McDonald
in Mexico update! March 2014
Hello Ministry Partners~
Just wanted to give you a brief update
on how things are going down here in Mexico!
This Christmas we had an excellent
ministry season as we hosted a couple short-term ministry teams that
worked with some of the pastors we love and serve! Christmas day we
went out with the team as a family and helped serve a Christmas
dinner to 70+ people who had noone to share Christmas with. It was an
honour to be there. I highly recommend something like that for your
own Christmas~! Jesus' love was proclaimed and demonstrated!
I had the opportunity to teach in our
Bible Training Center for Pastors and Leaders as a substitute teacher
for a few weeks. It was great to get back connecting in that way
again. These days I do more pastoring of the teachers than teaching
in this ministry. It was a blessing to be able to share from God's
Word again with these eager students! We have 4 classes with about
70 students currently learning in several different communities
around our city.
I'm again teaching two classes at the
Bible Institute in Ensenada, 1 hour south of us. I'm teaching
Cross-cultural Missions in a class of 38 and Exodus to a smaller
class of 7. I'm enjoying both classes! I have built several good
relationships with many grads from the college and continue in
contact with them as they are beginning life in the ministry.
I have been asked to teach a group of
pastors and teachers in Honduras this year for a week as well. I'm
hoping we can fit that into a busy schedule. I love serving these
hungry and humble pastors and leaders as we spend time exploring the
Scriptures together! Please pray for God's guidance, direction and
provision in this venture. I will most likely try to take a former
student with me to serve together.
We continue to have good relationships
with the 18 or so pastors that we have identified as strategic
partners in the area. I have a great group of guys working with me to
shepherd these men of God as well as help organize our other
ministries that serve these leaders.
Shar and the kids are all doing well.
We are having our most successful year yet in homeschool as the 2
older boys are enrolled in on online school. They are excelling in
that atmosphere! Jacob will be old enough to start the Jr. High
portion of that school next year. Please pray for God's continued
provision for our kids schooling! With the current exchange rate and
taxes and missionary discount, each child's
tuition is about CDN$3600.
I (Mike) will be back in
Saskatchewan for a fundraiser from April 23-28. The Fundraiser is
Friday April 25th at 6pm
at the Brian King Center in Warman. We will be having
perogies and farmer sausage and a presentation on our ministry! This
is our only fundraiser of the year, and the money goes to support the
ongoing ministries of YUGO with pastors and churches including:
Feeding children, ministry in prison, pastors and leaders
training and an emergency benevolence fund for pastors and their
families. Please consider coming out to support this
aspect of our ministry and bring some friends who may be interested
in good food, good fellowship and an opportunity to bless the poor!
Thanks for praying with us and
partnering with us! We are blessed by your financial and prayer
partnership with us in this ministry! We pray that you are blessed at
least as much as you are a blessing!
