Agosto

Hello Friends, Family and Supporters,

It’s been another very eventful month here in Mexico City.  We are learning a lot, being stretched in many different directions and overall we are doing very well.

A major lesson that we are learning (again) is that we have NOTHING to fear with God as our protector.  Please read Sadie’s post on this.

We started language lessons this week and it’s actually been a lot of fun for all of us!  Sadie and Stephen attend the morning session and I attend the afternoon one at the local university.  We all took multiple years of Spanish in High School but forgot everything so it’s good to get some intentional learning in as part of our daily schedule, Monday through Friday!

We are also slowly building friendships with our neighbors here.  We have a front desk/maintenance guy at our apartment named Juan and it’s been great to chat with him here and there with our limited Spanish.

There’s also Luis, who actually sleeps in his car right in front of our apartment.  He’s a fixture on the street corner as a helium balloon salesmen and he’s taken a liking to our son Micah.  Every so often he will give Micah a balloon and refuse any money we try to give him.  We’re looking for ways that we can help him as he is living and working on this corner to send money back to his family who live an hour and a half away.  For now, it’s been a joy to greet him every time we see each other and share a box of juice or ice cream. 

Mari is a friend of Luis and she always greets us with some sort of nickname like “hola juanito” (I think that’s what she’s saying).  She washes parked cars for a living– as people park on our street, she asks them if they’d like a wash and proceeds to wipe down the cars while the people tend to their business.

Juan, Luis, and Mari are all good people and it’s been a joy to be around them (no matter how limited our communication or interaction is).  Please pray that our friendships would grow and that we could love them and serve them without being weird or patronizing.

I have posted a few photos of the past month in a slideshow below.  Please take a look.

As you do, please pray for:

• Continued safety and protection for the team and our family here.
• Our hearts to grow for this country and its people.  For eyes to see the wreckage as well as the beauty.
• For continued provision in all of our daily needs.
• For spiritual strongholds to be shattered.  We are experiencing some major spiritual activity down here and for security reasons, we will not share too specifically but we need your dedicated prayers toward this.  Please simply pray that God’s light, His love, and His truth will shine through all the darkness.
• For a reform in Mexican government and a shift in the systemic issues that prevent change from taking place in issues of poverty and in particular, drug and human trafficking.  This is major.

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Thank you for partnering with us.  Once again, we cannot do this without YOU.  We love you.

DK, Sadie, Micah