New Church

Two of the ladies, sisters, in the area where we’re starting a new church got up during the service to teach the congregation its verse for the month.  It was wonderful to see their confidence and ownership of the new work and of their membership in 1More4Christ.  God is faithful!

Church

While I didn’t expect many to show up for the Christmas Day Sunday service, we had a good turnout with several families showing their support.  God is good!

All Together

It was wonderful this Christmas to have the entire family together again.  At one point we were all in different countries, but now we’re back.  Thanks Lord!

Christmas Meal

On Christmas Eve, everyone was running around to get stuff into the over for our Christmas eve meal.  It was both tasty and enjoyable to spend time together preparing and laughing.  Does it get any better than this?

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christ…

The presence of piñatas at parties and on the streets is a sign of Christmas or “Reyes” in this culture.  It seems like every night a piñata is being broken somewhere in the neighborhood.  It’s a time of talking, eating and, yes, playing together.

...Fiesta there

The daughter of the pastor in the first church we helped to organized had her 15^th birthday this weekend.  I remember when his girls and ours were only a few years old playing together.  My how time passes…

Fiesta here... and...

Our Sunday morning service ended with piñatas for kids, youth, women and men.  We’ll I decided to be one of the first volunteers for the men.  You’d think that after so many years in Mexico, I’d know how to do this…