Hi Everyone! Forgive me that there has been so much time between updates. Life has been routine the last few weeks as school is near summer break. Graduation will be this weekend with many of the classes preparing for that. In the meantime, the Directors, Pastors and church leaders have been preparing for the Pastor's conference that Pan de Vida will host July 9-11. This means I will soon have much to post about, other than that, it the routine life of keeping everything running.
One new change at Pan de Vida is that we are now more involved with the direct ministry at Dulce Refugio in Aguascalientes. Marce, the director at Dulce Refugio, decided that she would like for the kids to have spiritual guidance through church formation and development. Each weekend, one of the Pastors or church leaders from Pan de Vida, travel to Aguascalientes to now do these services. In addition to that, they lead a Saturday night devotional and adult Sunday School class. Two or three of the older youth from Pan de Vida usually go as well to help with worship time and teach in the Sunday School classes.
This past weekend, Paco and Elena traveled to Dulce Refugio. Paco did a service about the consequence and remedy of sin incorporating some visuals for the kids to relate to. Marce feels that with the move to the new site soon, she wanted to be prepared as well to have a more structured Church so she could welcome people from the community to come learn and attend.
As both Orphanages spiritually grow, Ira and I know the importance of speaking Spanish has become necessary. We have come a long way in 2 years but still need to fine tune this. We are now in the planning stages to attend an in depth, 1 month power study language school, hopefully in October. We know that knowing the language is key to growing into Christian mentorship. The kids are great and have adapted very well to our "Spanglish" but as things revolve with volunteers, the more we need to make this a priority. Please keep us in prayer as we enter this phase of ministry.
1 Corinthians 2:12 We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
One new change at Pan de Vida is that we are now more involved with the direct ministry at Dulce Refugio in Aguascalientes. Marce, the director at Dulce Refugio, decided that she would like for the kids to have spiritual guidance through church formation and development. Each weekend, one of the Pastors or church leaders from Pan de Vida, travel to Aguascalientes to now do these services. In addition to that, they lead a Saturday night devotional and adult Sunday School class. Two or three of the older youth from Pan de Vida usually go as well to help with worship time and teach in the Sunday School classes.
This past weekend, Paco and Elena traveled to Dulce Refugio. Paco did a service about the consequence and remedy of sin incorporating some visuals for the kids to relate to. Marce feels that with the move to the new site soon, she wanted to be prepared as well to have a more structured Church so she could welcome people from the community to come learn and attend.
As both Orphanages spiritually grow, Ira and I know the importance of speaking Spanish has become necessary. We have come a long way in 2 years but still need to fine tune this. We are now in the planning stages to attend an in depth, 1 month power study language school, hopefully in October. We know that knowing the language is key to growing into Christian mentorship. The kids are great and have adapted very well to our "Spanglish" but as things revolve with volunteers, the more we need to make this a priority. Please keep us in prayer as we enter this phase of ministry.
1 Corinthians 2:12 We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
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