Thank you God!

It has been an exciting few weeks ministering in guadalajara at a National Congreso, as well as events in Guad, Tepic, Mazatlan, and Culiacan. Dwight couldnt make it with us on this trip, so my brother and his family joined us to help with the ministry; Jon and Angie with Monique and Aria. My inlaws Ko and Jan Krauss have been living with us and working with us in the ministry and they were a huge help on the trip. After the ministry trip was over, everyone went home, and Dwight met me in Mazatlan as we celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary. We had a great time... but first a little about the ministry. I dont have a ton of pictures, but what I do have is thanks to Ko, Jan, Jon or Angie. They were awesome!!

Praise God we finished the first part of the 2010 tour!!!

It has been a crazy few weeks!

We spent two weeks touring for the ministry, starting with a congreso in Guadalajara...

Everyone made a puppet for childrens ministry, and it was a lot of fun to see all the creativity.

The exciting part of this congreso in Guadalajara was that it was our first National event! People traveled from all over Mexico to attend. The vision was to teach the leaders an event that they could use to train teachers in their area.

They responded great, and asked me to do it again next year; something specific for the leaders so that they have something to do with their teachers. I was thrilled to meet them and to be able to minister to them.

Below you can see a picture of me with the territory leaders. Each one of these ladies is responsible for the childrens ministry in 50 to 300 churches! They represent more than 1000 churches from all over the country of Mexico! Praise God for this awesome opportunity.

After the congreso we had a fun visit to a pyramid where we got to see some really old rocks. :)

Then a whirl-wind week of ministry where we passed out free childrens ministry packs and sold a bunch of student books to hundreds of teachers from hundreds of churches from lots of different denominations.

I really enjoyed sharing the vision of the new 2010 material.... something that took me 9 months of work in the office to make!

Each city had a different flavor and a different group of teachers.

Im sooooo glad to be home. But Im mostly thankful that God protected us as we traveled, and gave me what to say to these teachers to inspire them to continue serving at their local churches.

We are thankful to be a part of something God is doing for Childrens Ministry here in Mexico.

Praise God we made it thru this first part of the tour!