Update from Mexico

Dear Friends and Family,

Hoping everyone is doing well by the grace of God. It has been a long time since we have sent you any information of the work that we are doing here in Oaxaca Mexico. We like to thank God for allowing us to do the work that we are doing here at the mountain of Oaxaca for the past three years.

Last year we got the chance to start building a place for the brothers of Morelos, a place where we will be able to get together and have reunions and do different activities for the glory of God. A friend whose name is Ryan Lewis from Hawley, Minnesota, that spent time with me in prison, came to visit us last year. We got the chance to spend some time together with the brothers of the villages. I talked to him about the possibility to do something for the brothers of Morelos. We felt that God wanted us to build this place for us to be able to have reunions and a carpenter shop for the brothers and to do others activities.  Ryan and I started praying that God would open a door for us, if this will be to glorify Him. Thanks to God, He opened the door for us to be able to work with the brothers of Hawley Alliance Church.  The brothers from Hawley have been providing the money for the construction and they will be coming to Oaxaca, Mexico to do the construction work on March 1st. Please pray for all the brothers that will be coming to Oaxaca, Mexico, for this project, that God will protect and open their way for them.  My family and I also want to thank this church for the donation that you have given us for the ministry and for all your prayers and we thank you for helping the church of Oaxaca, Mexico.

We want to thank God because we were able to help my grandma on her last days of her life.  In December, my family called me to let me know that my grandma was really old and that the time for her to be with the Lord was close.  My wife and I prayed and felt that it would be good for her and for us to be able to go to the state of Michoacan and spend time with her and take care of her during her last days.  So I talked to Dave about the idea for us to go and help my grandma, and he told me that may be a good testimony for us to do.  So he gave me the ok for us to take a trip and spend the month of December and part of January. We were able to talk to her about God and spend time with her thanks to your help, support, and prayers. She died the 30th of December. She was able to see all her family together before she left to be with God. We pray that this will be an opportunity for us to talk to our family about the good news of God.

This year we started receiving the love and blessings of our God. We were praying for God to provide a new pickup for Pastor Fili, and thanks to the donation from Hawley Alliance Church we were able to buy a better truck for Pastor.  He is really thankful to God and to you for thinking about him and providing a new truck for the work that he is doing here at the mountain of Oaxaca, Mexico. He wanted me to let you know that he is praying for you and all the pastors from the US asking God that one day we will be all together in heaven with our God.

Please keep praying for the brothers of the mountains here in Oaxaca, Mexico, and pray for the team that is coming from Hawley. We thank you because without you it would be more difficult to do the work that we are doing.  Our prayer is that He will keep opening doors for us to be able to bring the good news of Jesus to all the people that come across us, may the Lord bless you and keep you safe from the evil.