God Has Been Good...

Well, this past week has been quite the adventure to say the least!
My youth group from Manitoba left Friday afternoon and I've been in
"recuperation" mode ever since! God was definitely good, though,
taking care of every concern, every anxiety that we had, protecting
us, gaving us a lot of really neat ministry opportunities, and
blessing the socks out of everyone of us! Here's a couple of examples:

On the first fill day here, our team went out to a poor church about
45 minutes away in Empalme with a bunch of clothing to hand out.
When we arrived there, we went door to do, inviting people to the
"cancha", the basketball court just beside the church. Well, when we
made it back there to set out the clothing, we were COMPLETELY
OVERWHELMED with the amount of people that showed up - there were
well over a hundred people, with many children. The need in that
area is so overwhelming, and you could never feel that you brought
enough stuff to help ease their needs! But we had an opportunity to
help the church connect with their community and also to just briefly
share why we were there - to share God's love with them. We also
invited them back to the church later that week for the service that
we were going to be involved in - the one you all prayed for.

The team was also involved with a DVBS style kids club at a local
Spanish church here in San Carlos. It was tough going at first,
dealing with a language barrier and all. Some of the youth had no
problem bridging the gap, though, but for others it was definitely a
stretch. Tuesday, the second day was probably the hardest, just
dealing with fatigue all around and struggling (for some) to make
those connections. But by Friday, as our team was leaving and saying
their goodbyes, you wouldn't have known that there was any language
barrier at all! The way the kids were holding onto the youth as they
were trying to leave just showed how God was faithful to allow them
to bridge that language gap in so many ways. It is amazing how many
ways you can communicate love without words! By the looks of it,
this may have been a DVBS program in Canada where all the kids speak
English - the connections made were just as significant, if not more so!

Thursday evening, which I asked you to pray for was an incredible
blessing as well. The team was really looking forward to returning
to that church in Empalme - it's just such an incredibly warm and
wonderful little congregation - another situation where the language
barrier just wasn't a barrier at all. It's amazing the community and
fellowship that you can experience with little verbal communication.
The entire day though, was filled with a bit of anxious moments and
some wrenches thrown into our plans, but God was faithful in
everything and through all the distractions that were thrown our way,
the evening service went off amazingly! Thanks for your prayers! We
were able to share some songs, both in English and Spanish,
worshiping together with them, share some testimonies, and a drama,
and share a message as well. There were a number of visitors to the
church which was exciting. It was a wonderful closing to the trip,
just sharing in fellowship with these believers.

Needless to say, though, I'm still kinda exhausted. I'm looking
forward to my family coming next week Tuesday, though. But that's
all for now! Adios!

Back in the Groove

Slowly but surely I'm getting back into the swing of things down
here! It honestly has felt like weeks since I've been here, at least
in a "normal" sense. Sure, I was here two weeks ago (for a week)
with my brother and his friends but that week was such a rat race,
hanging out with them as well as taking care of some regular duties
here. The temperature has definitely kicked it up a little - we're
hanging around the mid 30's consistently with high humidity. We've
had two mornings of rain, though, which has helped to not only
freshen things up but turn everything very green! What once was were
desert hillsides are now turning lush and green. We're just entering
the rainy season which will continue on through till sometime in
September or October.

Just a couple of hours ago I bid fairwell to a youth retreat from a
local Spanish church located about 20 minutes from here. This week,
among regular responsibilities, will be spent gearing up for my youth
group's arrival next week Friday. I'm very excited to have the
opportunity to host this group out here for a week of ministry. It's
always a pleasure to have family and friends from home join me in
this adventure out here. These experiences are great to share with
words and pictures but when you can share the experiences themselves,
it makes it that much richer! The group, 11 in all, will be involved
with a VBS program in a local Spanish church during the mornings, and
the afternoons will included various things like a painting project
for that church, doing some clothes and food distribution, and
spending some time at the orphanage that I'm involved with.

You can definitely keep us all in your prayers in several different
ways: (1) None of the members of the group have been to
Mexico...scary and exciting at the same time! But pray that God will
not only take us all out of our comfort zones but that He will show
Himself faithful as well trust Him in those circumstances. (2) Pray
that we will be able to see God's hand work mightily amongst us and
around us as we seek to serve Him wholeheartedly (3) Pray for safety
in travel for the group - over 5000 miles will be spent on the road!
(4) Please also pray for me as I am in a new role. Generally I'm
working under the leadership of Art and Brenda but since they are in
Montana for the summer, I'll be flying solo...the group won't be the
only ones living outside their comfort zones!

