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Just in case you didn’t know, I am in San Luis Potosi, Mexico for the next couple of weeks. My daughter, Madison, and Doug and Kaylee Wayner are here as well. Madison and Kaylee had been wanting to take their own mission trip for better than a year, and so they saved their own money in hopes of coming down to the children’s home at Mexican Mountain Mission. Of course, they had visions of doing this totally alone, but the parents had other ideas. So, Doug and I tagged along. It just so happened, however, that there was some mission business we needed to take care of, so we decided to kill two birds with one stone.
Everything went well on the trip down. Though it was amazing to get to Mexico and find it cooler than Michigan! Nice to have the lower humid, however. We went to church yesterday. Didn’t understand much, but it is always cool singing songs of praise in another language with brothers and sisters in Christ who love the same God.
Sunday evening the children returned home from their monthly weekend visit to family. Juan feels it is important for the children to keep a connection with their families, many of whom live elsewhere in the city. He believes that if they are allowed to have ongoing contact like this, they will grow to appreciate the difference between a Christian and a non-Christian home life. This way hopefully they will not long to go back to the unhealthiness that is often their own families.
Currently there are 24 children at the home, ranging from 4 to 15. They are at school at the moment. Since the schools in Mexico were closed for 3 weeks due to the swine flu outbreak, the children have to make up some of those days. They will be going into early July.
Well, that’s all for today from San Luis Potosi! I intend to keep in touch with you all through my blog on the church web site periodically throughout the next couple of weeks. I encourage you to keep checking back to see what new is happening. Feel free to contact me by email, or by leaving a comment on the web site. Please, pray for us while we are here. Pray that Madison and Kaylee get a lot out of their experience sharing with the children of the home. Also, please pray for Doug and me as we have some important issues to attend to here at the home.
In Him,
Daren |
