Circulo Adalante ..... Walking circle

This is an amazing ministry that has been happening for the last 5 years here in Tijuana, Mexico. It is something that has grown and grown over the years and has seen many children the ages of 3yrs to 14yrs old though over the years.

Susie has been running this every week, there are between 30-40 kids that come and they have activities crafts and learning activities, they learn to read books and learn how to spell and they also learn rules and boundaries for their lives and they learn how they are loved an accepted by Christ.

I have only been to this ministry about 10 times but for the last 4 weeks i have been attending and teaching the 6th Grade they are from 11yrs and up and there is about 30 of them, i have loved it so much we have been teaching them the redemptive steps of the old Testament!!

Its been so much fun and this last week i took them on a Exile walk, we did it very dramatically, i lined them up and we were very military style with them they had to hold a string and not let go, they had to be silent and just walk. I lead them through the streets and told them stories of what it was like for the Isrealities in Exile. Back in Exile the people were chained together and had fish hooks from lip to lip and they were to walk miles and miles, they were falsed to live in a pagan culture and they had to learn new languages and live in a very violent, inhuman way. In this time because God is great and loves his people he still sent them prophets who brought messages of Hope and promise. It was fun that we acted out this experience and the Kids loved it, the DTS students acted out scenes as the kids walked down the road.

It was so much, they really learnt that when they are going through hard, dark times that God is still with them and he is never going to leave them and he will always bring a message of Hope and Love for his people!!!

Circulo is an incredible ministry that is helping children to learn and be educated to a higher level and to bring in so many values to their lives.

When Circulo started in Antorcha the Colonia it has been in for 5 years, there were really poor houses, that were nearly standing, no constant electricity or water, but now it is a triving community that has electricity and water, that has some little shops, it is safer and it has many Homes Of Hope Houses. this community has been really transformed and now it is time for Circulo to move to another Colonia (Community) and to begin serving and seeing transformation in this new community!!!

This has become a real precious family environment.... for the kids to learn how to be take care of each other, love each other and be a real community!!

Words of Hope............

Words are powerful weather they are positive or negative right? They stick with us, they can help shape us and they can define us in a good way or in a bad way, this is why i am working in a project that is about sharing the word....


I know how much words can impact us so why not be sharing the truth, why not be sharing words that are going to change peoples hearts and minds and that are going to bring transformation in many many ways, not just in one person or one way but in peoples hearts being changed and this impacting many other hearts and communities and families too.

So right now I am working on a Project that has just began, basically on elf our bible teachers here has a vision of teaching and training the local churches up of how they can study the Bible Inductively. Its to encourage them to dig into the word which is the truth, to understand it for what it is and live it out and be changed from the inside out.

I am working on setting up this ministry, doing all the admin and organization for this so that we are recording numbers, progress and to know how we can best serve the community.

I am working on teaching too and have been recently teaching Ephesians for the last 4 weeks, it has been so good seeing how the people in the church are starting to learn and understand the text for what it meant to the Original readers who were living in the time of the letter, and then how that interoperation for then Original Audience can be applied for our lives today!!

We are doing group work in the churches are learning and an amazing students, so far we have been running this 12 week programme in 2 different churches. We will be staring a new school in January in another church and we have dreams of this project joining up with the Homes of Hope project too in the near future.

ENVIA.....

ENVIA?? What is this I hear you asking, well let me explain, I am going to do a few entries in this blog of my ministries that I am involved in right now, ENVIA is one of them that I am staffing!!

This is a 12 week school that is run 3 evenings a week here on the base in Tijuana, but it is for the local people who can do a DTS for 5 months. We meet these people through our family selection for Homes of Hope Ministry, we meet them in the Colonias when we do church visits and when we run weekly the Circulo kids ministries.

It is such a fun school, we have 15 people who come and they are all very lovely, we have a mixture of pastors and youth leaders and mums and dads from the Colonias (the poorer communities up in the Hills.

