Traveling

We are preparing to leave this week for a missions conference at First UMC in Waco, TX. We are travelling as a family and will be there April 25-30. Hannah and Samuel are excited to see Texas. Their only experience in the state was in the Houston airport as we travelled to and from Mexico City. First UMC is a wonderful church and we are sure they will be glad they went!

After our return, we will leave the next day for the missions conference of Van, Cranberry and Rockland UMC churches in the Cranberry, PA area from May 1-3. These churches are very near the one we wrote about in our last post. Our whole family is excited about being back in that area. It is beautiful and so are the people.

We have so many prayer requests for this coming week:
1. Praise the Lord with us for the opportunity to fellowship with other believers who have a heart for missions.
2. Pray we will communicate effectively what the Lord has been doing in our lives and in His work through OMS in Mexico City.
3. Pray for many new partners to join us on this faith journey.
4. Pray for safety in travel, for good health, and especially for Hannah and Samuel to get the rest they need.

Thank you for praying with and for us.

Fiesta!

What a blessing we had this weekend! We were invited to Seneca E.C. Church in Seneca, PA to share about our future ministry in Mexico and how the Lord is working there. It was wonderful to get a chance to know many people at Seneca. Then to top it all off, we celebrated together with an after-church fiesta, complete with Mexican music, scrumptious food, a pinata and pin the tail on the burro (donkey).

We also had Lisa's mother, sister and niece along with us. Everyone really enjoyed the fellowship.

Here you can see Hannah getting ready to take a whack. She was the one who managed to break open the pinata and was so happy about that! Samuel laid claim to its remains. This is a picture of him with his "prize" and a piece of candy in his mouth.

One of the greatest blessings of our friend-raising ministry is having the privilege of getting to know so many believers who have a desire to see the Good News shared throughout this world, and to know they are praying for us.

Praise the Lord with us for the blessed fellowship we have as believers. Please continue to pray for safety as we travel, and for many people to join us in this faith journey.