Blog
Here are my thoughts in written form. I hope they are valuable and contribute to your growth.
Troubled Youth Video
I made this video (in Spanish) to use in my Ministry to Troubled Youth class. The statistics are from Mexico. If you understand Spanish, click the video link to watch the video, or you can watch it on Youtube. It was my first attempt at actually makings something in...
read moreAlarming Statistics
In Columbia, each day (population - 43,593,035; 30% of which is under 14): 1,106 teens have an abortion. 1,035 bring weapons to school. In Mexico, the number one cause of death in young people is alcohol. 80% of suicides are committed by young men under the age of 25....
read moreCYM Christmas Party
Last night, we invited all the students from the Center for Youth Ministry and their families to our house for a Christmas party. We had sandwiches, cookies, cake, chips, and all sorts of stuff. It was great to sit with them outside of class and get to know them all...
read moreFirst Christmas party and Other Things
Yesterday was our first Christmas party of the season. We got together with the teachers and staff at Mexico City Christian Academy, where I speak in chapel twice a month. It was a good time. Nathan absolutely LOVES dogs. They have two of them, and he just couldn't...
read moreIt’s gonna be an interesting Friday
After this fight (click to watch video) happened today in the Mexican congress, we could be in for some crazy things on Friday. Officially, Friday is the day when Felipe Calderon is going to be sworn in as the new president of Mexico. He won by less than 1% of the...
read moreThe Work is Due
Today is the due date for the work for one of my most difficult classes (Programming in Youth Ministry). I have been receiving emails since Monday with the work in them. Since there were 12 students in this class, and each project is around 50 pages long, I have a lot...
read moreAn Early Christmas Present
Our December Newsletter is written and on the way to your mailbox. If you want to download a PDF version of it, you may do so here (189 KB).
read moreMaking a statement
This is one way to make a statement. Our friends went downtown yesterday and got to see this protest. The crazy thing is that in order to draw attention, the protesters were wearing very little clothing. This seems to happen frequently here, and yesterday was a photo...
read moreThanksgiving – A foreign holiday
We had to do a few interesting things to celebrate Thanksgiving in Mexico. Since it's not celebrated here, and many of the things that we have in the USA aren't here, we had to improvise. For example: To make sausage stuffing, we had to cut open breakfast sausage...
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