So Monday, Wednesday and Friday we drive our van up into the hills to pick up our friends and bring them back to the base for the classes. The classes run for 2.5 hours, which is a lot after they have done a whole days work and fed the kids and come out for the school, but this is how hungry people are to learn more of God and to grower stronger in him!! This for me is so humbling, i think of so many times that i would struggle going to a prayer meeting and i would have had a nice car to drive and nice food to eat and then go for a bit and then come home, but sometimes that was a real effort, but each one of the students work like a 10hour day for not much money at all, have their families to try and feed and take care of and because they live in wooden, or boarded little houses that are more like a garden shed, they are cleaning every day too, and they are so excited for the classes..!! It humbles me!!

We are seeing people grow and get new revelations, one man and his wife have been in a very difficult time, where 2 months ago their father died and then 1 month ago their baby died, so they have had a very difficult time but they are still running towards God and taking on ll the challenges that life is throwing their way and they are still committed to God and serving the young people in their community!!

Please be praying for our friends in ENVIA as it is a very exciting time for them all to grow and learn more and they in turn can take this back to their families, communities and churches!!!

Transformation is happening........

How can such and small little boy, have such a big impacting story.....

One day we visited an Orphanage here in Tijuana, Mexico, it was such a good time to be with the children there are 34 little boys from babies to like 15 yrs old kids. There are about 12 girls too, in another building.

We got to play with the kids, sing and dance with them, it was such an good time to just really love them and show them how precious they all are. By the end of the visits many of the little children had curled up on our laps for a sleep.

So I met this little boy he is like 3 yrs old and I asked why is he there what happened to his family? And the reply was that his mother died 3 months ago and his father left him alone too. He now has no one, no family to visit him or care for him.

He is such a precious little boy he is so cute and so interested in life, and liked making new friends. This really hit me and challenged me.

This made me see that all of us have a place to play in the lives of people we meet.

Even when we are not family to people and they are looking for love or a hug or an ear to listen to them we can be there we can be available like Jesus was.

He never said to anyone "Oh sorry i don't have time" no he would stop and he would listen he would sit with the people that no one else had time for. Or no one else wanted to be associated too.

This is the challenge for me and the challenge i will carry every step i walk in every place i go, It is something i just sometimes get caught up in my tasks or my own world but i hope and if not you can keep me accountable.

But really there is hope for each one of these little children so pray with me that they can find families and people who will love them unconditionally!!!

A day of Dreams, hopes, Visions and Nations coming together for the Kingdom..........

Our community....

This was a significant day....... We had the chance to focus on the future and not just want his happening today

Its exciting when i arrived here in Rio about a month ago now i was met at the airport by 3 friends, so excited to see them and be back home here in Brasil........ One of my first conversations was with my friend Giselle, she was so excited to share here vision and things that God has been showing here, we talked in the airport and it was incredible because her vision inter twinned with my vision and the vision of others i know......

Today we met, we were missing four people because they are working and in school, but we all shared our visions and callings that God has put on our hearts and it is incredible how God has spoke the same sort of vision but all with a slight different role in it.......

Our team with one dream

As i sit in a room listening to the incredible stories and ways in which God spoke to all of us, i am amazed at Gods greatness and His hopes for this community......

This is the start of Gods Kingdom  coming, hearts to be healed and dreams to happen, for complete transformation and we all play a part and God guides the way.....

We got to pray around a building that has been shown to two people in a vision and we are trusting God for his will

We await his timing and his prompting, we walk daily submitting all to him and we know with confidence He will make something beautiful out of this..........

So Daily we have been in the streets, with the school kids talking and doing life with them, building friendship and sharing life stories with them...... Some of the homeless people live in this plaza too and so we have been talking with them buying food and helping with some medical needs with them.... We are loving this and so thankful to be able to be here........

Our new friends in the Plaza!!!

Living for a Reason..........

Teachings about missions in this cute church!! 

