This is an update to our ministry. I talk about our two mission churches, and our main church as well as other prayer requests. Continue reading …

I am not sure what is happening, but we continue to have minor earthquakes. Down in Tule’s hometown, they say that a day doesn’t pass without an earthquake.  Most days they have several earthquakes (tremors). They continue to sleep outside under the stars, and there is a kind of panic growing among the people, because most don’t sleep much from all the stress.

Now here in Mexico City, our volcano (which is about 100 miles from us as the crow flies) has started with exhalations. The nearby towns have evacuation alerts and drills, and they are constantly being patroled by civil authorities trying to prepare the people for disaster. Sometimes you can see the red of lava and fire reflected in the clouds billowing out. Other times it seems things calm down.

Our church continues to be assaulted by Satan. Our attendence is down for about 2 months now. Satan is attacking our people, and some of our couples are having marital problems between them. We did have about 3 new couples coming, but all have been missing lately. It is very depressing.

I was going to a general doctor for my diabetes, and somebody recommended that I go to an internist, which I am doing. I had some blood tests, and my triclycerides are elevated, and it is causing me to feel bad constantly. The good news is that both my glucose and cholesterol are down to close to normal, and I am losing weight. The new doctor has prescribed a lot of new medicine for me that is costing us a lot financially. We have no health care any more from living outside of the country, and being diabetic. Please pray for my health. I was trying to get some exercise by going to a gym last month, but that kind of ended abruptly when I had a wisdom tooth pulled. I am still recovering from that also.

We are planning on returning to the US in August of this year for around 6 months. If any of my pastors would like for us to visit with you and present our ministry, please get in contact with me, and I would be glad to try and plan a stop in your church.

Well, now we are up to 400+ replicas (after quakes) from the March earthquake. Most of them are not even noticed, but it would appear that all of this is not over yet. Last week there were three strong earthquakes in different places in Mexico, and one or two of them got people in Mexico City to leave the buildings. That means the people felt it enough to know, get scared, and walk out of the buildings where they were working, houses where they live, etc.

It is very disturbing to have all of these after quakes, and gives you the impression that another big one is trying to break out. The fault that causes this earthquake situation hasn’t seated itself yet, and that means that until it does, we will have more of the same. We (Mexico) have a Mayan myth that according to ancient prophesies the world will end in 2012 of the Mayan Calendar. The government and others play that down. The actual Mayan myth is that a new Calendar (end of the old one) will begin, so some “experts” interpret this. None-the-less it doesn’t help the situation here.

Tule’s family in Pinotepa National basically are living in the back yard of their houses because it has caused widespread panic and fear. In that area, the earthquakes are up and down shaking, like a Mexican jumping bean, moving the buildings up and down about an inch. They are usually accompanied by a lot of noise like the earth is breaking. Tule laughs at what we called earthquakes here, because they are circular in motion and not as scary.

Most people here in Mexico City don’t worry much about these earthquakes either, and when “the big one hits”, they just hope they won’t be in a structure that collapses. Personally I like houses with 1 floor, because in a few dozen steps you are outside. My first year here I rented an apartment on the 9th floor, and since you cannot use the elevator in an earthquake, and there were 2 flights of stairs on each floor, and two stories of parking before the first floor, and meant I had to “run” down somewhere aroung 22 flights of marble (like glass) stairs, and I figured out with the first tremor that the building would fall way before I ever got all the way down those things, or I would break my neck running, so just walk normal (and pray fast and a lot while walking).

Our church continues to grow some and retreat some. We have another new family, Paul and Lulu. Carlos and Diana (our other new family which is Adolfo’s nephew) don’t seem to be very faithful over time. Paul and Lulu are coming from the center of the city, about one and half hours transit time without a car. They seem very happy with our church, and like the preaching. Marcos and Sonya (a core family) decided to leave our church and go to another one, and apparently it was over some personal problems they had in their marriage. Sonya didn’t want to go to the same church as Marcos. We talked with them, and it appears they have returned with us.

Tule and I continue to “get old”, and we have continuing aches and pains. My diabetes advances. I am having more problems with my eyesight (having a lot of problems reading the kids school books), and my cholesterol and triglycerides are high (but strangely my glucose is actually lowering). I decided to go to an internist doctor with this (at the suggestion of a General Practionist “regular” doctor), and I am trying to cut out all fats and greasy things, and all red meats. Kind of boring diet, but I guess that is what I have to eat.

For you guys who have never tried it, try cooking green snapped beans (the ones with long casing which are snapped, not shelled), boiling them first, then take some and put them with egg whites (scrambled) for breakfast. Not too tasty, but ask your doctor. They are very high in fiber, and with egg whites you can eat them without cholesterol concerns. (I have to have them in a taco, with a little bit of Texas Pete hot sauce or ketchup.)