I can't thank you enough for your prayers in all of this...they are
what keeps this ministry going and what keeps it effective!

Where in the World Am I??

So I've encountered more than one surprised face to see me back in
Canada for a little while..."I thought you just left!" Well, I did
just leave for Mexico with my brother and his friends for their grad
trip but returned just under a week ago with them. If you read the
previous post, you saw that our drive down to Mexico was more than
just a little exciting with car trouble and all but I'm glad to say
that our trip back up to Canada was uneventful (and we were more than
glad that it was). I've been spending another week up here in
Canada, seeing more family and friends and just taking it easy but I
am more than ready to return to Mexico where I will stay there for
the remainder of the year. Having travelled more than 10,000 miles
in the last month (by plane, bus, and car) you could say that I am
ready to stay put in one place and no longer live out of a bag. It
has been a very refreshing time, though, to see family and friends
out here in Canada.

One thing that I am looking forward to is my youth group from the
Blumenort Mennonite Church coming out during the last week of July
where they will be involved in various ministry projects including
helping with a Spanish VBS program, doing some painting, food and
clothing distribution, and whatever other opportunities happen to
come our way. You can definitely be in prayer for this team as the
prepare for what will be very new and outside of their comfort zone
for a lot of those coming. This is of course, though scary, a good
place to be as those are often the times when we learn to rely on God
in new ways and to greater depths. Those are also the times when He
shows himself to us in new ways as well. I too, am feeling out of my
comfort zone on this one as generally I'm working under the
leadership of Art and Brenda while teams are in Mexico but this time,
since they are in Montana for the summer, I'm flying solo on this
one. So your prayers will be greatly appreciated!!

I'm also looking forward to my family coming out for about 10 days
mid-August. I suppose they figured that the high 30's that they
experienced last year with 100% humidity wasn't hot enough so they're
going to try out the low 40's this summer! Ray and Char Klassen and
family are also making the trek with them and I'm looking forward to
spending some time out here with all of them.

That's about it for now - the next post will be from toasty Mexico.
Until then, hasta luego!

Double Trouble

Who knew that you could pack this much adventure, trouble, and blessing into a 4 day road trip?? I'm sitting on the back deck of a Days Inn in Tucson, Arizona, about to return to life in Mexico after a two week stay back at home in Winkler. It was an excellent time of reconnection with family and friends - to all who are reading this, thanks for the incredible support that I felt and received as I was back home for a while!

But I've been on the road since Thursday morning with my brother and three of his friends who all just graduated last Tuesday and are taking a grad trip, spending a week down in San Carlos with me. But what an adventure it's been so far. We had the opportunity to spend a night in Montana at the house of Art and Brenda (the people who run the mission center in San Carlos). They of course spend their summers on the farm in Montana and in the course of 12 hours, opened their house to us, gave us a place to sleep, fed us (and packed for us) three meals and sent us on our way. I had never been to their "summer home" and it was a blessing for all of us to stay there, even just for a short time.

The second day held for us car trouble. Cruising down the highway there were several times where we just suddenly stalled. We could let it sit for a while and it would go again but it got really bad and (after pushing the van down a busy street for about a dozen blocks on the edge of Salt Lake City) to the amusement of many other motorists, we got our minivan to a shop just in the nick of time for them to replace our fuel filter, hoping that that was the problem.

Well, that got us through Las Vegas when we suddenly had it happen again. Because of some of the time we lost, we figured we would just travel through the night. So, taking it easy we pushed on through the night and managed to make it to a small town south of the Grand Canyon. There, we waited for a garage to open and got our fuel pump fixed. Thankfully this was the problem and we've sailed ever since.

That is until we encountered in the Grand Canyon park a little rear-ending! And of course the car that we bumped into happened to be nothing other than a brand new, black and shiny Mustang! It didn't happen at super high speeds, though and all the damage that there was was two little screw markings on the bumper of the Mustang from our license plate. The retired couple who was driving it were wonderful people from South Dakota returning home from vacation. They handled the situation better than could be hoped for and we all left the scene with smiles on our faces.

