Another Weekend - Another trip

Hello again! Another week has gone bye already!! Wow, things are going fast. I (Ross) had the opportunity to go with Kerry (the missionary that we are working under) on a missions mobilization trip. We went to a smaller city north of Mexico City. I really enjoyed my time a lot. We meet some wonderful Christians working up there and it was great to see what God is doing out of the area that we are living in. It is always wonderful to drive into a town where you don't know anyone and the first people you meet, greet you in the name of the Lord. The city is in great need of the gospel but the Christians that are there are all joining together to reach there city for Christ. The area has around 500,000 people, and roughly 40 church's. The church's that are there are not large either, the two that Kerry spoke at were roughly 50 each. This week holds something very important for the little town though. A few days before we arrived there, all the Christian church pastors came together and were able to put aside there difference's and join together to reach their city for Christ. On Thursday of this week, they are having a city wide church service for all the Christians to get together and join forces. The problem with the city is not that they do not want the gospel, they have just never heard. This is something that I found hard to grasp in my mind until I drove down the streets and seen the people. My heart wept for the lost and rejoiced for the Christians that are on the front line fighting this battle daily. The reason that we went there was to motivate the Christians to "Go". The vision of the local church here in Mexico City and the surrounding area, is to send a tithe of missionaries to the field. This is not true across the board but in a lot of Christian church's it is. That was why I went. There is nothing like a missionary telling people to go to the mission field. This was big part of our plan when we found out we were coming here. Training locals in the way of the Bible. We felt love and acceptance from many people and received many, many hugs. It was wonderful, and we pray now that the words spoken are taken into heart and they act on them. I was so impacted when I was first told the vision of the church to send 10% of there members to the field. There vision is the middle east, Africa, etc. Please be in prayer for the church as it meets together this week and also as we continue teaching English at our house and we keep working on our Spanish. Tomorrow I will go get some beds and set up a building (that is close to our apartment) for people to live in. The bible schools is setting up a building for people in need to live in and we are planning to be involved in that later. Please keep us in your prayers as well while we are working with the local church. We want to be able to be used by God where he wants us with no limitations and we are praying about what that is in our lives. We are so much in love with life now and there is nothing like walking in the path that God planned and is taking us on. Thank you for all the continued support that you are providing for us as well. Without you we would not be able to do what we are doing. We pray continually that we never walk out of the center of the path that God has for us. Thanks again and talk soon. Ross