Wednesday, September 11, 2024

School support 2024

 Greetings children of God :)
We are blessed to be able to share with you the list of youth who are currently in the school program for 2024/2025. 
John 15:9 NKJV
“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love."
This ministry is a labor of love. We are so honored to be able to sow into the lives of these youth. We thank all of you who pray for and support the dreams of these youth and their families. As we abide in the Love of Christ we are able to freely give to those in need. To help others to fulfill their dreams. I feel in my heart that these youth will be able to say God sees me and loves me because He has touched the hearts of these people to help us with our educations. As we provide for needs in a tangible way in the name of Jesus it is just one way we can express His Love to those around us. God sees me and loves me. 
We currently have 14 youth in the school program. We are always open to taking new students as the Lord places them in our path.
Isaac
Isaac is in the 6th grade, he received the highest grade in the whole school. He received all 10's which is like straight A's in all his classes the whole school year. He received a special recognition from the school. He is involved with our English classes/youth group. 
Esmeralda
Esmeralda is in the 2nd year of Junior high school, junior high is 3 years here. She wants to be a teacher. She is also involved with the English class/youth group. 
Angel 
This is Angel who is also in the 2nd year of junior high school and also involved with the English class/youth group. 
Luz
This is Luz she is just starting junior high school, this will be her 1st year. She is also involved in the English class/youth group. 
Rosario
This is Rosario she is in high school and she wants to work with computers when she graduates. She is also involved with the English class/youth group. 
April
This is April she is in the 5th grade. She is new this year to the school program. Her Mom is a single Mom and has 3 daughters one of whom is disabled and in a wheelchair. We are blessed to be able to help.
Emily 
This is Emily she is in junior high school, April is her younger sister. She is new to the program this year also. 
Isabel and Estrella 
These girls are sisters and they are the daughters of Pastor Miqueas. He is the Pastor of the ministry church in Ojo de Agua. Isabel is in junior high and Estrella is in high school. They also both play in the worship band.  There is a story behind Estrella's sponsor, Estrella is in high school was costs more.  I was in Bishop having coffee with my friend Teri and before I went in I had asked God to help us find sponsors for the school program. Teri shouted out to her friend Rosie who was leaving and on the phone. I asked Rosie for a recipe because she is the new owner of a mexican restaurant in Bishop. I said don't worry I won't share it because I live in Mexico. She said "your the lady from Mexico I saw you at church. She said I want to help." I said great I have a youth who needs sponsorship, lol its was a divine appointment. Thank you Teri and Rosie. 
Jeremy
Jeremy is at the University studying law. He is also in the worship band at the ministry church in Ojo de Agua with the girls.
Areli 
This is Areli and she is in junior high school. She and her parents and her younger sister all go to the ministry church in Ojo de Agua. 
 
Fernanda 
This is Fernanda she lives close to us and is in open school, she is 22 years old. She missed a lot of school due to a medical condition so she is in open school so she can catch up. It's kind of like a GED.  She is receiving monthly help from a couple who donates to help people and families in need. She uses her support to help with her meds and also with her education. 
That wraps up our current list but as I said we are always open to adding new youth as the Lord brings them to us. I also have an idea to start a pen pal program between the youth in the states and the youth in Mexico. If any of you know youth that would be interested in writing letters let me know. Please  continue to pray for these youth and all the other ministries that we are a part of. Food program, landfill outreaches, house of restoration, medical needs, auto repair and also sowing into other peoples ministries as the Lord leads us. We are one body of believers with Christ as the head. God is Love :) 
Thank you, 
Shalom - Frank and Deborah 
Para Mexico con Amor





 












Monday, December 11, 2023

Happy Birthday Jesus and Frank 💖

 Greetings children of God! 


“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.

John 17:20‭-‬23 NKJV  Amen!


So that the world will know that we are ONE. One in Christ! That when they see us they see Christ in us. Not of our own works. We must be about our Father's business. Amen! Our Father God :) 

We were blessed to be able celebrate another year of life for my husband Frank with the group on Friday. 

Happy Birthday Frank 


Dee and Ron and their Pastor from Oregon came down to help us and celebrate. Dee lead the kids in a craft. She got these giant pine cones from her travels in Canada. It was lots of fun for the youth. 

