Home at last

We have been home now for about two weeks. We are grateful for the protection the Lord gave us during our time away. We traveled about 9,037 miles during our time away. Our van did wonderfully, and, as we explained before, the Lord provided in a marvelous way for our financial needs. Thank you for praying for us.

We are busily preparing for the next school year. Because of government regulations (changes they have made in our calendar year), we are starting our school year in three different waves this year. The first wave (a small group) begins classes on August 18^th (these are the students that are still in the semester program). The next wave comes in on August 25^th. Those would be the Pastoral Theology and Church Music students. Finally, the largest group of students will arrive on September 8^th (the trimester students). We will be having in-service the week before that. We also will be having some strategic planning meetings with our key personnel on August 28-29. Pray for our students and staff this year. Many of our students and staff will be having year-around school. This is because of what the government has done. Pray that we will have wisdom and strength to last!

Yesterday we started a three-day VBS at our mission. We had a good turnout (approximately 60 kids). We were really excited about how the Lord controlled the weather for us. Without explaining all the meteorological conditions of Monterrey, let’s just say that it should have been raining where we were. But the Lord held it off until right at the end (and even then it didn’t rain hard). At one point, it was raining on the front of the property (where we have a tin roof) where one class was going on, but was not raining on the other side of the house (where there is no roof). This lasted for about 15 minutes or so. Right when the teacher finished the lesson it finally started raining in the back! Only the Lord could do that. He manifests His greatness in so many ways