Our Future

Today and tomorrow the EMC Board of Missions is having meetings. Tomorrow they will be discussing our future placement, to where we will move after our furlough. Please pray along with us for our Board of Missions as they make this decision. Pray that they will hear God leading them to where God wants us to be. This week has been very hard to concentrate on much here as we really just want to hear which city we will be moving to. It's something we have been waiting a long time to hear and now finally we expect to hear an answer at the beginning of next week.

Steinreich Bibelschule

Yesterday was the last day of my parents visit. We spent the majority of the time together with our church family in Anáhuac. They decided to have a potluck lunch, because they wanted to show "LeRoy and Faith's parents that they were being taken care of".

We were extremely blessed to have a group of students from the Steinreich Bible School come and share and minister to the congregation. Diedrich Harms preached on the story of Lazarus and the students presented a drama, a kid's story, a testimony and sang. It was mostly done in Spanish, with a little bit of singing in English and Low German. It was really interesting because the Low German song they sang I recognized as King of Majesty by Hillsong.

The Bible School has students from Canada, USA, Bolivia, Belize, as well as various Mexican states.

John and Lorna Wall, who we work together with, are currently teaching at the Bible School, and we were able to go and visit with them on Saturday. While I was there I recognized one of the students, Jeff, from Belize, who had come to Mexico with Project Mac a year ago with Jake and Myrna Bartsch as leaders. That was a nice surprise.

The Bible School runs for three months a year, taught mostly in Low German, but now recently there has been more serious talk about opening a Spanish wing as well. Pray for wisdom as this dream gets brought before the Lord. There is always a need for ongoing, feasible, biblical training for the leaders of the evangelical churches.

Preaching..

This morning LeRoy is heading to Santo Tomas church to share the message...something he will be doing every 3 weeks until May. The church there had pastors that needed to be put on discipline due to some issues, and that was done last weekend through the conference here. As a first step to helping the situation heal they have decided to have others come in and preach for the next few months at least. So we have offered to help in this way as we have now stepped down from most responsibility in Anahuac. The kids and I were going to go along with LeRoy but Nolan woke up with a much worse cough and Emma had a rough night...so we'll go next time. I wish I could go along to support LeRoy, but we'll be praying for him from here.

I know there are some other updates I should be mentioning but I'm so tired from being up with Emma last night I really can't think of any.

Just because it's Mexico, doesn't mean we live on the beach

Well, the snow is falling outside, the wind is blowing, and school is canceled. I called Brooklyn's school, and they said the pipes were frozen, and couldn't get the heat to work. Faith says she will have to do some baking, just to warm up the house.

Faith is talking to her dad, apparently it's colder here in Cuauhtémoc than in Steinbach, MB. So no, we don't live on the beach, where it's constantly 30 degrees, and my tan isn't really getting worked on. Haha

I have bible study this morning at 10, but I really don't feel like leaving the house, knowing the house where we have study is ''congelada'' or frozen. But I know it's worth going, because the two men who are studying God's word keep coming every week for almost a year now. Praise the Lord!