We would love to see you if you’re in the area! Here’s our tentative schedule:
Lord willing I’ll give a report on the ministry in Mexico, and share from God’s Word. Hope you can join us!
For us, the month of May has always been the crazy busy month. Sometimes it’s things that just “happen” to appear in May, without any specific reason why it should be that month. But, of course, there are other things that make May extra interesting. Such as yearly family events, typical spring ministry, and even national holidays and remembrances in Mexico.
And as many of you know, we’re adding another special event in May – thanks to a wedding that is about to take place! Hannah and Brandon’s wedding is a mere 5 days away. So the million little details are all coming together, and/or still being worked on.
Brandon’s parents were kind enough to have a whole bunch of people from both sides of the family over to their home yesterday, which was lots of fun!
We are trying to help where we can, while also doing our regular personal and mission work. So it’s a balancing act to try to prioritize and get everything done. But I thought it would be good to pause and give a bit of an update, since things will be even busier after this. 🙂
We’ve enjoyed visiting some churches and connecting with lots of people over the last little while. And we’re preparing for our trip to Ontario, which begins in 15 days.
We have our suitcases replaced, but we’re still waiting to see if the airline will reimburse us.
Anyway, we appreciate your prayers for the wedding, and for our upcoming trip!
Which reminds me, I have some things to do! Excuse me!
Ten years ago today Hannah got her unicycle. She put it together in our living room, took it outside, steadied herself on the van, and – well, the rest is history! She’s been an expert for many years now. 🙂 And yeah – didn’t need all the padding and gear for very long. 😀
Some of you may be wondering about our trip from Mexico to Canada. Yes, we did have some “drama”.
We thought a direct flight would help us avoid some of the complexity that often comes with our travel, but in this case it was not so! It appears that we got on our plane without being told that most or all of our luggage – that is, everyone’s luggage, not just ours – would not even be placed on the plane!
So when we arrived in Canada, there was no moving belt of suitcases. Only a long and slowly moving line of passengers filling out luggage claims forms.
According to the airline website, they spent the next few days trying to locate our luggage. After about 3 days, one of Shari’s suitcases arrived. The other three remained MIA.
About 5 days after we left home, the rest of our luggage finally caught up with us.
However, two of the suitcases will likely not fly again, because of the damage.
The airline should reimburse us somewhat, at least financially, though not for the hours we took dealing with the situation. But we have to wait another three or four weeks to find out. So we’re hoping that all that goes smoothly. But I kind of have a feeling that the drama is not over!
If you’ve been paying attention, you know one of the main reasons why we’re heading to Canada around this time – there’s a wedding coming! Our daughter Hannah and her fiancé Brandon are deep into preparations, and hopefully we are being of some help!
We will also be visiting some churches while we’re in Canada. We’re hoping to get to see some congregations we weren’t able to catch the last time around in Alberta, and then we’re going to Ontario to visit some churches and various friends and family there. It’s been quite a few years since we have reported to our churches in Ontario in person, so it’s important that we take the time to do so. If you’d like to see us, drop us a line and we’ll see what we can do! If we’re at a church in your area, we would love to see you there too.
I’ll try to get a church schedule in our newsletter, and maybe even here on the website if I’m ambitious. But as you can imagine things are pretty busy right now!
We would appreciate your prayers, as this will be a pretty intense and busy time. Pray as well for Hannah and Brandon, and also for Nathanael, who will be facing big changes himself. Pray that we would be able to be a help and encouragement to family, friends, and churches as we serve.
Pray also for the church in Las Palmas while we’re gone. Not that we’re indispensable – by no means! – but naturally our absence means more work for those we are leaving behind.
And now – let the journey begin!
The 30th of April is Children’s Day in Mexico! It’s the 20th of November in Canada, but it tends to be a much bigger deal in Mexico.
In 2016, ten years ago, we had a group from Word of Life (Palabra de Vida) in Ixtapaluca to add to the festivities. They helped us out with some evangelistic activities, and part of the fun included a huge BALL!
To read more, check out a post from that era – A Weekend for – KIDS!
