NEWSLETTER: JULY, 2004

I love teaching kids in Tijuana. Each month I teach at least seven different groups ranging in age from seven to sixteen. It's a challenge but I love it. The kids are so responsive. They love learning by listening to stories and watching object lessons. Of course there are exceptions, like the night I was teaching the kids at Casa de Emmanuel boy's home.

It had been a long day after camp and a little late. Some of the younger kids just couldn't keep their eyes open. I thought you might like to see the way some kids respond to my "dynamic" teaching. At the end of the lesson, I asked the group of kids to quietly move out and let me take photos of the three little sleeping beauties. Cute, eh? God has His ways of keeping a speaker humble.

Our ministry creates so many significant teaching opportunities: challenging our American teens to make a difference in their world, encouraging street kids that God loves even them, sharing Bible stories with the orphanage children and barrio kids, sharing God's forgiveness to the teens in jail. It's especially true here in Mexico that when your audience knows you, loves you and respects you, the message sinks in like seeds in good soil. We are fortunate to have three other teachers equally loved and respected.

We appreciate your investment in our teaching ministry as well as our humanitarian efforts to help the poor. Included in our overall ministry are camps, Bible clubs, vacation Bible schools and discipleship along with one-on-one counseling.

We feel that our greatest challenge is not just reaching the mind but reaching the heart; we go for the heart!

You're part of our active team and you deserve to be informed, that's why I write and send you these letters. We're willing to work in the dark corner of God's vineyard as long as you support us by your love, prayers and giving. Thanks from all of us for your encouragement this month!