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Friday, 21 November 2014

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!!

Wednesday, 12 November 2014

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.