Summer has arrived and with it a change to parts of our ministry. Our school is now on vacation. The rainy season has arrived that limits our outdoor activities and up keep and maintenance are the words for the day. Seasons also are part of our spiritual life. We love the springtime with it´s new life sprouting and freshness in the air. Autumn is a time of decline and death. It has it´s good points such as the brilliant colours and the cool frosty nights.
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Xecora School: The 6th of July was the graduation exercise for our 2017-18 school year. We had 12 graduating students this year, which is both good and bad. It is good in that theses students will be leaving us to continue with their education. They will carry the values and the Word that we have implanted in their lives and we pray that this Word will take root and grow in them until they have been born again. The bad part is that we have to look for new students to take their place. It is not all that bad since once we have them we will have new lives into which we can implant the Word. Please pray with use that the Lord Jesus will fill our enrollment once again this coming school year.
We were also able to complete the concrete floor on the second floor of our new classroom and we have raised the walls about 3 feet. With the floor poured we no long have to worry about rainwater seeping through the ceiling and raining on our students in the classrooms.
Christian marriages working well make a church strong. We have been dedicating a lot of our counseling time in helping couples that are in the church but they have never been taught on how to make their marriage work. Now they are married for life (or that is their ideal) but things are just not going well. The first things that we teach them are the rules for fighting. There will be fights but fights without rules are destructive. After that we teach them that to love someone takes work and we show them what they have to do to make it work from the Bible.
Dad is doing really well lately. We were able to get some of us together and celebrate his 86th birthday. The year did not start out well for him but God has given us wisdom and has also placed incredible people around us to help. The years have taken their toll but we enjoy what we have left of Dad and most of the time he is still with us mentally as well as in body. Please keep him in your prayers, as Dad’s focus is still to go home with the Lord.
Thank you for your prayers for the ministry and your financial support make you part of what is happing here in Mexico. We bless you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Philip, Lucy and Vanessa Tolman
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