Sum­mary: Fall 2010 trip. Preach­ing of our men. Mex­ico News.

We con­tinue to pre­pare for our trip (August-October 2010) to the states to revisit our sup­port­ing churches. We still haven’t have all of them check in. I am not sure whether my snail mail let­ters are not get­ting through, my emails, or what. I will prob­a­bly have to just call long dis­tance from Mex­ico to find out what is going on. It is very frus­trat­ing that our attempts at com­mu­ni­cat­ing with our sup­port­ers fail.

I have divided up the preach­ing times among our men (about 5 of them), and they will take turns preach­ing while I am gone. I am record­ing videos of me preach­ing for Sun­day AM wor­ship ser­vices. On the one hand, this is dif­fi­cult for me to leave the church for so long, and on the other, it is grow­ing us as a group. Our men are hav­ing to just take respon­si­bil­ity, and that is very good. I have seen very pos­i­tive indi­ca­tors in our men as they pre­pare for their ser­mons. Each one will preach about 5–6 times each. This is very good for their spir­i­tual devel­op­ment. I want to con­tinue this for Sun­day School when I come back. Please pray for our men that they will become good preach­ers for the glory of our Lord.

I am also in the pro­cess­ing of gath­er­ing or cre­at­ing Bible resources for their use in preach­ing. This is a multi-year thing, and I am work­ing slowly on it. I am writ­ing my own Bible dic­tio­nary and com­men­tary, and a few ref­er­ence books in Span­ish. Please pray for this project as it is very time con­sum­ing, and I am very busy.

Mex­ico News — No real news, but Mex­ico City was voted as the worst city in the world for traf­fic and con­ges­tion. That is “felt” by us every­time we get out in it. Our coun­try sit­u­a­tion con­tin­ues to grow worse as kid­nap­ping, drugs, vio­lence, and other things con­tinue to creep and grow day by day. Our church prays for each other that we will be kept by our Lord.

Please pray for our finances as we are in a very del­i­cate sit­u­a­tion with our income. We will be pay­ing for rent here in Mex­ico as well as in the USA (hotels mostly) as we travel. Also please pray for Tule’s green card which we will be in the process of renewing.