Christmas Update

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Dear friends, feliz navidad from Mexico City, where children are putting out their shoes hoping for gifts from “the three kings” and we are celebrating the arrival of the True King!

As you read this letter, the inhabitants of Mexico City are preparing for the massive holiday [...]

Cranking Up!

The semester is cranking up here at the UNAM, with classes beginning on August 10. The 35,000 new students have arrived and have joined the mad dash to adjust schedules and get oriented. Here’s a quick review of what has been going on!
Monterrey Retreat
I spoke at a retreat in the Monterrey area in mid-July. I [...]

July Update 1 – Summertime

We are now well into the summer, and last Saturday had our final Summer English Club/ RUF activity in Tlalpan Forest just to the south of University City. Our outing included high altitude capture the flag, a game largely unknown here, but liked when learned.
Because of all of the swine flu scare, everything was pushed [...]

May Praise & Prayer Update 2

The Home Stretch
We’re heading toward the end of the semester here at the UNAM, and students are starting to stress in anticipation of the stress. In spite of incoming tests and projects, we continue to have many good conversations and studies with students about all kinds of things, attempting to apply the gospel to the [...]

Retreating to Guanajuato

Over Holy Week, 23 students and three leaders headed to Guanajuato for a retreat at the new camp that MTW has purchased on the outskirts of the city. Our speaker, RUF campus minister Marc Scheibe (University of Tulsa) spoke from 2 Peter 1 on “a precious faith, a promised future”, and we enjoyed a lot [...]

Beginning of the School Year Wrap Up

The best way that you can see the first few weeks of the year at the UNAM has to be via the updates from Josh and Amy Oettle on their blog. There you can see some pictures of our kickoff party, and if you scroll down far enough, of our pre-semester retreat as well.
It has [...]

The First Week of School

The first week of school is upon us here at the UNAM, after a summer of interns and trips and retreats!
Currently the new class of 35,000 is getting settled in while the other 140,000 reconnect with familiar surroundings. A few tens of thousands are at home this week, wishing they could have scored just a [...]

Lots going on!

This past week, in addition to English Clubs and intern studies, we were at the Salvation Army Orphanage with a number of students putting on a vacation Bible school. We had about 30 kids on the first day, and about 60 kids on the last two days. It was a great time with puppets, crafts, [...]

Other Blogs

I haven’t posted much lately, and what I have posted has not been that interesting!
If you want something more scintillating, I suggest…
Update on visit to orphanage at Josh and Amy’s blog.
Updates on intern thoughts at Abby and Meredith’s blogs.

Busy Week

In addition to the normal activities…

Today we receive 2 summer interns for six weeks.
Tomorrow we are visiting a local orphanage after church to play/teach/craft with 60 or so kids.
This week I’ll be hosting some folks who are coming through on their way to the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico’s Church Planting Conference.

Should be fun!

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