Yes we are back up north and in the rain. The roads are not bad here so can not complain. Some developements have come up on the adoption and we are having to wait until hopefully feb. to find out some information and then proceed from there. Nothing really new here just traveling along the roads. Have a Merry Christmas everyone
Stack passed away yesterday. The funeral will be held on Thursday. Please pray for jimmy (his son) during this time of loss. He was a organ donor and the family is donating the kidneys to my aunt, we are very thankful to Stacks family. David caught a virus and has been very sick, but he seems to be getting better.
crystal
Crystal called her mom today and a friend of hers was in a major accident on his bike and is now in ICU and the Dr's are not very optimistic about his chances of making it though this. How ever we know that with prayers God can make the impossible possible and bring healing to him.
Lets see we are now back in the US. While in Mexico David had his phone stolen. We are having car problems (electrical?). Lets see that explains our last two days. Plus leaving the deaf in Mante and Tampico again. We have had days of tears and a little stress. We know God will work through this situations. We had so much fun while we were down in Mexico see the deaf. We spent a few days in Mante with the deaf there. We are wanting to get back to them there is a lot of stuff going on with them. Well Dios Te Bendiga y Buenas Noches.
Wow what a week we have had here in Mexico. It has been jam packed full of things going on here. We have been meeting in the new church building every night this week. It is wonderful to see this step of faith and growth with the deaf here in Tampico. Also to see the lives we spent two years ministering to accept this responsibility.
We are here in Mexico. We are loving it. These few days have been a blessing and an encouragement to us. We really miss you friends and "family" here. David has been helping finish up the construction and also picking people up here. Crystal has been helping doing computer things for Jim like helping with a presentation and etc. Hope this finds everyone well...... we are still waiting to here back from shepherd bethel about the housing but they have received the application. Then we can finish the home study and adopt. =)
Hi everyone, We are in McAllen heading to Mexico. Yeah!!!!! We have been homesick. Tomorrow we cross over the border and spend some time with our old spanish teacher/ friends. Things are going good and are looking forward to returning "home" even if it is for a week. Nothing really new we are still waiting to hear back from the housing and then proceed with the homestudy.
We are in San Antonio Tx and doing good. We are heading monday to Mexico for the week and very excited about returning home. Car is doing good still has that problem every now and then but nothing conintually so not sure what the problem is. We purchased our Mexician car insurance yesterday and looking forward to using it. Please conintue to pray for us as we travel around and as we schedule churches. Will take pictures of Mexico and place them on the blogg as soon as possible but we lost the cord so it may be a few days after we return... we have a nice day.... Dios te Bendiga.
Got the filters changed today and it is still doing that but has lessen somewhat... we were told our cables might need to be cleaned. Other than that all is well. We will be leaving here in a couple days to head to Oklahoma and then to Mexico. We are so excited about going "home" for a few days. We miss it there. Hope everyone is doing good and have a nice day.
This week has flown here in Missouri and next week this time we will be in Oklahoma. Yesterday was relaxing we were able to spend time with our nieces. We had no churches scheduled for today so we were able to find churches and just worship with them. It was nice to be able to sit and enjoy some fine preaching today. Please pray for us as we continue the adoption process. We know it is the Lords will however waiting for God to show us the baby and also all the things involved with a homestudy plus additional factors it can be very discouraging and tiresome. We have been praying for 8 years for a son and then to find out we can not have one of our own and being missionaries is making the homestudy very hard with all the factors involved. That does not include the natural bumps involved in the adoption process. Have a wonderful week
Last night we presented our ministry in a church were our friends attend. It was wonderful to see them again after many years. Today David has been calling pastors and Crystal has been doing some paper work and errands. We have sent our application into a mission housing and waiting to here from them to get housing on their land free in exchange for 8 hours of work each week... we can use this as our home for a home study instead of David's parents house. Which would probably work out better... please pray for us to get the money to adopt we need about 6,000 more, or someone willing to give us their baby.
We have arrived to Springfield Missouri today. We have had a little car problem like miss firing or something but ???? Had a blessing Crystal had been out of her meds for high blood pressure and last night there was a Dr. in the church and was able to write the prescribtion. Praise God. Please continue to pray for us as we travel and present our ministry to churches. We are looking into adoption and if anybody knows someone who is placeing a baby for adoption please contact us.
Well after traveling today we made it to the house. The car is running good so far. We leave here on Saturday and head to Missouri. Pray for us as we are seeking Gods leadership in our lives in a personal matter. So much to put here but leave it unsaid (God knows). =)
We hope each one who reads this has a wonderful day and we know that we pray for you.
