We are leaving on Wednesday July 16 to visit missionaries in Mexico. We are traveling by car and will be gone about two weeks.
This is our itinerary so far. On the way down we plan to visit Peter & Louise Hiebert. Louise is my cousin. Some of you will remember them from their time in our church. They live in Tigertown, Texas.
From there we will drive to the EMC Guest House in El Paso, Texas. We hope to arrive there on Saturday evening.
Elma Janzen, our adopted missionary, will meet us there. On Sunday we will attend church with her in Jaurez, Mexico which is just over the river from El Paso. They have asked me to give a report. This will be done with an interpreter as this is a Spanish church. I'll also be showing pictures of our church and community via PowerPoint, would you believe?
On Monday we will travel with Elma to Santo Thomas where the Spanish churches have a camp. We will be helping out as they conduct a youth camp from Tuesday to Saturday. Santo Thomas is about 600 kilometers south of Jaurez. While at the camp we will be meeting another EMC missionary Alvira Friesen who serves nearby in Cuauhtemac.
We have also arranged to visit John & Lorna Wall who work on a Mennonite settlement. We look forward to seeing what that is all about. Should be interesting.
There may be a few other stops or visits that will be arranged later but this is what is planned so far. If all goes well, we will be starting back for Steinbach on Monday, July 28.
Please pray for us as we travel and especially that we can be of encouragement to Elma and our brothers and sisters in Christ in Mexico.
