who went to Argentina for training with Word of Life (2002-2005), and started the Eternal Rock church in 2008. &amp;nbsp;Their son Yohanan is finishing his residency as a medical student, and Keila just graduated from her college studies in communications.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_Ay7t2M49ec/WGfQczBLNdI/AAAAAAAAAro/LxRXbOgF2mYxm1MMCGBbnRY9e-djvx2mACLcB/s1600/IMG_4867.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_Ay7t2M49ec/WGfQczBLNdI/AAAAAAAAAro/LxRXbOgF2mYxm1MMCGBbnRY9e-djvx2mACLcB/s320/IMG_4867.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We hosted an Appreciation Dinner for the staff and mentors of the Puebla Bible Seminary. &amp;nbsp;The Seminary director Kevin Bult and his wife (far left) are fellow missionaries with Camino Global (Dec 9)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XWrlwHxcc8M/WGfQl-dW4iI/AAAAAAAAArs/8E-__h5iPr4dSn95moqWrf0H1yX3QJdwwCLcB/s1600/IMG_4874.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XWrlwHxcc8M/WGfQl-dW4iI/AAAAAAAAArs/8E-__h5iPr4dSn95moqWrf0H1yX3QJdwwCLcB/s320/IMG_4874.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We invited the Director of the Summer Missionary Project Fernando and his wife Maru and two daughters to attend the Coro Unido Christmas concert of 300 singers from various churches in Puebla (Dec 17 &amp;amp; 18). &amp;nbsp;Fernando drove 5 hours to Puebla, and invited two of his sisters to attend as well (next to Erica on the left, Dec 16).&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mSJcqB_n78I/WGfPTTZvI-I/AAAAAAAAAqw/rnu4jp6wlFIDbrlq6oUMrbbWgUdeiIXCwCLcB/s1600/DSCN3931.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mSJcqB_n78I/WGfPTTZvI-I/AAAAAAAAAqw/rnu4jp6wlFIDbrlq6oUMrbbWgUdeiIXCwCLcB/s320/DSCN3931.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Coro Unido began rehearsals for these Christmas concerts in February to present quality Christian music with an evangelistic message, orchestra, handbells, children's choir and ballerinas. &amp;nbsp;The concerts were presented in a 3000-seat auditorium on two evenings, as well in the Puebla city square. &amp;nbsp;Cristina and Daniel participated in the choir practices every other week during this past year (Dec 17)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-geAtdWHrjqc/WGfW7rLsAuI/AAAAAAAAAsk/tdR0hxutb8gyS5FkZGZIrPb2VR14hj4ogCLcB/s1600/DSCN3926.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-geAtdWHrjqc/WGfW7rLsAuI/AAAAAAAAAsk/tdR0hxutb8gyS5FkZGZIrPb2VR14hj4ogCLcB/s320/DSCN3926.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Where's Waldo? &amp;nbsp;Can you see Cristina in the alto section of the choir?&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mZabozmT1to/WGfW7_V7gEI/AAAAAAAAAso/dKYYXCZ4VokpRBTujKYV2BtFnIkkgt4sQCLcB/s1600/DSCN3927.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mZabozmT1to/WGfW7_V7gEI/AAAAAAAAAso/dKYYXCZ4VokpRBTujKYV2BtFnIkkgt4sQCLcB/s320/DSCN3927.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Danny sang with the bass section of the Coro Unido (United Chorus).&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uB2Z4qTrZLw/WGfPe9E1DHI/AAAAAAAAAq0/BAhblJhyvE0ITgHBoexdKLEJrOtvJ4L8gCLcB/s1600/DSCN3939.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uB2Z4qTrZLw/WGfPe9E1DHI/AAAAAAAAAq0/BAhblJhyvE0ITgHBoexdKLEJrOtvJ4L8gCLcB/s320/DSCN3939.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;This is the view from the house of Cristina's parents overlooking the coffee and sugar cane plantation in Juan Viñas, Costa Rica. &amp;nbsp;We try to visit them every other Christmas for three weeks, and this year we are glad that Erica was able to coordinate her plans to join us during her Christmas vacation from Liberty University (Dec 21-Jan 10).&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7jcO6Lh0OFk/WGfPhYcv_SI/AAAAAAAAAq4/2nI0jmlZfK8uQcw9TziImUUJIrgBqREigCLcB/s1600/DSCN3945.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7jcO6Lh0OFk/WGfPhYcv_SI/AAAAAAAAAq4/2nI0jmlZfK8uQcw9TziImUUJIrgBqREigCLcB/s320/DSCN3945.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Cristina is glad to see her dad Santos recuperating well from surgery two years ago to remove his right foot. &amp;nbsp;He gets around well with his wheel chair and prosthetic foot, and keeps active gardening. &amp;nbsp;He loves to cut the grass with a machete.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NWlhgmd45v0/WGfQqRI6cfI/AAAAAAAAArw/sp1AJ92sxrIPtpGAXhRXSCadEtpPnn5zgCLcB/s1600/IMG_4891.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NWlhgmd45v0/WGfQqRI6cfI/AAAAAAAAArw/sp1AJ92sxrIPtpGAXhRXSCadEtpPnn5zgCLcB/s320/IMG_4891.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Cristina is enjoying time with her siblings: &amp;nbsp;from left, her youngest brother Edgar, Cristina, Julio, and her only sister Xinia. &amp;nbsp;Julio was visiting from the capital San Jose; Edgar and Xinia live in J&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;uan Vi&lt;span style="font-size: 12.8px;"&gt;ñ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12.8px;"&gt;as near their parents. &amp;nbsp;Not pictured here are three other brothers who live an hour away: &amp;nbsp;Jorge, Rafael, and Freddy (see below).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iNLpW-ZKMY8/WGfQyttn-TI/AAAAAAAAAr4/6u0PR2E7cK8RpRJF2z-cZ6_5XbF237uLACLcB/s1600/IMG_4915.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iNLpW-ZKMY8/WGfQyttn-TI/AAAAAAAAAr4/6u0PR2E7cK8RpRJF2z-cZ6_5XbF237uLACLcB/s320/IMG_4915.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Erica and Daniel with their uncle Freddy who came to visit. &amp;nbsp;They are enjoying time with 6 of their nearby cousins (all boys), grandparents and aunts and uncles. &amp;nbsp;Since Erica was not able to visit Costa Rica with us in 2015, she hasn't see them for four years.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aqMhSLMpTNM/WGfQuu32B1I/AAAAAAAAAr0/zWxvmWBLwlYqB-3JDxY4bgqq1mNS5DZVwCLcB/s1600/IMG_4903.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aqMhSLMpTNM/WGfQuu32B1I/AAAAAAAAAr0/zWxvmWBLwlYqB-3JDxY4bgqq1mNS5DZVwCLcB/s320/IMG_4903.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We built a larger porch on the house of Cristina's parents this week. &amp;nbsp;This allows space for the whole family to enjoy holiday celebrations--everyone loves to be together!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
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1019.      <link>http://grewatz.blogspot.com/2016/09/a-summer-full-of-gods-blessings-danny.html</link>
1020.      <source url="http://grewatz.blogspot.com/">Multiplying Churches in the World's Largest City</source>
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1022.      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2016 21:52:00 -0500</pubDate>
1023.      <description>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;A Summer Full of God's Blessings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-siYy0NRh5qQ/V-n6PjNr8II/AAAAAAAAAmw/iy8GSFf-EKgaicHAlblJwBi24Z8OedzzACLcB/s1600/IMG_3842.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-siYy0NRh5qQ/V-n6PjNr8II/AAAAAAAAAmw/iy8GSFf-EKgaicHAlblJwBi24Z8OedzzACLcB/s320/IMG_3842.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Danny helped with worship at the graduation ceremony for Puebla Christian School in May. &amp;nbsp;He will graduate next year.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3yywu4-Xj-E/V-n6PQPNHYI/AAAAAAAAAms/OHD672W2-GkVISdc1pKVSNF84S4-kIRcgCLcB/s1600/IMG_3879.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3yywu4-Xj-E/V-n6PQPNHYI/AAAAAAAAAms/OHD672W2-GkVISdc1pKVSNF84S4-kIRcgCLcB/s320/IMG_3879.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Erica enjoyed two months with us in Mexico after her first semester at Liberty University. &amp;nbsp;Danny served in Minneapolis as a youth intern from June to August.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8loeMOVQwwc/V-n6So2T6JI/AAAAAAAAAm0/j1gw1w5g2q4lfjDJosp5x1UU6npBrzXOQCLcB/s1600/IMG_3914.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8loeMOVQwwc/V-n6So2T6JI/AAAAAAAAAm0/j1gw1w5g2q4lfjDJosp5x1UU6npBrzXOQCLcB/s320/IMG_3914.