Mexico Missions with Bruce and Paula: June 2022

This past week, the Pastor of LaHarpe Christian Church Nate, brought his wife Liz and thier two kids Madi and Eli to spend some time meeting the needs of the people in Mexico 🇲🇽 as part of his time away from the pulpit. Even though we step away from," ministry " we never stop ministering.

They arrived last Thursday night and Friday we took the 100 shoe box gifts that thier church had put together, along with beans, rice and cases of bibles. Saturday we held the monthly food outreach and handed out the boxes to the kids. Jaime Mayorga from Melodys Orphanage came and led worship as Nate and I played the guitar 🎸. They had a great time giving out the gifts and the food as each family passed through the Community Center.

Pastor Felipe brought us fried fish from Tampico, Mx for lunch. Pastor Joel drove 4 hours just to get the bottled water we donated to him as his Community in Monterrey is out of water.

We took Nate and his family to Melodys Orphanage to deliver gifts to the kids there, and yes, we ate again. We drove to Progresso Mexico to get a few souvenirs and meds. Sunday church in McAllen, followed by some pool time for the kids. Yesterday was Padre Island day. Not my cup of tea, but the onshore breeze was refreshing. They leave today to continue thier time off. We sure enjoyed our time together, getting to know them better, and really appreciate the support that LaHarpe Christian Church sends every month.

We all need time away to refresh, and need to take that time, free from the guilt that often accompanies Pastors and Missionaries when we take time off. Jesus often stepped away from ministry to pray, and just get away.

The last several months have been a very stressful time for Jaime, Rosalba and the kids. After moving out of Angel's of God Orphanage that we all thought was the answer to prayer, they moved just a mile away to an old Orphanage that had been vacant for 3years. I knew of the facility and the ministry that owned it, and the owner agreed to let them live there for several months until they could find a new facility.

Long story short, they have moved back to their original place in Reynosa upon the owner of that property encouraging them to do so. We met a Pastor that has possession of a property that has plenty of room to build Melodys a new building or remodel an existing building. Several aand cres and a huge playground on site. We won't be moving forward with this until they have possession of legal papers giving them ownership of the property.

We held our monthly food outreach May 28th and met the needs of 100 families or so. This month we will have the pleasure of having Nate and Liz and their kids herch re. Nate pastors LaHarpe Christian Church and they wanted to finish thier sabbatical on a missions trip. Thier church has been a huge supporter of ours and before Covid sent teams every year to build houses and relationships with us and the people in the colonia. I believe that they are bringing hundreds of shoe box gifts that the people have donated.

I cant seem to access all my photos to show pictures of the facility in Reynosa, ill work on that. Thats for the prayers and support.

HIS STORY IN OUR LIVES

We moved to the TX/MX border in the Fall of '07 from Chicago, IL. We had been coming to Reynosa on short-term missions trips for over 10 years. Each time we left a little bit more of our hearts behind. Thru the circumstances of life Paula and I both agreed that now is the time to do that which gave us meaning and purpose in life. So we sold our home and came to the Rio Grand Valley at the southern most point of Texas. We have since joined with Mexico Missions Inc. to assist them with their childrens backpack programs in Mexico. Our mission is to reach the poorest of the poor in Mexico. We build homes, offer food and clothing to those in need, but most importantly we share the love and hope that is found in our Lord Jesus Christ. Living radical lives has expanded our vision and ministry from feeding hundreds of families to thousands.

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP US REACH OUT TO THOSE IN NEED

Our ministry is totally supported by people like you.Since we did not raise our needed support before entering the mission field we continue to walk by faith that God will speak to the hearts of those of you reading our blog and joining us on short term trips to Mexico to help us help our brothers and sisters in Reynosa. If you would like to contribute to us personally, sponsor a child to attend school, give to the building of a home for a needy family, or even have us facilitate a food outreach, contact us via E-mail or send checks made out to MEXICO MISSIONS INC. and mail to our new address, P.O. Box 68 San Juan, Tx. 78589. If you would like to support us personally, put B&P in the memo column. If you would like to sponsor a specific outreach, list that as well in the memo column. All gifts are tax deductable. Child school sponsorship $400.00 per year per child, a newly designed home can be built with some help from the people in Mx. for a gift of $3800.00 or any portion thereof until enough money is raised to build one. Many houses could just use new roofing and some other fixes to make them more habitable. God Bless You as you give.

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