The more i am here the more i am seeing gods confirmation and his doors opening for the future plans he has for his kingdom to come.....

We have been teaching and equipping churches with the tools of tidying the word and having the foundations that don't shake and that are for ever and ones that will not shake!!!

Seeing people understand and have their eyes opened to what they are reading has been such a blessing......

The little baby from the family 

We have been having cool opportunities meeting people in the streets, praying with then and sharing food and drinks and hugs with them and prayers. We met a little family who had a baby and 2 children on the curb, they were sitting outside the house with all their belongings, we went out to speak with them and they asked for food, the mum and dad were deaf and mute so we communicated through the little girl and writing!! They have had to leave there home as it is really not safe for them to be there, we could only share food with them and pray for them but please continue praying for their safety and protection and Gods provision to......

Vaccinations

We have been seeing God's provision and his hand guiding us, we were praying to God to Manaus as you know whilst we were here as we have some incredible opportunities to teach and train. We went and got our Yellow Fever vaccinations in faith that we were going!!!

But we had no money for it, the other day i looked at prices and it was like $500. Me and Luis were like what the heck??!!! I was thinking now we won't be going, but we prayed and said " God if you want us to go then please take the price down to like $200 then we can go" So anyway, i was thinking what do we do, just stay and see what God does.....

My home for 2 weeks... favourite place 

The next morning Luis and i walk to get bread and Luis says " What do you think about the trip to Manaus?" I was like "I don't know really we just see, what happens i guess" Luis said i think we are going we just wait!!

Then that morning i was studying and i thought let me check the price on line of the flights, so i look and oh my word Yes, they had gone down to $209 each!!!! I start screaming "LUIS, LUIS we are going to Manaus!!!"

So God is continuing to blow us away and have incredible opportunities to share his word and truth to see people be set free......

Some friends of mine at the homeless ministry 

Brasil: Taking the word to the Rio Favellas ..........

This is where we are(Me and Luis the bible nerds but we are very cool actually), this is the favella that we are staying in, we live in the Church with the DTS that are here too from YWAM Tijuana!!!

We are 6 days in and God has been so faithful we have been busy teaching and bringing the word of God to the churches but to the kids and teens on the street, calling them out for who they are and loving them in a way that is showing them their real value and worth in life!!

We ran a small bible school workshop and we have been teaching how to study the word and how to bring it to be relevant for today!!

Then we went to a camp in the mountains with some teenagers and hung out with them sharing with them about their real identity and who they are in God that they are such precious people and they can really live a life that is full of peace and love because of God and because he is the one that will love and protect them in all things..... Many of guys have been caught up in things that have brought de value to them and brought anger and pain, and insecurity to their lives and we are showing them that there is more to life and that with Jesus there is so much more for them!!!

We have been walking the streets of the favellas and praying for people and talking with them too!!!

We are so thankful to be here in such a precious place seeing how God has been changing and restoring and renewing lives and hopes......
Thank you for your support, prayers and love........

The End has come but it's really just the beginning…..

This has been a long, intense, but incredible 9 months of my life where i have experienced walking through each verse of every book of the bible, battling with fears of failing, fears of disappointing people who have been investing, fears of not understanding and being stupid to having my heart changed brought into freedom from them fears, from them unbelief's and the lies that have been a part of me for years and now…….

Daily i can live in the truth of who I am, I can know that I am adopted son of the Creator God that, I can trust him 100% in his character, i know that He knows me, He knows my every need from how little that may be to how Big that may be too!!

So here is a short story of His Goodness………

It was my friends Birthday and we wanted to go and have breakfast to celebrate as it was her first Birthday away from her family. So we go to a little Mexican Cafe to have breakfast and we are enjoying our conversations and having a nice time…..

So we ask for the bill, the lady brings it over and we all start to work out our amounts that we need to pay and I am short by a few pessos and then my other friend is too but we are thinking we will work it out….

