Along with our ministry reports, I like to give those of you who have visited Los Cabos updates on the area from time to time. Many months ago, the plaza in front of the Municipal Palace and the historic Catholic Church in San Jose del Cabo was completely torn apart, including the infrastructure. I am sharing just a few photos of the ‘new look’ for the sake of those of you who were familiar with the ‘old.’

For over two years now, we have made a point of attending the San Jose del Cabo governmental patriotic ceremony, which is held in front of the Municipal Palace at 8 a.m. on Monday mornings.  Our prayer is to make our presence in the community known to the government officials, to pray for the government, and to pray for the San Jose Central area.

The photos showing parts of the ceremony are significant for two reasons. The first deals with the special presence of Presidente Arturo de la Rosa and his wife Vianney. The second is the visit of Bill Hodges from Christ the Rock Church in Muskegon, along with his friend, Ben Culbertson from England, who recently spent a week with us. Bill and Ben came to our area to pray with us over specific geographic locations.

Enjoy the photos and please pray over the area as you look!

This project has been a progressive one—as the funds have come in and the help has been available.  The new addition of a permanent fence and entrance area, which was started by Shane and Tracey Crowley during the first part of the year, is complete!

Richard had expressed his desire to Pastor Carlos for the last stage of the church at Tierra y Libertad to be finished—if Pastor Carlos could find help with the thin-coat, painting and gate. Not only did Pastor Carlos find help, but he and his youngest son, Joshua, helped as well.  One of Pastor Carlos’ associate pastors, Escary, rounded up a couple of his youth and the group finished the entire project in one day. The project looks wonderful and we want to give a special thanks to Pastor Carlos, Joshua, Escary and the fine young men from his youth group!

Pastor Carlos calls his church plants ‘missions’ and Tierra y Libertad is one of them. The church has an outreach breakfast on Sunday mornings at 9:00 a.m., followed by Sunday School. The worship service, which we have been attending for almost a year, is held at 4:00 p.m. The mid-week bible study is held on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. and prayer meeting is held on Fridays at 7:00 p.m. The church is only running an average of thirty people, but the presence of the Holy Spirit is heavy and the worship is passionate.

Please remember to pray for all of Pastor Carlos’ churches; the mother church (Lomas del Sol), Valle del Cabo, Caribe, and Tierra y Libertad.

We again would like to thank the generous donor from West Michigan who helped fund this most recent phase of the church at Tierra y Libertad. Thank-you all for your prayers and generous giving that makes all we are able to do in Los Cabos possible! Great blessings to all of you.