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Stu's mother visited us in May and returned in August to do seven dental implants.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--Nl_Y4NljVQ/V-n6TwPUETI/AAAAAAAAAm4/QaxOtDnlA-QMyaaFs3sY4jeojr8MaWDkwCLcB/s1600/IMG_3949.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--Nl_Y4NljVQ/V-n6TwPUETI/AAAAAAAAAm4/QaxOtDnlA-QMyaaFs3sY4jeojr8MaWDkwCLcB/s320/IMG_3949.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We enjoyed a barbecue in our home with our Wednesday night small group.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IWw4h8IAYBo/V-n6Y8-3hKI/AAAAAAAAAnI/ImFJuIAHVXwpfFEfE9ahuWtn8cSr0qjegCLcB/s1600/IMG_4062.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IWw4h8IAYBo/V-n6Y8-3hKI/AAAAAAAAAnI/ImFJuIAHVXwpfFEfE9ahuWtn8cSr0qjegCLcB/s320/IMG_4062.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Our missionary team meets monthly for fellowship, prayer and accountability--and sometimes to swim.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4ocB7-4SR1s/V-3PAOKNWVI/AAAAAAAAApo/lV5dUnHMNIEEMiEqjK0p2pdqsOVza6dJwCLcB/s1600/FB_IMG_1475199661097.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4ocB7-4SR1s/V-3PAOKNWVI/AAAAAAAAApo/lV5dUnHMNIEEMiEqjK0p2pdqsOVza6dJwCLcB/s320/FB_IMG_1475199661097.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We are excited to welcome Megan (right) to our T2 team of missionaries. &amp;nbsp;She arrived in August to teach at the Puebla Christian School in the areas of ESL, college prep, career and academic adviser, and school nurse. &amp;nbsp;Welcome, Megan!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-24mTf9B107U/V-n6T09dktI/AAAAAAAAAm8/ACZ2bgC8UWc0EaaxR4t76ElThQ1M8YDmACLcB/s1600/IMG_3996.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-24mTf9B107U/V-n6T09dktI/AAAAAAAAAm8/ACZ2bgC8UWc0EaaxR4t76ElThQ1M8YDmACLcB/s320/IMG_3996.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Karen graduated from the Seminary on June 11, and is now serving short term in an orphanage in Peru. &amp;nbsp;She will return to Puebla to serve full-time in the missions ministry of her church as she defines future plans to serve as a missionary.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aAw-fytNVtI/V-n6WJYUI5I/AAAAAAAAAnA/45ypNzRjxGMCvaTbGpfYLwJNOv0lyJ5XACLcB/s1600/IMG_4004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aAw-fytNVtI/V-n6WJYUI5I/AAAAAAAAAnA/45ypNzRjxGMCvaTbGpfYLwJNOv0lyJ5XACLcB/s320/IMG_4004.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Karen began serving as a summer missionary when she was 15, and decided to study at the Seminary as preparation for missionary service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DpCC_EwbxFk/V-n6O-9eA2I/AAAAAAAAAmo/uvf07-r6FrYBxtEyShQhq31wMSKQeEJoACLcB/s1600/IMG_3826.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DpCC_EwbxFk/V-n6O-9eA2I/AAAAAAAAAmo/uvf07-r6FrYBxtEyShQhq31wMSKQeEJoACLcB/s320/IMG_3826.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Carlos and Alejandra shared at a pastors' breakfast at the Seminary about their preparations to serve in China in 1 or 2 years. A&lt;span style="font-size: 12.8px;"&gt;fter serving several years with us as a summer missionary,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12.8px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Alejandra decided to study at the Seminary where she met her husband Carlos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9jZawqneaqo/V-n6b90JLeI/AAAAAAAAAnQ/HW5duQpftHQXnbVF9bSsdtWb7TbmEtSGgCLcB/s1600/IMG_4118.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9jZawqneaqo/V-n6b90JLeI/AAAAAAAAAnQ/HW5duQpftHQXnbVF9bSsdtWb7TbmEtSGgCLcB/s320/IMG_4118.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Josue and Naye met through their service with Summer Missionary Project. &amp;nbsp;Josue asked for prayer and counsel three years ago in our home concerning his interest in beginning a relationship with Naye.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uNjr1NKoTT0/V-n6XwKT7UI/AAAAAAAAAnE/TC_AGZH6wNMWqIzZIxaR2Ug9jqW8B1McwCLcB/s1600/IMG_4064.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uNjr1NKoTT0/V-n6XwKT7UI/AAAAAAAAAnE/TC_AGZH6wNMWqIzZIxaR2Ug9jqW8B1McwCLcB/s320/IMG_4064.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12.8px;"&gt;At Josue and Naye's wedding on June 19, w&lt;/span&gt;e were able to see Alex and Liz who serve in Turkey.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TXYocUnFW8w/V-n6cRcx6_I/AAAAAAAAAnU/NKCJNaF3XlcTdqSr_mZ2SRY8rux7CWIrACLcB/s1600/IMG_4146.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TXYocUnFW8w/V-n6cRcx6_I/AAAAAAAAAnU/NKCJNaF3XlcTdqSr_mZ2SRY8rux7CWIrACLcB/s320/IMG_4146.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The wedding was a great Summer Missionary reunion--all of these young people met through this ministry.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aofezKA5gEs/V-n6d04rUII/AAAAAAAAAnY/HHGjRnSyhBsuumMbzDUbvlxRCyR00sjbQCLcB/s1600/IMG_4175.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aofezKA5gEs/V-n6d04rUII/AAAAAAAAAnY/HHGjRnSyhBsuumMbzDUbvlxRCyR00sjbQCLcB/s320/IMG_4175.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Andrea is a missionary-nurse serving with the Tarahumara ethnic group in Chihuahua. &amp;nbsp;She met Luis in the hospital where they serve and are making plans for a December wedding.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jI-jcBAnZC8/V-n6g9cciLI/AAAAAAAAAng/o2h75pCPRQ8pKJk0S2-7OpSvMvYpjByYwCLcB/s1600/IMG_4272.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jI-jcBAnZC8/V-n6g9cciLI/AAAAAAAAAng/o2h75pCPRQ8pKJk0S2-7OpSvMvYpjByYwCLcB/s320/IMG_4272.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Cristina reviews the visuals and materials for the Summer Missionary training camp in July.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TW2obH19CkU/V-n6h9dM7LI/AAAAAAAAAnk/MSdTVSByXecIRD4riEX2DyaTag0jJc7zQCLcB/s1600/IMG_4298.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TW2obH19CkU/V-n6h9dM7LI/AAAAAAAAAnk/MSdTVSByXecIRD4riEX2DyaTag0jJc7zQCLcB/s320/IMG_4298.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Jafet from the Sembrador Church learns how to present a song for a kids club during the training week.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R7Pz8dFwowI/V-n6nGX6z_I/AAAAAAAAAnw/ySdzmH8tOYI1Ssdx8rREoT1hGQ2y4qwsACLcB/s1600/IMG_4328.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R7Pz8dFwowI/V-n6nGX6z_I/AAAAAAAAAnw/ySdzmH8tOYI1Ssdx8rREoT1hGQ2y4qwsACLcB/s320/IMG_4328.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Karen presents her Bible lesson with her group during the training week.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Qt-AoYAhTI0/V-n6pOPm4II/AAAAAAAAAn0/c4Yc22vlLH8XNZj7KDFlb31Gi0FBEQGEgCLcB/s1600/IMG_4338.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Qt-AoYAhTI0/V-n6pOPm4II/AAAAAAAAAn0/c4Yc22vlLH8XNZj7KDFlb31Gi0FBEQGEgCLcB/s320/IMG_4338.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Stu helped train this group to prepare their Bible lessons.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7yTSSZJW6Aw/V-n6re1JzAI/AAAAAAAAAn8/IFn6l5i8Dv0WxJKm_vplxlPLji2rSZAGwCLcB/s1600/IMG_4346.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7yTSSZJW6Aw/V-n6re1JzAI/AAAAAAAAAn8/IFn6l5i8Dv0WxJKm_vplxlPLji2rSZAGwCLcB/s320/IMG_4346.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We trained 25 Mexican young people from the city to do 5-day kids clubs.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-odhotFAc-D4/V-n6rXf6qEI/AAAAAAAAAn4/jTduHRabxCwvCLk1SGrgsxojB658OGI0QCLcB/s1600/IMG_4358.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-odhotFAc-D4/V-n6rXf6qEI/AAAAAAAAAn4/jTduHRabxCwvCLk1SGrgsxojB658OGI0QCLcB/s320/IMG_4358.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Our Summer Missionary leadership team includes three couples and five singles (2 not shown)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5czpc-aC6lM/V-n6xF9xBOI/AAAAAAAAAoI/cORys6gwXBAQyfs4wImK96FOQSOdJAbJQCLcB/s1600/IMG_4389.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5czpc-aC6lM/V-n6xF9xBOI/AAAAAAAAAoI/cORys6gwXBAQyfs4wImK96FOQSOdJAbJQCLcB/s320/IMG_4389.