So we are now home and have been for just over a month. we have been quite busy with things here on the ranch and in our personal life! Enjoy the video (please excuse our pauses and stammerings!) and please feel free to send us an email, text or call us if you have any questions or want to know more! If you are wanting to join our prayer team please leave a comment or email and I will add you to the group!
I will correct myself from in the video here and there are 273 days until we begin our Discipleship Training School in Mazatlan!! the countdown is on and we are so excited to see where our Father will take us on this adventure!
Here is the video with clips from some of our worship times! The love that pours out from these awesome people is simply amazing! We are really going to miss our worship times here!
If you’re brave enough, turn up the volume for full effect and imagine the walls, floors and windows literally shaking!
It is so hard to believe that we are going into 5 weeks here and our time to head home is flying at us at a break neck speed! We are in awe each day of how God has put people in our day to day that spoke such truth and love into our lives, how the Holy Spirit moved through our lives and through others has been absolutely transformational! We are humbled by the generosity of the friends we have made here and are now like family, we KNOW we are blessed to witness their love and wisdom! WE feel honoured that they have shared their testimonies and lives with us these last weeks and we look so forward to watching their continued growth and love!
We feel so loved by everyone here and man are we going to miss them all when we leave, but we still have 5 days and what 5 days they will be!!
Here is the past week update and a bit more...
Today we will begin resting physically (well Dennis will as I am still on kitchen duty today and have my rest day starting tomorrow!), lots of Carnaval testimonies will be heard and told and worship tonight out in the park!
Have a great day!
It is hard in imagine we have been here for as long as we have! That means soon we will be heading home! Not something we are really getting too excited about (except to see family and friends!)
We have made such beautiful friends here and made a home for ourselves in our room and community, we have learned the art of getting around; calling uber or polmonia to get home places when we are tired and bogged down with groceries (and other purchases). It is going to be a hard internal fight to get on that plane to head home, but we know we have so much to share with everyone, that makes it exciting too!
So here is a movie about the last week, and photos will follow possibly tomorrow or Monday! Enjoy!
Well, we have been back for about 3 weeks now (and we yearn to be back in Mazatlan doing Gods work!) .... and to say the least... the trip was amazing!!
We built a home, we distributed 154 bibles, we fed children supper one night! We walked around Mazatlan, taking in the sights, the foods and the people!
It was most definitely a God journey... no better way to describe it! I was waiting to post photos of the trip until we had shared the trip with our church and a few other people ( and we still have any people to share with!!) but I thought I would get this quick (5 minute) video of the highlights on our trip up for y'all to see!
A few highlights I will tell you about:
The lady we built the home for!! She was the loveliest lady you would ever want to meet! She was not only kind but extremely generous! She made us meals and every morning she would serve us cafe leche... mmmmmm cafe leche... she helped us with whatever and whenever she could - she worked many, many hours after her regular day job to pay for these treats for us! Her favourite colour is purple, so that is why it is purple! (houses in Mazatlan are so beautifully colourful!)
We met many wonderful people while distributing bibles in a poorer colonia (neighbourhood). The people were so welcoming to not only talk with us and allow us to pray for them, but we were told they have been waiting for the bibles we had. These bibles were PDT (La Biblia: La Palabra de Dios para Todos- which translates; The Word of God for all) and the versions they had were too complicated to read! it was so amazing to take the time to talk with people and pray over them! I will admit it was a bit scary at first and praying through a translator took a bit of getting used too, but it was a definite highlight for me!
The night at the Feeding Distribution Centre (soup kitchen) was great too! We fed about 60 kids (there is usually 70!) This program is run by a local man (Roman) and his wife and 2 volunteers. Roman works in an autonomy shop and felt that God was telling him to feed the hungry. So two evenings a week and one breakfast he feeds the children of the local Colonia (neighbourhood) with food that is mostly donated by a local lady who runs a bakery or a restaurant. The kids there were so excited to. have some newcomers and soccer balls (and Dennis' beard lol)!! After they ate, the soccer balls came out and it was outside to play with them and to play a piggyback game!
There is so much to say about our trip, and although the Inuit have 150 words for snow, I can't seem to find the right words to convey this trip. We loved it so much and are praying that we will have the opportunity to go back again but hopefully for a bit longer, doing Gods work!
Please take a few minutes to check out the video and the photos to catch a glimpse into our week in the beautiful city! If you are any questions, don't hesitate to ask or if you want to get together to here more of the mission trip, just drop me a comment or even a phone call!!
Thank you all so much for your prayers, messages, texts, calls, donations! You made our trip that much better by being involved!!
El amor de Dios nunca falla!!! 💕🤗💕
Hopefully, we will have another God adventure to share again soon!!
We received an email yesterday with a bit of info and background on our family in Mazatlan that we are building house for! It was so thrilling to read and learn a little about them! I don't know if we are allowed to share that information, so I won't, but I will say this; they are a family of 7 and Dennis, Hannah and I are so eager to meet them! As we are putting the final preparations in gear for our trip, I pray that you will all pray for this beautiful family with us and our mission team! My heart is brimming for them and I can not wait to meet them and see where God has moved in their lives! There is still time to donate if you are feeling lead to do so via our GoFund Me page! We want to say a big thank you everyone who has texted, sent well wishes and love during this first ever time on missions! We didn't (and still don't) know what to expect of it all, but so far seeing how God our Father works is so exhilarating and breathless that it is just a huge blessing! Thank you again to those who have donated money and time to our efforts! We are truly blessed!
You can still donate and the money would to the team, as there are still travel expenses that you can help with for the team and as always we need your prayers!
