If God wills, we leave for Mexico on Tuesday, February 16th. We fly Southwest from Philadelphia to San Antonio, TX. This trip we are using the home of Nadine and her husband Miguel as our hub. From S.A. we must take a bus to Jerez. We plan to visit Lois Raser for a week. Then it’s off to Celaya to visit Pablo, Niky and children for a week before trekking off on our walkabout through Mexico to visit friends and do some teaching at the three Bible school campuses.
In the American Peace Corps I was taught to be flexible and that word defines
our 8-week trip to Mexico. No firm schedule because beginning in March it will depend on dates
Dr. Esparza wishes me to teach. I know, I know, most people pull out their hair if they are not given a hard and fast schedule of dates and places and work assignments. But our assignments in Mexico are only bookended by the dates on our airplane tickets. Once I met an itinerant wanderer who belonged to a group who communicated with notes left in a tree: a message in a park or a word-of-mouth invitation in the mouth of a wayside peddler. We are more sophisticated travelers than that; we do have cell numbers and email addresses and a blog site you can hit to keep up with our meanderings. They are as follows:
Email: noasark747@yahoo.com
Blog site: xanga.com/royalroad
Lois Raser’s cell #: 01-52-494-947-1474
So you see we won’t be completely incognito. Some enterprises we hope to undertake:
• Visit Lois Raser for 3-weeks in Jerez. Show Jesus Film in villages and mission sites like the villages of Susticacan, El Chiquiuite and Jomoquillo. Teach at Bible School.
• Visit Pastor Pablo and Niky and children in Celaya. Show Jesus Film.
• Visit Pastor Hector and family in Nacaxa for 2-weeks. Show Jesus Film in surrounding villages throughout the mountains and at the orphanage. Teach at the Indian Bible School in
La Sierra.
• Teach on the main campus of the Bible Institute in Mexico City.
• Visit John Pendleton, creationist who teaches/lectures on creation in Zacatecas
You can find him at www. creacionistas.com
Our trip centers around teaching, showing the Jesus Film and visiting friends who will be involved in our work. Last February we did not go to Jerez to visit Lois Raser and friends, so this is our major destination. Lois is 82-years old and we want to spend as much time with her as possible. While in Jerez we will stay in the home of a mutual friend named Joan, who is a member of Lois’s Scrabble Club. This club meets weekly on Friday to play, chat and eat and is one of the bright days in Lois’s schedule. Jerez is our favorite place in Mexico but since the drug cartel Zeta took over the city it has become dangerous. Please pray for Lois’s safety and ours as we move among the villages in the Valley of Jerez, in the town and on the roads to the cities of Zacatecas and Fresnillo where Ruth and I worked and traveled in past years. Inner mountain back roads to villages can be quite dangerous but they are the locations where we wish to show the Jesus Film.
We hope to be in Mexico from February 19th to April 12th. We will be taking a bus from San Antonio across the border into Mexico and then on to Zacatecas/Jerez. Our main mode of transportation will be by bus, the metro in Mexico City, and some private vehicles. We want to do whatever the Lord permits, trusting him for protection and deliverance from evil. We know we can only make this trip,” if the Lord wills.” Please keep us in your prayers.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Gone to Manana Land
"It's time!"
"It's time for what?" my wife Ruth asked.
"It's time to begin to think about returning to Manana Land."
"Oh, you mean Mexico?"
Ah. and so I do.
It seems we are always either comin' or goin', as if Mexico were the center of our universe. And so it might seem.
The older I get, the oftener I find myself in Eccl.12. A trip to Mexico seems more intimidating. The "what if's", loom larger.
It becomes more difficult to come to a decision. Should we go, or stay? What about ...?
And then I think about my open invitation to teach at the Bible Institute, "whenever you are in Mexico", as Dr. Esparza put it.
And we think of Lois Raser, our Mexican mentor. Of Hecor and Pablo and Rosario and their families. "Your grandchildren send their greetings and ask, "when are the abulitos coming?" Hector informs me in a letter. "Will abilito Carlos walk me to school?" Jaci asks her father Pablo. Who could turn down an invitation like that?
Myron and Ruth possible schedule
Arrive in Jerez between Feb. 8-13 … visit Lois through the weekend and leave Jerez on Feb. 17th to go to Celaya to visit Pablo. The climate in Celaya is warm, sunny and pleasant in February. Pablo and Niky pastor a small church in the garage of their house. We could stay in their guest bedroom. Would be with them perhaps a week.
Leave Celaya somewhere around Feb. 24th , and take a bus to Mexico City. Spend the weekend with Rosario and her husband David.
Hector picks us up in his car on March 1-2 and drives us to Nacaxa. This is a 3 ½ hour drive. Necaxa is SE of M.C. at an elevation of around 7,000 feet. Hector and Maricela pastor a church in Nacaxa. The church is located at the gate leading into the denominational orphanage. We would spend 2-weeks with Hector.
Return to M.C. where Myron would teach his Death and Dying course at the main campus.
When this is completed, we would take a bus back to Jerez and spend a few weeks with Lois and friends. March 25th to April 6th. We want to be in Jerez for Easter and for the annual farm fair.
While in Jerez Rosario and David would come to Jerez to talk to Joan about the possibility of migrating to Canada
April 6-7th, return to USA
We are told in the Book of James, (4:13-15) to say, "If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that." And in this light we make tentative plans to travel to Mexico. We invite you to pray for us.
Keep tuned for updates.
"It's time for what?" my wife Ruth asked.
"It's time to begin to think about returning to Manana Land."