March 29, 2012

Dear Praying Friends,

We passed the earthquake without problems. It was nerve-racking but not much happened to us. Some of the furniture fell over or moved from its place, but other than that, God spared us cracked walls and such (or anything worse). The sidewalks are buckled up around the city.

I would ask that you please pray for Tule sisters. She is from a small village called Tacubaya, and one sister (Vitelia) lives there, and her other sister (Nayita) lives in a larger town call Pinotea National. They have not ceased from replicas (smaller earthquakes that follow a serious one), and since the principle earthquake, they have had over 200 replicas of 5 or more on Richter’s scale. This has forced the people in the area to sleep outside because so many houses are adobe or simply cannot support such semic activity, and if they stood through the first big one, the replicas destroy them little by little over these days. There are houses with the roof caved in, the walls cracked, and several of Tule’s sister’s (Vitelia) neighbors have total loss of their house, and it hasn’t stopped shaking yet. Image an earthquake that in minor but just won’t stop for over a week now. There is also talk of a volcano forming about 30 miles from Tacubaya. This is a folk lore from the people there (there is a large hill jutting up from the ground there, and this village is at the foot of that hill). But the National University of Mexico has sent experts to dispell the myth, and instead of dispelling it, the military was sent in to evacuate the village and people and cuarentine the area. There is no lava and explosion, but there is unprecedented semic activity there, and the government appears very concerned sending in several hundred troops to keep people away from the area.

The people in the whole area around the epicenter (the volcano is very close to the epic of the original quake) are very panicky and nervous. It just won’t stop shaking. They don’t want to leave their homes (no place to go), and they would lose their possessions from others who take advantage of the situation. But please pray for them.

Also please pray for us. I am having health problems with a stomach infection and the flu. We were without water for about 4-5 days as a water main in our area broke, and it took them a while to fix it. We also didn’t have electricity (on and off) for several days after the earthquake).

Our church work continues to go well, and we have several new families who have started to come just this last month.

In Christ,

David Cox

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

Prayer letter for the Cox’s
in Mexico City, Mexico
October 26, 2011

Dear praying friends,

We appreciate your prayers and financial support. Life continues to fly by us so fast. Kelsie is in the 11^th grade this year, and we are trying to get her caught up, so that next year she can attendOrlandoBibleChurchHigh School. The good people there at our home church are putting her up her last year of High School, and after that, we really don’t know what she will do. She wants to continue and study pharmacy, but that is a difficult road, and there are a lot of decisions as far as where (Mexico/US, or where in theUS), and whether any school would accept her coming from home schooling and a Christian high school. As I understand it most are flooded with applications. We will have to wait and see, pray a lot, and just try to get her in wherever. Expenses are also a problem as we are barely making it as far as our living expenses, and we have no money saved up any more.

Our church continues doing well. We have had a family leave recently and that discouraged many. None-the-less, we have had counseling with several after each church service it seems, many new people. We had two baptisms last month. We continue to have new people come both from our weekly door to door work, and also from our members inviting family and friends. We grow a little, and then some don’t come all that much, and others seem to take their place, and when everybody comes we don’t have room for everybody. I am going to take the youth group for a couple of months (teen Sunday School) while our men rotate teaching through Hebrews. They are doing a good job, and some are loving the opportunity to speak, and others are not so excited, because it is a lot of work, and getting up before others to speak is part of the problem. Pray for them.

We have found another house about 2 doors down from our present house, and we should be completely moved in there by the end of the year. It is the same rent as where we are now, but the house is slightly more austere than here. The people seem nice. There is an apartment behind the house, and the elderly lady and her daughter and grandkids will live with her there, and we will share the drive-way (hopefully that’s all).

We continue to get old and tired it seems. We try not to lighten up on our labors, but be faithful to our Lord in labor as in doctrine. God continues to bless, and our book website has over 1200 free books for download (about250 inthe Spanish one). I have about 210 Spanish tracts now. I continue to get a lot of counseling emails from people around the world also (both English and Spanish). I am working on translating my literature into English. Please pray for us. We NEED your prayers!

David Cox

http://www.davidcoxmex.com/ – our ministry website

http://www.twmodules.com/ – Free book website

http://www.coxtracts.com/ – Our free Gospel Tract Website

Dear Praying Friends,

We continue to labor here in southren Mexico City in the area of Tlahuac. Our church continues to grow. We have about 50 coming Sunday mornings. I have been encouraged by a couple of things that I would like to share with you.

First of all, our Sunday services are very stable, with mostly regular folk coming, and a few visitors every now and then. We continue to see numerical growth of our people, although some folks come, drop off, and then come back. So we would have probably 80-90 if all of them came at the same time. That is a worry for a pastor, because we don’t have that many chairs, nor really space to put people. We have talked about using a video camera and having a TV or projector in the other space with an “extended auditorium.  Please pray for that. Continue reading …