The Los Cabos municipal government has undertaken the huge task of tearing up the entire L-shaped courtyard in downtown San Jose. When we go for the patriotic assembly and marketplace prayer each Monday morning, the scene is changing drastically from week to week. In fact, they are moving faster than any government project we’ve ever seen—with a deadline of the end of September! This is the time of year when the tourists and snow birds flood the city (and they like it nice).

We immediately joked the renovation of San Jose central was transformation before our very eyes, and there could be a measure of truth to this. Each week the Lord gives us impressions of how to pray for a “new” San Jose. Somedays it has been to cleanse the land from generations of defilement; Pastor Carlos has been deeply impressed to pray for the foundations of the area, including the Delegación (city government building).  Altogether, the entire area is being spiritually prepared from the ground up for the future the Lord has in mind for Los Cabos.

We have included a portfolio of photos so those of you who have visited Los Cabos can see the drastic changes taking place. Please pray for the area with us—as the spirit of God moves towards the transformation of Los Cabos—spiritually, as well as physically.

We continually tell Pastor Carlos Maciel that he can make something look amazing out of very little. This was certainly the case in the recent Saturday afternoon outreach to the Tierra y Libertad neighborhood. Just the Friday before the event, while we were out on house-to-house visitation, Richard pointed out a relatively bare, wide spot adjacent to the dusty road, telling me this was the “soccer field” where the event would take place. I wasn’t even sure it was large enough for one segment of the event, let only big enough to play soccer in!

As always, by the time we arrived, the setup team had the area looking like a community fair. There were fully staffed information and refreshment tables, a piñata area for the young children, a Spiderman moon walk, and a basketball free throw area for the men. There were chairs set up for the after-dark movie presentation and a canopy area for three sisters who offered free haircuts. Along with all of this, there were gunny sack and human wheel barrel races for the adults later in the day.

One of the sisters who has been greeting visitors at the Tierra y Libertad Church during the weekdays walked around the fair getting the names and contact numbers for the neighbors that gathered. After the evangelical movie, around eight people came to the front in response to an appeal for salvation and several came to church the following day.

As always, enjoy the photos while picturing in your mind the humble surroundings where the fair was held, along with my description of the “soccer field.”