"Oh, you mean Mexico?"
Ah. and so I do.
It seems we are always either comin' or goin', as if Mexico were the center of our universe. And so it might seem.
The older I get, the oftener I find myself in Eccl.12. A trip to Mexico seems more intimidating. The "what if's", loom larger.
It becomes more difficult to come to a decision. Should we go, or stay? What about ...?
And then I think about my open invitation to teach at the Bible Institute, "whenever you are in Mexico", as Dr. Esparza put it.
And we think of Lois Raser, our Mexican mentor. Of Hecor and Pablo and Rosario and their families. "Your grandchildren send their greetings and ask, "when are the abulitos coming?" Hector informs me in a letter. "Will abilito Carlos walk me to school?" Jaci asks her father Pablo. Who could turn down an invitation like that?
Myron and Ruth possible schedule
Arrive in Jerez between Feb. 8-13 … visit Lois through the weekend and leave Jerez on Feb. 17th to go to Celaya to visit Pablo. The climate in Celaya is warm, sunny and pleasant in February. Pablo and Niky pastor a small church in the garage of their house. We could stay in their guest bedroom. Would be with them perhaps a week.
Leave Celaya somewhere around Feb. 24th , and take a bus to Mexico City. Spend the weekend with Rosario and her husband David.
Hector picks us up in his car on March 1-2 and drives us to Nacaxa. This is a 3 ½ hour drive. Necaxa is SE of M.C. at an elevation of around 7,000 feet. Hector and Maricela pastor a church in Nacaxa. The church is located at the gate leading into the denominational orphanage. We would spend 2-weeks with Hector.
Return to M.C. where Myron would teach his Death and Dying course at the main campus.
When this is completed, we would take a bus back to Jerez and spend a few weeks with Lois and friends. March 25th to April 6th. We want to be in Jerez for Easter and for the annual farm fair.
While in Jerez Rosario and David would come to Jerez to talk to Joan about the possibility of migrating to Canada
April 6-7th, return to USA
We are told in the Book of James, (4:13-15) to say, "If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that." And in this light we make tentative plans to travel to Mexico. We invite you to pray for us.
Keep tuned for updates.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Being A Sojourner
Psalm 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
The concept of being a Sojourner is a Biblical theme that follows us through the O.T. into the New. Our forefather Adam, became a sojourner when he was put out of the Garden of Eden after he sinned. Father Abraham left Ur as a wanderer. Jesus walked the hills of Galilee as an itinerant preacher, never owning even a tent.
And we? Well, we own our our lands and estates, our cars and vans that would make Jehu envious, and our wardrobes and dozen pair of shoes as a noose around our neck. If we were called to leave "this place," how long would it take us to pack?
I am afraid we would answer Jesus as those called to the feast in Lu 14:16-20 ... (18) And they all with one consent began to make excuse.....
What is your excuse not to be a sojourner?
If you claim to be one, what is your proof?
The concept of being a Sojourner is a Biblical theme that follows us through the O.T. into the New. Our forefather Adam, became a sojourner when he was put out of the Garden of Eden after he sinned. Father Abraham left Ur as a wanderer. Jesus walked the hills of Galilee as an itinerant preacher, never owning even a tent.
And we? Well, we own our our lands and estates, our cars and vans that would make Jehu envious, and our wardrobes and dozen pair of shoes as a noose around our neck. If we were called to leave "this place," how long would it take us to pack?
I am afraid we would answer Jesus as those called to the feast in Lu 14:16-20 ... (18) And they all with one consent began to make excuse.....
What is your excuse not to be a sojourner?
If you claim to be one, what is your proof?
Saturday, January 2, 2010
God Bless Your New Year / 2010
Ruth and I greeted the Sandman at his usual time on New Year's Eve, no special accommodation for him. If rowdy neighbors exploded firecrackers or shot off a pistol at the midnight hour, we were oblivious to their celebration. Walking in dreamland down some ancient path, under a new year's eve blue moon, blessed my slumber-time. And do you know, we won't see another blue moon like it for nineteen years? By then I will be in heaven, O glorious thought.
If the Lord tarries and permits us to go, we hope to journey to Mexico in February. I am looking at a teaching assignment which may likely take me to the three campuses of the Bible Institute: Mexico city, Jerez and La Sierra, the Otomi Indian Bible school. At present we are trying to determine the best route to take to Jerez: fly to San Antonio, TX. and take a bus, fly into Mexico City and backtrack to Jerez by bus or go from M.C. to Celaya where the clime is grand in the winter. Rosario's birthday is on February 20, so we must be in M.C. for that celebration. Escaping the winter here in the states would be a bonus.
Would welcome your prayers for our travel plans. Will keep you posted.
We wish you all a blessed year full of happiness and health. Let us remember Jeremiah 29:11.
C.M. and Ruth
If the Lord tarries and permits us to go, we hope to journey to Mexico in February. I am looking at a teaching assignment which may likely take me to the three campuses of the Bible Institute: Mexico city, Jerez and La Sierra, the Otomi Indian Bible school. At present we are trying to determine the best route to take to Jerez: fly to San Antonio, TX. and take a bus, fly into Mexico City and backtrack to Jerez by bus or go from M.C. to Celaya where the clime is grand in the winter. Rosario's birthday is on February 20, so we must be in M.C. for that celebration. Escaping the winter here in the states would be a bonus.
Would welcome your prayers for our travel plans. Will keep you posted.
We wish you all a blessed year full of happiness and health. Let us remember Jeremiah 29:11.
C.M. and Ruth
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