I'm excited to be returning to Mexico (and perhaps a little nervous to see what kind of "adventure" awaits us today!) but over the past couple of days, despite all the crazy things that have been happening, we've been having a blast. And though it's been anything but smooth sailing we're still right on schedule and really have sensed God's hand on our trip so far. Through our troubles we've met a lot of really good people and the atmosphere (which could be stressful and frustrated considering all that's happened) has been relaxed and encouraging. So, to everyone who is praying for us, a huge THANK YOU because who know's where we would be if you weren't praying!

Bienvenidos a Canada

Airports are interesting places. For those who may have the luxury (or curse) of traveling quite frequently for whatever reasons, they may quickly lose their appeal. But for the rest of us, they can be places of transition, not only of moving from one location to another, but of change - of leaving something behind and encountering something new, or maybe returning to something old. I guess I'm not permanently leaving anything behind - I'm just heading back to Canada for a couple of weeks but sitting here in the airport waiting for my flight has left me with time to reflect back on the last three months and on the many blessings that have come my way.

It's hard to believe how fast these last three months have gone. I've come from struggling to return to Mexico to struggling to leave Mexico. There's been times of crazy busyness and times of tranquility. The past couple of weeks have been characterized more by craziness than anything else, getting things ready for groups that are coming in this summer, continuing to connect with pastors and churches, preaching, leading worship, and more. What I've been most thankful though is the new connections that God has given me with different people in the community I live in. There's some awesome youth in the Baptist church that I've been connecting with. My soccer skills (out of necessity) have slowly been improving but also the Spanish is slowly improving as well (of course not fast enough!)

These next couple of weeks will be good as I reconnect with family and friends but by the end of my stay at home I think I'll be ready to return back to San Carlos. And I'll have the privilege of doing so with my brother and his friends as they'll be spending just over a week in Mexico on a grad trip with me in San Carlos.

Thanks for you prayers and I look forward to connecting with many of you over the next two weeks!

Master of Construction

Well, "Master of Construction" is probably a bit of an exaggeration...but I did get some experience in construction, Mexican style yesterday. I spent the day yesterday helping a pastor who's building a parsonage on the church property. Right now, his family is living in the Sunday School classrooms and using the church kitchen as their kitchen. His goal is to build this house so the future pastors of this church will have a proper place to stay. A youth group in March from Crystal City, MB, had raised enough money to put a roof on his house and so I went their yesterday to give him a hand in the project. Most of the work he's done on his own. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of construction experience from back at home but fortunately it didn't really matter as there's not a lot of construction practices that carry over from our building styles at home to the building styles here in Mexico. Where everything is wood and drywall at home, everything here is concrete and plaster. So yesterday consisted of building temporary supports underneath the ceiling (which consists of these concrete "2x4's" spaced between sheets of 4" styrofoam) to support it when the concrete is poured on top, until it is dry.

This spring has gone by incredible fast out here and it's hard to believe that in exactly two weeks, I'll be taking off out of Tucson and making the flight home where I'll spend a couple of weeks and take in Brent's grad before returning here to Mexico. Of special note in the next two weeks is two opportunities to preach. The first one this coming week in the Mexican Baptist church, here in San Carlos and then the following week in the English church. No, my Spanish is not quite fluent enough yet to preach in Spanish but fortunately there's a guy who I've connected with that is quite fluent in English and can translate for me. You're prayers will be greatly appreciated!!

Been awhile...

Yeah, it's definitely about time for another post to let you all know what I've been up to down here! It's actually amazing how time has flown by - I've already been here for over two months and am looking at returning home for a brief time in just over a month. Here's a couple of things that have been keeping me busy:

* Connecting with different churches in the area. There are a number of vibrant, evangelical churches in the area and it has been a privilege to connect with different pastors, taking in different services, and seeing the work that God is already going out here. There is an incredible unity among the evangelical churches here in Guaymas/Empalme. With over 40 churches (none of them very large, mostly in the 50 to 100 range) in the area, there is a strong, healthy evangelical influence in this area. But with over 200,000 people living in this area, there is a great need!

* Hanging out at the orphanage. It's a continuing blessing being involved with the kids at the orphanage. They continue to regularly tire me out as I try to keep up with them in playing soccer. Indeed, these guys who are around 12 years old have more soccer skills then I do (and more energy as well) but I'm holding my own.

