Archive - October, 2007

Halloween 2007

October 31, 2007 in Family, Fun stuff, Nathan with 1 Comment

Smiling with the pumpkinsNathan went trick or treating Mexican style tonight with Alex, our friend from Florida, and a bunch of other kids. We romped through the neighborhood yelling, “Queremos Halloween” and hoping for candy.

All of the costumes were way too expensive, so we just let him go out in his Superman pajamas. It was fun, and we got tons of candy. We also had a chance to meet some of our neighbors who we would never have met any other way.

Our pumpkins this year were Ninja Turtles and Lightning McQueen, and they turned out pretty well. It was a little disappointing to eat the seeds without watching the World Series, since Boston won it so quickly.

Anyway, it was a fun night. The good thing about Halloween in Mexico is that Nathan gets to go again tomorrow afternoon. It’s sort of a three day holiday here.

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Multiplication

October 31, 2007 in Center for YM, YMI with 0 Comments




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Originally uploaded by Drpoulette

If you got my email update about what’s going on in our ministry, then here’s a picture of what I was talking about.

If you don’t get our email updates and are wondering what this is about, then post a comment to get added to our email list. Thanks!

La Red del Ministerio Juvenil

October 31, 2007 in Center for YM, Technology, Youth Ministry with 0 Comments

As you already know, I’m a big geek. I’m into all sorts of stuff that would classify me as one of the biggest geeks you know. But, because of that, I’m constantly trying to think of ways that we should use technology to make our ministries better.

So, I thought of an idea to try to create a network of youth workers and sort of an online community for those involved in youth ministry in the Spanish speaking world. I have a list of about 200 people who have attended a workshop or conference with us, so I invited them to participate in a Youth Ministry Network. It’s sort of a social network for Spanish speaking youth workers.

The goal of the Center for Youth Ministry is to meet, train, network, and support youth workers. I believe that this netword can serve as a tool that will help us do all of those things, especially meet, network, and support. I’m hoping it will serve to get the word out there about the youth ministry program at the seminary, too.


Visita La Red del Ministerio Juvenil

Pumpkin Carving time

October 30, 2007 in Family with 0 Comments

Tonight I will be carving a few pumpkins. Nathan picked out the following patterns that he wants on our pumpkins this year:


We’ll see if they look like that on the actual pumpkin. By the way, I got the patterns from zombiepumpkins.com. They have some pretty cool patterns, and the site is pretty nicely designed, too. It’s a little slow tonight, but that’s probably because it’s overloaded.

links for 2007-10-30

October 30, 2007 in Links with 1 Comment

Multiplication of Ministry

October 29, 2007 in Center for YM, YMI with 1 Comment

I just received an email from three of our students in the Master’s program that we are teaching. Today is the first day of their new youth ministry program at their seminary.

The multiplication of the ministry God has given to us has already begun in two other seminaries in his country, and today there are now at least 4 seminaries in Latin America that have youth ministry programs that will be training many youth workers to minister to young people throughout the world.

Here’s a translated email from Pancho, the director of the center for youth ministry in one of the seminaries, talking about the new Bachelor’s Degree in Youth Ministry at his seminary.

Beloved I am sending you this email so you can participate in our joy, in our immense joy that today is a historical day for our ministry and country.

Today 15 students begin to prepare themselves in the Bachelor’s in Youth Ministry with a strategic plan for them to become members of our School of Youth Ministry where they will be able to develop themselves in the future as professors, trainers, or researchers in youth ministry.

The joy takes our breath away, but it has been proceeded by tears, sweat, prayer, and passion, but overall these other things we have also seen God participating in this by opening doors, approving projects, touching pockets, etc.

You now have the call to turn yourself into a prayer supporter of this newborn baby; it is what we need the most and one more time we echo the beloved Psalm 1, that God will make it prosper.

We cannot repay everyone who has made this dream possible, but God does. He knows how to repay, and he will give 1000 times more than what you have now.

BLESSED BE THE NAME OF OUR INCOMPARABLE GOD.

How cool is that? We are seeing the ministry multiply into other parts of the world. Thanks for your support and encouragement as we seek to train youth workers for local churches who will in turn train others.

links for 2007-10-29

October 29, 2007 in Links with 0 Comments

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