Missions within Missions

Missions Trip

Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua

 

Pastor Ruben Garcia with his wife Bette and daughters Kelli and Cielo
This was Kelli's 15th birthday service.

Ciudad Jaurez is the 5th largest city in Mexico.

A temporary bathroom we built for Iglesia Bautist la Gracia

The people waiting their turn at the clinics.
Some of our group took advantage and had a class for the kids.

One team in a make shift office

Two Doctors, a nurse, and two translators

Dr. KB, and his wife Dr. Natalie are from the Ivory Coast 

and speak several languages,but Spanish is not one of their strong ones.
Hna. Carmen is a nurse and one of our members at Victoria.

We were glad she could join us on the trip.

This man had run a re-bar through his hand the day before.

The dental 'office'

Bro. Rob is a dentist in Arkansas

and is also the pastor of a Spanish church

The pharmacy

All the medicine was provided to the people for free.

Every evening a different member of the team preached.

Here Matthew is translating for Bro. KB

Praise the Lord it only started to rain one night.

Most of our group that helped in Juarez
(Some were in bed sick)

Valle de la Trinidad, Baja California

Hno. Sergio with his wife Elena and daughter Sarai

Valle de la Trinidad

They are right on the edge of town

Another 'office'

We had a full house every service.

Again a different member preached for every service.

We had a kid's class for every service.

Two vans anchoring a tarp in between took the place of a class room.

The kitchen was always busy!

Class room construction

The layout

Higher...

...and higher.

We were able to pour the floors.

Ready for the roof and windows

The septic

Pure sand!

Deeper....

...and deeper.

Building the walls

Ready to pour

Ready for the bathrooms to be built.

In Kiliwas

Visiting with the people

Hna. Polita is the oldest living Kiliwa.

She doesn't know how old she is, but she says she's 93

...she's been saying that for a long time!

Her nephew's say she's around 103.

A house visit on the way out of town.

Beautiful bead work

One of these pieces takes several months to make.

They were very friendly people.

Our church bought a set of commentaries for Hno. Sergio, 

and he presented Matt with this bow and arrows made by the head Kiliwa.

The group we served with in Valle de la Trinidad

We pray that we were a blessing to the people 

to whom we ministered in these weeks.

We know that we were truly blessed to be a part of it.

Thanks to all who participated in praying, giving, or joining us!

Covering some ground

April - Right before our 2 1/2 month trip to the States

These are some of the people that joined Victoria the week before we left.

We also had Baptisms the last Sunday.

Missions conference - children around the world

Our reporting trip to the mid-west and west: 

April through Mid-June

Devil's Tower

Even though it was a busy trip with our visiting 23 churches, 

we were privileged to be able to see some beautiful things as well. 

The Rocky Mountains

Judah hadn't seen snow since he was four months old.

Mercy never had seen it.

Fishin' with Gran'pa

We got back in the middle of June.

Busy as ever!

We were given several pieces of office equipment.

All are placed and being used.

Chairs and carrier were also given 

and have already been used many times.

Activites

Baby showers: one down, two to go!

One of our church members passed away, 

and we had a two day funeral service.

Two of his daughters are members of Victoria as well.

One of the families from our church had a combined 

quinceaños (15th birthday) 

and renewing of wedding vows for their 25th anniversary.

The next day there was another quinceaños in Luis Moya.

Junior camp 

Eight of our church kids (three of them being ours) went to camp this week.

Only two of them had been before.  It was a good experience for all of them.

Exciting News!

A new church building:

Mount Zion Baptist Church

The outside patio will need some cleaning up.

It is a fairly large building.

Facing the front

In the back corner there's a bathroom.  

We just poured the floor, but the toilet still needs to be installed.

We had to run the electric before we could do anything else.

Something about heights and electricity causes us some nervousness, but

"You gotta do what you gotta do!"

We split the room right down the center with dry-wall.

The left side will be fellowship/classroom space; the right side is the auditorium.

We were grateful that several church members from Victoria came to help with the new work.

We make it very clear that it is an out-reach of Victoria.

Looking toward the back: the bathroom is on the left.

Where the wall division ended we put another room in the back right 

for the nursery/classroom.

Our first service (informal) at Mount Zion's new building

On the family side

We've been able to build something in our living room 

that we've been wanting to add for a long time.

Another of Judah's adventures...

but he's still smiling...kind of.

In the last months we've been blessed to be able to be with the entire family on both sides.

The Shields Family

The Deatrick Family

Thank you for your prayers and interest in this ministry.

Now that we are home we will try to be more faithful with our picture up-dates.