Hello to all!
As I ponder the words of Charles Spurgeon:
… “The limitless fullness of His all-sufficiency is as free to the believer as the air he breathes. Christ has put the cup of His love and grace to the believer’s lip and invites him to drink of it forever; if he could empty it, he is welcome to do so, but as he cannot exhaust it, he is invited to drink abundantly, for it is all his own. What truer proof of fellowship can heaven or earth provide?”
I can’t help but think of how much GRACE He gives me, and how I want every day to be more of Him and less of me!
This month has been, once again, a fruitful, satisfying one with lots of activities as well as rest and relaxation. My family took me to Laguna Beach to dinner for my birthday and surprised me with a cell phone! I haven’t had a cell phone for a long time, so now I am able to communicate with my family more often, which is important and necessary. It was such a blessing to spend time with my family!
We were honored once again, to go to the Children’s Hospital in Tijuana and give gifts to the sick children there. This time was very different, as I have built a relationship with the director of social services, Cany Lopez. She allows us to go into the rooms and pray with the parents and sick children. This is not a Christian hospital, and this is not ordinarily allowed! At the end of our visit, she pointed to me and said, “okay, you and one other can go into this room and pray with these people who have terminally ill children that will not make it through the night!” It was literally a broom closet, so incredibly small where five parents were waiting for us. I was speechless and began to pray to the Lord to give me words for these broken-hearted moms and dads. (There really are no words), but the Lord gave me words of encouragement and Juanita and I prayed for them and they received it and one lady even re-dedicated her life to the Lord. There were many tears, as you can imagine, and as we were leaving, they were wheeling in beds of children and there were no more rooms available so they had to be in the hallway! I, along with the teachers, am blessed that the Lord has opened this door for us to be able to minister and evangelize and I pray that this will continue.
For Father’s Day, we had our very first pancake breakfast for all the dads in our church. This was extremely effective in getting the dads there as we gave the kids invitations the week before, and a few dads came for the very first time to our church! The kids set up and decorated the patio and when the fathers came out of service their child took them to the table, sat with them, and made their faces with pancakes using cut strawberries, bananas, whip cream, and m&m’s for the eyes, nose, mouth, and hair. It was very nice and we hope to do this every year. A big blessing was that the kids whose fathers aren’t in their lives adopted “dads” from the church for that day who are not able to see their own kids for reasons of deportation, etc. so the kids were blessed and the dads were blessed, as this day, like many holidays, can be very sad for some.
Thanks to all of you for your continued prayers and support for us in Tijuana. I wouldn’t want to even attempt to do any of this without prayer, so I really do cherish them!