* Leading worship and preaching. I'm still regularly leading worship at the English church here in San Carlos, leading every Sunday that I don't preach. I have another opportunity to preach on May 25th. I've really enjoyed these opportunities, though they have taken a lot of time in preparation.

* Helping a church prepare for running Day Camps this summer. This is an exciting opportunity that is quickly drawing near. A church in Empalme is seeking to expand their children's ministry this summer by running day camps out of their facility for a week, during the first week of July. They've never done this before so there's a lot of prep work to do and we're using some resources and contacts through Children's Camps International to get them going in the right direction. There's only two months left to go and a lot of work to do!

* Keeping things going at the house. It seems I've become a part-time gardener not by hobby but by necessity as well! Just before Art and Brenda left, they were able to put into place a vision that Brenda has had for a long time - a prayer garden here at the mission center. Along with that came a whole lot of plants that I would rather still have alive when they return at the end of the summer. Well, it hasn't rained the entire two months that I've been here and it probably won't rain for another two months of more (till the end of July) and so that means a whole lot of watering. There's other things to do as well to keep things in order here.

That gives you some idea of what I'm up to these days. Of course your prayers are always appreciated!

Affirmation From Above

Today has been a day of affirmation. When I came back to Mexico, I struggled a bit at first with being here. I wasn't sure if I was ready to return and leave everything back at home. It took about a week of being here to get readjusted to life out here. Once I was settled in and started to get involved in ministry out here, I really started to feel at peace with being here.

And today, God just reaffirmed my ministry here. I was scheduled to lead worship in the English church this morning. There are some times, when preparing to lead worship, that everything seems to come together very clearly and other times when it seems to take a lot more work to get things together. This week in preparation was one of those where God clearly brought everything together, from songs to scripture. Of course, being a doubting human, I entered the service not show how it would all tie together with everything else but sure enough, God had it all planned out and brought together everything as only He could. Following the service, one lady approached me and shared with me how the Scripture read and the songs were exactly what she needed to hear.

Perhaps it wasn't anything huge, but it was one of those mornings where God seemed to speak very clearly, affirming me in where I am and in what I'm doing right now. It's just been one of those spiritually refreshing days for which I thank God for!

The Calm After the Storm

It's been quite a stretch! I have to apologize for slacking off in the blogging department. It seems that over the past couple of weeks any idle moments (the few of them that there have been) have quickly been occupied by relaxation, friends, and sleep! We've just come off a real busy stretch, having teams coming pretty much non stop from when I first arrived. It's been a good stretch of many different ministry opportunities and many new connections made with a number of different churches in the area. Some highlights have included:

Doing various projects with a college team from Oregon at a school in a small, poor native village called Bago, located about an hour from the center. We spent some time painting, playing with the kids, repairing the schools only water source (as seen in the picture) and ended our of work out their showing a Christian movie called "Facing the Giants" and sharing a testimony.


Distributing clothes and other items in various places. The instance in the photo is with a youth group from Crystal City, MB and was done in conjunction with a church in the area, providing a neat opportunity of outreach in their community. It's always humbling to see people accept with incredible gratitude, the things that we (in our society) have deemed "second hand" and no longer use for ourselves.

Helping to construct a pastor's house. This particular pastor has spent much of his time in constructing the church building his congregation is now meeting in (which is a beautiful building!) In the meantime, however, he and his family has been living in the Sunday School classrooms and the church kitchen (which is badly in need of a new roof itself). The youth group from Crystal City fundraised enough money to put a roof on the pastor's house and also spent a couple of days help him with the construction project.

Putting on a new coat of paint at the local junior highschool here in San Carlos. The culture here in Mexico, though it is very Roman Catholic, believes very much in the spiritual realm. And so this school, according to popular belief out here is considered to be haunted. We've been told stories of people seeing ghosts here and hearing different sounds come from this school. Even as we were working there, one younger woman came by with her friend just to visit the school again and told us about some of the common folklore regarding this building. After we finished painting, we spent some good time in prayer for that building, and for the people in the area, particularly the children who spend so much time in that building, acknowledging that, though Satan is real and that he is at work, God is infinitely bigger and more powerful.

Those are just a couple of highlights but now life is going to take a drastic change as now it's just me and the dog, Pinta. Art and Brenda left this morning to spend the summer and fall (into November) in Montana, back on the farm. Ministry will take place more in the surrounding area, including the local churches and the orphanage. But life here at the center will be a little more quiet. Though it will take time to adjust to a new pace of life, the quiet will be welcome after the fast pace of life we've endured over the past weeks!