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;We trained Lolita &amp;nbsp;as a Summer Missionary in 2008 in Tlapa, and our training this year coincided with her wedding with Adam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nLcg3opHIRA/V-n68mvYibI/AAAAAAAAAoo/x10ksfIXulkdXsmCp-O_MQ4mR21WxHfCQCLcB/s1600/IMG_4531.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nLcg3opHIRA/V-n68mvYibI/AAAAAAAAAoo/x10ksfIXulkdXsmCp-O_MQ4mR21WxHfCQCLcB/s320/IMG_4531.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Tlacoapa is a rural village hidden in an isolated mountain valley.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hhgEZvc2FiA/V-n7CwJv7iI/AAAAAAAAAo4/GT5vRbq4IMAEogv2MeFDwvGNyL7LTXYOQCLcB/s1600/IMG_4585.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hhgEZvc2FiA/V-n7CwJv7iI/AAAAAAAAAo4/GT5vRbq4IMAEogv2MeFDwvGNyL7LTXYOQCLcB/s320/IMG_4585.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The city hall in Tlacoapa displays the MePha language, which is very different from Spanish.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EEzdK-TbgL8/V-n630VhBYI/AAAAAAAAAoc/ejCpAWTUgCweb3QNkO6EL5enD7UqB55NwCLcB/s1600/IMG_4481.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EEzdK-TbgL8/V-n630VhBYI/AAAAAAAAAoc/ejCpAWTUgCweb3QNkO6EL5enD7UqB55NwCLcB/s320/IMG_4481.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Tlacoapa is known for its pineapples.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TJdEjglFwUE/V-n7ARLquXI/AAAAAAAAAow/BAnoIkZMt08xryFwgVydB_UffbA8aTYqACLcB/s1600/IMG_4552.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TJdEjglFwUE/V-n7ARLquXI/AAAAAAAAAow/BAnoIkZMt08xryFwgVydB_UffbA8aTYqACLcB/s320/IMG_4552.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Pastor Galo and his wife Flor invited us to train the youth and coordinated plans with the 12 receiving churches. &amp;nbsp;We met them in 2008 during our first training camp. &amp;nbsp;Galo is Pastor Jose's younger brother.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YL7sMP8MmYA/V-n6vB8qhYI/AAAAAAAAAoE/kFANypUsE48i7tlt5TLiliCe-E74Zdl7ACLcB/s1600/IMG_4411.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YL7sMP8MmYA/V-n6vB8qhYI/AAAAAAAAAoE/kFANypUsE48i7tlt5TLiliCe-E74Zdl7ACLcB/s320/IMG_4411.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Stu shared the Sunday message in Tlacoapa at the beginning of the training week in Tlapa. &amp;nbsp;He used the visuals of the five children's Bible lessons to trace the prophecies of the Messiah from Genesis to Revelation.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YqC88YD2kEU/V-n6xolqOQI/AAAAAAAAAoM/aG0HX5Yo4bwa8x_4eGP34cVoziDSbJ1owCLcB/s1600/IMG_4413.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YqC88YD2kEU/V-n6xolqOQI/AAAAAAAAAoM/aG0HX5Yo4bwa8x_4eGP34cVoziDSbJ1owCLcB/s320/IMG_4413.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pastor Jose lost his wife to kidney failure days before the Summer missionary training that was hosted in his church. &amp;nbsp;Despite grieving his loss, he decided to proceed with training the 25 youth that were sent out to the 12 churches in the rural mountain villages in August.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" st</description>
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1026.      <title></title>
1027.      <link>http://grewatz.blogspot.com/2016/05/celebrating-good-news-of-death-and.html</link>
1028.      <source url="http://grewatz.blogspot.com/">Multiplying Churches in the World's Largest City</source>
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1030.      <pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2016 20:52:00 -0500</pubDate>
1031.      <description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Celebrating Good News of Death and Resurrection&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zf1KWlYYX5Q/Vyu3CijveXI/AAAAAAAAAk0/UxWmtsGD95oyLjTUXlfFnTzHUwg68Ko9gCLcB/s1600/IMG_1019.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zf1KWlYYX5Q/Vyu3CijveXI/AAAAAAAAAk0/UxWmtsGD95oyLjTUXlfFnTzHUwg68Ko9gCLcB/s320/IMG_1019.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"&gt;Gustavo and Mayra are leading the youth group and worship team for the Joyas Church. &amp;nbsp;Gustavo was robbed while working in a convenience store one Sunday morning, and decided it would be better to put God first and be in church on Sundays.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xZZD70sDiCQ/Vyu3A3g-I7I/AAAAAAAAAkw/f1Y2ZnUrF9kyZ1r2LjX7R4w3rOO8jrO8gCLcB/s1600/DSC05046.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xZZD70sDiCQ/Vyu3A3g-I7I/AAAAAAAAAkw/f1Y2ZnUrF9kyZ1r2LjX7R4w3rOO8jrO8gCLcB/s320/DSC05046.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Gustavo with his parents Rodrigo and Julie from the Joyas Church&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xauMUIxcNJc/Vyu3e40K_GI/AAAAAAAAAlU/knlAEuwK9E839tGOA302Lw8UKevHSTxYACLcB/s1600/IMG_3591.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xauMUIxcNJc/Vyu3e40K_GI/AAAAAAAAAlU/knlAEuwK9E839tGOA302Lw8UKevHSTxYACLcB/s320/IMG_3591.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"&gt;Stu and Cristina with the Joyas Church leaders Rodrigo and Julie with Miguel and Janet (right).&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kMyxZ-1N3is/Vyu282J6aoI/AAAAAAAAAks/_eyLslVhDtE-EaQFdS_emHZBjBy4Nu_qACLcB/s1600/20151211_121259.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kMyxZ-1N3is/Vyu282J6aoI/AAAAAAAAAks/_eyLslVhDtE-EaQFdS_emHZBjBy4Nu_qACLcB/s320/20151211_121259.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"&gt;Stu with 20 students in the Basic Coaching Skills module at Puebla Bible Seminary in December 2015&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pRNn8Z4Nuog/Vyu3c-uR4JI/AAAAAAAAAlQ/PVCEEhEI50kqgUnSTjKCIoiQby3l-iulgCLcB/s1600/IMG_3366.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pRNn8Z4Nuog/Vyu3c-uR4JI/AAAAAAAAAlQ/PVCEEhEI50kqgUnSTjKCIoiQby3l-iulgCLcB/s320/IMG_3366.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"&gt;Students worked in trios to practice their coaching skills at the Seminary module.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5TMl-jqLrsc/Vyu3mz_BqlI/AAAAAAAAAlY/f3VSeK8kVBMphQSuQiQYKtGxSHturWCpwCLcB/s1600/IMG_3648.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5TMl-jqLrsc/Vyu3mz_BqlI/AAAAAAAAAlY/f3VSeK8kVBMphQSuQiQYKtGxSHturWCpwCLcB/s320/IMG_3648.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"&gt;We enjoyed an annual retreat in February with Summer Missionary Project alumni and prospects at the Koinonia Camp&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YpWPzRbGClA/Vyu3ICDKc6I/AAAAAAAAAk4/WglTO1uX5O0-1jatqKdYTcLKopA-9laCgCLcB/s1600/IMG_1162.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YpWPzRbGClA/Vyu3ICDKc6I/AAAAAAAAAk4/WglTO1uX5O0-1jatqKdYTcLKopA-9laCgCLcB/s320/IMG_1162.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Stu with Pastor Galo from the Tlapaneco ethnic group. &amp;nbsp;We trained Galo and 20 others from Tlapa in 2008, and this pastor recently invited us to help them train 30 youth to do 5-day kids clubs. &amp;nbsp;He was so impressed with the impact of two youth we trained last summer from his church that he encouraged the Tlapaneco churches to participate this year in training youth and evangelizing children.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5qaSPIprpa8/Vyu3LZ8L_8I/AAAAAAAAAk8/lc9ngDF_iVQtMnKfmeJnw0ljnkt8hZJtgCLcB/s1600/IMG_2711.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5qaSPIprpa8/Vyu3LZ8L_8I/AAAAAAAAAk8/lc9ngDF_iVQtMnKfmeJnw0ljnkt8hZJtgCLcB/s320/IMG_2711.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Stu and Cristina helped to train the 4 youth from the Tlapaneco ethnic group in July 2015. &amp;nbsp;Pray for these four young people (Eufemia, Loida, Claudio, Miguel) as they return this year as trainers for the new youth (July 24-31).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FD28CVylLjA/Vyu3xNBjhiI/AAAAAAAAAlo/ZX5ptYDO994kwPPwmwrHnlv7EYGjNmRkwCLcB/s1600/IMG_3770.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FD28CVylLjA/Vyu3xNBjhiI/AAAAAAAAAlo/ZX5ptYDO994kwPPwmwrHnlv7EYGjNmRkwCLcB/s320/IMG_3770.