Another Day, Another Constitution Meeting

For the most part, when we are doing mission work, it is often more office oriented: writing support letters, updating the blog, communicating with kids that have been here on missions trips through Facebook.com. We are also helping at the retreat centre and helping with the leaders at Christ Lives Bible Church to develop their constitution. With time as we enter the community and the church becomes independent of missionary support, we will be able to task ourselves with our real goal of church planting. This last week the Ruizes and ourselves met with Gregorio from Central America Mission to better understand the geographical area where we want to plant and the challenges that await us. It was very exciting to hear of the possibilities that await us, too. Atizapan is a suburb of Mexico City and is thought to have a population of around 2 million people. There is a large community of poor and wealthy here and planting churches in this kind of community will be difficult. We are already meeting people from the community at the ice rink, when we buy our groceries and just by doing other daily activities. People are interested in talking to us because we are different and Mexicans really like Canadians. Some people just want to practice their English with us and we want to practice Spanish with them. We just learned that one of our girl's hockey coaches is a Christan as well and we briefly talked about maybe doing a hockey camp next summer as an outreach. Believe it or not, there are a lot of hockey players in this city and many of them go to summer hockey camp in the US, Canada and Europe. We'll see what God has in store for outreach.