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Here is our fall newsletter. I have been doing better. It is very hard to try and rest at the place you also do a lot of your work from. I have told the places that I work at, that I will not be able to for one month. We are also try to tear down wallpaper at our house that we are renting and also painting and cleaning. It is amazing how much work it is just to try and rest. We are trying to find a balance though. Thanks for your prayers and support. We have many things to start in Nov. We are excited to keep you posted. Blessings Amanda

We need a time of rest!

As I felt myself starting into another seizure today, I started to pray, by only breathing His name (Yahweh). I was in the seizure and I felt myself being protected by His presence. My body didn't start the shaking and convulsing like it normaly does in a seizure. This one was different. I felt His peace like never before and I started to understand somethings that I have been praying about. As I layed on my bed I felt my husband come behind me and hold me. I layed there in complete peace. I felt like I could fight off a thousand demons. I felt like my spirit was on top of the world. Like I have never been stronger, but at the same time I felt the weakest I have ever felt before in my body. I was unable to move my arms or legs. I was unable to barely take a breath. I realize that my body is in need of recovery. In the last three days I have had three people tell me that my spirit is so strong but my body is so weak. I need to allow my body to try and catch up. I finally understood this was the truth. It is so hard to admit that you are not superwoman and you can't conquer the world. I have worked so hard to prove things to some people that are involved in my life. I finally realized that some people will never change and that they want to see evil in other people. Because, they have hardened their religious hearts to Christ the Lord. They have closed their ears to the voice of the Holy Spirit. I feel even more ashamed of myself, than hurt from these people. I am ashamed, because, I have allowed pride to come in and take the focus off of Jesus in this area. When I was reading Galations 1:10( Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.) I looked up the word approval, it means blessing. This hit me like a lead brick in my spirit. I realized that I have been trying to receive a blessings from these people. A blessing in the work we do, a blessing in my parenting and a blessing in me being a good wife. I knew in my mind I wanted a blessing from God but in my spirit I also wanted a blessing from these people. I now realize how wrong and offensive this is to Christ. That is why i am writing to tell you all, that we are taking a month away from hands on ministry. Ross will still be teaching at the school but I will be stepping away from my ministry areas. I am going to listen to my God, my husband and my family. I am going to allow my body a much needed rest. I am thankful to all of you that support us and I believe that you will understand my reasoning. In the first week of November we will be helping AINDAC with their big day of social help. Also we will return to going to our little mountain village that we are helping with along with our other ministry responibilities. Please remember that I am not going to be walking away from my highest ministry responsablilites, my husband and daughters. Thanks to all of you that have been praying for me. I believe that I am on my road to recovery. In church the other day, I heard the Lord speak to me and he said, "Your strenght is in me, your health is in me, your joy is in me. You don't need to look any where else but in Me." I am going to take Him for His word and work on this during my time off. Thanks again to all of you who are praying and supporting us. Please don't stop the prayers. This is truly the earthly support that we are in need of right now.

Gracias a Dios, Somos juntos

Bueno, as I sit here tonight thinking about what is going on in our lives and how God is moving miraculously, I am also angered over the attacks of Satan. It seems at times that there are just no easy answers. Satan has definitely increased the attacks on the body of believers and we are pushing back as hard as we can. There are times that I feel that we are at the top of the world and others that we are in the bottom of the barrel. This has really made me stop and think a lot about myself. I have begun to think of myself as a glow stick. First, because, sometime I think of myself as smart as a glow stick, just sitting there waiting for someone to just pick me up!! Just kidding, that is not really why!! The real reason is because of the absolute sense it makes thinking about it. The more that a glow stick is with a light source, the more it glows!! This is like us, the more that we are with our master Jesus, the more that we glow as well!!!! This is so amazing, yet SO difficult. I am learning all over about prayer and the effectiveness, the sacrifice, the joy, and the hardship of time in prayer. I will admit that I struggle in this area. I always feel like I have too much of this or that to get done. However, without prayer we are just a car running with no gas!! I am learning to "love again" the intimate time in prayer and study from my Master and King. I was just reading in Galatians 1-3 and it really hit me how hard living the true gospel of Christ really is. I seen in Chapter 2 that Peter was clearing walking away from the gospel of Christ and I thought "WOW"!!! I began pondering in my mind, if Peter could be mislead and walk away, how much easier for one of us. We didn’t walk with Jesus, talk with Jesus and eat a meal with Jesus. I always had it in the back of my mind that if I had just walked a little closer (physically) to Jesus, or had just lived when He did so I could have heard Him. Everything would be better. However, this is a lie from Satan!! Now that this has been exposed, I must deal with it!! Peter walked away from the truth. He literally walked with Jesus, and then that pesky old rooster crowing thing was there as well!! This wasn’t just some guy, this was Peter, a spiritual giant of the Bible!!!! We need to make sure we are on the right track with the true gospel and make Jesus famous in this world. The thing is, we need to make sure that what we are preaching is the truth and not some other teaching that we were just taught. We need that intimacy, that time in prayer, and that glow that we can only get from our precious Father. I know that with a glow stick you can put it anywhere and it will suck up the light, we however, have only one source of light and that is Jesus Christ. We must stay next to the Father and quit looking for our light in people. Jesus is the first and the last, the beginning and the end, and I give Him my heart my family and everything that I am. I am learning that I don’t need and shouldn’t expect anything in return from Him. Everything that He has given me is a blessing that I am not worthy of receiving. Thanks be to God for the wonderful life that He has given, and I pray that I am ready to ride out the coming storm that is on the horizon!! God bless you all and hope to hear from you. Ross

Change of Pace

Hey everyone, I sorry again that we have not blogged in a while but we are having to change the style in how we blog. As you know we are busy, busy, busy here in Mexico City. We have taken on a bit of a different dynamic in our ministry and I would love to let you all know about what we are doing. We want to start blogging about once a week to let you all know more about prayer requests and/or what we are thinking, or mulling over in our minds during the week. We don't want the precious people that we love and are trying to help to get the wrong impression about who we are. We certainly do not want anyone here to feel like they are a "project" or just "work" for us. We know that lots of you reading this, are from Mexico City. We want you all to know that we LOVE you. We are here to help Mexico City dig out of it's roots of religion and move towards the freedom that is only found in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior. We want all of you to experience what the Bible calls a life, and life more abundantly.
Now, because we are picking up a "fan base" or to say it better, just friends of course that are reading this blog, from the Mexico City. We are no longer using names or identities, unless you we ask you and you say yes. We just want you to be sure that you know WE LOVE YOU. Our blog will be more posts of things that we are thinking on any particular day.Things that we as a family need prayer for or projects that we are working on. Please understand that we need to do this because we don't want to offend anyone or accidentily "let the cat out of the bag" if you know what I mean. Thank you for your understanding and we look forward to hearing from all of you soon. Ross, Amanda, Alyssa, and Zoe Johnston