The mission conference we were just at was so refreshing to us. We were blessed by the church in many ways. One thing we have been praying for and was trying to put money back for until our computer and car broke on us was a projector. The church gave us a wonderful projector. It is more than we could have imagined and hoped for. It reminds us that God knows our hearts desires and will provide more than we are able to imagine. THANK YOU SOUTHSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH!!!!!! Our support is increasing and we are scheduling churches for next year, hoping to be there by the end of 2008.
The mission conferrence has been such a blessing to us so far. We have really enjoyed meeting the people here in Dover at South Side Baptist Church. A man in the church gave our car a tune up for free (Praise God). Our car is now running great. Today the men are having a breakfast and the women a luncheon so I am excited about that. Praying all is well with you. Please leave comments on our blogg for us to read ok.
Well we got our car back tuesday and so far it has been running good. We are still needing some maintance stuff done. It cost a lot to fix the existing problems and some of the parts were underwarrenty still. (Praise God). Basically our cars cataltic converter went out on us. We are now safely in Delaware at a missions conferrence in Dover. We have really enjoyed our time here so far. Had some tech. problems last night to show our power point but got that ironed out in the nick of time.Enjoyed staying at our hosts house... really nice people. Hope everybody has a nice day.
Today has been a bad day. We had to carry our car to the machanic found out what the problem was that we had been having the whole time (hopefully =) ). Which is costing us some money to get fixed so please pray that the money will come in for this need. Then I found out that something we have been praying for and working on very much has hit a bump something that can be over come but will have to change the way we are going about it. Please pray for us as this has caused us to become very discouraged right now.
Well we are still in New England for about another week. it is so beautiful up here with the leaves changing colors. In Tampico you get 2 seasons hot and wet, so I am really enjoying the fall season which is my favorite. We are heading to the Mid-West and then to Mexico for a visit by the end of November. Please pray for us as we travel around the US trying to raise support to return to Mexico, and the ministry that God has called us to.
Here it is 12:47 in the morning and I am wide awake while David is sleeping. My brain is actively learning at this early hour. We were just recently given a program that will change your word documents into pdf files. Yeah!!! ( Thank you Pastor Cote.) Well last night and this morning, I figured out how to add theses pdf files to the website. so now our prayer letters on the web site will be in pdf format.
Sorry it has been so long since our last blog. We are now back in the US traveling on deputation and missing home (Mexico). We have been all over the New England states raising our support. We have increased it by a few percentages and have some promises of support. (Praise God) We have seen God work in our lives and the lives of those in the churches we have been in. Also there were 4 deaf saved during camp. So much to place since it has been months but read our prayer letters to catch up if you would like. We are in Conn right now and will be here for a week and half then we head to Delaware and then back to the Midwest and then back to Mexico in the month of Novemeber. Pray that God will provide for this expense and also for a video projector.
We have been so busy the last few weeks because of having groups in. The last group we had was such a blessing to us. Their church raised $1,700 from their VBS, to donate to our building fund. We had so much fun with them at the construction and then showing them Tampico, even ran into some of our church members and other deaf while we were downtown. Went to Mante Saturday for the Church out there and had lunch with some other missionary friends. 16 days more until we head back up to the border and start deputation again. We are going to miss it here so much and can not wait to get back. Please pray for us as we readjust to America and also to deputation again.
Had a good time Saturday in Mante. Small group but egar to learn the Bible. Our hearts desire is to be over there working with them full time, right now it is not possible because of finances and starting deputation. The Lord is teaching us to wait on Him and his timing in this and in another desire that God has given us. Please continue to pray with us for this group in Mante that it will grow and that God will answer our petition for them and for our unspoken. We are excited to see what God is going to be doing with this group in Mante and see how He will grow the believers to be more faithful to Him. We are unable to go this Saturday do to some complications but we aretrying to work something out. PLEASE pray that I will be able to call more and able to schedule more churches.
Tomorrow we go out to Mante and minister to the deaf there. Please pray for them, like i said on the old blog, the JW are trying to teach them. Most of them have had little to no discipleship and are young christians. Pray for us as we try to teach them what the Bible says and train them to see the falseness of the JW. Also pray for them because we will be gone to the States for deputation over again and will have to leave them with no one. This leads to another prayer request, that we will be able to get into churches and have the support we need to return to Mante fast. We are at 33% of the support we will need but this only covers most of our bills ( health and car insurance, taxes, and etc) but when we start deputation it will leave very little for gas and food and will be reliant on God and love offerings. Pray that we can get the other 67% fast. It would only be about 30 to 60 at a monthly promise of support. God can and will provide in His timing, but for us to know the deaf there that are not saved and seeing them dying and going to hell is a heart braker. Pray God will work in their hearts and we can get over there fast and work more effectively with them. Living 2 hours away and only being able to go on Saturdays is hard.
We had to change our blog log because for some unexplained reason it was not showing up on our web site. Please feel free to look at the old ones at www.geocities.com/deafofmex/index.html
This picture was taken at the Mexico deaf leadership meeting in April.
