Mexico is Rich!

  Mexico is rich with opportunity to serve!  There is so much to do here; there just aren’t enough hours in each day.  This is a good time to be a servant of God.  Would you consider coming down with a team to help us serve some of these needs??  Our ministry update could be pages long, but in summary, the theme is “Teaching”.  Between Bible College, Life Group, guest speaking and Women’s Bible study, my wife and I have been busy encouraging those to whom the Lord has opened a door.  It’s been great.  The hours of study make us both feel like we are college students again! 
    I am a currently enrolled in a church planting class in our Bible college at church.  The Lord continues to impress upon my heart the need for a bilingual church fellowship in Santa Cruz.  The idea would be to replicate and plant other churches just like the one in which we minister in Mexico.  We are seeing a rich harvest of souls through church planting.  I just returned from a leadership conference in Southern California encouraging and instructing us on how to build a leadership team to effectively minister to the community, and raise up leaders.  Please keep us in your prayers, and that God would clearly reveal His will as we continue to pursue church planting.
 
  With regard to outreach, Melissa has a routine now of doing health clinics rotating through the church plants that have gone out from Rosarito.  Men, women and children come in and receive prayer, spiritual encouragement and physical help while connecting them to their local evangelical church.
    Our church has a seven week “Pillars Class” that is a prerequisite to serving at the church.  50 people just finished the course including around 15 kids from Grace Children’s Home!  I have three new volunteers from GCH working with me on the greeting team, and our son Caleb has three friends from GCH working with him on the Security Team.  It is awesome to still have contact with our loved ones from GCH.
    On the home front, all is well.  Our daughter Sarah will be resigning from her position as a homeschooler and is excited to get back to school with the kids in the community.  The boys are happy to continue on with homeschooling and heading to the soccer fields to play as soon as they finish up their studies.  We got a new puppy; because the kids wanted one (for the last 6 years).  I finally caved and the kids are happily caring for our TJ mutt we named “Cali”.  Good times.

    Back in January Melissa and I celebrated our 19th year of marriage.  It’s amazing what God has brought us through and brought us to.  We never would have imagined.  Thank you for your continued support.  We could not do it without you!



May God richly bless you, The Hanson Family

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San Diego CA 92154