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"&gt;A monthly breakfast for eight pastors in Puebla led by Chalo (background) in our home. &amp;nbsp;Pray for opportunities of collaboration among the Bible Churches in Puebla.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EwKR4VIQZ5I/Vyu34bxBiSI/AAAAAAAAAls/ShtAqJUBfrozbuEaD39dYkCQlnfL8jUvQCLcB/s1600/IMG_3791.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EwKR4VIQZ5I/Vyu34bxBiSI/AAAAAAAAAls/ShtAqJUBfrozbuEaD39dYkCQlnfL8jUvQCLcB/s320/IMG_3791.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"&gt;We enjoyed a "Seek First" retreat with the families of Pastor Carlos and elder Moses with their families in April. &amp;nbsp;The teaching during the retreat was Resolving Conflicts.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R7JgqoDcGRw/Vyu3NNwcWtI/AAAAAAAAAlA/FC9BOlnEEPIEVUZaHTlUhNeuexMeXoTgACLcB/s1600/IMG_2787.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R7JgqoDcGRw/Vyu3NNwcWtI/AAAAAAAAAlA/FC9BOlnEEPIEVUZaHTlUhNeuexMeXoTgACLcB/s320/IMG_2787.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;We are working with Adrian and Anabel to start the Missions Team with a focus on personal evangelism and local outreach. &amp;nbsp;Pray for this Missions Team as we develop plans to start a daughter church this year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y75XRyII8AM/Vyu3Sd8Z7yI/AAAAAAAAAlE/rZjL5h2vNagd3rKk426OtdJrMwQg3acUACLcB/s1600/IMG_3128.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y75XRyII8AM/Vyu3Sd8Z7yI/AAAAAAAAAlE/rZjL5h2vNagd3rKk426OtdJrMwQg3acUACLcB/s320/IMG_3128.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;We did pre-marital counseling with this young couple Orlando and Alejandra who were married in December. &amp;nbsp;They are now helping as youth group &amp;nbsp;leaders in the Sembrador Church.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sLjMPRjOAFA/Vyu3WPf8vhI/AAAAAAAAAlI/ib0v-fGevcc3kazR4b-3w58zHkQt4lfdgCLcB/s1600/IMG_3224.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sLjMPRjOAFA/Vyu3WPf8vhI/AAAAAAAAAlI/ib0v-fGevcc3kazR4b-3w58zHkQt4lfdgCLcB/s320/IMG_3224.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Megan (next to Cristina) was meeting with other teachers at Puebla Christian School during her visit in November. &amp;nbsp;She came to Puebla last summer with a youth team from Minneapolis, and has been accepted as a mid-term missionary with Camino Global to teach at PCS beginning in August.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v1GZYubbv14/Vyu3ZKoVziI/AAAAAAAAAlM/JuHUu4o98PYqeY8XhaftIbceQgrh8xuEgCLcB/s1600/IMG_3249.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v1GZYubbv14/Vyu3ZKoVziI/AAAAAAAAAlM/JuHUu4o98PYqeY8XhaftIbceQgrh8xuEgCLcB/s320/IMG_3249.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Danny will be working with Megan's youth group this summer, and then they return to Puebla.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-snz0kQeKUrU/Vyu3oA5ZU9I/AAAAAAAAAlc/jHmjvqjxKwEHa-rOhHYk8AQTKwNhgRzMACLcB/s1600/IMG_3662.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-snz0kQeKUrU/Vyu3oA5ZU9I/AAAAAAAAAlc/jHmjvqjxKwEHa-rOhHYk8AQTKwNhgRzMACLcB/s320/IMG_3662.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Danny enjoys teaching English with 3 youth from the Sembrador Church. &amp;nbsp;Jan helped in his class during his recent visit from Minnesota.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_6Tt2Rv8NlU/Vyu3wowSRdI/AAAAAAAAAlk/SFzHhknmH1I769vph6cpBXnxaYb4x_M0gCLcB/s1600/erica-liberty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_6Tt2Rv8NlU/Vyu3wowSRdI/AAAAAAAAAlk/SFzHhknmH1I769vph6cpBXnxaYb4x_M0gCLcB/s400/erica-liberty.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"&gt;Stu with Erica at Liberty University in Virginia after their road trip from Minnesota in January 2016. &amp;nbsp;She is finishing her first semester at Liberty and will enter the nursing program in the fall after finishing all of her prerequisites.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iblHhdNMyj4/Vyu3ubaorJI/AAAAAAAAAlg/qX_eNvyStVACrvCQjhjMfXmsN9-8nhT5ACLcB/s1600/IMG_3776.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iblHhdNMyj4/Vyu3ubaorJI/AAAAAAAAAlg/qX_eNvyStVACrvCQjhjMfXmsN9-8nhT5ACLcB/s320/IMG_3776.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Our car was covered with ash from the nearby Popocatepetl volcano one morning in April. &amp;nbsp;It looked like a dusting of snow, but it would not melt :-(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
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1034.      <title></title>
1035.      <link>http://grewatz.blogspot.com/2015/10/a-very-busy-and-fruitful-summer-stu.html</link>
1036.      <source url="http://grewatz.blogspot.com/">Multiplying Churches in the World's Largest City</source>
1037.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:aefa2644-8ec5-10f2-a957-6d8941ca4af2</guid>
1038.      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2015 23:47:00 -0500</pubDate>
1039.      <description>&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;A very busy and fruitful summer!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YF0pKf-qdLA/VhabGAHX07I/AAAAAAAAAeE/ra0jUogQcXg/s1600/IMG_2350.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YF0pKf-qdLA/VhabGAHX07I/AAAAAAAAAeE/ra0jUogQcXg/s400/IMG_2350.JPG" title="" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Stu celebrated Father's Day with elder Moses, Pastor Carlos and youth Pastor Mark from Minnesota with the typical Mexican moustache.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-deB5wcpTBXI/VhltnFbe5cI/AAAAAAAAAgE/qwJcLeiFSCg/s1600/IMG_2403.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-deB5wcpTBXI/VhltnFbe5cI/AAAAAAAAAgE/qwJcLeiFSCg/s400/IMG_2403.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Minnesota youth team visited the Puebla city hall and discovered the city was established in 1531.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bzyt53xY7Qc/VhltoFFtcuI/AAAAAAAAAgI/SjR1d7CupLU/s1600/IMG_2385.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bzyt53xY7Qc/VhltoFFtcuI/AAAAAAAAAgI/SjR1d7CupLU/s400/IMG_2385.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Youth enjoyed playing soccer as the bonfire was prepared.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EUwBnEetr_Q/VhltuR9CQvI/AAAAAAAAAgU/GESyXQdFWUs/s1600/IMG_2468.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EUwBnEetr_Q/VhltuR9CQvI/AAAAAAAAAgU/GESyXQdFWUs/s400/IMG_2468.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The gals from the team taught crafts to the ladies and shared their testimonies.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qnRjkX_dBPE/VhltyHkzsRI/AAAAAAAAAgc/r7rm_vo06ew/s1600/IMG_2473.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qnRjkX_dBPE/VhltyHkzsRI/AAAAAAAAAgc/r7rm_vo06ew/s400/IMG_2473.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The team was invited to&amp;nbsp;visit a local school.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OTovK94lKNc/Vhltxyfu6lI/AAAAAAAAAgg/qY7imkbW1u8/s1600/IMG_2485.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OTovK94lKNc/Vhltxyfu6lI/AAAAAAAAAgg/qY7imkbW1u8/s400/IMG_2485.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The drama communicated how Jesus helps young people overcome temptations.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8u4p1xPctq4/Vhlt9GPPqpI/AAAAAAAAAg4/cLznlCuDf9Y/s1600/IMG_2488.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8u4p1xPctq4/Vhlt9GPPqpI/AAAAAAAAAg4/cLznlCuDf9Y/s400/IMG_2488.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The team did maintenance projects like painting and sealing gaps where birds were entering the sanctuary.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wGBsAmFrgPw/Vhlt6gzsyTI/AAAAAAAAAgs/Q2e1PUt-VlI/s1600/IMG_2494.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wGBsAmFrgPw/Vhlt6gzsyTI/AAAAAAAAAgs/Q2e1PUt-VlI/s400/IMG_2494.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Friday night concert with three bands drew several churches and visitors with an evangelistic focus.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OtMBBeZ_nBA/Vhlt9Lj7ADI/AAAAAAAAAg0/txLoMV7zSTo/s1600/IMG_2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OtMBBeZ_nBA/Vhlt9Lj7ADI/AAAAAAAAAg0/txLoMV7zSTo/s400/IMG_2529.