Jesus Carranza

Here is Jesus Carranza! The Pastor here need your prayers. Their names are Laura and her husband Raudel. Jesus Carranza is growing but we pray that 2012 is their year! Here are a few xmas pictures of the church during the giving of food bags and kids receiving their presents.

El Millon

These pictures were taken of the activies at El Millon. Food bags were given out on Friday nigth and during the day different family would come to the dorms and were given out christmas presents. Please continue to keep El Millon in your prayers.

The pastors here are Jesus and Claudia Rodriguez

And our Agua Viva family keeps on growing....

We had such a great team this Christmas. A total of 11 came, 7 we already knew and where happy to see them again. 4 came for the first time but quickly became part of the "Agua Viva" family. David and Doris where in charge of this team and they did a great job, it also helped that they spoke spanish and where able to understand my dad. Just the fact that these 11 came down to Ciudad Juarez meant a lot. They didn't have to even do anything because just seeing them lifted our spirits. But they did work. they handed out food bags and gifts. They also visited some homes and pray and sang christmas songs. They also and most importantly for Pastor Francisco is that they played mexican uno, so you could imagine how loud that dorms were.

Thank you guys for coming...we shall see you soon! GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

October 31st

October 31st, we open the church in the valley of Juarez and had a par-tay for the kids! Jesus Carranza and Riveras had a kids services and afterwards had a small refreshments for them. Here are some pictures of both night in the both places.

In Jesus Carranza! Pajama night

Same night at Riveras

Happy Thanksgiving in El Millon!

Here are a few pictures of Thanksgiving in El Millon. We celebrated thanksgiving a saturday before thanksgiving. In Mexico people don't celebrate Thanksgiving but when they heard that we where having turkey everyone said "THANK YOU!" We had a good saturday enjoying great american food and mexican rice! Enjoy the pictures while we enjoyed the food. YUMM!

This young girl is Karla and she is 12 years old. This is her story:

About two months ago she started to have seizures. Her family took her to the hospital and the doctors told her that she had a heart problem and started her on meds for her heart. Her family notice that the meds where not doing anything and only made her have more seizures. After a few days of taking the meds they went to the hospital during a seizure. She was admitted to the hospital and was continue on the meds. After a few days the doctors couldn't figure out what was going on and was transported to Durango(12hours from Juarez) to another hospital. At this hospital they found out what happen. Karla never had heart problems and the meds that were given to her only made her worst. She has something wrong with a part of her brain. But here is the interesting part. She tells us that on her way back home from Durango on the bus she had another seizure. during her seizure she remembers saying "God, if you are real, let me see you". She saids that at that time she feels a soft hand on her cheek and then sees and bright white light. She said it was so bright she couldn't see his face only his gold sandals. Last week she was admitted in the hospital again and was on life support. She saids that when she was in bed she saw again a bright white light and a voice saying "I don't want you here yet, I will pick you up from the bed and you will be ok". It has been a week and she hasn't had any seizures, when before she would have them daily. We praise God for what she is doing in Karla's life but also pray for her. Will you help us pray for her?

Praying at the sand dunes during the early morning!

What should their name be?

The church in El Millon has a baseball team, thanks to a blessing of lots of bats, gloves, balls and helmets. The team is being lead by Xavier Ramirez. There first game was at the anniversary of El Millon and they played against "los texanos" a great team. The team in El Millon had only practice twice and they won!!! 12- 2 all the kids where so happy and not to mention Xavier. They really didn't a great job and was super fun to watch. On a funny note: a lady on the other team was saying nasty things about our kids when another lady told her to "shut up because they are the brothers and they are going to give us a food bag this year"! love it!

Our question for you is: what should their name be? what cha think?