Julianne Gilmore Joins the Team

Julianne Gilmore arrived this week to join the Mexico City team for one year. She is a recent Greenville College graduate and is going to enter medical school in the fall of 2008. While she is here, she'll be helping with English classes at the Tizoc church as well as getting a better idea of medical missions by shadowing Joel Miller and some Mexican physicians.

Julianne brings a willingness to work and ability in Spanish. She grew up in the Dominican Republic as a "Missionary Kid" and so we will no doubt learn from her experiences as well. Her "stateside" home is in Oroville, California. We are looking forward to seeing God work in and through Julianne in the months ahead. Thanks for praying for her as she adjusts to life in Mexico City and to life with four little brothers and sisters! (She is currently living with the Millers.)

You can follow along with Julianne by checking out her blog that is linked in the righthand column of this blog.

Near Miss with Hurricane Dean

Thanks to many of you who have inquired about how Dean affected the Mission District. While the potential for damage and loss of life was great with this hurricane, we thank the Lord that there have been no deaths reported in Mexico to this point. Many have lost homes and flooding continues to be a problem but none of our churches were directly affected.


Here is a brief report from Pastor Ruben in the Campeche church...

"Hurricane Dean slammed into our state on Tuesday August 21 around 2 PM with all of his strength. By the mercy of our God, in answer to many prayers, it had slowed down to a category 1 hurricane (with 160 KM/h winds). The church building served as a refuge for one family, Jessica's family, that lives nearby- Jessica is a faithful girl, in spite of only being 10 years old and coming from a non-Christian family. We hope in God that this help they have received from the church will help them to come near to God.

There has been no loss of life associated with this hurricane, according to our Governor, although many trees have fallen, but nothing dangerous.

Today I plan visit our brothers who are fishermen, to see how they and their boats are, even though there has been no bad news.

In general, we are very well, we were without electricity for 7 hours, but all is well now.

Please continue to pray for us,

May God continue to bless you,

Pastor Ruben Cupul

Campeche, Mexico"

Welcome Back, Myers Family!

The Mexico City team welcomed Ken and Letty Myers back to town last week. After a 7 month home assignment, the Myers returned and are getting settled again. Ken will be resuming his role with VISA teams in Latin America as well as local ministries in both the Coapa and Tizoc (Casa de Paz) churches. Letty will be busy home-schooling Nathan (8) and Nasya (5).

It is always an encouragement to have the Myers around and we look forward to the ways in which God is going to use them in the months ahead. Would you pray with us that they are able to get all of the busywork done that comes with moving back to Mexico City and that they are able to reconnect with the people and churches with whom they were working before?