Independence Day

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Tonight is the Mexican Independence Day celebration. We went to a party at one of our students’ church, where we ate great Mexican food and listened to mariachi music. We had a great time, and Nathan played with a little Mexican friend. Click here for our pictures of the party.

By the numbers…

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I just completed a report for YMI about our formal and informal youth ministry training programs that are taking place in Latin America. A part of that report was a quantitative analysis, so here is what we’re doing by the numbers:

  • 2 – number of Colleges, institutes, or seminaries in which you or your trainees are currently teaching our youth course curriculum
  • 16 – Students who have completed at least one year of formal training(four or more courses)
  • 19 – Students currently enrolled in formal training (6 undergrad program, 13 Master’s Degree program)
  • 30 – Students who have completed at least one formal training course
  • 35 – Church youth directors that have completed at least a one day training seminar
  • 65 – Churches served in Latin America since 2000 until present
  • 150 – Church volunteers that have completed at least one multiple-day conference
  • 1000 – Estimated number of students who are attending all the churches on a weekly basis which have received any training from YMI since 2000

No more tents

According to this article, the protest has ended in downtown Mexico City. They were forced to take down their tents by this morning in order for a military parade (for Independence Day) to be able to pass through. This doesn’t mean that the protest is over.

The president isn’t going to be doing the annual “grito” in the main square because of safety reasons. And, tomorrow, I think the protest will continue with possible decisions made by Lopez Obrador (the guy who lost the election). Please keep praying for this situation. At least they left peacefully for today.

Photomerge of city

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It has been windy here today because of a hurricane that is in the Pacific Ocean, making the air very clear, which doesn’t happen very often.

Today, we went up to the Walmart that sits on a tall hill outside of the city. You could see a lot of the city pretty clearly, so I took these four pictures and merged them into one. Check out the larger picture here.