July-August 2021 Newsletter

The Hand to the Plow

Summer has come and with it our rainy season. What a relief! We finished our driest year in over 40 years that I have lived here in Mexico. The rainy season means the start of a lot of outside work. Our State is mainly agricultural and a lot of the planting depends on the rains. The same concept also works in the spiritual realm. When the rains of the Holy Spirit start to fall it is time to get out into the fields and work for the harvest. As long as there is spiritual dryness in the land there will not be much of a harvest.

In the town of the “Ahualamo” we continue with our weddings. In June we had the third wedding of the year and we still have 2 more to go. We also had another wedding in our Xalisco Church in the month of July. 2021 has turned out to be a year of weddings. All of these weddings are couples that have been living together and they are working on making their covenant right before God. It is great to see how the Holy Spirit brings conviction on our lives to make us change. This is part of the walk of faith that makes our life so interesting. The world wants us to adapt to their way of thinking and to be more open minded. God is not closed minded. He just never changes. A marriage between one man and one woman is the only marriage covenant that is blessed by God.

Baby Dedication

Our Christian school Xecora finished its 21st school year this month of July. We finally were able to get the students back into the classrooms for the last 3 weeks of school. Throughout the whole school year we held classes but not with all the students present. Each student of our primary school would come in two mornings a week and do the rest of their classes on line. With our secondary school students we would have them in classes one week a month (5 days) even though being at school, they had some classes online since not all the teachers could come in. We start classes for our next school year on August 30th. Please pray with us that we can double our enrolment this year and also that we will be permitted to have the students in regular classes.

Our social outreach project that we had written about last year got a little bogged down this year with the pandemic but starting the month of July we have positioned our staff once again to continue working on the project. It is a long term project that we call SAMAO 2040 as we plan it to run 20 years or more. As a short term result of the plan we have 3 new families coming to the local church in the township where we are running the plan. With each baby that is born on the area we have designated for the plan, we offer the family to sign up to be part of it. For each family that signs up we will walk along side of that family in both the spiritual and social aspects of their lives until their child turns 20 years old. We are looking not only at getting people saved but we also want to see families transformed and bad cultural habits broken. It is one of our ways of making disciples.

One of the pictures is a new baby that was signed into the plan by her parents along with Fernando who heads up the project. The other is the presentation of 3 children in the church of a family that is now attending services as a result of the plan.

Thank you, each of you, who have partnered with us in finance and prayers. We bless you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.



Philip, Lucy, & Vanessa Tolman