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;After the family festival on Saturday morning, the Minnesota team was&amp;nbsp;introduced and shared the gospel.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xzmGavon5GQ/VhluFJ2WIyI/AAAAAAAAAhE/1DL2KPdGdeg/s1600/IMG_2616.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xzmGavon5GQ/VhluFJ2WIyI/AAAAAAAAAhE/1DL2KPdGdeg/s400/IMG_2616.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;This symbolic decoration represents the US and Mexican collaboration between Grace Church Roseville (roses) and the Sembrador "Sower" Church (wheat).&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SR9X21n3xwk/VhluMJHauzI/AAAAAAAAAhU/umm4Og95zOU/s1600/IMG_2632.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SR9X21n3xwk/VhluMJHauzI/AAAAAAAAAhU/umm4Og95zOU/s400/IMG_2632.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Sembrador Church took a&amp;nbsp;farewell photo with the Minnesota team.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5y-cwJBXBms/VhluHvuFghI/AAAAAAAAAhM/NrrtomPM1iY/s1600/IMG_2673.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5y-cwJBXBms/VhluHvuFghI/AAAAAAAAAhM/NrrtomPM1iY/s400/IMG_2673.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Andrea&amp;nbsp;returned from&amp;nbsp;northern Mexico to join&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;Summer Missionary training team and shared with the youth about her first&amp;nbsp;five months serving as a missionary-nurse with the Tarahumara ethnic group (Feb-July).&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Liftd1_JS5o/VhluRvCXXlI/AAAAAAAAAhc/QEM2T5RdW0E/s1600/IMG_2677.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Liftd1_JS5o/VhluRvCXXlI/AAAAAAAAAhc/QEM2T5RdW0E/s400/IMG_2677.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Cristina enjoyed teaching the missionary story "Ringu of India" to the Summer Missionaries.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e1EHJ8WIFuk/VhluSGx7bMI/AAAAAAAAAhk/W62fbFu3-ao/s1600/IMG_2701.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e1EHJ8WIFuk/VhluSGx7bMI/AAAAAAAAAhk/W62fbFu3-ao/s400/IMG_2701.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We trained these 22 Mexican youth to do&amp;nbsp;three weeks of evangelistic kids clubs in July.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MFTyL4il2GA/VhluZoe4lrI/AAAAAAAAAhs/bqRxUTXelb8/s1600/IMG_2708.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MFTyL4il2GA/VhluZoe4lrI/AAAAAAAAAhs/bqRxUTXelb8/s400/IMG_2708.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Our leadership team of the Summer Missionary Project includes five young women, two couples, and three cooks.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NwQ4AaNZOJA/Vhluc_iOyII/AAAAAAAAAh0/4wkQ7IedCBU/s1600/IMG_2711.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NwQ4AaNZOJA/Vhluc_iOyII/AAAAAAAAAh0/4wkQ7IedCBU/s400/IMG_2711.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We enjoyed getting to know the four youth from Tlapa.&amp;nbsp; Two of them know Spanish well, but the other two preferred their mother tongue MePha.&amp;nbsp; Miguel is next to Stu.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-puJvPIw4heo/Vhlu0cvYtGI/AAAAAAAAAik/RLdDHPM1u0M/s1600/IMG_2840.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-puJvPIw4heo/Vhlu0cvYtGI/AAAAAAAAAik/RLdDHPM1u0M/s400/IMG_2840.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;During our closing&amp;nbsp;gathering for the Summer Missionary Project on August 8, Priscila shared about her exploratory trip to the Philippines in July and her call to reach the Muslims there.&amp;nbsp; She served in this ministry for several years.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TpHPAw8D8Zs/Vhlue5wf_aI/AAAAAAAAAh8/pAUIjELnTFE/s1600/IMG_2762.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TpHPAw8D8Zs/Vhlue5wf_aI/AAAAAAAAAh8/pAUIjELnTFE/s400/IMG_2762.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Daniel enjoyed teaching at the Sembrador VBS--this is one of the four groups that he taught.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KqFnEVGP-xw/VhlukRzf3eI/AAAAAAAAAiE/tLySJcwk_1o/s1600/IMG_2769.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KqFnEVGP-xw/VhlukRzf3eI/AAAAAAAAAiE/tLySJcwk_1o/s400/IMG_2769.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Here&amp;nbsp;are the Sembrador VBS leaders including teachers, cooks, and group leaders.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hlHQ0bahWZk/Vhlun7cBnWI/AAAAAAAAAiM/j-lxKyMJoqE/s1600/IMG_2784.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hlHQ0bahWZk/Vhlun7cBnWI/AAAAAAAAAiM/j-lxKyMJoqE/s400/IMG_2784.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Parents and families were invited to the final celebration at the end of the VBS week.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5wr-O7IMb0M/Vhluqh1S2ZI/AAAAAAAAAiU/XqLppbDEXFs/s1600/IMG_2787.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5wr-O7IMb0M/Vhluqh1S2ZI/AAAAAAAAAiU/XqLppbDEXFs/s400/IMG_2787.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Adrian and Anabel with their two children are interested in starting outreach in their community, which is about 20 minutes from the church.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d1NJ5h3U1FY/VhluxSSL6DI/AAAAAAAAAic/bkGErRaQ8Ng/s1600/IMG_2797.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d1NJ5h3U1FY/VhluxSSL6DI/AAAAAAAAAic/bkGErRaQ8Ng/s400/IMG_2797.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Erica enjoyed meeting the Sembrador leaders and their families during her visit to Puebla in August.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XRE1vpeX-mc/VhlvAuH-6qI/AAAAAAAAAjE/D2C4iBWXOjc/s1600/IMG_3120.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XRE1vpeX-mc/VhlvAuH-6qI/AAAAAAAAAjE/D2C4iBWXOjc/s400/IMG_3120.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We moved to this house on the day after Erica left (Aug 22) where we pay less rent&amp;nbsp;and have&amp;nbsp;the option to buy.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-58zsXBEfNJM/Vhlu3SBXMQI/AAAAAAAAAis/Lt0gmPU41Mg/s1600/IMG_2974.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-58zsXBEfNJM/Vhlu3SBXMQI/AAAAAAAAAis/Lt0gmPU41Mg/s400/IMG_2974.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Stu has shared in&amp;nbsp;several local churches about using the power of questions&amp;nbsp;through coaching.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pklzStF6Nu8/VhlVdE9L16I/AAAAAAAAAeU/s2F4Bdh10QQ/s1600/IMG_3077.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pklzStF6Nu8/VhlVdE9L16I/AAAAAAAAAeU/s2F4Bdh10QQ/s400/IMG_3077.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;This is one of the two&amp;nbsp;Parenting groups&amp;nbsp;that Stu&amp;nbsp;and Cristina are&amp;nbsp;teaching on Sundays--one group before and&amp;nbsp;the other&amp;nbsp;after the worship service (Sep-Nov).&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NpJfBDJYXbU/Vhlu--vlSJI/AAAAAAAAAi8/7LAB1C5g4JQ/s1600/IMG_3107.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NpJfBDJYXbU/Vhlu--vlSJI/AAAAAAAAAi8/7LAB1C5g4JQ/s400/IMG_3107.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We enjoyed wonderful teaching and fellowship times with fellow Camino Global missionaries at our annual conference (Sep29-Oct2)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yLqh8sTLGs8/VhlvDoOZpRI/AAAAAAAAAjM/ofZ40qf6juI/s1600/IMG_3122.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yLqh8sTLGs8/VhlvDoOZpRI/AAAAAAAAAjM/ofZ40qf6juI/s400/IMG_3122.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Our Wednesday small group with church leaders is studying "the 8 Habits of an effective small group leader" (Sep-Nov).&amp;nbsp; Paco and Reyna on the left came with their one-month-old daughter.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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1042.      <title></title>
1043.      <link>http://grewatz.blogspot.com/2015/06/sowing-and-reaping-through-summer.html</link>