Dee, Ron and Pastor Craig 

Luz


Luz, Esmeralda & Melisa

Ruben from Nevada came down along with Donna, Susan, Margie and Sherry from Bishop Ca. We were blessed to have their help and also the fellowship. Saturday was the Christmas event. We had approximately 130 people attend. The event went really well. We served an authentic Australian meal. The sausage sizzle was back again. Raul helped us cook the food. It was the sausage on a piece of white bread with ketchup and grilled onions. It is so simple that is delicious. Thank you Rain for help with the salads and Lupe for help with the drinks. All were happy with the food. Ernesto and Elena brought the homemade donuts 300. Yay! 

Ernesto & Elena



Raul

Pastor Martin Osuna shared the message. Rosario, Luz & Esmeralda  from the youth group sang and people from the group worshipped the Lord with flags also Rodrigo helped us with the sound equipment.  


Rosario, Luz & Esmeralda 

Pastor Osuna

Susan 



We love being able to bring the body of Christ together in one place. We invited many different churches in our community. It definitely was a team effort. Jose from the men's house along with ladies from team Mexico plus the youth all helped with decorations. 





Jose



Last but not least were the candy bags, beanies, gloves, scarves, socks, and warm blankets. The guys from Lolo's and Gustavo's sober living programs helped with the parking lot and the bouncy house. All of the team helped with clean up. We also had our dentist that showed up dressed like the Grinch to help hand out the candy. Praise report, is that the lady who runs the facility we rented just came to the Lord. We have been so blessed by the Lord. So many people involved and so many lives touched by His love. 



Donna

Margie


Dee

Lupe




Sunday we took the group to Pastor Mere's church here in Cerro Azul. After that we headed out to the landfill to hand out the 200 PB&J sandwiches we made along with blankets and beanies and We also had a generous donation of 200 hygine kits.  Plus the most important part we got to pray for the people. 

People actually ask us for prayer now when we come into the landfill. 













Thank you to all who pray for and support us. Also thank you to those who come down to help us. Thank you team Mexico for your continued help and support and for all of your hearts. To love them as Jesus loves us. God is Love 💞✝️


Thursday, September 7, 2023

Back to school :)

 Greetings children of God!! So happy to share the school update with all of you! 

When I first came to Mexico in 2014 and volunteered at the orphanage in Tecate I had an idea to be able to help the youth there to further their educations. Lots of groups from the states would come down and visit the orphanage and the youth were always so excited about their future and talking about where they would attend college and their hopes and dreams for the future. I wanted the youth at the orphanage to have hopes and dreams for their futures also. Unfortunately that dream never happened there. But now the school program in our area here in Cerro Azul has really taken off. The dream is happening now and God's timing is always perfect. Papa Ron has been helping youth with their school needs since the beginning. Backpacks, uniforms etc. also helping with tuition on a smaller scale. Now that the kids we work with are growing older they are having fees attached to their education. Education is free here up until high school, but they still have to pay for uniforms and backpacks and school supplies. We have multiple youth in high school now and also college. We help them to find sponsors so they can further their education. I want to say "thank you" to all of the people who have donated for the youth this school year. 

We have some youth that have already graduated and are living their lives with their new careers. We believe Jesus and education are the way to help break the cycle of poverty lots of these youth are coming out of. We are so blessed to be able to help in this way. I'm going to introduce you to all of the youth we are working with this school year. Blessings now and always :)


Back packs :)


Paulina high school


Victor High school


Angel Junior high 


Esau/Feze high school 


Esmeralda Junior high


Paola University


Lucero University


Dayra High school 


Raul high school 

Keila University


Maria Isabel/ junior high
Estrella high school 


Jeremy University  




Rosario high school 


Isabella graduated doing her clinicals for M.D.


These youth are our future! We started working with the kids in 2020 during the COVID shut down. The schools and churches were shut down and our team at the time had pretty much dissolved due to fear.  So the Lord told me to start an English class outside of our home each week. So that is what we did the kids were much smaller then and the Lord said to me "that is your team" I started to laugh because they were so little. But there is no junior Holy Spirit it is the same Holy Spirit in all of us. So now these youth are an active part of team Mexico. We are so blessed by all of the amazing people God has placed in our lives on both sides of the border. Thank you to all of you for your prayers and support. God is Love :)
Spiritual formation for Kingdom action. I will close with words of Apostle Paul.
 Corinthians 13

The Greatest Gift

13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.