English Tutoring

On Sunday evening a lady that lives behind me came over. I have helped her younger boys with their english homework before. That has always consisted of me writing a short (2nd grade level) story in english and the boys illustrating it! Easy, and kinda fun!

She has a niece that is in prepa (High school) her and her friends needed help prepping for a high english exam this week. They wanted to know if i would be willing to help them for a few hours on monday. Sure!

Monday came and five youth showed up (on time- thats how i knew they really needed help!)

They had 200 pages of a workbook they need to finish and get ready for this exam. gesh!

Three hours later we got a dent in what needed to be done.

Tuesday they came again.... for five hours (7am-12).

Today they are back... and tomorrow too (their exam is friday).

Right now, they are writing short essays. The instructions said, "write a short essay on... The Benefits Of......". One girl is writing on the benefits of foreigners in Mexico! HAHA

English tutoring is not something I consider myself good at and not something that i usually enjoy. But, I have had a lot of fun with these kids! They are funny, work hard trying to understand the english rules, we have drank a lot of coffee and ate a lot of tamales.

I do wish they lived in Jesus Maria.

Anyways, i wasn't expecting to do this all week, but it has been fun! I hope that they pass this english test! They have also asked a lot of questions about why i am here, what i believe etc. I hope that now that they heard the Gospel that they will think about what they have heard!

whats been happening?

It has been a couple weeks since updating what has been going on. Here is a quick catch up...

- We have been getting ready for summer interns, visitors, and teams!
            -We are hoping to start outreaches in two new areas (prayers for that appreciated).  We will be having movie nights, sport outreaches, english classes, game nights.... should be fun! =)
           -We have so many fun things happening this summer... one of which is a ventriloquist heading down here in July to do a few events (one in Jesus Maria, one in Palmas, one or two at public schools?,   church etc).
           - We are hoping to give away 50 more wheelchairs (if you are interested in giving to this project send me an e-mail.
       

- I was up in Phoenix for the International Wholistic Missions Conference last week. It was a good time of connecting with other people doing wholistic ministry on the field, getting some new contacts and dreaming about the future.


- We hope to start phase two of our building project in August. Please pray for that as well. It will require money to be raised, permits to be obtained and hands to help! They did a little clean up yesterday... read about it on Rods blog!

3rd annual easter egg hunt!

1008 Plastic Eggs stuffed with candy

600 Sugar Cookies

18 recipes of frosting

10 Kilos of hard boiled eggs

8 buckets of dye

250 people to have fun and hear the gospel. 

Thanks everyone who helped make this event a success! So fun! =0)

Getting Ready

Today was-- get ready for the Easter Egg hunt outreach day.

Seven hours of making sixteen recipes of frosting, boiling 200 eggs and baking more than 600 cookies... and now everything is ALMOST ready for tomorrow!

The dough was made a few days ago, so we just had to pull it out and bake today.

Today went almost without anything happening. WE ran out of gas at the community center and had to move the operation to my house.... One time my oven pretty much fell over (its on bricks) and i burnt a few fingers. But other than that... smooth sailing!

Lily is ready for her presentation of the resurrection eggs too!

I love events like this!

Tiempo de Vivir closing Ceremony!

After we handed out 650ish flyers today for this Saturdays easter egg hunt outreach... we had our closing ceremony for this block of classes!

We celebrated English Class, Baking Class, Country Dance Class, Soccer, Crafts, Exercise, and Guitar. Jim gave a little devotion and we ate (no mexican celebration is complete without food!) Good time, good turnout (although i wish more class participants would have come), good food ;)

and we celebrate four years!

Today we celebrated our fourth anniversary as a church in Jesus Maria. It is pretty incredible to see what God has done and see the vision for the future.

It is an honor to work here in Jesus Maria.

We had participation from all of the groups, Chalo (and Beth) came from Puebla to preach, and we ate (whats a good celebration without food)

Praise the Lord for our church, our building and the community here.

Youth Leaders Conference

Friday and Saturday was spent at a youth leaders conference in Mexico City. A total of eight people went from the two churches in Ixtapaluca. It was a good time to hear about youth ministry in Mexico. Pray about the youth here and hear/share ideas!
I was proud that i kept up (listening and talking) in Spanish for a whole two day conference... =0)

I hope to have the opportunity to go next year!