Hola everyone and blessings to you.
I was happy to have CCM Adults group come down on Saturday, November 15th and leave on Sunday the 16th. When they arrived we headed out to an orphnage in the canon of Zion in Tijuana.
CCM has adopted this orphange for Christmas so the group played with the children as some got information from them regarding the favorite color, toy, etc. Also one sister took pictures of every child and Stephanie made sure each child had the information they needed for a desired gift. After the group started cooking hamburgers and we served them lunch. After lunch the group did a small skit and bible story and a craft that went along with the bible story. The chldren enjoyed the crafts which were cross key chains.
Below is Alex from the orphnage. He is a special needs child. He is 12 years old and he had down syndrome. He is adorable, sweet, lovable and so speical to me. I praise God when I can spend time with him and the other children.
We left late from the orphanage and took the group to tacos at La Gloria where we all enjoyed ourselves with tacos and ice cream. Back at La Posada we had a time of worship, devotions and a time of sharing. It was a blessing to meet the new commers and new faces. We had a wonderful time.
On Sunday the group stood for bible studies and they were a blessing as they participated. Always a blessing to have our home church come down to serve. Victor, on the other hand had left, to Vizcaino on Friday, November 14th and came back 21st. He took a group of 11 to do a missions trip and to visit the other missionaries down there (Tacho, wife, kids, Gary and Keri, and the churches in the areas). Victor took the group to visit 5 different areas where they did outreaches and on each place that they visited they needed to sleep over because these places are not close to each other.
One of these places was a Island called Natividad. To get to this island they need to take 3 boats and there they did a outeach and Victor did the bible study for the local Christian church. They fed the people hot dogs which for them is like lobsters for us because they do not get alot of meat over to the island. So they mostly eat fish and lobsters and when the group brought down hot dogs the people where so happy and blessed that they were going to eat these hot dogs. Wow! The little food that we take for granted.
Baiha Tortuga was also another place where they went to minister to, encourageing the local Christian Pastors and the body of Christ and also doing an outreach for the local people in that area. After the outeach we all went to the Pastor Eber's house and they cooked us fish. We had a wonderful time of fellowship.
The group also went to the sea of Cortez to a place called San Bruno. Here they also did an outreach where there was about 300+ came to this event.We were blessed that at this town Biaha Tortugo, the local police department let us use the City Hall park to do this outreach event and alot of the police officers were attentive to see what we were doing and also we were blessed they got to hear God's word. The last time anyone has done an outreach at this town was 2 years ago.
Here we are doing our morning devotions at the church in San Bruno and After the outreach the Pastor invited us to his house where we cooked hamburgers that we brought down and again they were so happy to eat hamburgers because they have not eaten them for about 1 year, so this was a big treat for them. Here we are in front of the church.
Here is a place called San Ignacio where we took a picture next to the lake. We were headed out to Punta Abre ojos (a place where there are cabins next to the beach) where we stood there for a day and a half. We had fellowship with some brothers/sisters from Vizcaino. We had a time of fellowship, devotions, worship and food. A blessed time.
We got back home to LP on Friday. Every place that we went, the churches and pastors opened their homes to us and had food ready for us to eat and partake with them. The hospitality and love that they demostrated was overwelhming. It was a blessing!!!