1044.      <source url="http://grewatz.blogspot.com/">Multiplying Churches in the World's Largest City</source>
1045.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:3859dd38-7e88-7bb4-8222-7f3047dd1fab</guid>
1046.      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2015 11:09:00 -0500</pubDate>
1047.      <description>&lt;strong&gt;Sowing and Reaping through the Summer Missionary Project&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7YKiWAG7Mcw/VYQlTHb8A1I/AAAAAAAAAbE/RG-Rm7DjSG4/s1600/IMG_1565.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7YKiWAG7Mcw/VYQlTHb8A1I/AAAAAAAAAbE/RG-Rm7DjSG4/s400/IMG_1565.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Karen is beginning her final year of studies at the Puebla Bible Seminary.&amp;nbsp; She served for many years with the Summer Missionary project and is now on the leadership team for this ministry.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ijHi_MULcFY/VYQlVfXbjVI/AAAAAAAAAbU/DGjrdWPNVAA/s1600/IMG_1618.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ijHi_MULcFY/VYQlVfXbjVI/AAAAAAAAAbU/DGjrdWPNVAA/s400/IMG_1618.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pablo and Cris were married on March 22.&amp;nbsp; He is a high school teacher and she is a veterinarian.&amp;nbsp; They plan to travel to Europe this summer to investigate opportunities to serve as missionaries.&amp;nbsp; They have a heart to reach the Muslims in England and currently are involved in missions mobilization here in Mexico.&amp;nbsp; Pablo served as a Summer Missionary in 2002.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A6702o0OXT0/VYQlVDbMmJI/AAAAAAAAAbM/8yShG1GdxvY/s1600/IMG_1689.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A6702o0OXT0/VYQlVDbMmJI/AAAAAAAAAbM/8yShG1GdxvY/s400/IMG_1689.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Cristina was so grateful to see her father Santos at Easter and to know that he is recovering well from the foot amputation in January.&amp;nbsp; Pray for God's work in Santos' life.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Q1h2gH1qKHE/VYQlfLS7_2I/AAAAAAAAAbc/0txJ5kBV0UU/s1600/IMG_1975.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Q1h2gH1qKHE/VYQlfLS7_2I/AAAAAAAAAbc/0txJ5kBV0UU/s400/IMG_1975.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Cristina was surprised by the family celebration we planned for her 50th birthday in Costa Rica.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EUcDd6B1qw8/VYQlhqvnsiI/AAAAAAAAAbk/f4tNKMtwsx4/s1600/IMG_2019.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EUcDd6B1qw8/VYQlhqvnsiI/AAAAAAAAAbk/f4tNKMtwsx4/s400/IMG_2019.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We enjoyed making memories with Cristina's family at Easter.&amp;nbsp; Danny always enjoys seeing his cousins, aunts and uncles, and his grandparents.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FXDjXcj91hI/VYQljq6k7BI/AAAAAAAAAbs/hBrXXcWr3Kk/s1600/IMG_2066.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FXDjXcj91hI/VYQljq6k7BI/AAAAAAAAAbs/hBrXXcWr3Kk/s400/IMG_2066.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;In April we hosted our missionary T2 team in our home.&amp;nbsp; We are currently seven families with Camino Global in Puebla, and expecting the arrival of two new families this summer.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rqD791kXPFs/VYQlvO_rCuI/AAAAAAAAAb4/3oGGB3hQ9sM/s1600/IMG_2145.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rqD791kXPFs/VYQlvO_rCuI/AAAAAAAAAb4/3oGGB3hQ9sM/s400/IMG_2145.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;After our "Seek First" retreat, we enjoyed visiting Tequisquiapan with Pastor Carlos and Moises with their families.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--h6bVf-pBpA/VYQlvpX9ysI/AAAAAAAAAb0/9N2ZTfbRahM/s1600/IMG_2162.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--h6bVf-pBpA/VYQlvpX9ysI/AAAAAAAAAb0/9N2ZTfbRahM/s400/IMG_2162.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Danny enjoyed taking classes at Puebla Christian school this past semester and making lots of new friends.&amp;nbsp; Here he is with his choir class at a Spring Concert in May.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x2P5nR3RNKM/VYQlx8ITGxI/AAAAAAAAAcE/HfxGuv_6n1I/s1600/IMG_2207.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x2P5nR3RNKM/VYQlx8ITGxI/AAAAAAAAAcE/HfxGuv_6n1I/s400/IMG_2207.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Here is the entrance to the Sembrador (The Sower) Bible Church in Puebla where we began to partner in March for local and global missions.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vRntKUeoiYU/VYQl9RrtqHI/AAAAAAAAAcU/FQuz20P5xKM/s1600/IMG_2237.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vRntKUeoiYU/VYQl9RrtqHI/AAAAAAAAAcU/FQuz20P5xKM/s400/IMG_2237.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pastor Carlos (right) and Moises&amp;nbsp;with one of the 10 members of the Sembrador church&amp;nbsp;who were baptized on May 24.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TVw56_PRV9c/VYQl6-eZQkI/AAAAAAAAAcM/yygBqNDH2ko/s1600/IMG_2254.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TVw56_PRV9c/VYQl6-eZQkI/AAAAAAAAAcM/yygBqNDH2ko/s400/IMG_2254.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;In May we were thrilled to see Priscila&amp;nbsp;(next to Cristina)&amp;nbsp;as she visited churches in Puebla in preparation for a missions trip to the Philippines in July.&amp;nbsp; She will be investigating opportunities to reach Muslims as a career missionary.&amp;nbsp; Priscila&amp;nbsp;was trained&amp;nbsp;as a Summer Missionary in 2004 and served on the leadership team for many years.&amp;nbsp; Pray for God's direction and provision for Priscila.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QPZ_1kv-qGs/VYQ9JEXqi2I/AAAAAAAAAdE/w16k2yKpY-Q/s1600/IMG_2290crop.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="196" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QPZ_1kv-qGs/VYQ9JEXqi2I/AAAAAAAAAdE/w16k2yKpY-Q/s400/IMG_2290crop.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Cristina shared her testimony and call to missions at a campfire during this "New Generation for Missions" Conference on May 30.&amp;nbsp; We are excited to see these Mexican young professionals seeking opportunities for missionary service.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DW7sJrfS-6I/VYQmzHvAVWI/AAAAAAAAAc0/qDLOpO7W0bo/s1600/IMG_2320.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DW7sJrfS-6I/VYQmzHvAVWI/AAAAAAAAAc0/qDLOpO7W0bo/s400/IMG_2320.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We enjoyed meeting this family who is also seeking God's direction&amp;nbsp;as career missionaries, possibly reaching Muslims in the Philippines also.&amp;nbsp; Mariely served as a Summer Missionary in 2002, but we just met her family this month.&amp;nbsp; Stu began coaching with her husband Isaac this week.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DRKwlXfJxNc/VYQmkvL975I/AAAAAAAAAcs/G-JaWjeB3r8/s1600/IMG_2330.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DRKwlXfJxNc/VYQmkvL975I/AAAAAAAAAcs/G-JaWjeB3r8/s400/IMG_2330.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Obed graduated from the Puebla Bible seminary this week--here he is shown with the Director Luis Trujillo.&amp;nbsp; Obed and his wife Ariana (who is taking&amp;nbsp;a picture), both served as Summer Missionaries and are in ministry with a church in Mexico City.&amp;nbsp; They were married last year.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Qh7E1DLlQTs/VYQmCnCWfQI/AAAAAAAAAck/nGANQlo9qA0/s1600/Mexico-Team-Picture-2015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Qh7E1DLlQTs/VYQmCnCWfQI/AAAAAAAAAck/nGANQlo9qA0/s400/Mexico-Team-Picture-2015.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;This team of 14 youth and leaders arrive today to serve with us and the Sembrador church for youth outreach and other church projects from June 19-29.&amp;nbsp; Pray for God to use them and to work in their own hearts as well!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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1050.      <title>We're on The other side of the Volcanoes now!</title>
