We helped Oscar in picking up some metal roofing pieces for the pastor of the Methodist church. It had been paid for by a team that was here awhile ago, but they had no way to haul it.

Wednesday's service at Centro Cristiano was multi cultural. There were 2 teams at Casa de Esperanza here. One from Minnesota and one from Canada. A Spanish-English service. Beautiful worship music.

We went out to the village of Los Cerritos one afternoon this last week.
Ramon and Petra's tomatoes. The plants were covered with green tomatoes. 

Aaron and Adela's future dinner!
 He was tied around one of the fruit trees and they move him from tree to tree.
 What a way to fertilize! He liked having his ears scratched.

 DeColores!
 Tonight's sunset. Please take time to soak in the beauty of the creation around us.
We love you and miss you.
 Be blessed! 

Another week has gone by since our last post. It has been a busy week, although I haven't taken much for pictures. We have attended the Saturday night service for 2 weeks at San Carlos Community Church. It is an English speaking church and has been a very welcomed worship time for us. We met the pastor who serves there last winter at the Dream Center. He asked us where we were from and when we told him he laughed out loud. He and his wife lived in Estherville for a number of years. Small world!

We reunited with David, the gentleman who was on the bus with us last winter when we had the small accident. David is from Texas, has a place in San Carlos, and a boat. So guess who finally is going fishing? They left early this morning to head out on the big water to try their luck at catching yellowfin tuna! I see the camera sitting here, so I hope that David has one for when "the big fish" is caught.

The village of Los Cerritos church. The van has made its way out there a couple of times. All of the equipment and people going from the city fit in one vehicle. What a blessing! 

The first Saturday night that we attended church in San Carlos was a recognition for all of the missionaries that the church supports. The missionaries have many different services in the surrounding area here. When those in attendance went to the front of the church, there were 36, and they weren't all there that evening!

Go Cyclones!
 Notice his cap. this is Angel, Socorro's grandson.

We went to Casa de Esperanza a day this past week to see if we could be of any help.
 Jeff got to do a bit of plumbing work, which he enjoyed helping with.  

Socorro giving out some clothing at this weeks Dream Center.

The moon was incredible out at the village, the biggest yellow moon that I think I have ever seen.
 Petra told me that it was luna de queso, or something like that.

Rosca

This Techi, the woman that we rent our house from. The bread is called Rosca. January 6th is called Dia de Reyes. Day of the Kings. It is celebrated as the day that the wisemen came to see the baby Jesus. It custom to serve this bread on that day. The bread is a sweet bread with cinnamon, dates, and a jelly like topping. Baked inside the bread is a small baby like toy, maybe more than one. If your piece of the bread contains the baby, you are required to make the tamales for Febraury 2nd. I'm not sure what the celebration on that day is, but will let you know when I figure it out! I don't think it is the groundhog!

The baby.

I got not just one slice with the baby in it, but 3 out of  3 different loaves of this Rosca. I don't have any idea how to make tamales. I'm sure that someone will teach me. I guess I shouldn't eat so much bread.



Centro de Suenos, Dream Center worship on Saturday. The location of this ministry has been changed as construction is going on in the previous location. I'm not sure if they will be able to return to that location. It really is a street ministry now.

Waiting in line for breakfast.

Breakfast.

One of the beautiful children at the Dream Center on Saturday.

Juanita ministers by cutting hair there.

One of Socorro's ministries is handing out some of donated clothing items at the Dream Center. She also prepares a huge kettle of frijoles and other food that is served.

Many caps were given out. A gift that the men are very grateful for.


The Dream Center ministry is every Saturday morning in Guaymas. It has been in action for more than nine years. Many of the people who have come to receive the word and the meal have received Jesus and are very active in the church. Fernando, who preached on Saturday, came to this ministry as one who came to the Dream Center hungry for both the Word and food a few years ago. The people there can relate to his teaching. 

Last year we visited Fatima, a small poor town adjoining Guaymas. There was a home being built for a Pastor and his family and also a medical team from Montana was there doing a free clinic. This is the church being built this year right next to the pastors home. The team that was working on the church the day that we visited were from Manitoba, Canada.
The mission group responsible for the construction is Casa de Esperanza San Carlos or Koenes Ministry, led by Brenda and Art Koenes. You can google this and check out their ministry. They are doing great work for the Lord all around this area. 

This is the completed Pastors home with the church being constructed right behind it. They have a growing ministry here, children's ministry and meal ministry. It was very exciting to see how much that has been done since last year.

It has been a busy 10 or so days here. Much time in worship, prayer meetings, and many activites with our church family here. We have traveled out to the village of Los Cerritos twice.
We attended a church service in San Carlos Saturday evening, we needed to worship in English. The church supports many missionaries seving in the area and they were recognized that evening. When they all gathered in the front of the church there were 36 people and that wasn't all of those supported. WOW! We were so grateful that we were led to attend the service.
God Bless You! Thanks for checking out our blog.

30 plus bags of clothing delivered to Centro Cristiano El Camino

Tuesday we delivered, sorted, and organized the many suitcases and bags of clothing that were donated and sent down here with us. Socorro is in charge of the clothing ministry and making sure that those with the most need get taken care of. She was overwhelmed by the amount of stuff that was there and all of the new items. It was a long, but wonderful day spent working with her, Myrna, and Franciso. Her small grandchildren were with us as well.
Myrna loves her new purple Okoboji t-shirt!

30 plus bags of clothing delivered to Centro Cristiano El Camino

Tuesday we delivered, sorted, and organized the many suitcases and bags of clothing that were donated and sent down here with us. Socorro is in charge of the clothing ministry and making sure that those with the most need get taken care of. She was overwhelmed by the amount of stuff that was there and all of the new items. It was a long, but wonderful day spent working with her, Myrna, and Franciso. Her small grandchildren were with us as well.
Myrna loves her new purple Okoboji t-shirt!

Buenos Dias!

We arrived in Guaymas safely last Thursday. The van and our little truck made it with no problems, except that it was quite cold traveling in the van with no heat. My driving skills were tested as I am not a city driver. Albuqurque, Tucson, Nogales, and Hermosillo caused a bit of nail chewing! PTL! we are here. We were greeted by our neighbors with huge hugs and a yummy cake with Welcome written on it. They are such a blessing to us. Communication is still a bit difficult, but we are working hard at it.

Today we are going to the church to unload the many suitcases and bags of clothing that we brought down, thanks to everyone's generous support. We have given some of the donations out already and they have been accepted most gratefully. We need to get the van out of the street in front of our house as the streets are quite narrow and we don't want it to get broken into. We will take it San Carlos where it can be placed in a fenced in and secure area until we can get the paperwork done for it.

It has been a busy few days here. Reuniting with our friends, Dream Center ministry on Saturday, services on Sunday, and many meals with friends. We got wifi in our house yesterday as the trip to McDonalds for wifi was not good. Our computor dumped and froze up, but thankfully Jeff was able to restore it with the long distance phone call to Judy. So much easier to computor onthe dining room table at home. Gotta go. Have a great day and God may bless you!