The beautiful mountains of the state of Hidalgo, about 1 hour from where we preached last month.
Pastor Juan Grande and family - pastor of the church in Hidalgo
The kids really enjoyed the "nature" in the Hidalgo area.
Beautiful... but dangerous!
Matt preached a series on leadership based off of the life of Nehemiah.
Praise the Lord for the privilege to serve Him!
The week we returned we held our second Pastors retreat.
It was three days full of fun, fellowship, learning, and prayer!
Our crowd went form 120 - 150 throughout the three days... it was a lot of people to put up and feed!
One of the highlights for many was going bowling on Wednesday -
it was a first for many :)
Most of our church people helped out, in one way or another.
Here is Sister Martha, one of our newest church ladies -
she came and helped in the kitchen, every day, all day!
I don't know what it is, but there is just something about men and grilling!
Most of the group that we had for the Pastors retreat.
Praise the Lord for fellow - laborers!
Missionary Andrew Shields teaching his class
how to paint and prepare a clown.
We had 11 different work shops throughout the three days;
some of them where:
Pedagogy, Art, Getting to know Israel, Church Polity,
How to last in the ministry, How to uphold my dads ministry,
Confronting the Pentecostal doctrines, and hair cutting - among others.
One of our main speakers for the week was
Brother/Pastor/Dentist Rob Wilson and family.
During and after the conference he used his
medical knowledge to minister to many of our people and neighbors.
Not only did he pull teeth and give advice;
he also brought much medicine for his patients.
(One of the young ladies, Xotchitle, was our Pharmacist.)
Praise the Lord for the new contacts we acquired
and the love that was shown!
God bless you Brother Wilson!
