Gotta Love 'em!!

Gena and Rebecka

More Prayer Day Pics

Sandra, Mili, Gollito, Ruben, Efigenia, Esteban, Riky, Julio

Mili

Efigenia

Ruben

Gollito

Here are some more pics. We had a great time!

Half Day of Prayer

Sandra

Julio

Julio, Riky, Gollito, Sandra, Mili, Ruben, Efigenia, Esteban

Saturday Geña and I took our discipleship class to the beach for a half day of prayer. A couple of the youth found it challenging to pray for a long period of time. However, for most of the youth, it was a great experience that they won’t forget and would like to do again. The book we are using gives somewhat of an outline for what to pray for and how to spend your time. They found that really helpful and in our debriefing time, they mentioned how they recognized God’s presence in their lives by studying Psalm 139. We all had a really good time. The tide was pretty high so there wasn’t much beach to pray on, but that didn’t matter. As one of the youth said, “it was neat to pray at the beach with the beauty of the ocean and all, that made it fun. However, I think I realized that I can do this without having to come to the beach, I should be able to do this anywhere, the place doesn’t matter.” That was really encouraging because she realizes that it’s important to pray now. I think that this was an eye-opener for some of our youth and I believe that it will be something that will encourage them in their walk with God. After debriefing over lunch, we went on a Jungle Tour at a place called “La Tovara”. That’s where we take jus about every American Short-Term Missions team that comes down for their mid-week break. This time, it rained on us pretty good, but the youth didn’t care. We had the swimming hole all to ourselves. There was one other family there, but they only swam for a couple of minutes. No alligators this time either J. Continue to keep us in your prayers. The youth need prayer for continued growth in their walk with God, and I would like prayer for continued growth as a leader.

Baby Silberman

Yesterday we went to Tepic for a Doctor's appointment and to run some errands. The Doctor did an ultrasound and the baby is healthy, the heart is beating and unlike Rebecka was...it's calm. We are really excited. Please pray for a healthy pregnancy. It would be nice if we could have the baby in Washington, so pray for that door to open up as well. Thank you.

Discipleship

Once again we had a very good discipleship class this morning. The students are growing and it's really exciting to see. We all gave our personal testimony of how we met Jesus Christ and what he's done for us. We also made plans for next week. We'll be going to the beach at San Blas to spend a half day in prayer. I'm really looking forward to this. I have a lot to pray about and hope to get alot accomplished. I know this will be a good experience for the youth as well. I'm sure it will stretch them a little, but we can all use that at times, right?

THUNDER!!

Just as the weather showed signs of the rainy season leaving, we had a very impressive thunderstorm last night. The sky grew black as the clouds rolled in with flashes from the distance. The flashes came closer and closer until they were right on top of us. There were numerous, drawn out thunder strikes that came one right after the other. This was probably the most impressive thunderstorm I've seen here. There has been many thunderstorms, but I can't remember seeing one that had three to four thunderstrikes hit within miliseconds of each other. It was something awesome! After about 10 minutes, the thunderstrikes started to fade away and we were left with a black sky with flashes of lightning to watch while the rains filled the streets turning them into rivers. WWOOWW!!! This was exciting and I wish you all could have been here!

Supplies list again

I thought that I would post a supplies list again. It's pretty much the same as what I posted a couple of weeks ago. If you can help, that would be great! Please contact me or Jim Oas on how you might be able to help. Thank you!!

Here is the list:
Supplies:
Acoustic Guitar strings (high priority)
Bass Guitar strings
Electric Guitar strings
Cables (guitar/keyboard, microphone)
Music stands
Tracts
Complete Spanish Bibles NIV (Nueva Version Internacional-NVI)
Spanish Praise Music (cds or cassettes)—we want to get some praise music into the homes of the believers.
Spanish books (Chirstian Living, Bible helps, etc)
Office Supplies (pens, paper, etc.)

Instruments:
Bass guitar
Acoustic guitars
Electric guitar
Keyborad—Piano
Electric guitar amp (2) one is a high priority
Power Amp for monitors

Food:
STARBUCKS COFFEE (personal)
One idea that we would really like to see happen every year is the opportunity of providing care packages for the extremely needy families at Christmas time. With financial support, we could buy here lots of beans, rice, sugar, pastas for soups, anything practical for these people to eat. This support would need to be clearly specified that it’s for Christmas Care packages in Cofradia.
Another way to get food to these people is sending packages of seeds so they can grow their own food.

