Dear
Friends in Christ, |
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How
majestic is the name of the Lord! He has
been so good to us in many ways this month. |
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Our
daughter Sara was in Mexico the end of September.
She enjoyed time in the Dorcas house helping
ladies with sewing projects and sewing for
little friends. She’s
also experimenting in providing work for
some ladies in doing hand embroidery for
a sewing business. While there she was blessed
to share at a youth meeting as well. Sara
made another trip down in October with Debbi
and Brigitta. They checked on the sewing
projects and delivered food packages to a
couple of families. |
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Kenny
was also in Mexico for awhile this month
helping Pastor Santos with some agricultural
projects. Kenny has a heart to work with
young men through agriculture. His desire
is to help the young men focus on the Lord
and learn to provide for their families some
day. |
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Pastor
Santos celebrated his 46th birthday this
month. We are grateful the Lord brought him
into our lives, and for another year of working
with him! |
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Paco,
Pastor Santos’ son has
started a Christian preschool and kindergarten
in Nava. He’s enjoying
teaching more than a dozen children using
character and Bible lessons. We have been
researching to help Paco, by providing a
curriculum for him to teach. |
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The
Kennedy and Sweet families spent some time
working together in Louisiana this month.
The Kennedys met up with Dana and Abe Sweet
and helped a few families re-shingle their
roofs from the hurricane. Sara and the boys
have never worked with shingles so this was
a new and fun learning experience for them.
Dana has done shingling in the past so he
was able to give direction. |
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Sara
and the boys camped out with Dana and Abe
in the classrooms of a local Church in Golden
Meadow, Louisiana, ’Lafourche
Gospel Church’. The people
there were very hospitable, providing several
meals and making sure everyone was comfortably
lodged. Dwayne Malone, an assistant pastor,
helped with the project by making sure we
had all of the necessary supplies to complete
the roof. Each day began early and the group
worked till about 6:30 p.m. |
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The
first roof was quite a challenge, the home
had been added onto several times , so there
were many ridges and valleys. The children
were grateful for the opportunity to get
to shingle a roof, the roofs we build in
Mexico are metal, so the whole project was
great fun to them. |
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Each
of the children were amazed by the devastation
which they saw while in Louisiana. Even Brigitta,
totally unprompted, wrote a paper on how
she felt it would be years before the people
who had lost homes would be able to get back
to a normal life. It is quite different to
be there in person, and rather than seeing
just one home destroyed, as in pictures,
but to do a 360 degree turn and see homes
and trees demolished in every direction.
Trees are twisted and gone, homes are reduced
to a pile of rubble. |
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We
went to the home of some new friends in Franklinton,
La., Travis and Carol Ann Morgan. Their 4
year old son went on and on about “a
twee fell on number 242â€.
He held up his arm to show us a visual image
of a tree falling. After talking to his Mom,
she explained that they had lost a dairy
cow (cow # 242) in the storm when a tree
fell and killed it. In their area there was
quite a bit of wind damage and their farm
lost 270 trees. It’s very
hard to take it all in. |
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Some
of the boys enjoyed an afternoon of helping
Travis Morgan at milking time. They milked
about 10 cows at a time, about 80 cows all
together. This, of course, was with the help
of an automatic milking machine and some
men who knew what they were doing. The experience
was especially good for Kenny as he would
like to possibly work with dairy cows one
day. His day there went much better than
trying to milk Pastor Santos’ cows
by hand, when he had no idea what he was
doing and no one to tell him how to do it.
Those poor cows! |
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Hi Friends, |
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The
month has flown by like the wind. As we reflect
on these rapidly passing days, I’m
reminded of the verse that tells us to “redeem
the time†Eph 5:16. What
a challenge that becomes as we meet each day
that the Lord gives us! |
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The Juan
3:16 Church was the recipient of another new
building constructed on a new piece of property
where they meet on Sunday mornings. A fine
group of men from the San Antonio, TX area
came in and put it up in one fast and furious
day! |
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Please continue
to pray that the Lord shows us His will as
we try to meet many needs. |
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In Christ, |
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The Sweets |
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Many of you
may remember in the past years we have tried
to provide heaters for families who are lacking.
We would like to try to do that again this
year. The cold months always seem to be an
especially hard and trying time financially
on the families in Nava. Many families do not
have heat, instead they burn charcoal or small
pans of wood to keep their houses warm. Let
us know if you would like to help a family
this winter by providing a heater for them.
The cost of each heater with a propane tank
is $300. |
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Once again
we praise the Lord for the things He has allowed
us to do this month. We do feel that we are
your extension to the people we minister to.
We understand that without your love, prayers,
encouragement and support we would not be able
to work as we do. It is a privilege to serve
our loving Father, thank you so much for your
part in helping us serve Him. |
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Because
of Christ, |
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The
Kennedy Family |
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