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We arrived on Thursday, it was an 18 hour trip door to door. Friday was our tour day and we spent our day touring the city and learning about the culture and religion in the cities of Mexico. The King and Pagan children were so excited to see one another and we sensed the encouragement God has planned for all of us in just bringing us together. The photo from Micah’s ipod shows that enthusiasm.
Friday we visited the city of Guantanamo and a group of believers that are planting churches as well. This group has been working for several years and has several ministries for children, youth and adults even in other cities. We were able to pray with and for them and offer them prays of encouragement. We also visited a mummy museum, this gave us a better sense of the false worship in Mexico. As the days progressed, we have seen the Catholics here worship Mother Mary, of course, a doll which is in the city of San Juan De Los Lagos. This doll, is believed to have miraculous power and the legend of her bringing a dead girl back to life has thousand or hundreds of thousands, millions Jamie says, pilgrimage hundreds of miles to worship her. We visited this church yesterday and watched people approach this alter of the doll on their knees. Some stay on their knees until they bleed. This is all "works" based so that they can earn there way to heaven.
On Sunday we were blessed to be a part of the home church service at the Pagan home and then to a larger established church in Leon, where Alex was invited to preach. The audience was very attentive to his message from Hebrews 6 and we enjoyed the Spanish worship. George was able to share our testimony as a family who is becoming more mission focused at the morning service and he also was able to introduce us to the congregation in their native tounge as a family. It was wonderful to worship in spirit and truth despite the language barrier.
Today we went into a community in Leon where the Pagan family has been working to try to start a new church. They go there about every other month and set up an outreach event with food, games for the children, bible lesson and time of talk with the women. It was amazing to see the effort in trying to make relationships and build trust so that one family might offer their home as a place to start. There is one family with a very sick little girl, she has no aorta. She was not expected to live and is now 6 months and they go and pray for her and the family is considering allow a group to start meeting there. Please pray for this family, pray for a door of opportunity....today as we prayed in their concrete floor, three room home, the front door was open and I sensed the holy spirit saying just as the door to this home is open so will the door of opportunity be opened here, for a door that the Lord Jesus opens, no man can close.
We also have had several opportunities to share why we are here with some of the Mexican people esp in the hotel although the language barrier keeps us from gaining much ground.
Please remember us in your prayers and we finish our week here, as the Cosio's go onto Mexico City to do VBS with Lena's brother's church, as the Pagan family continues this great work and as we travel back to the states on Thursday.
Blessings from Mexico,
The King family
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