This is one of my favorite pictures I took yesterday as we went downtown for the Day of the Dead celebration.
The Palacio de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Palace) is one of the landmarks of the city, as are the green taxis that are everywhere. I was so excited to capture both of those icons in one photo.
I’ll post later about my experience at the annual Day of the Dead celebration, when I get my thoughts in order.
Nathan went trick or treating Mexican style tonight with Alex, our friend from Florida, and a bunch of other kids. We romped through the neighborhood yelling, “Queremos Halloween” and hoping for candy.
All of the costumes were way too expensive, so we just let him go out in his Superman pajamas. It was fun, and we got tons of candy. We also had a chance to meet some of our neighbors who we would never have met any other way.
Our pumpkins this year were Ninja Turtles and Lightning McQueen, and they turned out pretty well. It was a little disappointing to eat the seeds without watching the World Series, since Boston won it so quickly.
Anyway, it was a fun night. The good thing about Halloween in Mexico is that Nathan gets to go again tomorrow afternoon. It’s sort of a three day holiday here.
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As you already know, I’m a big geek. I’m into all sorts of stuff that would classify me as one of the biggest geeks you know. But, because of that, I’m constantly trying to think of ways that we should use technology to make our ministries better.
So, I thought of an idea to try to create a network of youth workers and sort of an online community for those involved in youth ministry in the Spanish speaking world. I have a list of about 200 people who have attended a workshop or conference with us, so I invited them to participate in a Youth Ministry Network. It’s sort of a social network for Spanish speaking youth workers.
The goal of the Center for Youth Ministry is to meet, train, network, and support youth workers. I believe that this netword can serve as a tool that will help us do all of those things, especially meet, network, and support. I’m hoping it will serve to get the word out there about the youth ministry program at the seminary, too.
Tonight I will be carving a few pumpkins. Nathan picked out the following patterns that he wants on our pumpkins this year:
