I know some of you have been praying!!!!! God is good. After not being able to figure out the problem with our vehicle, we went back one more time, and checked everything. We found some rust on a couple contacts and cleaned them up. We also found a set of wires not plugged in. We plugged them in. We jumped our vehicle, and let it sit for a little and prayed. Guess what!!! It's running and has been all day long!!!!! Praise the LORD!!!!! For now, until the Lord sees fit, our vehicle is good. Thank you for your prayers. Keep them coming!!!
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Okay, it's Catchup time!!! This is another long post! :o)
Whew! We have had a busy few months.
We finished our first year of home school in May. Everyone involved survived! The kids had a blast learning, traveling and being together as a family. I love how our kids love each other and yes, fight with each other. There are moments when they are so kind to each other, then it's gone, but even in the fighting and arguing, which really is minimal, thier love for each other shows. I love my little family and how God has knit us together!
June was a very busy month. We made a trip out to Cactus, Texas, to attend the ground breaking ceremony of the cactus Nazarene ministry center. We will be partnering with the West Texas distrit to try and help supply volunteers and teams for this unique ministry. There are 17 different nations represented in Cactus. God has brought the nations to the West Texas district, and through Vito and Jennifer Monteblanco and their kids, will draw those nations to himself! So excited to see what He has in store.
We then made our way to Indianapolis, Indiana for our General Assembly where we would be working at manning a booth for Mission Mobilization, which NBI is a part of. We helped put together displays for the South America Region, Eurasia Region, and the Prayer map area. We assebled furniture, used screw guns, pulled pallet movers, hauled plants, and whatever else was necessary. We then finally assembled our Photo Booth, and we were good to go. God was good and we were able to meet many people from all over the world. Many got to hear about Missions Mobilization, and some got to hear about NBI and what we do, for the very first time. Thanks to all who took silly and crazy pictures and liked our NBI facebook page. Hope you keep up with all the wonderful things that God is doing on the US/ Mexico Border. Well, after about 3 weeks of being away from home, we made it back and rested.
July
As soon as we got back home from General Assembly, I got to do two sundays of pulpit supply for the Las Cruces First Naz. A group of wonderful people searching for ways to honor and glorify God.
We then took a trip to South Texas, my home area, the Valley, or as some call it, the RGV, and got to see first hand what some of our other border missionaries are doing in Brownsville, Texas. God is using Mark and Marilyn Redwine, and Clarie Robinson, in mighty ways! Keep it up guys!
We then came back to El Paso and moved furniture from one of the homes that was sold.
Aug.
This should bring you up to date with our lives! Hahaha
We spent two seperate weeks helping to local churches with their VBS programs. First was El Paso First church. We had fun and we pray that what those kids learned will stay in thier hearts and minds. Secondly, we helped Nuevo Amanecer. Their camp or VBS was different! They targeted 12-25 yr olds and had a recycled arts and a sewing class. It was the first year that they did something like this, and not many showed up, but new people came and began to share thier lives with the church! Exciting to see people using what God has equipped them with, for the use of expanding His kingdom!
These are just the highlights of our months! HAHAH
Now I hope we can share with you some of our prayer request:
1. Pray for Roberto's uncle. He has been in the hospital icu for some time now and it is not looking good. Pray for peace and wisdom for his family as they decide what needs to be done.
2. Pray for contined safety as we travel in the US and in Mexico.
3. Pray for God to continually guide us and for us to follow.
4. Pray for one of the Pastoral families that we work with. Their oldest leaves for college this week and is literally heading to the other end of the USA. Pray for him and his family as they deal with the feelings and emotions that come with college and leaving home.
5. Pray for Roberto. He starts the first of his last three classes to finish his Masters Degree. I am going to be honest. This has been a very scarry decision on two parts. One, financially, we have decided not to go into debt anymore and will pay monthly for 8 months. Pray that I, Roberto, can trust that if God has asked me to finish, he will provide. Being self supported, this is not always the easiest, but He has never failed to provide when he has asked me to do something. Secondly, the last time I took and completed a class, I came down with my second bout with Bell's Palsy (facial paralysis). My greates fear has been that with the stress of the classes, it might happen again! I have already been told that if it were to occur again, the affects would likely be permanent. Understand now? But God is greater, and I trust Him more than myself!!! I just need your prayers to help continually trusting Him and not fall into the trap of fear, come what may.
6. Pray for our vehicle needs. As I had said earlier, we are self supported. God has provided Rhesa with a great job that still allows her the necessary time to travel and do minstry together, but in order to do this, we are a 2 car family. This week, our second car, the one that my parents (rdz) gave to us upon returning to the states from Central Asia, the one that we had to fix some major parts on while in Tn, the one that every time we turned on, I prayed cause I knew who had fixed it, me, the one that lasted for about 3 years with no repairs needed after I fixed it, has been dying. Rhesa was driving home from work, and the car dies. Graciously he kept her safe. We replace the alternator and battery, thinking that was the problem, but alas, we have not been able to fix it. Pray that God will give us wisdom and supernatural understanding of the problem so we can fix it. If we can't pray that God would provide for us to find a way and get another vehicle.