Tools:
Rotary Hammer Drill

Vehicles:Minibus (20+ passenger)
Ford/Chevy Full-size pickup

We Have Furniture!

Our furniture finally arrived this morning from Guadalajara. I had to fix a couple of broken things, but everything is alright. We got a dining room table with chairs, a living room set, and some stools for our breakfast nook. We are pretty happy about it.

Acoustic Worship

For the second week in a row, we lost power in town during worship. We played with two acoustic guitars and the drums. Everything went well, just had to adapt a little and help the congregation for the words because the overhead wasn't working. Great time.

Discipleship Class

Just got back from our discipleship class that meets every Saturday. These students are doing great. They are learning more about their personal relationship with God and learning how to share their personal testimony. We just read the story My Heart, Christ's Home. This story made a great impact on me as a youth, and it's great to see other youth receiving the same inspiration that I did. If you ever get a chance, look for this little booklet. You should be able to find it at any Christian Bookstore. The author's name is Robert Boyd Munger.

Ready for the Steel

Hugo finished the supports for the porch and carport this week. Now we're ready to put up the steel beems and roofing. Lot's of welding coming up.

Today

The three of us went to town this morning to make some copies, withdrawal some money to pay for the furniture that's coming on Monday, and pick up a couple other items. I'm spending the rest of the day at the computer working on finances, future vision, and looking to put together a newsletter.

California Earthquake, US's Next Katrina?

I've been reading some interesting articles about the hurricane in New Orleans. My dad sent me a couple and I just found this one in yahoo. Click here.

Worship Practice

Just got back from Worship practice. Sometimes we have so much fun it's incredible. However, today, a couple of our students were struggling quite a bit. One of them said that he flat out didn't feel like playing. Well, I don't want to force anyone to do anything. After a while, this person came around and started playing again, but I think he got discouraged mainly because he didn't know how to play the songs. Boy, I'm wiped out. This whole week I've been very busy working with the young people to get these songs. Please pray so that I will have wisdom and patience with them. I absolutly love it when they show up ready, excited to play their instrument and they are willing to learn. Unfortunately this isn't always the case.

Storm Clouds

This time of year is nice to be here, yet very difficult at times. The natural beauty captures your attention and it's nice to just admire sometimes. However, the hot and humid climate is something I wish we didn't have to deal with. Last month I went through 9 shirts, and three pairs of pants in ONE DAY!

Supplies List

Sometimes we get emails and questions of what kind of supplies we need for the ministry and for our personal lives. We've compiled an incomplete list of items. If you can help us with any of them, please contact me.

Here is the list:

Supplies:
Acoustic Guitar strings (high priority)
Bass Guitar strings
Electric Guitar strings
Cables (guitar/keyboard, microphone)
Music stands
Tracts
Complete Spanish Bibles NIV (Nueva Version Internacional-NVI)
Spanish Praise Music (cds or cassettes)—we want to get some praise music into the homes of the believers.
Spanish books (Chirstian Living, Bible helps, etc)
Office Supplies (pens, paper, etc.)

Instruments:
Bass guitar
Acoustic guitars
Electric guitar
Keyborad—Piano
Electric guitar amp (2)
Power Amp for monitors

Food:
STARBUCKS COFFEE (personal)
One idea that we would really like to see happen every year is the opportunity of providing care packages for the extremely needy families at Christmas time. With financial support, we could buy here lots of beans, rice, sugar, pastas for soups, anything practical for these people to eat. This support would need to be clearly specified that it’s for Christmas Care packages in Cofradia.
Another way to get food to these people is sending packages of seeds so they can grow their own food.

Tools:
Rotary Hammer Drill (2) –This item is used quite a bit. The ministry had two, they are used up, Gena and I had one, it got used up.

Vehicles:
Minibus (20+ passenger)
Ford/Chevy Full-size pickup

Carport progress

Gena's brother worked on our carport last week. We're almost ready for puting up the steel and doing some welding. These photos are of day one and then of today.

My Helper