Missionaries to Mexico

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Urgent Prayer Request

Our former pastor and best friend is in need of your urgent prayers. Pastor Wayne Burke who served the Lord so faithfully as our pastor and is now pastor of the Hillcrest Bible Baptist Church in Arkansas City, Kansas is in intensive care after undergoing a quadruple by-pass. The latest report is that he is not doing well and the doctor has advised the family to all come to his side.We would appreciate your prayers for Pastor Wayne Burke and for his family. This is a photo I have taken from Mrs. Burke's face book (taken in December of 2008). You are welcome Pastor Burke and can have a talk to me about posting such a picture when you get well!

Monday, July 27, 2009

TIJUANA TRIP:

One of the churches at camp this year came from Tijuana, Baja South California (just across the U.S. / Mexico border at San Diego, California. That is about 480 miles from us and takes a good long 12 hours to make. On their way to camp one of their two vehicles broke down (they over-heated the motor to the point that it will have to be replaced).On Monday I sent my car trailer out the four hours they were still away to pick up the truck and rescue the poor young men stranded with it in the desert. No shade - no water - nowhere near a town and 107 degrees! They got in at 2 A.M. After camp there was still the question of getting them home since the motor was not repairable. They were 23 in all in one S-10 pickup and a 12 passenger van. We put eight in my truck and the rest in their van. Abigail and I have now been to Tijuana and points in between

Tijuana here we come

Lunch along the road

Brother Ortiz along for the ride

Up before dawn-not quite there yet

Child safety seat Mexican style

Tijuana Trip- Part Two

Perils of the Mexican highways

Leaving the gospel for the next traveller

Coming down from 1,000 meters

The U.S. is just over there

Youth Camp -Magdalena Part One

YOUTH CAMP - MAGDALENA:

Each year that we have been here in Mexico we have been privileged to be part of the youth camp ministry of the Iglesia Bautista Sahuaro of Hermosillo. They rent a camp facilities either just up the road in the town of Imuris or here in Magdalena. This year the facilities here in Magdalena were available and are conveniently within a half mile of our house. Our house was full all week with quest coming in and out for the camp. We had two teen boys stay with us from Arizona for the week and for the first half of the week another missionary and for the second half Pastor Perez of Hermosillo and his family stayed with us. Several extras came over to shower at the house and to do some laundry.There were just under 100 campers this week and although we have had good camps each year this one seemed to be better than the previous years. We had campers from as far south as Los Mochis, Sinaloa as far north as Arizona and from as far west as Tijuana, Baja California.One of the afternoon activities was to go soul winning for our mission work. The group met at our building and from there distributed just under 1,000 gospel tracts in the immediate area around the church building. We had 2 professions of salvation as a result.

Teaching at youth camp