"Find your own Calcutta"

Greetings sons and daughters of God!!

First off I would like to share a story with you, it went more or less like this. A man sent a letter to Mother Teresa and asked her what the secret of her passion was for Calcutta. It was stated that he waited a long time for a reply and when it finally arrived he was so excited and when he opened the letter there was only one sentence on the page and it read "find your own Calcutta". Wow so powerful, find what makes your own heart sing, filled with joy always and forever. Not the easiest thing to do but the most rewarding to give of yourself to others that you know will never be able to repay you. But little do they know all we require is a hug from them or just a smile. The Love of God can never be repaid. It was and always will be a free gift to those who believe.  We must get up and take action to help the lost and the lonely and the broken. I can say I have found "my own Calcutta" it can be as close as down the street or even on the phone you do not have to relocate far to share the love of God. You can walk down the street and share His love with the man on the corner or your neighbor, just that simple. 

Rosita and family

Epefanio and family

These are two new families that Father God has led us to. Rosita and her husband care for all four of their children along with a nephew and they live in a borrowed house and care for livestock. A Lot of people ask me what will these people do if you stop helping them. It is not a question of what they will do, most of them are working it is that the wage is so low that it does not cover the needs. So we are here to "help" with critical needs like food and clothing but most of all the Love of Jesus. Because we know that with Him all things will work out, He will provide for them. We are here to show them Jesus. Jesus said to Mother Teresa, "they do not love me because they do not know me." We are here on this planet to show non-believers the Love of Jesus. Like they say we may be the only "Jesus that they will ever see." Epefanio and his family live down the way from us and he lost his leg due to complications with an accident and a diabetes diagnosis. The family makes a living by recycling and he is still able to help but the load is heavy they have three children.I was blessed and honored to attend a women's retreat here in Cerro Azul. They had two guest speakers one of the ladies was here from Texas and the other young lady came from the south in Mexico. Both of them were wonderful, it was a two day event and they had amazing worship with flags. I must say I have missed flags!! There are some church's down here that do use flags but it is a different approach then the states it is more like a choreographed  dance with the flags then a free expression both are beautiful just different. I had a great time, thank you to all who were involved with this time of refreshing for the women here in Cerro Azul and Tecate. 

Paula Friedrichsen did make it here safe and we had such a wonderful time with her. She shared at two churches and one rehab center. It was our first experience at bringing a guest speaker. I would like to thank all of those involved that made this event happen. We held an evening service at the church "Jehovah es mi Pastor" and we were also able to bless the group with a meal, homemade tamales. We also shared hot dogs with the guys at the rehab center and also Paula shared a message with "the Journey church" in Polvorin. We meet a new couple first time here, Shawn and Shelby and we bonded immediately. Shelby is such an angel, I have been praying for someone to help Ron with admin stuff back in Bishop and I believe Shelby is the answer. Thank you Lord for always supplying our needs, the Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.( Psalm 23:1 NIV ) I love this version of this scripture, it is from the bilingual bible. When we trust in the Lord for all things He will always provide. I believe we must speak the truth before we see it and He will use our words to fulfill it. We can not look in the natural we must use the eyes of our heart to see. 

 The Journey church in Polvorin

 The Journey church in Polvorin

 Shelby and Shawn

 Shawn, Shelby, Vicki, Paula and Wes

 Rehab center

Jehova es mi Pastor

We have held two more youth outreach's since the last time I shared a blog with all of you. We served hot dogs at one and nachos at the last one. Sonia and Pastora Maria and the ladies and youth from "Jehovah es mi Pastor" helped both the times. The first outreach was the story of Jesus and the last one was "fishers of men" and Fernando held a puppet show. Nicole and Fernando are a couple that are moving here from Mexicali and they are going to get involved with the ministry so my desire to have a team down here is coming true along with the church of "Jehovah es mi Pastor" we have joined together to serve the community and beyond. 

 Pastora Maria and Maricella

 Sonia and Fernando

 Fernando and Nicole and their family

kids of all ages

We love when groups come down it is such a huge blessing to all of us. We are now being asked to hold prayer meetings and share our testimonies with more churches so the Lord placed in my heart to create a team down here so that we can meet the needs, and that desire is coming true. The Lord not only gives you the desires of your heart but He places His desires in your heart so that you begin to think that they are yours, but they are really His!! Yay God!!

Lots going on, I am headed to Bishop and then Bakersfield, in July. The Lord told me to get back to my roots and that is what Bakersfield is, where it all began. I am super excited to see friends in both places. We have two groups coming in August, Pastor Mike is coming from Church on the Mountain and a group from Arizona is also coming the following weekend. A while back the Lord told me to focus on the groups but at that time the groups were limited but now things are changing. I look forward to the next blog update and to seeing some more of your smiling faces down here in Baja California. Love and blessings now and always.  

