June III

We had an awesome first week of outreach for the summer!  Many Mexican pastors, young men, women and children were blessed, and decisions were made to follow Christ!  Kristy had the opportunity to visit the team in the field while taking pictures.  The team, from California, did an excellent job!  We also had a group of guys from Georgia come and build a retaining wall to prep the area where the next dorm building will be put.  Kristy also put together a slideshow for them and cooked staff dinners for most of the week.  Ron is still keeping plenty busy fixing things up around the ranch. 

We took a few people over to Grace Children's Home for a tour to see how things are run over there.  Remember that across the street, Grace Babies' Home is under construction.  We also took a tour of this seemingly quick-rising structure.  It's awesome to see the progress on the home.  When we left Tijuana last September, there was nothing but a foundation.  We are anxious to get over there and lend a hand.

This week most of our staff, the worship band and interns are forming an evangelistic outreach team.  They will be ministering to a local church in place of a team that had to cancel recently.  Ron will be continuing his work around the ranch and Kristy is starting to get back to work on the wooden signs.  We are eagerly waiting for materials and for a representative from Lazarian World Homes to take us to Mexicali and build a home.  We may not get much notice, just load up and head over to Mexicali for a few days.  Although we are hoping it will be during an "off week" so that we don't miss things going on here. 

Just a little over a month and our college team from WI will be joining us to build a home.  We are very excited about that.  We will be trying some things out for that week with some changes to the outreach schedule, etc., to see how we will want them to run for the future.  If you have a youth, college, Bible study, or really any type of group that would like to come down to Mexico and build, either in the spring, summer or for New Year's week, please contact us.  There are so many opportunities from home building & other construction projects, to the children's home & the children's/women's/sports ministry.  There are a couple of buildings planned to be built on the property here at the ranch.  Some funding and materials have been provided already to construct a kitchen/dining hall.  We mentioned above that a retaining wall was built last week for the new dorm building.  All that is needed are teams willing to donate their time and funding to help with portions of these projects.  We are very excited to see how the Lord is working!