I preached 3 Sun­days and 2 prayer meet­ings. We vis­ited Dis­ney­land, Uni­ver­sal Stu­dios, Hol­ly­wood Blvd. Nice vaca­tion plus great fel­low­ship with Miguel Morales church.

We com­bined a preach­ing visit to LA with Kelsie’s 15th birth­day gift and went to Los Ange­les CA for 2 weeks. It is really the first real vaca­tion we have had since about 2002. Brother Miguel Morales of Igle­sia Bautista Fuente de la Sal­vación in Canoga Park, invited us to come up as a fam­ily. We stayed with this dear brother for the entire time, and he treated us like kings. We appre­ci­ate their sup­port and love for our min­istry and us. Their church had sev­eral events through out the two weeks, includ­ing a trip to a national park for bap­tisms the last Sun­day, and Mon­day June 7, they had a cook out for me (it was my birth­day). We had a very enjoy­able time there with trips to Dis­ney, Uni­ver­sal Stu­dios, and Miguel and fam­ily took us to Santa Mon­ica for a day which was also nice, even though that par­tic­u­lar day it was cold. The kids enjoyed every­thing I think. We would like to pub­li­cally thank Miguel and Noemi and their church for all they did for us over this visit. It was extremely pleas­ant, and Miguel and I had a lot of really nice fellowship.

Tule got her shop­ping in, and we were able to visit with Tule’s sis­ter, and were able to present the plan of sal­va­tion to Tule’s two nephews, and Beto accepted the Lord. We are still pray­ing for Juan. We were able to visit with Beto sev­eral times after he accepted the Lord.

Back on the “home front”, I left about 5 of our men to preach in my place, and it appears that they did a good job. We had new vis­i­tors come dur­ing our time out of Mex­ico City, and the men are work­ing still, going out on Sat­ur­day vis­i­ta­tion, and work­ing with the youth. We are pray­ing about our trip from August to Novem­ber of this year to the US. We have to renew Tule’s Green Card (a US immi­gra­tion doc­u­ment) so we will be in Indi­ana and South Car­olina. Please con­tact us if you church wishes us to visit with you.

I still feel a deep bur­den for these preach­ers. In our own church we have about a half dozen men who are want­ing to study the Bible more intensely, and the free Bible pro­gram, The­Word, that I am sup­port­ing by writ­ing mod­ules, is the per­fect help for their stud­ies. Miguel Morales also has sev­eral men in the same sit­u­a­tion. So what I feel God is mov­ing me to do is to ded­i­cate time this sum­mer to try and shape up a com­plete Bible help, that is with a com­men­tary, Bible Dic­tio­nary, Bible Maps, Bible Intro­duc­tions Books, and more ref­er­ence books. I have been work­ing on these slowly but I really need to spend more time on them so that they will be ready sooner. I have about 70 books which I have writ­ten which I will put into this pro­gram, and I con­tinue to work on more.

In Span­ish there is very lit­tle free Bible ref­er­ence mate­r­ial out there. All is very costly. My labors is to put out good qual­ity mate­ri­als for free. The pro­gram is free, and we have a few com­men­taries (like Matthew Henry in Span­ish) and dic­tio­nar­ies already in Span­ish from other peo­ple, but the mate­r­ial is very sparse, and some of the dic­tio­nar­ies are by Catholics which makes them of lit­tle use. I have over 60 Eng­lish Bible Dic­tio­nar­ies that I am using but the major­ity are image page PDFS (which means you can see them like a photo, but you can­not search for words in them). Even so, they are very use­ful for me mak­ing my own Span­ish Bible Dic­tio­nary. So I am work­ing slowly on that. It is my heart’s desire that we pro­duce good qual­ity Bible resource and ref­er­ence books at no cost. While it seems every­body else in the Chris­t­ian world is form­ing min­istries around a sell to make profit beside a “we are a min­istry give to us” pre­sen­ta­tion, we don’t sell any­thing. We take dona­tions which very few peo­ple seem will­ing or able to give. We desire our “pay” in heaven and not “squeez­ing turnips” to get a buck out of our Chris­t­ian brethren. Although you prob­a­bly don’t believe it, many times, those $20 dol­lar dona­tions that peo­ple give to us occa­sion­ally are what makes all the dif­fer­ence in the world to our min­istry. We work on an extremely low pro­file bud­get, and we are get­ting some­thing done.

I will post some of the com­ments from peo­ple in Span­ish about our tracts and books later, but really, our min­istry is ben­e­fit­ting a lot of peo­ple around the world. We have prob­a­bly 30 some books that I have writ­ten that peo­ple are down­load­ing more than 350 times per month. On my old web­site www.davidcox.com.mx , peo­ple down­load more than 10 giga­bytes of infor­ma­tion per month. I still am hav­ing prob­lems with my 10 giga­byte limit being exceeded around 25th of each month. Peo­ple are see­ing and down­load­ing, and a lot of peo­ple down­load. Please pray that God will allow us to con­tinue this min­istry. As the US goes into a depres­sion, many of our sup­port­ing churches have prob­lems giv­ing to our min­istry. It is a mat­ter of seri­ous prayer.

Prayer Requests

Please pray for the two sal­va­tion deci­sions in Miguel’s church in LA the last Sun­day in National Park. They were invited guests, and they accepted the Lord. Miguel is going to dis­ci­ple them. Also please pray for Beto and Sofia, Tule’s nephew and niece, that they would get into a good local church and grow spir­i­tu­ally. We are still pray­ing for Juan and Dina, and Loi, Tule’s other nephews.

Please pray for our church as we con­tinue to grow and have size prob­lems. Recently we have had to take the smaller chil­dren out of the main ser­vice (miss­ing the pre­lim­i­nar­ies before the preach­ing). Nor­mally they leave just before the preach­ing so the teach­ers can be in part of the wor­ship ser­vice before they take the kids to their Sun­day School classes, but because of fill­ing up the audi­to­rium, they are being taken out ear­lier. Please pray that God would give us a larger place, and pos­si­bly our own build­ing some­time soon.

Also pray for our men as they pre­pare ser­mons for the months that we will be gone. It is very dif­fi­cult work for these men to do because they haven’t had for­mal prepa­ra­tion, and I try to give some mini-classes on how to preach and teach. It is dif­fi­cult, but we are slowly grow­ing in that depart­ment also.

Please pray for us as these trips to the US are very costly for us. Between Miguel Morales and a very gen­er­ous dona­tion from San­tee Bible Bap­tist Church in San­tee SC, they paid for every­thing for our trip Cal­i­for­nia. We will be in the US from August 2010 to Novem­ber 2010 Lord will­ing, and we will be trav­el­ing and stay­ing with friends and fam­ily. We are try­ing to arrange to stay in places where we won’t have to pay for hotel. We will have to keep our house in Mex­ico (pay­ing rent and bills there), and pay for US travel which is expensive.

If you would like to send us even a sin­gle gift (espe­cially dur­ing that span of August to Novem­ber), we would appre­ci­ate it greatly. Please go to the fol­low­ing page… (this link is also in the orange “pages” post-it note at right).

http://www.davidcoxmex.com/donating-to-our-ministry