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Expect the Unexpected

Posted on April 2, 2013 // 1 Comment

Life will be brighter than noonday,

and darkness will become like morning. Job 11:17

 This was a verse that a good friend of mine shared with me when I told her about my recent mission trip in Mexico with FXMissions. I told her how real I felt the Love of God, pour over me as I determined at the last moment to join the team on their trip into the interior of Mexico. They were visiting Esperanza Viva Youth Home in Matamoros to spend some time with the youth before leaving for their trip.

When God opens doors that He wants you to walk through you really can’t say no! There are times when you are not sure if it is God but this was definitely not one of them I could clearly hear the Holy Spirit speaking to me and inviting me to partner with Him …I couldn’t resist this invitation! How pleasant it is to walk in God’s perfect will! God and His promises, how can you resist Him? [Read more...]

Filed Under: Field Notes, Mexico, Musings, Reaching the Nations //

A Different Mexico / Part V

Posted on March 24, 2013 // 1 Comment

(Taken from Ken Brooks’ blog – FIMUpdate – this post is part 5 in his Mexico Series.  Get to the other posts here – FIMUpdate)

Previously, I mentioned a rather messy ride from Cuernavaca to Puebla. What would have been an hour and half drive by car, ended instead with 2 additional by bus. That wasn’t too huge a deal, save we had someone waiting at the station in Puebla to pick us up. And even that would not have been so bad, had the movies they aired over that long ride, lacked the strong, sexually, immoral overtones they did. Still, I rather enjoyed the newer, Spanish translation of “Planet of the Apes”. Would have watched it 3 times, in fact.

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Jason and Cliff

For me, my outlet was a long, deep conversation with Scott. For others, worship music via an iPod/Phone, or other means, was a viable solution. We came up with other ideas, post travel; preparing in advance  what our plan of attack would be, should we encounter a similar situation. Funny thing was – we would! And having prayed ahead, the films aired on that next go round were of higher standards. Praise God! [Read more...]

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Nicaragua 2012 Summary

Posted on November 13, 2012 // Leave a Comment

identity 2012 conference

Jon, Ken and I came to Nicaragua with the primary responsibility of being involved in this conference, that has nearly been three years in the making.  In early [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Field Notes, Musings, Nicaragua, Reaching the Nations //

November 6 – Nicaragua

Posted on November 5, 2012 // Leave a Comment

Prayers requested and appreciated as three of us are headed to Managua, Nicaragua tomorrow for the 3rd installment of the Youth Event we helped start a few years back.  This time we have opened the event up to youth in a broader way, as the last two times was focused on youth pastors/leaders only.

Last time we were there, the participants decided that what was necessary was a clearer sense of identity, hence the name Identity2012.  Here is a shot of the last gathering:

Here is a link to the site:  Identity2012

Please agree with us in prayer that the Lord will reveal himself as the source of true identity.

Please ask for the right words to be spoken, at the right time, and that revelation would go forth from the Lord, helping to establish this emerging generation in the faith.

Thanks for your help, and blessings to you!

We will be posting updates during the trip here.

 

 

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Potential

Posted on September 30, 2012 // 1 Comment

What does it take to recognize and realize potential?

Do you ever look at what someone else is doing – bigger than you – and say, “why am I not more fruitful… why am I not getting more results?”

I think this voice can mislead us. [Read more...]

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Getting To Know You

Posted on July 2, 2012 // Leave a Comment

Even if you take the toll highway from Monterrey to Mexico City, which is well-tended, less crowded, and a generally smoother experience, you will still have the chance to pass herds of goats wandering in the slow lane and vehicles in weirdly legal states of decomposition.  To mention this fact isn’t to suggest that Mexico is a primitive or what you’d call a “developing” country, just that the levels of permission here are on an order different than what you are used to in your home country, if your home country is the United States.  If you have need to move your flock of goats along a high-speed roadway, go to it; if you want to assemble the undercarriage and engine of your vehicle in one place and the body and interior in another hundreds of miles away, feel free to improvise a wooden driver’s seat and take off, friend.  We will just keep moving alongside. [Read more...]

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Among Giants

Posted on March 18, 2012 // 1 Comment

A few weeks ago I saw Tony Hedrick, a friend of mine who does missions in Europe, and he invited me to meet a special friend of his who would be traveling thru the area.  When I looked at the dates, I realized I would be out of town when the normal meeting came, so I let Tony know that, and asked him if there would be another way to do it.  We talked about it, and he said that maybe I could just go to the airport with him to pick up Alessandro.  Since we had worked it out, I filed it on the calendar and looked forward to meeting the guy who’s life had gripped Tony so deeply with his love for the Lord and heart for people.  The below is the next thing I heard about Alessandro.  When Tony sent it, I responded that I was really looking forward to meeting him, and I was a little sad that our meeting would be delayed…. [Read more...]

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Moving The Target

Posted on February 21, 2012 // 1 Comment

In 2005 I made my second trip to Mexico City, where I was helping to conduct a conference in a small church in the north part of the city.  It was really good to be back, as I had been deeply impacted by the Lord’s heart on my first trip.  The team was different, and me and the Nicaraguan pastor who had led the previous trip were the only repeats from the previous team earlier that year.

One of the daily routines was to travel from our hotel, which was in the city proper, out to the north part near the border of Mexico City and the state of Mexico.  In this daily movement we were seeing all kinds of sites and people, impressions that were still fairly new to me, and my senses were heightened on this basis.

I was traveling with a friend from Texas named Keith, and he and I had a running conversation that we seemed to take up on the drive, as it took about an hour to cover a fairly short distance, based purely on the fact that tons of other people were on the move too.  We got into some interesting territory conversationally, and it was a surreal time, I think for both of us. [Read more...]

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