Blog

Here are my thoughts in written form. I hope they are valuable and contribute to your growth.

Pregnant Janell

This is Janell six months pregnant. We hadn't taken any pictures of her yet, and we figured that her mother and sisters would love to see her pregnant. So here she is.

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Super Bowl XXXIX party

Last night we had about 20 people at our house from our church for a "Super Bowl party." Funny thing is that Mexicans don't really care about the Super Bowl. Since we didn't really care about it either this year, it was pretty fun. We had a great time with them, and...

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Class in Starbucks

Today I taught the first class of MJ 140 to Israel, Rigo, and Huberto in Starbucks. I am teaching it early to try to get finished in time to go home in April. We had a good talk about camps and retreats and also about youth ministry in general. After class, I came...

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Master’s Program CIU

Here's an update on my Master's studies at Columbia Biblical Seminary. I am currently studying "The Theology of Jonathan Edwards." It is perhaps one of the most difficult classes I have taken so far. The books use a font size that is unbelievably small, and Jonathan...

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Ministry is hard!

Okay...I knew this before today, but the last week especially has reminded me a lot about how difficult ministry is. We have been dealing with a lot of "situations" lately. None of them have been personal problems, thank God, but nonetheless, we are involved in them...

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What a week!

After Thursday and Friday's difficult times with the family of Roman, the weekend just picked up steam. On Saturday morning, we had a leadership team meeting for the youth ministry at our church, Dios Es Amor. We had fewer people there than expected, but we went on...

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Roman and Patti

Last night, around 5:20, pastor Josue called me to let me know that "Romancito", a 15 year old boy and son of active new members of our church, had died of Leukemia. We went to his funeral service at 6 pm and 8 pm. There are a lot of things to comment on about this....

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How to be “Naco”

Tonight at youth group, I talked about "How to be Naco." Naco is the word used for someone who doesn't really know how to act in a certain social stratus. The key verses were 1 Corinthians 13:1-4. Basically, the way to be Naco is to not have love. We can have...

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Baby Kicks

Janell has been feeling the baby for quite some time now. Everytime she says, "The baby is moving, maybe you can see my belly move," I look. I hadn't seen anything until yesterday afternoon. I put my hand on her belly and felt the kicking, and then I watched and saw...

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