Anyway the waitress comes over again and places another Bill on the table and it is blank except it says "Dios Es Bueno" in English this means "God is Good" so we look at it…. we look at the waitress and she is smiling and smiling and she says "Someone gave me this and your bill is paid you don't need to pay any money"

We are all so in shock and so thankful to God and the generous person God used to pay our breakfast as it was such an incredible blessing to us…..

I love how God knows his children, he knows our needs and he chooses to bless us daily!!!!

I know this is the God that I live for and love…..

So in two days time i will graduate from my school and i will embark on a 6 week outreach in Brasil - Stay tuned for more stories

A Missionary…. What the heck???!!!!

For the last few weeks this has been a struggle that i have been wrestling with that i want to share with you…. I wonder if this has ever been any thoughts or questions that you have even asks yourself either about you or about my life and the decisions that i make. If you have that's ok, i want you to know i sometimes ask God the same………. 

"Seriously God i need to know i need to hear from you, i don't understand how being a missionary for you works, i am a year an a half in and i am so unsure that how every day i trust in you for my everything, for laundry powder, for money for gas to do ministry and all things like this, for when my computer breaks and i don't know what to do when i don't work and i don't make my own money. Am i being irresponsible or is this really possible is this really real that i can do this that i can really trust you for all these things and that you provide that you will give me everything that is needed. Can you keep giving me the strength to lay down my rights my wants and my dreams to pick up yours? 

God, should i just come home and work and provide for myself, be there in England with my family that i miss so much everyday and love them for everything that they are." 

This is the reality that i have been questioning in my mind for the last few weeks but you know what one night i got my answer…..

God broke in and spoke so much to me, i felt settled in my heart that i was in the right place that this is what he made me for that this is the walk that he has called me to right now and he is taking me on a deeper journey of trusting and having faith in him and in him alone and not in other things around me. 

That he said "I have made you to love across borders, I have made you to see past divides in society, I have made you adaptable to all cultures that you feel at home in all countries and this is how he has created me, this is how I call you to be I ask you to love the people that are forgotten, to love the kids that have no value or identity, that don't have any safety or boundaries that are being sold that are being prostituted and to bring love to them that is pure that is real and that is ever lasting, wow God ok really this is hard this is not easy and I need you God to do this in me, I need you to guide me everyday…."

So with this being said he has given me a deep peace and grace to take each day as it comes to live on the edge with him everyday, to be learning to become more like God daily and to life content wherever I am in the world and to be available to love serve………

Hope is rising.....

After a year in Missions here is actually sunny Tijuana, mexico there are so many testimonies of what God has done for me and for others that i have met as i have lived each day here......

So i wanna tell you of my last weekend we got to build a house for a family in a Colonia here in Tijuana, the mum had four children and looked after them and works too, her brother lives near but he has his family too, so we got to build with a couple from Canada who had raised the money to build but juts didn't have a team and we were looking for a small team for months who we could build with as a school, so last minute this opportunity came up and we could build Olivia and her family a House. When i asked her what she will do with the old house she said now her brother can move into it and he and his family can sleep in the old house but they can all cook together and share, i love how the Homes of Hope project doesn't just bless one family but it blesses Olivia's family, her brothers, the family that came from Canada and our school it was a day of blessings..........

I want to remind you of the situation in Zona Norte were we feed the deportees and the homeless every week well for years we have been talking and dreaming and praying for change and provision and Night shelters and more provision for the men and women in the community who are stuck in drugs, Homelessness and crime or anything to survive. So when they were all moved out of the Park and into the Canal it was a crazy transition and we were unsure of how the ministry would work as we had a very unstable place to support the men and women, a place the Police told us if you go in there we will not come and help you. But we still felt lead to go and feed and pray and love them. One day we received a random email from a pastor from a small church in Tijuana and he asked about our ministry so he came out with us and we built relationship with him and his church do similar to us and now we are in partnership with them and they have received a miracle for Tijuana, but a small grant from the government for them to have a night shelter in the top room of their church and to feed the guys every night, they can wash and do laundry!! This is a massive answer to prayers from years, we now get to go on Wednesdays to the Canal still but also to the Church to run discipleship groups every week after this week when about 40 men gave their heats and lives to the lord!!

