Deuteronomy 1 New King James Version (NKJV)
11 May the Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you as He has promised you.
My hope for all of you is a wonderful and blessed new year 2020.
I am happy to bring you guys an update. Praise God we have been very busy serving the community here in Baja California Norte.
We had such a great Christmas celebration this year I am blessed to show you some photos. We had the event at different location this year. We rented a neutral spot to have the celebration so that people from many different churches would attend and feel comfortable. We had over 200 people come this year. Each year the event gets better and better. We handed out blankets and hats, beanies, scarves and small gift bags for the kids. Thank you team Mexico for all of your help in this event. Thank you to everyone who donated and also the team that came down from Bishop for all of your help and support. There was live music, great food, amazing team work and most of all the good news about Jesus as our Lord and Savior was shared. Good news gospel!!
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| Roree and Nana (me) |
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| Baby John |
John 13:34-35 New King James Version
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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| Pastora Maria |
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| Hungry people :) |
Galatians 2:20 New King James Version
20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Thank you Lord Jesus for all that you have done for us. I will forever live my life as a sacrifice to you. Who loved me and gave Himself for me. He gave Himself for me before I knew Him and we are to love those who feel unlovable just as He loved us before we loved Him. Love is the answer, Jesus is the answer!! We might be the only Jesus that they see. We might be the one who changes their lives because they see Jesus in us. Amen!
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
We have had two hygiene outreaches at the landfill, both went very well. We had no idea what to expect because we did not know that the church we work with actually had a hair cutting chair with a shampoo bowl attached to it. Wow we were super happy to see that when we arrived. The first event we had professional barbers who helped us but the second time it was team Mexico and also a family from Colorado and a group from Nevada. Some of the people in our team did have hair cutting experience so it all worked out fine and lots of fun to see the changes in the people when they came in and after we washed and cut their hair and also some beard trimming for the men. Plus new hair brushes or combs and towels. Yay God!!
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| Pastora Maria |
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| Professional barber |
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| Happy customer |
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| Marci with a happy customer |
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| Professional barber |
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| Patrica |
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| Ruben and his mom Nicole from Nevada |
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| Ernie with a happy customer |
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| Pastora Maria |
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| games for kids |
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| Brother Ruben |
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| team from Nevada |
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| Me :) |
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| Jason and Laman |
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| Sister Nicole with Patty |
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Sister Nicole
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We had a visit from our friends in Arizona and when they came we also took them to the landfill and did our second prayer walk for the territory here in Cerro Azul. It is a 2.8 mile walk that we did praising the Lord the whole way. We had multiple churches participate and also my home group from Bishop was here with Gary and Ron and Donna and I have to say Gary and Ron are both 80 and they walked the whole way. Go God!!
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| Glendon prayer walk |
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| prayer walk |
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| prayer walk |
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| Glendon and Deborah Yoder |
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| Me :) |
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| Ernie team Mexico |
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| Ron and Gary |
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| Prayer walk |
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| this time we made signs for the walk |
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| Ruben and Jose, he pushed him the whole way |
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| Angie, Glendon and Deborah |
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| Angie, at landfill |
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| prayer with Nate at landfill |
We make a landfill visit every month, if a team comes from the states we coordinate with them. If not team Mexico goes once a month to spread the love of Jesus. We encourage with prayer and carry the Presence of Jesus into the lives of the people who call the landfill home. I have people ask me what are the goals for the landfill? Of course we would love to help people get out. But many do not want to leave out of fear or shame or their past. So we come in and carry the Presence of Jesus to them. Holy Spirit lives in us and we come to encourage and bring hope. We have people who have previously turned down prayer and now they see us coming and ask us to pray for them. We always bring critical care needs food, drinking water and clothes if we have them. To also help in a tangible way. Love through action. God does the work on their hearts all we have to do is show up and love them with an unconditional love. Amen!
2 Corinthians 2:14-15 New King James Version (NKJV)
14 Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. 15 For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.
We are still doing monthly food bags for the elderly. Each month we do 21 bags of food and with the help of volunteers we deliver them to homes of the elderly in our area. All of this is done by donations, food donations and cash donations to purchase extra things that are not donated. Thank you everyone for all of your help and donations.
Lets not forget backpacks every year we hand out back packs for back to school. We purchased 109 plus had about 40 donated to us to hand out to kids in need of help with school.
We still help partner people with those in need of help with their education. Currently we have five young adults in University who are receiving help. Plus two high school kids. We also provide help for uniforms for kids in elementary and junior high. Again all by donation!! Go God!! You can't out give God and these kids and young adults are a great investment. I can not say how much I appreciate all of the help you guys have given us for these young adults.
Recently we had the pleasure of visiting a group home for elderly and rehab patients who have no family or a place to go. This home is completely ran by donations. We were able to bless them with food and blankets and warm beanies and gloves. Again with out your donations none of this would be possible.
I have been in Mexico going on six years. It will be six years in June, married to Frank for five years in June. For those of you who knew me from the beginning of this journey you will know that the Lord placed it on my heart to take a radical leap of Faith and move to Mexico. I started in an orphanage as a volunteer and a year later married Frank and we branched off into outreach. We prayed for direction for the ministry how the Lord wanted it to go. This what happened after five years. Amen!! All the Glory goes to God!!
I also want to dedicate this to those who were lost to us in 2019.
We will meet again on the glorious day of our promotion to heaven. Gone but not forgotten we carry you in our hearts. Save us a seat up front!! :) Love you always.
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| Sister Nicole |
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| Sister Nicole |
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| Valerie Wenrich |
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| Sister Chuyita |
