Puebo to Pueblo

These have been the most challeging days for us on our outreach because we went from ministering to Guadalajara, which is one of the wealthiest cities in Mexico, to now in Chiapas which is one of the poorest. Besides the bugs and bathroom, or lack of bathrooms, it is amazing. We are surronded by such a beautiful scenery with everywhere you look being green and rivers and lakes being blue to green. I must admit that I am actually enjoying the bathing in the river part although I am not much of a fan of having to do my laundry by hand in it. It has been a blessing being here becuase the people in these communities are the most hospitable and hubmle people I have met here. I would venture to say that the Mexican people are the warming loving people one will ever meet on this planet. They greet you with open arms and offer everything they have even if it is not much to fill your belly and make sure that you feel at home. A pastor/missionary named Jose Cano who has been working in Chiapas for ten years is leading us throughout different Pueblos for 14 days. We put on a service and minister to the people every pueblo we go to. On Saturday we are heading out to the jungle to dispense food, clothing, and share God´s word with the lacandones. These are tribes people who live in huts made of suger cane and leaves called palapas. It is a little dangerous for us becasue we will be camping in the village with some risks of being visited by scorpians and snakes. Please pray for safety and healing with some illnesses falling on the team and that the love of Christ would be seen to the indigoenous people. I should also report that all 7 girls on my team are doing incredible under these conditions and I am not going crazy, but am very impressed by their flexibility and willingness in all this. I can not believe we leave back to Mazatlan in 10 days! I should be back in Texas in a litte over a month and God has given me some amazing vision for the next season of my life.

Chiapas

I apologize for not being able to keep up`very well with my blogs but it has been tough these last few weeks to get away and write. We have been on the road for a little over three days and we are finally in Chiapas!!! We have a couple of days to get settled in and so I plan on catching you all up on everything tomorrow. We are safe, healthy, and excited about this place. I must say that I am loving Mexico even more and God has been giving me some visions about my future concerning this beautiful country.

Back in Guadalajara

It has been over a week since we arrived in Guadalajara and it has been great so far. Our team has been split up into several groups and we are staying with host families who are very kind and hospitable. We have been doing a lot of work with one of the local churches here called Palabra de Vida. This past weekend we went to a city a few hours away to help with putting on a mini VBS for a rehabilitation center for kids on the street who have been on drugs. It is a government program that takes kids in for 3 months and teaches them about values, principles, and social skills with full time workers such as psychologists and medical doctors. A huge opportunity opened up when they agreed to allow a church to come in and teach these kids about the fruits of the Spirit. It reminded me very much of my VBS days as a Shepard for Lake Hills and it was incredible be with these young ones and to share the love of Christ with them. Another day we hooked up with a Pastor from a different colonial who took us out to the local market to ask for donations so that we could dispense them out to people in need in a pueblo a few hours away. That morning went amazing with heaps of vegtables and fruit that were given to us to give away. We put together huge bags full of a variety of the food that was given to us and put on a kids program, shared testimonies, and prayed for the people. We have a few more projects like this left here in Guad and then we are off to Chiapas in a few weeks. Also, an amazing photographer by the name of Esther Havens along with her assistant Kevin came to pay the team a visit to shoot some of the work that were are doing these last few days. Please continue to pray that God would bless this team, our efforts, and vision for what is next.