Today is the day.

Hello again. We are coming to you this time with wonderful news. We had been experiencing a "lull" lately. It hasn't been that there is no work or anything, there had just been difficulties in everything that we were doing. Satan was on the prowel, but greater is He who is in us, than he who is in the world. I was just reading that other day in Ephesians and it says, "together with the Lords people we may grasp how wide, and long, and high, and deep the love of Christ is. His love surpasses all knowledge and we may be fulfilled". Imagine what that statement says, it is incredible. This is something that we can't fully comprehend while we are here on the this earth, however, there are times that we see this in the middle of struggle, and then there are times that we see this in the middle of victories. This last week was a time of victory over the forces of darkness. On all sides it seemed that Satan was trying to attack us. He knows that he cannot touch us directly because of the Blood of the Lamb that is over us, however, he can manipulate the circumstances around us to directly effect us. I want to add at this point a big thank you to all the people back home that have been praying and fasting for us, you know who you are!!! This week was a direct answer to those prayers. I want to first start out telling you about the status of our immigration paperwork, we are finally accepted. We are going this weekend to take our photos for our Mexican Passports. Thank you Jesus, you are faithful. We will hold dual citazenship with the States and Mexico. This will allow us the freedom to live here, own a vehicle here, get insurance here, and travel freely into the States. With our American citazenship it allows us the same rights as a normal American citazen. Then secondly we went and found out that the car that we bought is ok. We were told by a mechanic here that the motor was wrecked and needed to be fixed for over $1,100. There is no way that we could afford this, so we just had it towed to our house. I was telling a friend of ours about it, and he told me he has a mechanic friend that is a Christian. We took is and after all the work he told me it was $157!! This is still alot of money for us, but thank you Jesus for the people who gave to us extra this month. We got the exact amount of money to fix the car and pay for an emissions fine we received because of some wrong information we received. This exact amount of money came from extra people who are not monthly supports. God is our provider!! Then after that we went to the chiropracter and he worked on Mandy's back. We found out that she has scoliosis. Also her spine was out in four places and she had pinched nerves. He spent over an hour working on moving her back and muscles around. After we left the appointment she is much, much better. She is so much better it is incredible. She has had two doctors working with her these last two weeks. They told us that they are doing all the work on her for free because we are here helping their people. Thank you Jesus for the knowledge of these men and their giving hearts. These guys are wonderful brothers in Christ. One of these doctors went on my last missions trip with me, and I will continue to go with him, on the trips to the Indiginous villages. He told her that it will take about 3 weeks of not carrying heavy things, and no running, to repair it fully. Our God gave us time to "rest" and study His word more fully, and spend time with Him. Now we are ready to start all over again, getting back into the "normal" swing of things. This leads me to the final thing that God allowed for us. We meet with the people from AINDAC that we are working with and they told us that they have authorized us to move into some new places. Not only that, we were given some shelving units, and locks and things to give us a place to organize, count, seperate, and make a detailed inventory of what we have. We have had very little shelving and actually very little space as well, so this is a huge development for us. We are now starting to take in donations, and seperate them, organize them, put them in boxs or bags and have them ready to ship out. This makes life alot easier, and alot more organized. Then when someone needs a donation of food, we have it ready to go. Or they need a donation of bathroom supplies, it is ready to go. We have pictures (on our Flickr account) of this idea from when we went on our day of social help. We will take a clear bag and put in it, a kilo (2.2lbs) of rice, a kilo of beans, a kilo of sugar, 2 cans of refried beans, a bottle of oil, a bag of cereal, a bag of cookies, maybe some suckers, or other little candies, two bags of pasta, and some powdered milk. This is one time "donation". We are trying to get set up, to give out these donation every month to the people that need help the most. For example, this Friday our friends at one of the CIFAM integration houses came and got 140 donations. This will then be taken to the houses and the people that need the food the most will be given one of these to take with them if they have a house, however, only after they sit through a service, and listen to the gospel message. This allows them to hear the good news of the gospel, and not just take the food and run. Then for the people that accept Christ, the houses are there all the time to provide discipleship, and trainning. We also, on a diffent level with AINDAC, go and take cloths, and other items out to these houses as well. I told you this, because the more room Mandy and I have to work, the more donations we can take in, and the more help we can provide to the people that need it. Thank you Jesus for your faithfulness. This weekend we moved shelving units into our building and next week are ready to go building them, moving things, and starting to organize.
I just want to say thank you Jesus for your faithfulness, and also those of you that are supporting us in prayer, financially, and through all the kind words and emails. We miss all of you very much back home. Because of your faithfulness, there are people that are entering the kingdom of Jesus, one meal at a time. In Him, Ross