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Progress…

October 28, 2009 in Missions, Nathan with 0 Comments

Remember that back in August we posted this picture of Nathan at school. He wouldn’t participate in anything and was having a rough time.

Well, there has been a lot of progress at school in the last few weeks. Here’s a video from yesterday’s open house.

His progress report also said…

In your language, you have very good grammar and vocabulary! Congratulations! But it is important to congratulate you, applaude you, and recognize that the progress you have had in Spanish is incredible! You are structuring and pronouncing words very well and you are now starting to take an interest in putting together phrases to communicate with others! Big congratulations!

I am so proud of my little guy. He is doing excellent and learning something new everyday.

There’s another video here: Nathan’s Preschool

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!

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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!!

A Big Thank You

October 15, 2009 in Miscellaneous, Missions, YMI with 0 Comments

We got two emails back-to-back today. One was from a church group who had sent us a special financial gift, and the other was from some old friends who have begun to regularly support our family and ministry.

It’s always great to get those kinds of emails. We appreciate everyone who prays and gives so that we can be here in Mexico doing what we feel God has for us to do. A big thank you to all of you.

If you’re interested in supporting us, click here.

One of these kids is not like the others (pic)

August 21, 2009 in Missions, Nathan with 2 Comments

Posted via email from Life and other things…

We took this video at Nathan’s pre-school today. It was the end of the summer session, so they did a demonstration of everything they did all summer. Nathan did not participate in anything while we were there.

It’s gotta be so hard for him since he’s the odd-kid out. He’s the only gringo in the school. He speaks English as his first language.

These are the things you don’t think about when you sign up to be a missionary. I know that eventually he’ll fit in with everyone. I pray that he will grow to love Mexican culture and its people. I pray that he will have a passion to see his little “compañeros” know Christ.

But for now, as a parent, it’s hard.

Outward Thinking

June 29, 2009 in Missions with 0 Comments

You can become so involved with simply "pastoring" that you forget your mission in life very quickly. Instead of really preparing people for the work of the ministry, we are prone to focus in on ourselves. For instance, at the average prayer meeting, how many are really praying for those who need their eyes opened? How many are really praying for the masses who so desperately need a Savior?

You know, the amazing thing is, the Apostle Paul never asks for his own personal welfare. He prays that the gospel may speed on in triumph. What was his mission? He said, "For me to live is Christ, to die is gain." Thus he says, "I am going to stay here so I can get the gospel out."

Our focus is so introspective. It does not take long, even in mission activity, believe it or not, to get introspective. Here, too, I stand as guilty as the next fellow. But we must be aware of it, and , by God's grace, keep our sense of mission ever before us.

– Dr. Philip Steyne

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Join our Team – Update

June 20, 2009 in Family, Missions, Prayer with 0 Comments

A few weeks ago, we asked you to consider joining our team of financial supporters. Remember that?

Well, it just dawned on me that I have been so busy with the end of the school year that I haven’t told you what happened.

We didn’t reach the goal of $500 in monthly support, but some of you did respond, and we received pledges for $100 more per month. We appreciate those of you who joined our team of financial supporters.

We also received an anonymous donation of $1200. Whoever that was, we thank you for your gift to the ministry.

Raising support for ministry is always a step of faith. We thank God that we have such a good team. If you forgot about it, you can still get on board and be part of what God is doing in Latin America.

Missions Work Should Make a Difference

June 1, 2009 in Church, features, Missions with 2 Comments

This article by an atheist about how Christian missions changes people in Africa really made me think.

The author of the article grew up in Africa and recently returned, saying that “Missionaries, not aid money, are the solution to Africa’s biggest problem – the crushing passivity of the people’s mindset.”

Some of his observations are:

The Christians were always different. Far from having cowed or confined its converts, their faith appeared to have liberated and relaxed them. There was a liveliness, a curiosity, an engagement with the world – a directness in their dealings with others – that seemed to be missing in traditional African life. They stood tall.

Isn’t that the way it should be? Shouldn’t Christians be different? Shouldn’t we stand out and do things differently?

He goes on to talk about some people he met while he was just there who worked for an NGO but were Christians.

It would suit me to believe that their honesty, diligence and optimism in their work was unconnected with personal faith. Their work was secular, but surely affected by what they were. What they were was, in turn, influenced by a conception of man’s place in the Universe that Christianity had taught.

Our work should be affected by who we are. The teachings of Christ are liberating to a mindset that is oppressed and held captive by sin. His influence in our lives should be noticeable. We should stand out, whether our work is secular or not.

Check out the whole article by clicking here. I’d love to hear your thoughts on it.

(Image by: Edu-tourist on flickr)

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