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Our 9th Church’s Anniversary in Puebla, MEX
Our 9th Anniversary Yesterday we celebrated our 9th Church’s Anniversary here in Puebla, Mexico. Bro. Matt Johnson, missionary in Tula, Hidalgo, preached for us for that special day. He did an excellent job. Bro. Matt and I attended the same Bible Institute (Oklahoma Baptist College). He was a Senior when I arrived in Bible college […]
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Visiting Temple Baptist Church in VA
This last Sunday, my wife and I had the opportunity to visit Temple Baptist Church in Herndon, Virginia. We were in the Washington, DC area for few days and we found this church close to the place were we were staying. The nice thing about this church (besides the great bible preaching and friendliness) is […]
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185 Present, 32 Adults and Many Kids Saved!
First, I would like to thank those that were praying for our Special Day this last Saturday. As you might now, at the beginning of the year, Mrs Medel — one of our Sunday School teacher of our church — was about to quit teaching a small group of kids (about 4 or 5) but […]
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5 de Mayo State Fair and Trip to Texas
This last Monday and Tuesday we had the opportunity to go to the State Fair to give out Gospel tracts. And although we did not give out as many tracts as we were hope for, we had the opportunity to talk to people and invite them to church. On Tuesday I was able to give […]
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Mexico City Trip – Visiting Missionary Clint Rardin
Few months ago, Missionary in Mexico City, Brother Clint Rardin invited me to preach for his Missions Conference. Yesterday my wife, our two little girls, and I got on our fifteen passenger van and drove a little over two hours from Puebla to Mexico City. Driving in Mexico City is not that easy, but with […]
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Our Biggest Conference of the Year and Mother’s Day Sunday
This last Monday we started our Biggest Conference of the Year which is our “Conferencia de los Fundamentos.” This year we invited Pastor Luis Ramos from San Luis Potosí, Pastor Luis Parada from Long Beach, CA, and Pastor Alejandro Córdova from Celaya, Guanajusto. It was a great Bible conference to say the least. God blessed […]
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173 in Church, 7 Saved and 4 Baptisms
Today was a good day! Not that past Sundays haven’t. But today was our last day (out of seven weeks) of our Spring campaign. Praise the Lord we had 173 people in church. I believe that we had over 46 first time visitors and 7 of them got saved! Not including many kids that also […]
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Bon Fire At Our Church – Burning Our Sins!
Today we had an exciting evening. We had a bon fire at our church after our evening church service. It all started with my wife Nicole teaching our Sunday School teenage girls two weeks ago. She mentioned that we needed to get rid of our worldly possessions and let God use them more effectively. I […]
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Camping Near Puebla
God has blessed us with a wonderful youth group. We have about 35 young men and women that attend our Sunday School class every Sunday. Alejandro Ruiz, who is the youth pastor is doing a tremendous job. Last Friday some of the men went camping to a place named “Ex Hacienda de Chautla”, which is […]
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Evangelist Dale Aguiar Visiting Our Church In Mexico
Hi, This last week we had the opportunity to have with us Evangelist Dale Aguiar. Bro. Aguiar is bro. Tim’s Aguiar dad, missionary here in Puebla. They came for a week to visit his son and we also invited him to preach in our church. It was a tremendous blessing to hear him preach. It […]
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Spare Tire Stolen
Yesterday, as we were parked right in front of the church our spare tire was stolen! Can you believe that? I guess being in Mexico all things are possible. Well, the Bible says that we should give thanks for everything, so we are thankful that are tire was stolen and not one of our kids. […]
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Our 8th Anniversary
Well, it has been a busy week. Last Tuesday we started our vacation Bible School. This time was not near the church, but about 1 hour away — still in the city limits of Puebla. The name of the place is Colonia Azteca, which is on the East side of the city of Puebla. Our […]
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Rachel Playing The Piano During Church Offering
Ok. I will start by saying how proud I am of our daughter Rachel. She has been taking piano lessons since September last year. Yesterday she played the piano during the church offering and she did pretty good. I actually did not know that she was going to play the piano. I guess it was […]
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Nicole’s Update
Well, last week baby #7 wanted to be born. Only wanted. I had to take Nicole to the hospital Monday morning and Doctor Berta Gil with some IVs stopped her contractions. At that time Nicole was 32 weeks pregnant. She also got some shots (I guess that is how they are called) to help the […]
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Church Bowling Activity For Married Couples
Last Saturday we had the opportunity to go bowling for the first time with the married couples of our church. At least we have two good bowling allies in Puebla and they are 100 yards apart. We had 5 couples that went and we had a blast! Many of them had never been bowling before. […]
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Our Trip To Aguascalientes
This last Saturday we went to Aguascalientes. Pastor Juan Padilla invited me to preach at his Family Conference. Pastor Danny Ortiz from Texas was also there Thursday and Friday. By the way, if you can pray for his wife… when he arrived from Mexico on Saturday, he had to take his wife to the ER […]
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Pictures Of Our Volcanos Here In Mexico
Well, lately its been raining here in Puebla. Which is really unusual. Normally it rains during the summer time, and we are able to see the volcanoes full of snow all during this time. Puebla is surrounded with 4 volcanoes. 3 of them are very close, and 3 of them are the highest mountains in […]
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Our Soulwinning Group
Last Saturday, during soulwinning, my wife and I had the opportunity to go out together. Going with my wife is one of my highlights of the week. I miss her when she has to stay at the house due to her pregnancy problems. But praise the Lord she is doing much better and Saturday we […]
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Preaching In Tulancingo, Hidalgo
Yesterday we had the opportunity to go to Tulancingo, Hidalgo and visit the church Iglesia Bautista La Zarza. Pastor Miguel Angel Gomez asked me to preach for a Special Sunday. Our drive from Puebla was very nice, considering that now we can travel on a new highway called Arco Norte. Before, to go to Tulancingo, […]
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Double Services For Sunday Morning
Yesterday we took one step forward towards the growth of our church here in Mexico. It was not an easy decision, and required of much prayer and counsel. Yesterday we divided our church in half… well, not really, but we started two services for Sunday morning (one at 8:30 AM and the second one at […]