1051.      <link>http://grewatz.blogspot.com/2015/03/were-on-other-side-of-volcanoes-now.html</link>
1052.      <source url="http://grewatz.blogspot.com/">Multiplying Churches in the World's Largest City</source>
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1054.      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2015 19:53:00 -0600</pubDate>
1055.      <description>Mexico City is on the west side of two volcanoes--Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, and Puebla is on the east side.&amp;nbsp; Actually, in Puebla we are surrounded by volcanoes--these two to the west, Malinche to the north, and Orizaba to the east of us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-i3pKzPbQDgI%2FVQuNKL9s-5I%2FAAAAAAAAAaI%2FfPyGRfAlS1A%2Fs1600%2FIMG_1378.JPG&amp;amp;container=blogger&amp;amp;gadget=a&amp;amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i3pKzPbQDgI/VQuNKL9s-5I/AAAAAAAAAaI/fPyGRfAlS1A/s1600/IMG_1378.JPG" height="266" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Popocatepetl is our only active volcano just west of Puebla.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-smAh_q2ZDiM/VQuNLg5LzxI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/Q8nqWvu6gRo/s1600/IMG_1434.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-smAh_q2ZDiM/VQuNLg5LzxI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/Q8nqWvu6gRo/s1600/IMG_1434.JPG" height="265" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We are standing in front of the snow-covered Ixtaccihuatl volcano also west of Puebla.&amp;nbsp; It is said to resemble a woman lying on her back.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rsd2PFyjpGw/VQt3ANT32VI/AAAAAAAAAYg/k4rPDmRC_jg/s1600/IMG_1377.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rsd2PFyjpGw/VQt3ANT32VI/AAAAAAAAAYg/k4rPDmRC_jg/s1600/IMG_1377.JPG" height="266" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Just to the right of the Angelopolis ferris wheel is the Malinche volcano, north of Puebla.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oBbr3-IBZRY/VQt2tC-fwqI/AAAAAAAAAXw/dYyYRRYRoYo/s1600/IMG_1059.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oBbr3-IBZRY/VQt2tC-fwqI/AAAAAAAAAXw/dYyYRRYRoYo/s1600/IMG_1059.JPG" height="266" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Here is the house we are renting in Puebla where we&amp;nbsp;have been living since Dec 1st.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LlbmB7fnGpU/VQt21mL3DzI/AAAAAAAAAYI/mPq5XrNl1zY/s1600/IMG_1286.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LlbmB7fnGpU/VQt21mL3DzI/AAAAAAAAAYI/mPq5XrNl1zY/s1600/IMG_1286.JPG" height="266" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Erica loves making Christmas cookies with her family.&amp;nbsp; We had a great three weeks celebrating Christ's birth with Erica, hearing about her nursing studies in Minnesota, and introducing her to our new city Puebla.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3Uov8IhzrVU/VQuMjFaNn4I/AAAAAAAAAaA/F1-nZ2GDFhg/s1600/IMG_1323.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3Uov8IhzrVU/VQuMjFaNn4I/AAAAAAAAAaA/F1-nZ2GDFhg/s1600/IMG_1323.JPG" height="266" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Puebla decorates their central plaza with extravagance at Christmas.&amp;nbsp; We enjoyed visiting the historical center of Puebla with Erica.&amp;nbsp; Just a week before this, the United Chorus of Puebla&amp;nbsp;Churches&amp;nbsp;was invited by the mayor to present a Christmas concert in this plaza.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z7owyIkRa8g/VQuMiOz29_I/AAAAAAAAAZ4/frqHGWoekpY/s1600/IMG_1356.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z7owyIkRa8g/VQuMiOz29_I/AAAAAAAAAZ4/frqHGWoekpY/s1600/IMG_1356.JPG" height="266" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;We enjoyed a reunion with Pastor Erik's family on Dec 28, 2014.&amp;nbsp; His daughter Pamela (left) is studying music as a 10th grader, his son David just began college at Rio Grande Bible Institute in Texas. &amp;nbsp;When we arrived in Mexico in 1998, David and Erica were just over a year old. &amp;nbsp;Pamela and Danny&amp;nbsp;were born&amp;nbsp;a year later.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z7owyIkRa8g/VQuMiOz29_I/AAAAAAAAAZ4/frqHGWoekpY/s1600/IMG_1356.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ceN7Jfnqpas/VQt2tnbgiDI/AAAAAAAAAX0/8UifACR8eOc/s1600/IMG_1143.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ceN7Jfnqpas/VQt2tnbgiDI/AAAAAAAAAX0/8UifACR8eOc/s1600/IMG_1143.JPG" height="265" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Here we are at the Mexico City joint worship service on Nov 16 with the leaders of the Joyas&amp;nbsp;Bible Church,&amp;nbsp;Rodrigo&amp;nbsp;and Julie next to us, and Miguel and Janet on the right.&amp;nbsp; You can see volcano Popocatepetl from the Mexico City side in the background.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WVI1nwL34HM/VQt2uBiBfZI/AAAAAAAAAX8/04iJMXZaOGQ/s1600/IMG_1160.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WVI1nwL34HM/VQt2uBiBfZI/AAAAAAAAAX8/04iJMXZaOGQ/s1600/IMG_1160.JPG" height="266" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Stu is with Pablo who will be married this weekend (March 22) and then travel to England with his bride Cris to investigate ministry opportunities as career missionaries.&amp;nbsp; David Gomez was with us at the Villa mother church before returning to Uruguay in December 2014 where he has served as a missionary since 2012.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l19m7dAJqRo/VQt3KrkMlTI/AAAAAAAAAY4/vbn8pIvcJRY/s1600/IMG_1452.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l19m7dAJqRo/VQt3KrkMlTI/AAAAAAAAAY4/vbn8pIvcJRY/s1600/IMG_1452.JPG" height="266" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Pastor Erik and deacon Humberto are praying for Andrea before her departure to serve as a missionary-nurse with the Tarahumara ethnic group&amp;nbsp;of Chihuahua in northern Mexico.&amp;nbsp; Miguel and Stu are representing the Joyas Church leadership.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Tp0kcQ-DvYQ/VQt3OTDWzEI/AAAAAAAAAZA/lX1zDG9jLOE/s1600/IMG_1456.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Tp0kcQ-DvYQ/VQt3OTDWzEI/AAAAAAAAAZA/lX1zDG9jLOE/s1600/IMG_1456.JPG" height="266" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Andrea on the left&amp;nbsp;is with her new supervisor Pastor Jacob of CHE (Community Health Evangelism) from Chihuahua&amp;nbsp;with his wife and son.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FEsIksRqvHY/VQt3SpSlQhI/AAAAAAAAAZI/p08RDIjcU_4/s1600/IMG_1463.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FEsIksRqvHY/VQt3SpSlQhI/AAAAAAAAAZI/p08RDIjcU_4/s1600/IMG_1463.JPG" height="266" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Andrea is sharing with members of the Villa mother church about her ministry in Chihuahua (actually Hugo and Silvia with her in the picture are missionary candidates from Villa headed to Indonesia).&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8kt6sCmWif4/VQt3VuMMtjI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/FaDtOHeRbx8/s1600/IMG_1508.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8kt6sCmWif4/VQt3VuMMtjI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/FaDtOHeRbx8/s1600/IMG_1508.JPG" height="266" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We are cutting the cake&amp;nbsp;celebrating 15 years of ministry&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;the Summer Missionary Project&amp;nbsp;on February 1st.&amp;nbsp; We are with fellow Camino missionary Bob and the camp director Pepe.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MXp3Ax_9W_o/VQt3erYFGbI/AAAAAAAAAZg/BZ5h1JjZIak/s1600/IMG_1519.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MXp3Ax_9W_o/VQt3erYFGbI/AAAAAAAAAZg/BZ5h1JjZIak/s1600/IMG_1519.JPG" height="266" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Our Summer Missionary Project leadership team, from left to right:&lt;br /&gt;Pastor Enrique and his wife, five youth leaders, Director Fernando and his wife next to us.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N_nOnA8PFwk/VQt3fIBChDI/AAAAAAAAAZk/dGNffmm_oBU/s1600/IMG_1573.JPG" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N_nOnA8PFwk/VQt3fIBChDI/AAAAAAAAAZk/dGNffmm_oBU/s1600/IMG_1573.JPG" height="266" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Here we are with Luis, Director of the Puebla Bible Seminary, and his wife and three daughters.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wFM-sQrdUg4/VQt3do_AbII/AAAAAAAAAZY/36JALXKqDhw/s1600/IMG_1546.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wFM-sQrdUg4/VQt3do_AbII/AAAAAAAAAZY/36JALXKqDhw/s1600/IMG_1546.JPG" height="266" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Here are the leaders of "The Sower" Bible Church from left to right,&lt;br /&gt;Elder Moises and his wife and 3 children, Pastor Carlos and his wife and 3 children, next to us.&amp;nbsp; We look forward to partnering with them to multiply churches and to take steps in global missions.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
