Encouragement and new possibilities

English does attract people! Here are the signs outside the church. The blue one announces the breakfast club and the red one the English classes. Six hundred flyers were also handed out in the area advertising the class...
...and 50 kids turned up. There were many new faces which was encouraging. Pray that these kids will return and bring even more with them next week.
Robin and Julie did a great job teaching the kids to say, "What is your name? My name is_____, Nice to meet you, hello and goodbye." No pens or paper needed and the kids seemed to have fun. Perhaps for next week we will divide the kids into two groups by age. The class was followed by a 10 minute lesson and some songs. It was the first time for the girl who gave the lesson and she did a great job. Please continue to pray for committed leaders and for a suitable person to take over the co-ordination of the club. We have a great bunch of teenagers who come along to help every week but we'd really love to see a few more adults with the same commitment.
The Mex-i-Kids co-ordinator from Jonny and Julie's church came to visit again. They plan to start the breakfast club in 2 weeks and we will meet with her on Tuesday to plan out finer details. We were so encouraged to be handed a 4 page document from the church outlining the reason for having the club, the aims and objectives, the structure and plans etc. Pray for the team at Tultitlan and that the breakfast clubs there will reach many kids and their families for Christ.

As these new breakfast clubs open and current ones grow in size we have been so encouraged by news from home that God has been moving people to donate financially. If you have been involved then thank you. It is so incredible to see these little kids come in week after week. Pray that the Holy Spirit will continue to work changing these lives and the communities.

We had another of the pastors over for lunch this week and were interested to hear that his team feel the real need in their area, and a tool for evangelism would be to have seminars for women with depression. Now that is something we have absolutely no experience in but there are people in the church who would love to give the course. We would love to support the program and having talked with others it seems that it could be well received in more of the churches.

Tomorrow Andrew will go back out to the church at Cualtitlan Izcalli. We have previously mentioned a ministry in that church that helps ladies in crisis. It is celebrating one year of operation tomorrow and Andrew has been invited to go along. There is a psychologist in the church who has trained a bunch of ladies who take telephone calls each evening. The psychologist's wife is a counsellor who specialises in sex abuse cases and both have done interviews with ex-street kids who are currently working at the Drop-In Centre.

Although Social Ministries hasn't been involved with the ministry to ladies in crises from the start and isn't regularly supporting it financially we are excited at how God is using it to bring ladies into the church and how they are being won for Him. Again, this may be a ministry that could be done in other churches for God's glory.