Blessed beyond words

Greetings children of God!!

On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the scriptures has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water."  John 7:38-39.

We are the representatives of Jesus here on earth, we are filled with the living water. It is our job to saturate those we come in contact with, with truth and light. Shine, shine, shine so brightly that people look at you and say I want what they have, it is Jesus!! :) The light shines brightest in the darkness.

Frank and I were blessed and honored to have Lifepointe church from Elk Grove CA come down and build a church and a home for a local Pastor and his family in Tijuana. Along with a three day VBS - vacation bible school. They worked with Pastor Daniel of Ministerios Transformacion  and Kingdom builders. We were able to help with VBS and Frank was blessed to be one of the translators for the group of 60 people, they come down every year and build and "water" into the lives of those in the community here in Baja California. The relationships that we are making will last a lifetime. The bond you get with other believers, serving side by side to improve God's kingdom will be one that lasts forever into eternity.

Last year when Lifepointe came down they built two houses. One of the houses was for an amazing family who have a beautiful child named Issac which means laughter. He is one of the happiest babies I have seen. He was born with many medical complications and the parents were told that he would not live past 4 months. I am happy to report that he is now 3 years old and the family is doing great in there new home. When we meet them they were all three living in a very small trailer, the conditions need to remain as sterile as possible for Isaac. God has guided them and given them the ability to care for this "angel" this family has shown how unconditional love really works. They have risen above all odds to care for this precious angel. Thank you Jesus for placing them in our path.
pictures of Issac happy birthday

Ron and the team came down from "To Mexico with Love". Ron shared a message at  "the Journey" church in Polvorin. It was his first time for a solo act, usually he shares about the ministry this time he was blessed to share about our Jesus and letting your light shine in the darkness.

My Frank was also blessed to share a message at the rehab center that we work with. He shared about the lame man healed at the pools of Bethesda. Along with part of his testimony. The men were blessed and we got to enjoy coffee and donuts (sugar and caffeine always a hit) with them after the message.

"To Mexico with Love" will be back here the first week of June and bringing Paula Friedrichsen from Bishop CA with them  to share a message on "breakthrough". She is an international speaker and a published author. She will be sharing with the church in Polvorin, the rehab center and a new church that the Lord has placed in our path "Jehova es mi Pastor" with Gustavo and Maria LaVerde here in Cerro Azul.  I personally have been so blessed by this church because they have translated the message for me each time I attend. The worship is amazing and they sing in both English and Spanish. I can feel the Presence of the Living God there. Thank you Jesus for being so faithful and ALWAYS showing up. I feel very comfortable and so appreciate being able to understand the sermon. They have begun a new ministry there holding bilingual services. Yay God!! We look forward to partnering with them for this life changing event.

Yet another praise report; the girl's that I helped care for from San Juan Bosco have been reunited with their families and four of the girl's have gotten a new home built by Amor ministries and "God's servants" from Escondido came down and helped them finish the interior portion of the home and build bunk beds. We are ever so grateful, these girls will forever hold such a special place in my heart. I was blessed to spend 15 months with them on a daily basis at the orphanage and now the Lord has placed them back into our lives. Again He is helping us to build relationships that last. Thank you to all involved in this project.

Frank and I will be holding another children's outreach on May the 20th here in Cerro Azul at the house that my sister rents for the ministry. This time will be hot dogs and soda and a message from my new friend and Sunday school teacher, Sonia. We look forward to holding these events once a month, the last one had approx 40 kids attend. We look forward to see how God will manifest Himself at this event. Yay God!!
Church on the Mountain in Crowley Lake has a beautiful piece of property here in Cerro Azul. Please pray for development of this property. I am 100 percent positive that the Lord is going to do great things with it and in this area. I encourage everyone to come down and see what I am talking about. The vision is amazing and the community here will be forever blessed by this land development. Ron Graves has been coming down to this area for close to thirty years and Frank and I are blessed to see fruit in the seeds he and others have sown for so many years to this area. Maybe it is because we are down here on a daily basis so the the growth is more apparent to us. Nonetheless the growth is happening the harvest is ready. For in this the saying is true: "One sows and another reaps." I have sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.  John 4:37-38  Praise God to all of those who have come before us and dedicated their lives to this community. Wow powerful stuff going on down here in Baja California, please come and see us you will be forever blessed and your life will never be the same.

Ron and Selsa

Ron and Cora

Pizza and Prayer :)

Greetings one and all!! God is Love!! Loving God and His people is an honor.

