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.