Things are changing, prayers are being answered, broken lives are being made new and people are seeing freedom come in their lives and hearts and minds.These are just some of the testimonies form the Zona Norte ministry, but there are more and more every week.

For me personally i have been seeing God bring a strength in my life from reading and studying the word and this is so exciting for me because i know this is exactly what i need for the future ministry that He has for me in the Latin world. For 2 months i have been praying and praying for finances and really trusting God for breakthrough in this as daily i am living by faith and with the support of friends. Anyway I have been learning more and more to trust and this week i received an amazing donation towards my school fees, it was such a blessing, my school fees are nearly paid for this term and i can nearly buy part of my ticket to Brasil too, praise God, but i am still trusting God for the rest of my plane tickets to Brasil.

Last year when we took a team to Brazil we saw 3 people have their knees healed, they had years of knee pain and problems and we got to pray and the pain left and the people were able to walk easier and without pain, praise God!! We also met a lady who had a lump in her shoulder and after we had been praying for her and talking we prayed for anger and bitterness to leave her and we saw the lump go down in size too!!

Also just a quick update on Marianna, the little girl in the previous blog, who is allergic to the sun, yesterday she had a 8 hour operation to remove all her skin from her face and graph a new skin layer from her stomach, one of the nurses in the Hospital fell in love with the family and Mariana and decided to open her house and family to them all, so the nurse is taking care of Mariana in her house, which is so much better than her being in a hotel room in San Diego!!

Thanks so much for following the work that is being done here, there is so much more i could say but it will be pages and pages. There are 73 Students here ta the moment too which is the biggest quarter we had here in 3 different schools, in DTS, Bible School and Community Transformation School!! Its a exciting time here as there are so many people getting trained and equipped to live and bring positive change to communities that get unnoticed!!

Ok i will go now but thanks again for reading and following!!

A little girl with the courage of a giant..........

Imagine being a 10 yr old girl or boy and the sun is out all you want to do is play outside with your friends or at school and have fun running around, playing games, hide a seek, tag and all other fun that you have as a kid, well imagine if you cant do that, imagine if the sun was your worse enemy, imagine, if your body burnt so bad that you were in pain all the time, well this is the life of a little girl of 10 yrs who I got to meet along with others of our team and this has been her reality............

But with God he has the power to change our realities and in this case I wanna tell you how.........

Well through our ministry here called Homes of Hope, Mariana's family were selected to have a house built for them, a team from the states came down that weekend to build a house for the family, little did they know that they would end up investing in a little girls future.....

The new house was built by the team and the family like to help too as this is a life changing event for them. Anyway they met Mariana and she is allergic to the sun, only on in a million people have this problem, They asked about treatment and her mum said basically the Dr's have said that there is nothing they can do for her and that she may die because she hasn't had the right care from the beginning her face has become cancerous and she may die.

With this one of our staff at the base was so stirred by this little girl that she researched and went to special hospitals to ask about it and didn't let this rest, the building team too were keen to support Mariana to get treatment so that she could have a life of some sort.

Mariana has not been at school because her face has been so painful and bad that school is very hard for her, people will make fun of her and she has to try and not be in the sun, which is hard here in Mexico and she didn't have the right protection to wear either, also in the Colonia's (villages in the hills in Tijuana) where she lives it is very dusty and as she was living in a very small little shack with no clean sterile water this has been very difficult.

Seeing the seals!! 

Well the team paid for Mariana, mum and her little baby sister to get passports, to get an appointment in San Diego with a specialist Dr and paperwork to grant them across the boarder as they don't have Visa's for the states. Dr's said that they could perform surgery on her face and scrape off the infections and the cancerous parts and graph skin from her arm over her face, once this is to be done then the family would be given the right head wear for her to protect her from the sun, they will be able to see if the cancerous cells have gone and then as long as she looked after herself how the Dr's in San Diego told her too then she will be able to go to school and have friends and life normally.

