2011 newsletters

MARTINA AND SERGIO’S STORY

In the fall of 2007, Alex and I gave Martina and Sergio a copy of Discipleship Evangelism. studying the lessons on Alex and I sat down
with Martina and Sergio to talk to them about how DE has affected their lives.

Hereʼs their story... Martina told us that she simply started studying the DE lessons on her own. Once she began to…

MEET RICARDO AND MARTHA

It is our pleasure to be able to introduce to you Martha and Ricardo González who are the pastors we are working with in León. We met them years ago before they officially became pastors of Renacer (their church whose name means Reborn in English). During our family visits to León, we would always go to their church. None of us ever suspected that the Lord was connecting us for the things we are now doing together like the DE training.

1ST DISCIPLESHIP GROUP GRADUATES!

Saturday evening, March 19th we had a great time of celebration with our discipleship group in Leon. After 5 months of training and an average of 25 people in attendance each week, we decided that a celebration was in order!

We arrived in Leon earlier that day in order to get things ready. Martina, our sister- in-law, offered to help us shop for everything and then prepare about…

ORDINARY STEPS BECOME EXTRAORDINARY

Have you ever been in the midst of a situation when all of the sudden you realize that you’re experiencing something that you could never have orchestrated? In fact, the everyday steps leading up to that moment are so ordinary that they create the perfect camouflage for something extraordinary. And that’s what’s so wonderful
about living everyday with the Lord Jesus...He makes the ordinary extraordinary and the normal supernatural.

Last November, we…

THANKSGIVING IN SEPTEMBER?

Last year at this time, Alex and I were spending very long hot days sitting on a small cushioned bench (our only piece of furniture at the time) in an empty house anticipating being able to begin our work here in Queretaro. One morning we woke up to the incredibly…

4,857 MILES + 20 DAYS = HEARTS OVERFLOWING

First thing Tuesday morning (12/20) we jumped into a taxi with suitcases stuffed in around us headed for the terminal to catch our 3 hour bus ride which thankfully takes us directly to the airport in Mexico City. This is how international trips begin for us these days. 3 hours later, we were stateside hugging our son and daughter-in- law at Orlando Intl. airport and eager to be reunited with the rest of our family over the next week or so.

Spending the…

AN AMAZING COLIMA CONNECTION

How can one glass of orange and celery juice affect 240 people nearly 13 years later? Some might say it’s just not possible or others might think that’s an awfully big glass of juice! No matter what you may be thinking about the combination of orange and celery juice in the same glass, we are still thanking the Lord that Martina (our sister-in-law) went out in search of it when she was expecting her third child 13 years ago.

Her craving led her to a lady who had a juice stand and while Monica was preparing this juice for Martina she asked her if…

THE POWER OF AN INVITATION

“I would like you both to meet my pastor at this summer’s conference”, Pastor Rogelio told us before we left his church in Colima. The Lord used some AWMI pamphlets our sister-in-law had given to a friend who lives there and attends Rogelio’s church to connect us. She showed them to him which eventually led us to travel to eight hours to Colima. While there, we taught about Spirit, Soul and Body and left several of Andrew’s books and sets of DE with him. As full as our calendar is this month, it was…

HOW DO YOU SPELL PROGRESS?

One of the wonderful things about walking with the Lord is experiencing His work ethic. He has amazing ways of getting things done. When He talked to us about returning to Mexico, He assured us not to be concerned about how difficult it had been for us when we lived here 30 years ago; and every day was a major challenge! He told us that as we took steps, it would be as if we were walking on a moving belt because He already had things in motion! The Lord was not exaggerating in the least when He promised this. Ever since we’ve arrived here, we…