THE LATEST, FROM CALVARY CHAPEL PEDREGALES AND TIJUANA
Hello to all!
Well, these months are just flying by! It seems that I am always apologizing for being so late in writing my monthly (well, it has lately become my bi-monthly) updates. I am sorry, again, for the lateness of this newsletter!
Every month seems to be a holiday or an event of some kind that we are doing here, and May and June brought us Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. We always like to do something special, as we have so many kids who come alone to church and these events bring their parents out, so we like to take advantage of that and share the gospel with them.
We had a wonderful Mother’s Day tea for all the moms of our church. We decorated the church so beautiful and really wanted them to feel special. They enjoyed a great meal, with candles and flowers, and some games, (like “How well do you know your Mother)?” with the kids, and then the kids left and had fun while the mom’s heard the Word of God taught by a sister from our Tijuana church. It was a very special evening.
Pictured with me here is Cynthia’s daughter. Cynthia was in the youth program here at church when I was the youth leader years ago. She is not attending church now, but her older daughter, Lupita comes to my class on Wed. nights She did come to the Mother’s Day tea, and I know that God will bring her back one day.
After Mother’s Day was Memorial Day. Now I know you are thinking that Memorial Day is an American holiday! Well, we have so many friends living here that have been deported, and others that we decided to make this an annual event. So we had our very first Memorial Day celebration here at CC Pedregales. (Here in Mexico, we just look for a reason to get together and eat), and boy did we eat!! We had a fun time fellowshipping, playing games, basketball, and the kids really had fun with water balloons.
Next, came Father’s Day. We held our second annual Pancake Breakfast. The children all worked together to prepare, decorate, serve, and then clean up. We gave them all pancakes with lots of different things to decorate them with. The 
kids made their dad’s faces using whip cream, m&m’s cut up strawberries and bananas. It was a nice intimate time for only the dads and their kids, (no moms were allowed). What is great about this event, is that we get to meet many of the kids’ fathers for the first time! There are some dad’s here at the church that don’t have 
their children with them, and some kids that don’t have their fathers with them, so they “adopt” a child or a dad for the day and it works out very nicely. One of the moms told me that her husband was not going to come, and so his daughters told him that they were going to have to adopt a dad then, and so he came!!
Our music school on Saturdays is going very well. I have approximately 10 piano students and they are learning fast! We know that these kids will be our next worship leaders one day, and we are planning to 
go and support outreaches with these kids playing the instruments and singing.
At present, we are preparing for our Mission’s trip to Guadalajara and then on to Mexico City for the annual Pastor’s / Mission’s conference. We will be doing the “Fiesta de Libertad” Crusade in Guadalajara on July 11th . There are 33 of us going from our two churches. We are praying for lasting fruit as the gospel goes out on July 11th. We will be gone for two weeks and covet your prayers for traveling mercies, protection, unity and harmony among all of us, and for good health! I leave on July 4th and return on July 19th. Lord bless you all and thanks once again for your prayers and donations. Happy fourth of July to my fellow Americans!!
PRAISE REPORTS:
I have some very exciting news! Our assistant pastor, Federico and his wife Nena were approved for their visas yesterday!!!!! We have been praying hard for this, and once again, God came through. This will be so helpful now, as Federico will be able to help cross the donations, food, and even visit the different Calvary Chapels!
Also, our brothers at the ranch were funded for satellite and they will now have internet access there. This is something that was so needed for them, so we are rejoicing with them, and thanking Jesus for His great provisions.