Busy, busy....

Hornbrooks and Whitchers at the "Floating Gardens"


Natural life at the gardens


Nicole and I with Peggy Whitcher



We have been pretty busy this past week. Over the weekend we had our first outing with the youth. We took them bowling! Many of the kids had never bowled before. That's pretty hard to believe. Bowling in a group makes it a very affordable activity. The kids got to bowl two games, their shoes were included, for $4.50!! Very reasonable. They then went to Burger King and got a meal pac that cost $2.50! Sam then treated the kids with icecream!!! Natalie had a b-ball game before the bowling activity. So we were running, running! Natalie's team won their game and Natalie had 11 points! Not bad since she hadn't played a game since June.

On Sunday we had a great day here at Nueva Vida! 54 folks were in attendance!!!!!! We have added a new family and we had another visiting family on Sunday!!!!!! Pray for Ramon and Wendy and their two kids. Wendy has come to church a couple of times but her husband hasn't shown any interest. Ramon commented on Sunday that he had decided that Nueva Vida is where he should be on Sundays and plans to attend regularly!!! Praise the Lord!!!!!

After everyone left here on Sunday we zipped over to another sister church's anniversary celebration. We got caught in very bad traffic along the way. Two of the most famous soccer teams in Mexico were playing each other Sunday late afternoon and we were right in the middle of it. We arrived in time to eat and visit a little with the folk before we turned around and came home. To give you an idea of the traffic. It took us an hour and a half to go 32 miles. Normally it takes an hour.

Monday we spent the day with former missionaries, Dan and Peggy Whitcher. Dan is now the director of church planting in the States for BMM. We spent many Mondays playing Skipbo with this couple when they were on the field. It was fun to take a boat ride at Xochimilco with them. It was pretty chilly but we were able to relax and enjoy all the greenery.

This week we have been finishing up details for our Christmas Program. This year I wrote the drama. We've had a hard time finding drama/musicals for our size of congregation. Last year Sam wrote up a drama based on the story of the candy cane. This year we've developed a story line on the shepherds. We plan to have a new boomwhacker choir as well as have the youth also sing a special. We will have a children's bell choir and voice choir. We are still debating but will probably have an adult choir as well!

Please pray for our little church as we prepare for our Christmas Special!