One day after this me and my friend were able to go to San Diego and meet Mariana
and her family as they had been in a hotel for two days waiting for surgery, so we got to take them out to the coast for the day and see the seals and have ice cream and have a fun day, wow this day was so special for for all of us, for me i got to meet a very courageous little girl we had so much fun and enjoyed seeing the seals and laughing at the posh dogs in the streets, She was so full of confidence and identity i was so challenged by her courage and bravery for life, she loves to be out and see things and do things, she is very social little girl. Being in the states was a real adventure for them all, they had asked if there would be hot water in the hotel for a shower and electricity and toilet paper for them.......

Well the next day Mariana started the first stage of her surgery on her face and they covered 3 areas of her face with new skin, this was a very painful process for her and her mother who was so nervous for her daughter, it was like finally a dream coming true that there maybe hope of a future for her little girl, which they had never talked of and had lived enjoying each day together as they had it. But equally a very scary day for her seeing her little girl under surgery. The recovery days were very painful for her and at one point the Dr's were very unsure of what to do with all the bleeding but they sorted it and she has been allowed to come back to Mexico and she is very happy to see her dad.

She still has 2 or 3 more stages of surgery to go.....................

This is one amazing life that i was and am so blessed to be apart of, please be praying for her future surgeries and that the cancer goes and isn't something that is scaring the family, pray that she can continue being so courageous and strong, Pray blessings on the house build team who are paying for all her medical costs to make this happen and for our team here to be able to support this beautiful family through this whole process....

Last time one of our staff was with the family, the mum said that maybe one day her little girl will get married and have a family, this was the first time that we have heard mum speak of any future for her little girl.....
This is a miracle happening...............

Happy after ice cream......

Shaking things up................

So sometimes when things are shaken up we are falsed to make a change, we are made to look at what we can do and what choices we can make instead of relying on what is our situation and what is familiar.........

God continues to restore....

So a testimony of this, I don't know if you remember the lady who lived in the park with her little tiny baby, well we met her a few weeks ago in the street and she has now moved into a tiny little Flat/Apartment with her baby, it is very basic but it is not on the streets!! This was so good to see her and the little one looking better and knowing they are a bit safer each night, praise God!!

So we are praying about Zona Norte as you know that the park where we used to meet all the Men, Women and Kids has been cleaned up and now there are police there and none of the people can be there, so some went in a bus to Tecate which is a neighboring city, to a house where they can get some help, we think and hope, this is what we have been told.

Others have been pushed out of this area and have had no choice but to live in the canal which is massive and a sewage canal from Tijuana, and many people are living there on rubbish piles, they live, sleep and do everything there, they wash in the sewage water and learn how to survive.........

Ministering on the edge of the canal

We are seeing how we can minister in the Canal area and maybe we will see less people than before but we are hoping to start up a discipleship group for those who are seeking God more too, later in the week!!

It is so good to be ministering along the top of the canal, but it is a different world, so we need your prayers of protection, God is moving though and it is exciting to see what is next.........

People living on rubbish piles 

Welcome to the best Dad I know

This is my second week back in Bible school and it has been a week that has touched my heart so much that I am broken again in my heart for the Love that God has for me and for each one of us, it has humbled my heart and brought tears of thankfulness, let me tell you.....................

Can you imagine you are a father, you love your child so so much with all your heart, you want the best for him or her, you want to show them everything you made for them; you want to share all the fun things in life with them, you want to see there faces when they smile and you want to be the one that wraps them in your arms when they are hurting or are sad or sick, you tell them off when they are naughty because you love them and you want them to be the best person they can be. Well this is how God has been and is with us every day!!

