Finally! A summer update!!

This has been a very hot summer....most of the days have been over 100 degrees! We are so thankful for our home equipped with mini-splits in each room, however the electric bill shows it (electricity is very expensive in Mexico).

We've had an unusual summer this year, with most (but not all!) of our short-term missions teams cancelling, 1st due to the violence (which the gov. here is working hard to get rid of):
Ok, there have been road blocks, and arrests of drug lords here, and we see the army trucks driving around the city filled with rifle carrying, black masked soldiers...but they are doing a great job of protecting us so far! We've really never felt in danger, but of course we are always more careful than ever in what we do here.
Swine flu...well they Mx. gov closed all the schools and public places for 2+weeks, so that really helped to reduce the spread of the flu, and now it seems like its more in the US and other countries than ever was here.

BUT... God is good, because no matter how many or how little people come for missions, God always shows up! We've been continuing ministering in many churches here and have seen many people come to the saving grace of God's salvation, along with feeding over 100 kids at a soup kitchen, loving on kids at the Celebral Palsy Orphanage and shared tacos & a cold drink and prayed with people waiting at the central zone Hospital emergency waiting area (mostly outside). Many of these people come from the mountains and stay on the floor of the waiting room for days or even weeks.

Back in June, Roger was voted in as the Coordinator of Ethnic People in Mexico at the District Conference for the National Assemblies of God. What that basically means is that he gets to promote going on missions trips to the Indigenous people groups in Mexico to all 200+ of the A/G churches in our area. We just returned from a National Missions Conference in Guadalajara, Mx last week and are now planning 4 outreaches for the Mexican church to Oaxaca, Veracruz & Chihuahua for next year.

We had a bittersweet trip to Orlando, FL at the end of June to attend the funeral of a good friend and former pioneer of the YWAM Monterrey base with us....Theresa Henkel. She had been fighting breast cancer which had finally took over the better part of her body and she resigned to go home with the Lord. It was a difficult time to see her husband Jeff and children Adam, Heather & Brianna but it was a wonderful time to reunite with some of our former staff and reunite with Zenaida Cevallos (formerly from Mazatlan who used to live with us) and meet her new husband! We also had the opportunity to meet Charity's boyfriend for the 1st time (they both flew there from Utah), and we also visited my (Debbi's) brother his wife in Lakeland. The Lord provided the finances for this trip through wonderful friends who were obedient to the Lord and gave willingly...thank you!!

Now we are ready to send out our Summer issue of our newsletter...if you are interested, please let us know and we will send one to you! Debbi is going to spend some time in Utah with Charity in August, but Roger has lots to do here! Please keep us in your prayers!