Yearly Archives: 2009
We’re Back From Tuxpan!!
We arrived in Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico around 12:30 am, Saturday, July 18. We were greeted by the sound of ocean waves, a myriad of stars in the sky, and humidity so thick you could cut it with a knife. Mirna, one of the missionaries, told us God was welcoming our team because the Milky Way &hellip Continue reading
Pray For Us
Please pray for our persecuted brothers and sisters in the nearby state of Hidalgo. We joined a caravan of believers earlier this month in the city of Huejutla and gave away food and clothing that had been collected. There has been a bout of persecution recently in the towns around Huejutla, in which many Christians &hellip Continue reading
The Mexican Ten
Mexico City, the capital, has the second largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere and the third largest population in the world. It is commonly referred to as the D.F. (Distrito Federal or Federal District). Mexico City is built on an island and Lake Texcoco, which was drained after the city grew to big. Since &hellip Continue reading
A Banquet Day at the Beach
It was Vacation Bible Day at Camp Kikomar on the Gulf Coast in Mexico. We had a group from Christ For the City International, from All Nations Church in Omaha, NE, who had spent many hours preparing games, crafts and a Bible story for children. A local church in the nearby city of Tuxpan agreed &hellip Continue reading
August Already!
I can’t believe it’s August already! Last month the Short-term Team Department was in a tizzy sending out 11 different teams (and the bases were in a tizzy receiving the teams)… and this month we’re only sending out one. Where did the time go? With a bit of a slower pace, we are working with &hellip Continue reading
From Unspeakable Pain to Joy
Hugo, CFCI Missionary San Jose, Costa Rica My dad was 70 years old and my mother was 13 when they were married. I was raised by my grandmother- my mom’s mother. When I was four years old, a young relative introduced me to my dad because I had never met him. I was surprised to &hellip Continue reading
Touch the World Team
Touch the World is a team that served with us in July 2009. Before arriving here in Costa Rica, the team had a week long training camp. They had training in dramas, construction and team building. Touch the World came to serve with CFCI ministry “Transformation”. A ministry that works in a marginal community in &hellip Continue reading
Midland E-Free Team
Midland is a team that came to serve with us in June 2009 from Midland, Michigan. The team had 7 people and worked with the Guaymi Indians in the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica. After a day of orientation, the team had a 9 hour bus ride to the town of La Palma. After the &hellip Continue reading
Venture Christian Team
Venture Christian was a team of 34 youth from San Jose, California that came to serve with us in Costa Rica. The team spent 3 days in San Jose working in different areas. They worked with a group called Food for the Hungry. Part of the day was spent doing some demo on a house &hellip Continue reading
Carver Christian Team
This was a team from Vancouver, Canada that came to serve with CFCI in March 2009. They spent a week working in Canas, Guanacaste with Iglesia Oasis de Esperanza. Since it was a high school team, we did a lot of dramas, helped with sunday school, and dug fence posts for the new property the &hellip Continue reading
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