Studying through the Old Testament with every book I see God's passionate pursuit for his peoples hearts he is running after them, they need water, he gives it, they need food, he gives it, they face impossible situations and God shows them a away through it. He loves and loves and loves on them all the time even though they are sinning and turning their backs on Him and worshiping other gods and treating others unfairly.

"He will tend His flocks like a shepherd: 

he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in His bosom, 

and gently lead those that are with young" 

Isaiah 40 v 11

In Isaiah this week we are seeing how God's heart was so broken over the pain of his people not following Him. We see that God has so much love for them that he restores them, he rebuilds what is ruined and he restores their hearts, he brings them out of Exile....

 "I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud,

 and your sins like a mist, returned to me for I have redeemed you" 

Isaiah 44 v 22

We read about so many prophecies about,...JESUS coming, this is how much God loves His people even after they for years have turned their back again and again to Him, He still loves them with His whole heart and wants to give them something so precious to Him.

So seeing these prophecies in Isaiah about Jesus coming and how he is sent to earth to show us how to live with each other, how to love each other and to be kind to those around us and afar, to be generous, to share, to be gracious, to have mercy and to walk how Jesus did........... He never judged, he never thought he was better than anyone else, he had a humble heart he was selfless, he was someone who loved and loved those that no one else wanted to love!!

For me this has shown me even more how God Loves us so much, that he wants us to live our lives with him, it made me be so thankful of God's heart for never giving up on me, even when I have turned my back on Him, even when I have done things that I know have hurt God and gone against his will, he has never left me or ever turned against me, he has taken me back with open arms and loved me unconditionally!!


That's the Dad I want you all to know, like I am blessed to know............

A new year is coming.............

I cant believe the year that I have had, started off living back at home with the parents which I hadn't done for 11 years, and then in March I moved back out to Tijuana Mexico!!

In the last 9 months I have seen God's power and known Him in a deeper way than ever before, I have seen more of his character, more of how it is all about Him and not me, that He is doing so much more than I could ever for the people around me and our team!! I have seen finances come in for my school fees, I needed $1,700 for each term/semester and I am able to pay for two of the three terms/semesters, which is a massive testimony of people's generosity and Gods provision for this situation.

Firstly I was staffing for the first 5 months the Diciplship Training School where we had 17 students from about 5 different nations, we saw each student grow, and discover more of God and who each of us are in God. We then lead an outreach for 2 of those months to Mexico City for 2 weeks and then 6 weeks in Rio De Janiero Brazil!!

In these two months we saw people knees get healed and hearts healed from hurt and disappointment, we were able to serve the community with the local churches and see God move and encourage people in their walk with Him. We did Kids clubs too!! Then in Brazil we ran English and Spanish lessons, kids clubs and church services, dramas and songs in school, and just to serve and love the people we met.

This is a time that was amazing for all of us in so many ways we learned so much, were humbled by God providing miracles and learning more of how He cares for us daily.

We then came back to Tijuana and the DTS finished, some students coming back to the base to staff and others leaving for their home towns and carry Jesus with them to spread what they learnt!!!

I then have completed the first 3 months of the Chronological School of Biblical Studies, its hard work but i love it, It has truely changed my world and my understanding of the Bible and God and his character!!

In 3 Days time i will be returning to Tijuana and will be straight back into the next 3 months of Bible School!! I am looking forward to it so much!!

I have had such a precious, blessed time since i have been home in England seeing all my friends and family. I have laughed so much that my eyes are sore from crying laughing, its been nice having Summer fruits squash again haa ha ha and spending time with everyone. I have had such fun with Lilly and Benny and seeing how they have grown so much and are so so  much fun!! It will be hard to leave but i know i am going back to my second home too and look forward to seeing friends there again!!

I want to say a massive thank you to all of you who have been reading, following, praying and supporting me in friendship and finances throughout this year, i would not have been able to do this without you all, so thank you for being a part of this vision God has called me too and i pray massive blessings on you all and massive hugs from me and my heart if full of gratitude to you all!!