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Ways to Support Missions Doing Things You Already Do

October 26, 2009 in Family, features, Missions with 1 Comment

Do you know you can help support our ministry financially by doing things you do everyday? Listed below are all the easy things that you can do to help support our ministry!

Do you ever shop online? If so there are MANY ways you can help us earn extra income without doing things much differently

Affiliate Links – If you shop through these links we earn a small percentage of your purchase.

Photo Sites

For online shopping at other stores join Ebates or Shop at Home. We both get $5 when you join and make a purchase. You will also earn a small percentage of your purchase that will be paid back to you every few months via PayPal or check.

If you print coupons from Coupons.com we earn a few cents for every coupon you print.

Search & Win Swagbucks – This is a search engine just like Google. You use it and earn Swagbucks that you redeem for great stuff! We get the first 100 Swagbucks that you earn. We like to redeem 45 Swagbucks for a $5 gift card to use at Amazon.com. Click here to read more about Swagbucks – there are many ways to earn Swagbucks!

Google Ads - On our blogs there are Goggle Ads. If you see something you like click the ad to read more. We do not get to pick the ads that are shown.

Banner Ads – On our blogs you will see banner ads. I get to pick the ads that are shown on our blogs. I only put up ads for legit companies, stuff I have signed up for. This is a great way to help us generate more income. These ads pay from .20 cents up to $23 when people join. I would suggest creating an alternate email address when signing up for these offers because they send out newsletter and it may get to be a little much in your personal email account.

All of these links are also on our blogs. Thanks for supporting our ministry!

Janell wrote this post. Be sure to check out her blog: Saving You Dinero. You’ll be surprised how much money you can save!!

5th Anniversary

October 20, 2009 in Center for YM, features, Seminary with 1 Comment

Wow! I can’t believe that the Center for Youth Ministry at the Mexican Baptist Theological Seminary is celebrating our 5th anniversary. Tomorrow we’ve got a celebration planned to give thanks to God and everyone who has been involved with training youth workers in Mexico during the last 5 years.

We were one of (if not the first) youth ministry program offered in Latin America, and we have enjoyed the last five years. We are seeing God do many things in Mexico and the rest of Latin America, and we are excited to be a part of it.

I’ll be posting more things tomorrow, but for now, here’s a quick promotional video we made for the celebration dinner:

(photo by: House of Sims on flickr)

Ice Cream Interview with the boys

October 10, 2009 in Ben, Family, features, Nathan with 0 Comments

We bought some good ice cream from Costco, and last night the boys were munching down on it. I decided to take the time to ask Nathan about what kind of ice cream and cake he likes. He was quite talkative. Then Benjamin decided to show us how he likes to eat an ice cream cone.

Seminary Family

October 5, 2009 in Center for YM, features, Seminary with 0 Comments

I have been thinking about a lot of things today, and these things have made me come to one great conclusion: I am so grateful for my students at the Seminary.

At our Seminary, we talk about the fact that the students aren’t “pastors in training;” they are pastors. Understanding this helps me so much whenever situations happen and we need to evaluate them, ask for prayer, and basically look for someone to listen.

I am privileged to have my students and the people at the Seminary. It makes days like today a little easier.

National Youth Ministry Conference

August 30, 2009 in Center for YM, features with 1 Comment

I’ve been busy getting ready for our first ever National Youth Ministry Conference. It will be held November 27-28, 2009, at the Mexican Baptist Theological Seminary.

The event is going to be huge. We have invited more than 12 speakers, there are at least 3 bands coming, and we’re hoping to have an attendance of at least 350.

The theme is “High Voltage,” talking about the power of God for our ministries. I’m hoping it will allow us to both train some youth workers and connect with them.

This event is taking up a lot of our energy. We also start classes this week. It’s a crazy time! But, as always, it’s great!

Here’s the promo video I made for the event:

Alto Voltaje – Congreso de Ministerio Juvenil from Dennis Poulette on Vimeo.

If you want to see the webpage (Spanish), check it out here: Congreso Nacional de Ministerio Juvenil

Answered Prayer

July 27, 2009 in features, Nathan, Personal Growth with 2 Comments

For those of you who don’t think that God cares about the little things in your life, I have a great story for you.

Today Nathan went to “school” for the first time. It’s really sort of like a summer camp for three weeks. I was nervous about how he would do, since he usually doesn’t really act all that great around people who speak Spanish. I seriously spent a lot of time praying for his experience and attitude. I pray for him all the time, but this was different. I specifically spent some concentrated time in prayer for him today.

When we were getting ready, he didn’t want to go. He took his shoes and socks off after we put them on him, but we got him into the car and drove to the school, trying to convince him that it would be great. We got there and the lady showed him the classroom and all the kids, leading him back without any problem.

I’ll never forget his face when I showed up to pick him up. The smile he had proved to me that God cares for even the “little things” in our lives.

It turns out that Nathan had a great time. He loved it and is excited to go tomorrow. Thank you, God, for answering the prayers of this worried father. What an incredible proof of His faithfulness and love for us.

Benjamin’s Birthday Cake

July 17, 2009 in Ben, features with 4 Comments


Benjamin turned one. We had a family party with just Mommy, Daddy, Nathan, and Benjamin. The cake was delicious. Ben loved it.

I tried to stream it live online. Here is what Ustream recorded.

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