What's Next!?
-By Dr. Luke-
What have we been up to? Well, let's
see!
Since August, we've had King's Kids
camp with about 60 kids from all over the Guadalajara area. They
come to learn, to form friendships, and to become the godly leaders
of tomorrow. Our good friend, Dennis Mixer, migrated to the YWAM
base in Mazatlan and has started his Bible School for the Nations
class. You can read more about his journey on his Facebook site.
Mandie was super excited to start
wearing braces...that is...until the painful first few days hit!
She's doing well with her 'expanser' now, and will be tightening it
up every 2 weeks for the first year. The rest of the kids are doing
well too and happy to be 'state-side' for now.
We left YWAM Guadalajara at the end of
August. We left for a few different reasons, but mainly for work. I
was able to work in Hobbs and Las Cruces, New Mexico through the end
of September. During that time, Cassie and I have found a place
south of Albuquerque to 'homebase' our future ministry and mission
work from. We found a country home with lots of room for the kids to
run. We'll be, hopefully, closing on the home very soon so we can
move the family in.
The mission work continues:
In a week, Lord willing, I'm headed
back to Mexico! I have to finish the process of getting my Residente
Permanante (Mexican green card) as this will make it much easier to
travel back and forth from the U.S. to Mexico. Then I'm off to
Mazatlan to work with the YWAM base located there. The base
director, Brent, has a massive new building plan for their base and
I'm happy to help. We will be serving the community there through
many ministry opportunities and doing tons of construction on the
base as well. The base there is an old hotel, and he's gotten it
approved to add 3 more floors. When I last spoke with Brent, he
shared his vision of having 1,000 missionary students trained at that
school next year! Wow...what a goal! I'm happy to help.
In November, we will head back to the
States to work a bit more and spend the holidays with our families.
December brings another mission...an Optometry mission! In December
I'll head down to San Carlos, Mexico to see patients and share the
good news. The bulk of the help will be coming from Village
Evangelical Free Church in Indiana. We should have 3-4 eye docs and
over 30 other folks to help with a youth program and sharing the Good
News with the people of San Carlos and Guymas, Mexico.
There are plenty more plans after the
first of the year that we are prayerfully considering and I'll let
you know about in the next entry!
God Bless and let's get to sharing the
Good News!
-Luke
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