Semana Santa (Holy Week)

Don't let the name fool you...Yes, the week preceding Easter, Holy Week, is a huge holiday in Mexico. Schools are out during this week and next. Many people are off of work from Thursday on through the weekend. San Carlos is one of the popular destinations for many Mexicans, coming even from hundreds of miles away. For those of you who have had the opportunity to be out here in San Carlos, you will remember a quaint, quiet little town, and even wondering why they bothered to make a nice four-lane road through town with an extra "local traffic" lane going each direction in addition.

Well, one might argue that its for Semana Santa. The population grows from a modest 5,000 to probably well over 50,000. And what once took about 10 minutes to drive (from on end of San Carlos to the other) now took about half and hour, if you're lucking, and in many cases, one hour. The atmosphere is that of a carnival on steroids - car on car, person on person; the main street and the beaches are absolutely packed with people.

Unfortunately, the name is about the only part of this celebration that has anything to do with Easter. I suppose it isn't a lot different in Canada and the US when it comes to Christmas (for a lot of people). Here in San Carlos, its an excuse to get out, meet new people, an unfortunately, let the cerveza flow freely. I spent part of Friday night, walking down the street, snapping some pictures. There aren't many situations where I'm not comfortable but walking down that street, in the midst of the drunkenness, being just about the only gringo out there, I didn't feel very safe.

It's quite the contrast from this morning's 6:00am sunrise service that the English church had this morning, beneath the cross on the hill, just behind the mission center. From the apparent "happiness" and hopelessness in the streets this weekend to the incredible joy of knowing that the cross and the grave are both empty.

Friday night on main street, San Carlos.

A sea of people - main street, San Carlos.

Saturday afternoon on the beach.

Chaos and Blessing

Life continues to be a blur out here - it's hard to believe that it's already March 20! This week we had two teams out here, one being a youth group from Flagstaff, AZ and the other was a homeschool group from Bozeman MT. We've been running in many different directions trying to keep the crazy from turning into chaos!

It has been good but Tuesday was one of those days that started chaotic but God had His hand in all of it. Right after lunch I took one of the teams out to the city of Empalme to distribute food hampers, clothes, and a trailer full of household articles that we had received from someone who had passed away recently here in San Carlos.

We arrived at the church of a pastor (the same pastor who is planning to run camps out of his church this summer) who was going to lead us to a different, more needy part of the city. But sure enough he wasn't here. So, after a number of phone calls, we finally got a hold of him (and as it turned out, we, the North Americans were late and he had been waiting for us before). A number of phone calls later (with my Spanish being severely put to the test) we finally got on the same page and he met us at the church a little while later. He took us lead us to a very poor part of Empalme and connected us with the pastor of a small church there.

Once there, we broke up into groups of four and five and wandered the streets, finding places to distribute food hampers and inviting them to a central place where we would later hand out the clothes and other stuff we had.

My group ended up taking a long time; by the time we returned all the clothes had been given away. Because we were out of time, we decided, with the pastor of the church there, to just give the trailer full of stuff to him to give away to the community at a later date - giving him a neat opportunity to connect with the surround community. As we moved all the stuff into their church, we noticed that the roof over their church was only half done. The structure was about a 25 by 50 foot building. The pastor told us how they had been raising money for some time to finish it. They had $300 saved and needed about $1000 to finish it. Another man who was also from Flagstaff (and spending some time in San Carlos) who had joined us for the day decided to give that church the money they needed to finish their roof. As we were telling him this, he was overwhelmed with all that we were able to do for him, from the stuff given to the money to finish their house. It was neat to see God at work even when we didn't always know what was going on. It was a great end to a somewhat chaotic day!

9 hours of peace...

One group out, two groups in. The team from this week left just this morning around 8:30am and the next group is coming in later this afternoon followed by another team that is coming in tomorrow evening. I'm tired from the last week and somehow Art and Brenda have been keeping up this pace for more than the past two months. God gives us strength and energy as we need it.

The team that just left was from the youth group from Art and Brenda's church in Montana. The week was full of many different kinds of ministry opportunities including:

• painting a classroom in a church in Guaymas


• distributing food hampers


• distributing clothes


• painting a school in a local native village

With each of these came opportunities for the team to build relationships with the people and share the gospel message through drama and more.

