Mexico!!

We are here! We arrived in Mexico on Sunday. Three less students then when we started. One of the couples had to stay behind and start doing their outreach in Panama because Bertilia, the mother is seven months pregnant and not able to travel by plane. Also Salvador from El Salvador needed to stay behind and go to Costa Rica to start his outreach because they denied his visa for Mexico. So we are all praying for them.
One of the students: Roberto from Panama, was taken for questioning in immigration at the airport in Mexico. They didn't think he was Panamanian! For some reason they thought he was a Mexican. But they let him go and we are here and safe.
We are working with a man here, Chevy Cruz who is working with an Assembly of God church here. About six families have offered their hospitality and we have the student seperated into groups and staying with them. They give us breakfast and dinner everyday and take us to and from the church. If you think of it, please pray for them because they have really been a blessing to us. The family that Nathaniel and I are with have five children. We really have felt welcome.
Yesterday we worked with the Director of the YWAM Pachuca base in Mexico. The group did a program in a park and three people accepted Christ into their lives. In the afternoon we went to a small park where there are kids that live on the street. They do drugs, sniffing the plumbing glue among other things. We did a program for them and some dancing. The plan is to return on Thursday and bring them some lunches and then in the nightime go and do some ministry with prostitutes.
Please keep praying for our group. So far it has been a really good time and God has been working!

Well God is just so cool.

After praying more about the outreach our group really felt that we should be going to Mexico City first and then to Costa Rica. So we were worried about the plane tickets being more. But we had a prayer meeting with the students and we all prayed about how to raise support and we told them to pray about the airlines that they would be more helpful. (We had been trying to contact some airlines and they wouldn't write back or call).

About an hour or so after the meeting I got a call from the airline TACA! The lady was very helpful and she said, "You know what? There is actually a promotion that will start tomorrow for flights going from Panama to Mexico City. How interesting. I will call you and let you know a price."

So yesterday after the students took up an offering among themselves and raised almost $6,000 for outreach!!! they called and told me that the promotion was a 2 for 1 deal! So where we would have been paying $550 per person now we are paying $275. Multiply that by 20 and we saved like $5,000. Didn't I tell you? God is so cool! So now we are working on raising a little more money, we just need to raise $4,000 more. It's been really awesome to see how God is confirming this all. Maybe not all of our details are ready or figured out but God is really showing us that He is in control and He has his hand in this.