Sunday, November 23, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Hey, so here are a couple more contextual shots of what UNAM is like. My friend memo here is one of the guys i spend the most time with on campus. He is a really open and honest guy that like most mexicans is really turned of to bible by the abuses of the religious people he has encountered. Institutions of religion has left a really bad taste in his mouth about God and the Bible, but he has been pretty open about letting me know where he stands thankfully. Recently, his grandmother has been not doing so well so his family is preparing for her to pass on. He seems at peace with her going but she is a huge figure in his life and we have been able to talk about what the bible tells us about heaven. His grandmother, he is convinced, is a believer. Memo needs prayer that he would be less apathetic towards jesus what his death on the cross means for his life and sin. He seems at times disinterested but hopefully he will really be rocked by the conviction of the holy spirit about his life. pray for him.
So, my roommate and friend darren is writing another book. He wrote his first one last year during his senior year of college as a way to reach his friends and old highschool and college buddies with the gospel, because nothing inspires interest like saying "i wrote a book just for you." His first one was called those who turned the world upside down and was a conversational, evangelistic commentary through acts. Now he is finishing his second book and it is one of the ways i get to help him out by designing the book for him, b/c i have a background in graphic design, and popping some shots of him for the back cover. So enjoy, darren is always kind of a goofball but i think these make him seem less so, haha just kidding!
Our garage went from empty to completely packed a couple weeks ago when we received a shipment from miami of over 200 boxes of bibles. These bibles were given to us for the specific purpose of getting them in the hands of university student who dont have a copy of God's word of their own. This shipment was over a year in the making and only done with a lot of hard work from our director here, craig johring. The bibles in total are 209 boxes, thats about 5,000 of them, weighing over 10,000 lbs, with an approximate value of $100,000 us dollars!
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
More Resting! We had an absolutely fantastic week! Thank God for giving these people the desire to bless us in this way it turned out to be so good for us! Here is a couple snapshots of how we spent the week! Now its back to work!
So the rest of Enfoque Mexico is going to Acupulco for a week of R and R. So we decided to
follow suit with a week of vacation of our own. We have a few friends in the Cuernavaca area who graciously offered to host us from monday to friday. So we ended up staying with the marquez family who are a christian family who we know pretty well at this point. Darren has come over to spend time with Arturo (26) and Mario (30) a couple of times. In addition, mario and I volunteered for registration during Passion so I got a chance to know him pretty well over the course of a couple days. Mario (senior) and Susie are so nice! They are Mario and Arturo's parents and just offered to let us stay in their bottom floor/ basement type set up which coincidentally had 5 beds! This week has been incredibly restful and rejuvenating. God speaks again and again of resting in the Bible. From resting physically from labor and also finding your rest in Him. He is the great provider of this and we have been so blessed this week to spend a week in the sun, sleeping in, and seeking God.
So Victoriano is this really cool guy i met at the college group we go to on mondays
. He is a full-time musician and working on a electronica type music album right now (he says he is kind of really behind on it). So occasionally we get together and go to the center of coyocoan (a colonia) to hit up el jarocho cafe (which is really famous) to get their hot chocolate and get some churros at the best place for it in the city. This guy is a lot of fun to be around. He loves Jesus and has a hilarious sense of humor. He definitely would like prayer for his album to get finised if you guys have time.
So during Passion we passed out a lot of flyers for all those who were interested in potentially starting a movement on their campus. Passion seems like the perfect event to get the word out about the Enfoque Mexico, with all the christian college students in the city basically coming to one location. So we passed out a bunch of flyers and saw a pretty good turn out at the meeting. The individual teams are now following up with students in their focus area: like for us UNAM. Hopefully, the lord will use this to jump start a lot of studies and evangelism on the different college campuses in D.F.! In the picture, Joe Cross (1 of 2 directors for enfoque mexico) and Chris Chown (roommate and teammate here in Mexico City).
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