The Toy Cleanup
Today Nathan and I were home alone for a while, so we made this cartoon about cleaning up toys. It’s so fun to be creative with him.
May We Never be so Happy…
Today we woke up to a lot of rain and gloomy skies. A quick check of Facebook showed a lot of our friends complaining about the rain. It made me remember this song by Andrew Peterson called “The Land of the Free.” The whole song is incredible. I love the end where he says, “May we never be so happy that we forget about our home, our home in the land of the free.”
Going back to Mexico
We’ve been in the USA since June 2010. Our mission organization, Youth Ministry International, likes for us to return to our home culture in order to reconnect with our families and friends. It’s amazing what some time back in your home culture will do to help you in your effectiveness on the mission field.
What are you doing in the USA?
The purpose for our trip was basically four-fold. 1) Shiloh was due in August; 2) Nathan was going to Kindergarten; 3) I needed to finish my last 5 Master’s classes on campus at CIU; 4) We needed to raise the needed support to continue the work in Latin America. Here’s how we’re doing on those goals:
- Shiloh was born. Yay! Our lives have changed once again. A little girl in the house is quite the contrast to the two little boys.
- Nathan is enjoying Kindergarten. He’s learning like crazy. I can’t believe he’s reading and writing as much as he is already.
- I have one last final draft of a project to turn in. I will graduate in May (as long as I pass this last class).
- We have only 38% of the monthly support goal to raise in order to go back.
When will you go back?
Nathan finishes Kindergarten at the end of May, so we would love to be heading back to Mexico by the beginning of June. We’d like to be there during the summer to get re-oriented to the culture before he goes to first grade and classes at the Seminary start again in August.
We still have support to raise, which is a huge job. We are meeting with our friends as much as possible to try to build up our partnership team before we leave to go back to Mexico. Please pray that we will be led to those who want to be a part of reaching the almost half a billion young people in Latin America (maybe you’re one of them…we’ll be in touch).
Que buena foto!!!!
The picture says, “If God lives in me, I hope He likes tacos.”
Youth Ministry Multiplication
Three of our graduates in Cuba are beginning to train 7 students from Bolivia and one student from Ecuador in youth ministry. They will be teaching them the youth ministry courses as well as those Cuban students who they have in their classes. The idea is that these students will go back to their countries and train others in youth ministry.
The picture is of Randy and Pancho with the Bolivian students. The girl in the glasses on the right is from Ecuador.
Pancho expresses the idea of the training by saying, “They approached us like the man from Macedonia, saying, ‘Come. Help us’.” So that is what they are doing. A big factor in the decision to train them is their expression of the great need there is in their country for youth ministry training.
I’m excited about what this is going to lead to in the future.
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