5 Years!

Linn and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary this past Thursday.  What a blessing to celebrate with our daughter.  She was our anniversary gift this year.  Our friends, Matt and Amanda, who are here on staff with us this summer, celebrated their 2 year anniversary on Wednesday, so we got to go out to eat together on Thursday night.  We had the whole restaurant to ourselves!  That's not really a good thing, though, because it means that there is absolutely no tourism in Rosarito right now, which is a huge part of Rosarito's economy.  In some of the poorer areas, children are going hungry because of the downturn.

This coming week we have one team here from the San Jose area.  They have come to Mexico every year for at least a decade, if not longer.  It will be awesome having them here...we always have lots of fun with them.  The YUGO staff is also doing an outreach this week.  The team will be made up of the interns, Matt and Amanda as leaders, the band Out of Hiding, and the Canote Family.  We are a pretty big team, but the church we are going to this week always has lots of kids.  So we're looking forward to a REALLY busy week.  I'm not planning on going out with the team this year.  There is a lot of behind the scenes work that needs to be taken care of, so I'm going to be doing that.  I'm thankful that God has been so faithful to provide the extra staff that we needed this summer in order to make up for what I'm not able to do on the front lines this year.  God is using me as a major support system for Linn and for the other leaders, which is the vision I had from God for this summer.  I really enjoy being unseen...it's kind of fun watching things happen and knowing that I played a major part in making them happen...but nobody else knows what I did!

Pray that many people would accept Christ's message of hope this week.  We've already faced many obstacles, so we know that this week is going to be amazing!!!