Whew! We have had a busy few months.
We finished our first year of home school in May. Everyone involved survived! The kids had a blast learning, traveling and being together as a family. I love how our kids love each other and yes, fight with each other. There are moments when they are so kind to each other, then it's gone, but even in the fighting and arguing, which really is minimal, thier love for each other shows. I love my little family and how God has knit us together!
June was a very busy month. We made a trip out to Cactus, Texas, to attend the ground breaking ceremony of the cactus Nazarene ministry center. We will be partnering with the West Texas distrit to try and help supply volunteers and teams for this unique ministry. There are 17 different nations represented in Cactus. God has brought the nations to the West Texas district, and through Vito and Jennifer Monteblanco and their kids, will draw those nations to himself! So excited to see what He has in store.
We then made our way to Indianapolis, Indiana for our General Assembly where we would be working at manning a booth for Mission Mobilization, which NBI is a part of. We helped put together displays for the South America Region, Eurasia Region, and the Prayer map area. We assebled furniture, used screw guns, pulled pallet movers, hauled plants, and whatever else was necessary. We then finally assembled our Photo Booth, and we were good to go. God was good and we were able to meet many people from all over the world. Many got to hear about Missions Mobilization, and some got to hear about NBI and what we do, for the very first time. Thanks to all who took silly and crazy pictures and liked our NBI facebook page. Hope you keep up with all the wonderful things that God is doing on the US/ Mexico Border. Well, after about 3 weeks of being away from home, we made it back and rested.
July
As soon as we got back home from General Assembly, I got to do two sundays of pulpit supply for the Las Cruces First Naz. A group of wonderful people searching for ways to honor and glorify God.
We then took a trip to South Texas, my home area, the Valley, or as some call it, the RGV, and got to see first hand what some of our other border missionaries are doing in Brownsville, Texas. God is using Mark and Marilyn Redwine, and Clarie Robinson, in mighty ways! Keep it up guys!
We then came back to El Paso and moved furniture from one of the homes that was sold.
Aug.
This should bring you up to date with our lives! Hahaha
We spent two seperate weeks helping to local churches with their VBS programs. First was El Paso First church. We had fun and we pray that what those kids learned will stay in thier hearts and minds. Secondly, we helped Nuevo Amanecer. Their camp or VBS was different! They targeted 12-25 yr olds and had a recycled arts and a sewing class. It was the first year that they did something like this, and not many showed up, but new people came and began to share thier lives with the church! Exciting to see people using what God has equipped them with, for the use of expanding His kingdom!
These are just the highlights of our months! HAHAH
Now I hope we can share with you some of our prayer request:
1. Pray for Roberto's uncle. He has been in the hospital icu for some time now and it is not looking good. Pray for peace and wisdom for his family as they decide what needs to be done.
2. Pray for contined safety as we travel in the US and in Mexico.
3. Pray for God to continually guide us and for us to follow.
4. Pray for one of the Pastoral families that we work with. Their oldest leaves for college this week and is literally heading to the other end of the USA. Pray for him and his family as they deal with the feelings and emotions that come with college and leaving home.
5. Pray for Roberto. He starts the first of his last three classes to finish his Masters Degree. I am going to be honest. This has been a very scarry decision on two parts. One, financially, we have decided not to go into debt anymore and will pay monthly for 8 months. Pray that I, Roberto, can trust that if God has asked me to finish, he will provide. Being self supported, this is not always the easiest, but He has never failed to provide when he has asked me to do something. Secondly, the last time I took and completed a class, I came down with my second bout with Bell's Palsy (facial paralysis). My greates fear has been that with the stress of the classes, it might happen again! I have already been told that if it were to occur again, the affects would likely be permanent. Understand now? But God is greater, and I trust Him more than myself!!! I just need your prayers to help continually trusting Him and not fall into the trap of fear, come what may.
6. Pray for our vehicle needs. As I had said earlier, we are self supported. God has provided Rhesa with a great job that still allows her the necessary time to travel and do minstry together, but in order to do this, we are a 2 car family. This week, our second car, the one that my parents (rdz) gave to us upon returning to the states from Central Asia, the one that we had to fix some major parts on while in Tn, the one that every time we turned on, I prayed cause I knew who had fixed it, me, the one that lasted for about 3 years with no repairs needed after I fixed it, has been dying. Rhesa was driving home from work, and the car dies. Graciously he kept her safe. We replace the alternator and battery, thinking that was the problem, but alas, we have not been able to fix it. Pray that God will give us wisdom and supernatural understanding of the problem so we can fix it. If we can't pray that God would provide for us to find a way and get another vehicle.
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