PRAYER LETTER FOR NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2011
FOR THE DAVID COX FAMILY IN MEXICO CITY
Dear praying friends,
Seasons greetings from down south in Mexico. We are having below freezing temperatures here, so it feels like a US winter down here! Praise the Lord none of our family is sick right now.
NEWS: Erika and Gerardo are getting married. Two of our young singles (about30 somethings) have been dating and are getting married December 3rd. I am preaching the sermon and Gerado’s pastor from Los Angeles (Miguel Morales) is coming to perform the actual ceremony. We are very happy for this young family.
NEWS: We are moving into another house 2 doors down after the wedding. The present owners asked us to leave because they want to sell the house, so we were offered this new place. Please pray that we get all the details worked out as far as curtains, telephone, kitchen furniture installed, etc. before Christmas. We had to buy a stove (the old house had a stove already, but the new one doesn’t), and we have had some extra expenses this past month. We will probably wait until January or February to get everything fixed up in the new house for lack of money.
OUR CHURCH: Our church work continues going well. We have had a few families leave us, but that is not anything new. Many of the people who attend our church come from over 1 to 2 hours commute time to our church, but they come anyway because of our doctrine and stand. They find it hard after a while, and have to stop coming. One of these two families in particular were disgruntled, and because they were not coming regularly, I wasn’t asking them to participate in the Adult Sunday School, and besides that his son dated Erika, and she didn’t like him. So they decided to move on. Another family had some problems and left us in September, and since then they have moved on to another church, and now in the end of November, they have left that church and are now “church hoping”. I feel sorry and sad when our people leave us, and many come back to us after church hoping for a while, and they cannot find any good church out there.
Some of our people have also been absent sporadically because of flu and colds, and that doesn’t look to change much over the near future. I am in the process of turning more and more of the Sunday School over to the men, and helping them plan all the way into next summer. I think they like it.
OUR FAMILY: We are kind of sad as Kelsie continues studying the 11th grade of High School, because this coming summer she will pack up and go to the states for her last year, and probably study in the states if that can be arranged financially. Even so, it is sad as we realize she is growing up.
OUR HEALTH: My diabetes hasn’t advanced much (nor gotten any better), and between that and just getting old, I find myself having to take short 20 minutes naps from time to time. I still get up at 5:30 or 6:00AM and study until 11PM or midnight. Tule has osteoporosis, which causes her discomfort and pain sometimes. We are hoping that we will hear less noise in the new house, and can sleep better. We’ll see.
MY WEBSITES: I have decided to spend some time and energy in my websites, and try to get my teachings, tracts, books, sermons, sermon audios, etc. out via the Internet. I am also finding great help in some of my sites where I download books for my study. These resources help my sermon preparation tremendously.
We thank you for your financial support and prayers.
In Christ,
David Cox davidcox@davidcox.com.mx
P.S. Orlando Bible Church is now going to send out my prayer letters from there (Orlando Florida). I have been sending out regular paper letters to you from here, and it costs about $2 dollars each, and they are not getting to you. If there are people (besides my financial supporters) who want a copy, please send a letter to Orlando Bible Church requesting to be put on the prayer letter list. I still update my personal and ministry website also, http://www.davidcoxmex.com