June Prayer Letter

Well, we did it! We purchased a

7x14 trailer, put just about
everything we own into it, and
moved to Rancho YUGO in
Tijuana. It’s difficult to let you
know exactly what we will be
doing initially. We will be
spending a week in Ensenada

at the beginning of this month. While there, we
will be observing the operations at the
outreach center as multiple teams are there

building homes. This is something we are

really looking forward to – anticipating the

day when we have multiple builds happen-
ing at the same time in the Tijuana/Rosa-
rito area. But for this year, there is still
only one house scheduled to be built in
August (by the college/young adult team from our church in Fort Atkinson). There are still about fifty families on a waiting list for a home.

We are looking forward to field orientation and missionary training with the Hooples. This will include orientation to the Mexican culture and to the neighborhood in which we will be living, as well as training classes. YUGO outreaches in Tijuana begin on June 21st. Ron will be teaching the “Crazy Love” series to the interns that he taught to our college/young adult Sunday School class. Besides that, building the house in August, and other misc. construction projects, we don’t have all the details on what we will be doing for the summer. Of course, the home building ministry will be our primary focus. As it is just getting off the ground, we will be turning our attention to publicizing the ministry and recruiting teams. At the same time, we will figure out how God wants us involved at the bilingual church we attend in Rosarito, as well as other possible ministry extensions of YUGO.

Before we left, we had

the opportunity to spend
some time with family and
friends. We had a very
nice send-off from our
church, including a
commissioning prayer,
cake, and t-shirts for all
four of us that people
signed – very memorable!
We were given a large,
unexpected gift from the
missions committee at our
church that we used
toward the purchase of
our trailer.

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Sold Out (college/young adult) ministry from FCC

Brittany, Will, and a few cousins on our visit to Illinois.