Perhaps the opportunity that had the most impact on the team was the roof we replaced on a lady's "house" in Guaymas. Monday afternoon, as the group was doing the painting at the church, some of the team members along with a couple members of the church went out into the surrounding community and distributed some food hampers. In one of the houses that they visited lived a woman with two boys, one junior high aged and one high school aged. They noticed not only the condition of the house (which wouldn't have passed for a garden shed in Canada) but the fact that there were some large holes in the roof.

The team decided to take it upon themselves to raise the money and repair the roof. It was humbling to see as there was one point, as we were working on the house, the older boy came out of the house with a look of pride on his face, at the vast improvement that was being done to his house. It was especially humbling because even with the new, reinforced roof, their "house" was still something far beyond anything we would consider livable. Then you look around in the surrounding community and the amount of need is overwhelming.

The house before repair.

And after.

This woman and her boys had not been connected with the church that we were working out of but the connecting had been made and our prayers are that she will find here way to that congregation and hear about God's love because of the hand of love that was extended to her and her family through the team.

Alive and well! (...mostly)

Well, the journey did come to an end, with four solid tires and no more blowouts or other setbacks. We arrived in San Carlos Thursday evening at about 10:00pm tired but glad to have arrived.

The weekend was great and fairly full with meetings between my dad and I, a local missionary who is from BC and a pastor from a local Spanish church in Empalme (just past Guaymas). My dad came out with the purpose of meeting with this pastor who has expressed a lot of interest in running day camp style summer camps in their church, fashioning them after Children's Camps International's successful models (the ministry that my dad is a part of - check them out at www.childrenscampsinternational.com) This pastor, Pastor Ulysses, oversees two other congregations (non-denominational) and has a passion not only for outreach in his community but for children.

The meetings were exciting, seeing the possibilities of ministry out here unfold. God has already been doing a lot of work in this area particularly through an organization called Parters in Christ, bringing a real sense of unity among the churches and pastors in the Guaymas/Empalme area. A couple of weeks ago the churches held some meetings together with Transformation Ministries (of the US) and saw many people make commitments through that weekend. Pastor Ulysses alone is going to have 30 people baptized into his church as a result of those meetings. But the question on many people's minds has been, what now? What can these churches do now to continue in unity, with a common purpose and that's were the possibility of running children's camps has captivated Pastor Ulysses.

This picture is of the meeting that we had with leadership of pastor Ulysses' church and the two other congregations he oversees where the idea of running day camps this summer is being presented. It will be exciting to see how this all unfolds!

For myself, I'm doing alright - I've been sick with a throat/head cold over the past couple of days and am still waiting to see the light. It has been hard adjusting to life back here but good at the same time. It's good to see people that I haven't seen for a while but at the same time I'm missing family and friends back at home. Your prayers are appreciated!

On The Road Again...

Yep, that's right - I'm on the road spending the night in Gallup, New Mexico on the way down to Mexico. Me and my dad hit the road yesterday and are planning to get to San Carlos tomorrow evening. Our plans were somewhat disrupted this evening when, after stopping for supper, we realized that one of my tires was quickly deflating, now that we had stopped. So, instead of eating, we hopped back into the car to drive down the road a little farther while we could to get to a place where we could actually get the tire fixed.

Well, it wasn't long before we heard the pop and smelt the rubber - bring out the donut. And here we've arrived in Gallup where we'll spend the night, getting two new tires tomorrow morning before we hit the road. The adventures of the open road.

It's good to be heading back though I am having mixed feelings. Right now Mexico feels a world away even though its only been two months since I've been there. It will be good to get back into things out there. I suppose it's always hard to leave family and friends behind.

Adios for now!

Mexico Round 2

Yep, it's true. I think I'm tired of trying to stay inside as much as possible in order to avoid the ridiculous cold! More than that though, I'm excited at the God opportunities that exist for returning to San Carlos.

Some of the highlights that I'm looking forward to include my family coming out again for a good part of the summer, my youth group coming out for a week in July doing various types of outreach, and also the possibility of working with some of the local Spanish churches this summer as they run day camps for the first time. Actually, my dad and myself will be driving down next week to meet with some of the pastors to get the wheels in motion for this summer.

More to come as the adventure unfolds! I will try to do a little better this year in updates on this blog, aiming for one a week. In the mean time - check out the map and photo albums on the right.