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1057.    <item>
1058.      <title>NEW CHURCH BUILDING!</title>
1059.      <link>http://grewatz.blogspot.com/2013/09/new-church-building.html</link>
1060.      <source url="http://grewatz.blogspot.com/">Multiplying Churches in the World's Largest City</source>
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1062.      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 20:30:00 -0500</pubDate>
1063.      <description>This past month has been one of exciting changes for the Joyas church. In August, we signed papers to purchase a house for the church building! We moved in 3 weeks ago and it has been a huge blessing already.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div&gt;THANK YOU to all those who helped us by giving and praying for this to happen!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-HnUcRvYZujg/UjUNkiVePHI/AAAAAAAAAS8/PpgV6t-EPfs/s640/blogger-image--1211563412.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-HnUcRvYZujg/UjUNkiVePHI/AAAAAAAAAS8/PpgV6t-EPfs/s640/blogger-image--1211563412.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;(Rodrigo and Stu with the help of Feliciano loaded up all the chairs, tables, stove, stools, bookshelf, kitchen, etc. from the church onto a pick up to move in to the new house.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-c7w4QWbHIoc/UjUNlkdcQ_I/AAAAAAAAATE/gJszFnjL3uM/s640/blogger-image-501932923.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-c7w4QWbHIoc/UjUNlkdcQ_I/AAAAAAAAATE/gJszFnjL3uM/s640/blogger-image-501932923.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The English classes have started up in the new house again with an average of 20 kids. The ladies group and youth group starting up this week!&amp;nbsp;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The church has plans to expand the church building towards the garage space to make more room for more people during Sunday services. Lord willing, construction will be starting in a few weeks once the permission papers are granted. The house currently has room for approximately 30 people and once we expand the house we will be able to fit about 60 adults for a Sunday service in addition to 30+ kids in the two Sunday school room upstairs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;PRAY:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;-for the construction permit we need for the expansion project to begin! Pray that there would be no complications!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;-that God will continue to bless all the activities in Joyas. (English class, ladies group, youth group, kids club)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;-for the Mexican leaders working in the Joyas church! (Rodrigo &amp;amp; Julie; Miguel &amp;amp; Janet; Andrea)&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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1065.    <item>
1066.      <title>Missions Conference</title>
1067.      <link>http://grewatz.blogspot.com/2013/05/missions-conference.html</link>
1068.      <source url="http://grewatz.blogspot.com/">Multiplying Churches in the World's Largest City</source>
1069.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:cabec36d-f43f-0e8f-782a-3ccd37f4315e</guid>
1070.      <pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 10:59:00 -0500</pubDate>
1071.      <description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Lo5GOKPPwEE/UaDf1lEXnKI/AAAAAAAAASk/1dTjEHCJ_VA/s640/blogger-image-113955365.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Lo5GOKPPwEE/UaDf1lEXnKI/AAAAAAAAASk/1dTjEHCJ_VA/s640/blogger-image-113955365.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This weekend the church of Villa de Las Flores is hosting a FAMEX missions conference. More than 15 churches from all around Mexico are represented here today. Conference speaker Tony Vazquez, former missionary in Spain, will be speaking on the topic of the role of Mexican churches among unreached people groups. Pray that God will move people's hearts in great ways toward missions. :)&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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1073.    <item>
1074.      <title>Meet Zoe :)</title>
1075.      <link>http://grewatz.blogspot.com/2013/01/meet-zoe.html</link>
1076.      <source url="http://grewatz.blogspot.com/">Multiplying Churches in the World's Largest City</source>
1077.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:926490be-080b-f059-504a-af25f560c3c4</guid>
1078.      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:32:00 -0600</pubDate>
1079.      <description>This little girl, Zoe, goes to the kids club EVERY Saturday. And even though she is very young, she has a strong testimony. During game time Saturday mornings, she sits down and watches the other kids play because she says she goes to the kids club to "learn about God. Not to play." :) It's amazing the a girl her age, 5, would make that huge decision! Zoe has a great desire to continue to know God. But please pray for her family. --(Her mom, Wendy. Her dad, Toño. Her older sister, Lydia, 16. And her brother, Orlando, 11) --That they would understand the gospel and will follow Zoe's example :) &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-2-eoncuVngI/UQSt35YixTI/AAAAAAAAASI/r0jJg2naFpY/s640/blogger-image-1866972953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-2-eoncuVngI/UQSt35YixTI/AAAAAAAAASI/r0jJg2naFpY/s640/blogger-image-1866972953.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
1080.    </item>
1081.    <item>
1082.      <title>BINGO night!</title>
1083.      <link>http://grewatz.blogspot.com/2013/01/bingo-night.html</link>
1084.      <source url="http://grewatz.blogspot.com/">Multiplying Churches in the World's Largest City</source>
1085.      <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:uuid:3b9bee64-97d2-6800-e06a-38b97615e0ce</guid>
1086.      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:02:00 -0600</pubDate>
1087.      <description>Last night, we had a "BINGO night" at the church! Over 25 people came! We had a fun time playing Bingo, winning prizes, and eating cake and sharing a time of followship. We had several visitors from the kids club and English class! We had an opportunity to share the gospel message with a 4 minute video. Pray as we follow up with these families to invite them to a Buble study! :) &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-IpiHsmJmJiw/UQQMC_t9fMI/AAAAAAAAAR4/GAFyvWl4_us/s640/blogger-image-809428117.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-IpiHsmJmJiw/UQQMC_t9fMI/AAAAAAAAAR4/GAFyvWl4_us/s640/blogger-image-809428117.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-yP7Ph6jIeLE/UQQMBl_dSkI/AAAAAAAAARw/uG1VPGO5Wqc/s640/blogger-image-1578733303.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-yP7Ph6jIeLE/UQQMBl_dSkI/AAAAAAAAARw/uG1VPGO5Wqc/s640/blogger-image-1578733303.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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