A Summer Full of God's Blessings

Danny helped with worship at the graduation ceremony for Puebla Christian School in May.  He will graduate next year.

Erica enjoyed two months with us in Mexico after her first semester at Liberty University.  Danny served in Minneapolis as a youth intern from June to August.

Stu's mother visited us in May and returned in August to do seven dental implants.

We enjoyed a barbecue in our home with our Wednesday night small group.

Our missionary team meets monthly for fellowship, prayer and accountability--and sometimes to swim.

We are excited to welcome Megan (right) to our T2 team of missionaries.  She arrived in August to teach at the Puebla Christian School in the areas of ESL, college prep, career and academic adviser, and school nurse.  Welcome, Megan!

Karen graduated from the Seminary on June 11, and is now serving short term in an orphanage in Peru.  She will return to Puebla to serve full-time in the missions ministry of her church as she defines future plans to serve as a missionary.

Karen began serving as a summer missionary when she was 15, and decided to study at the Seminary as preparation for missionary service.

Carlos and Alejandra shared at a pastors' breakfast at the Seminary about their preparations to serve in China in 1 or 2 years. After serving several years with us as a summer missionary, Alejandra decided to study at the Seminary where she met her husband Carlos.

Josue and Naye met through their service with Summer Missionary Project.  Josue asked for prayer and counsel three years ago in our home concerning his interest in beginning a relationship with Naye.

At Josue and Naye's wedding on June 19, we were able to see Alex and Liz who serve in Turkey.

The wedding was a great Summer Missionary reunion--all of these young people met through this ministry.

Andrea is a missionary-nurse serving with the Tarahumara ethnic group in Chihuahua.  She met Luis in the hospital where they serve and are making plans for a December wedding.

Cristina reviews the visuals and materials for the Summer Missionary training camp in July.

Jafet from the Sembrador Church learns how to present a song for a kids club during the training week.

Karen presents her Bible lesson with her group during the training week.

Stu helped train this group to prepare their Bible lessons.

We trained 25 Mexican young people from the city to do 5-day kids clubs.

Our Summer Missionary leadership team includes three couples and five singles (2 not shown)

We trained Lolita  as a Summer Missionary in 2008 in Tlapa, and our training this year coincided with her wedding with Adam.

Tlacoapa is a rural village hidden in an isolated mountain valley.

The city hall in Tlacoapa displays the MePha language, which is very different from Spanish.

Tlacoapa is known for its pineapples.

Pastor Galo and his wife Flor invited us to train the youth and coordinated plans with the 12 receiving churches.  We met them in 2008 during our first training camp.  Galo is Pastor Jose's younger brother.

Stu shared the Sunday message in Tlacoapa at the beginning of the training week in Tlapa.  He used the visuals of the five children's Bible lessons to trace the prophecies of the Messiah from Genesis to Revelation.

Pastor Jose lost his wife to kidney failure days before the Summer missionary training that was hosted in his church.  Despite grieving his loss, he decided to proceed with training the 25 youth that were sent out to the 12 churches in the rural mountain villages in August.

Miguel (center) was trained last year, and this year became a trainer for the new youth.  He is a 19-year old farmer who never imagined how much he loves to share the gospel with children.

Cristina enjoyed training this group of youth in the mountain village of Tlacoapa.

Our training team in the orange t-shirts with the 25 youth in front of the Tlacoapa Church.

Victor is leading the games and races which are an important part of the kids clubs.

Our fellow trainer Alejandra helps prepare tortillas with the ladies in Tlacoapa.

Our training team included Alejandra, Omar, and Victor (left to right).  Omar first came to serve as a summer missionary when he was 15 in 2011, and now he is studying in a seminary in Cuernavaca in preparation to serve as a missionary.

We enjoyed working with our summer missionaries sent from Tlacoapa last year.  We could not have done the training this summer without their help as fellow trainers. (Claudio, Miguel, us, Loyda, Eufemia, left to right)

Isaias was one of the youth we trained in Tlacoapa.  He was sent to one of the most remote churches in the area.  He posted this photo of a kids club in a mountain village.

These are students at the Seminary that we are mentoring this semester (Aug-Dec).  Cristina mentors the women in this photo, and Stu mentors the men.