Jesus says in John 15:17 "These things I command you, that you love one another." It does not say to love one another only if you agree with the person or if you share the same political views or religious views or even if you agree with their lifestyle choices. It is a clear command from Jesus. I don't know about you but when Jesus makes a command I think we should listen. We must rise above, the world. Romans 12:2 says "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God."
How can we ever lead people to Jesus if we are not in unity in the body of Christ. We must look past the things that we do not agree upon and focus on the truth. Jesus said, and "I am the the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." John 14:6  To come together as one body to save the lost, the lonely and the broken and those who have lost all hope. We must look beyond our differences and focus on the TRUTH. Jesus died to set us free from the bondage of this world and as Christians it is an honor to love and guide God's people. My prayer always is "Lord help me to love them like you do".

Wow, wow, wow so much is going on down here in this part of the Kingdom and I just read the other day that Kingdom means Kings domain. That brought such revelation to me. Each day is a new experience with the Lord to see what new things He can reveal to me. I was able to visit Bishop, Ca in February for two weeks and see so many people and visit with several Pastor's and church's. Yay God, and while I was there a couple of good friends gave me the idea to have pizza for the kids in our area. Buy the pizza and they will come and sure enough they did. Thanks to generous donations to the ministry we were able to hold an outreach for the kids in our neighborhood and at last count 40 kids were present. Frank shared a message with them about prayer and how they had the power to pray for one another and their families and how their prayers did make a difference and how God did hear them and He loved them. We would love to have this outreach each month to begin to plant seeds in these little lives. Most do not go to church and we are unsure of the details of their family lives but about a year ago Frank and I received a word from the Lord that our home would be like a "lighthouse" for those in need in the area. The ministry has a rental house two doors down from our house and we were able to hold the outreach there. Again thanks to a generous donation we are able to rent a house for use in the ministry. Our desire is to shine so bright with the love of Jesus that people only see Him when they look at us. Like they say sometimes YOU are the only Jesus that people see. It is time for all of US to begin to shine more brightly, so people will see us and say "I want what they have."

Ron Graves and Wes French came down February 16-19 and we had such an amazing time with. We attended a Church service in Polvorin at the church that sister Cora founded. Who now has a wonderful Pastor to help shepherd the people. Thank you Pastor Gabriel and your beautiful family for allowing us to pray with your congregation. Two groups one from Nevada and one from Utah where there also so it was wonderful to catch up with old friends. There is so much joy in your heart when you are able to serve others in such a tangible way.

Ron and Sister Cora

Me, Ron and Wes

Me with beautiful Sisters

prayer time this is her fifth baby :)

Walt with Jose and Rosa

Ron, Frank and Rosa

Frank and Ron at the Journey Church in Polvorin

Beautiful children of God

That same day we had a second prayer service at Pastor Mere's church here in Cerro Azul. The number of people were few, the rains were so heavy and most people walk here and the roads are dirt so you can imagine. The worship band was amazing and the Holy Spirit was there in full force. We had the pleasure of my new friend and sister in the Lord Sonia helping us translate and we were blessed by her company. We had the opportunity to pray for all of the people and share donuts and hot coffee with them. The Presence of the Lord was so heavy that at one point I was unable to speak or think. The Holy Spirit was able to transform this very solemn and serious woman into such a joy filled child of God in the matter of minutes. Her smile was so huge from ear to ear and we were so blessed by her. Father God can utilize us for prayer and words are not even necessary. He does all of the work, we just have to be obedient and allow Him to flow through us into the ones we are praying for. So amazing to see and even more amazing to be a part of this supernatural move of the Spirit.

Frank and Deborah

Sonia and Deborah

Pastor Mere's church

We have a website up and running the address is: tomexicowithlove.org please make time to take a look at it. You can also find all of the dates of our up and coming trips along with pictures of previous trips. Your life will be forever changed by a short-term mission trip to come and visit us down here in this part of the Kingdom. The next trip is in April the dates are the 14th to the 16th of April and we are going to hold a prayer service at the Rehab center that we visit. Please see the website for details also June 1st to June 4th we are blessed and honored to have Paula Friedrichsen from Bishop CA join us and share a Word from the Lord to the people in Mexico. Paula is an ordained minister and published author who speaks nationally at church conferences and women's retreats. Most recently she was in South Africa and now we are blessed to have here join us in Mexico, Yay God!!  God is love and we are made in the image of God!! Let us love one another as Jesus loved us. We hope to see some of you soon down here for a visit, love and blessings now and always. Your brother and sister in Christ Frank and Deborah.

Beautiful Bishop, CA