Our One Year Update

Dear praying friends,

We can’t believe that its been a year since we first arrived in Mexico City!  We are very thrilled to see how God has led in this first year, and we are excited to see how He will lead in this coming year.

We are in the middle of another session of language classes.  This will be the last for Jason and Danielle is planning to take one more.  Danielle has begun the ‘Intermediate’ level and Jason just finishing it up. 

Last May we took 5,000 tracts home with us (we had heavy luggage!), and we have been handing them out since then.  We often give them to taxi drivers, because we have a good chance for conversation during the ride.  We gave one to a taxi driver a couple weeks ago who seemed particularly interested in a Bible study, please pray that he would give us a call.  We also gave a tract to our neighbor/land lord, pray that he would be interested in the gospel.  His name is Don Jesus, he and his wife are in their 70’s. 

Jason is preaching 3 Sundays a month, but, starting August, he will be preaching each Sunday of the month.  He has learned much and gotten comfortable preaching in Spanish during these months of guest preaching. 

We continue our Thursday evening Bible studies.  We have a few couples coming regularly.  We always have much discussion time because there are many questions!  One young man came a few weeks ago, he is the son of the family we originally started the Bible study for.  He is the first to come from that family so far.  Pray that, in God’s will, we will see the whole family come out and we will see more people attending and learning about our loving God. 

Jason has begun to translate ‘Separated Unto The Gospel,’ another tool we hope to utilize in the future.  As we finish up our studies in the next couple months, we will be focusing on tract distribution, the Bible study and ultimately starting regular Sunday services in our home.  Please pray for us as we end the first phase and start a new one.  We have much to look forward to here in the work of God.

We praise the Lord for supplying our needs before we ask them.  We are being given a van, it is in Canada, so we are planning to drive it down after the fall week of prayer.  We didn’t think we’d be able to get a car for a few years yet, but the we thank the Lord for seeing this need.   Pray for a safe trip for us in October, especially for when we cross the border into Mexico.

 Prayer Requests:

-Awareness of God’s leading

-Evangelistic opportunities and tract giving

-Continued cultural adaptation

-Language fluency

-Bible study and the relationships being made through it