Thought I'd give you all a picture of a few of our local amigos. This rattlesnake was on our porch of our dorm (on the right) one morning. My room mate Carlos killed it with a 2by4. I've seen like 10 Tarantula's, I got this picture of one on the dining hall door.
School started Monday, we have about 15 students and 7 staff. The students are half Spanish speaking and half English. It's been a challenge to communicate to eachother, but we are all learning and growing in our knowledge of the others language and culture.
I've been focused mainly on creating the networking infrastructure here, getting a server up and running, a computer lab, and getting the dorms all connected online. It's been alot of work, with alot of late nights, but by God's grace somehow it's all up and running. It's not all ideal, but it's running as best as it can with the equipment we have at the moment.
We have really low bandwith, which is causing us some problems. We run our internet through a satelite provider, but we can't get the right line of sight because of a huge hill right behind our property, so we need to move the dish to the top of the moutain and build a tower for it. That is going to be a pretty exciting project. Our list of projects is infinately long, and our budget is zero so we are just praying that some how God is going to continue providing for this school as He has been since the beginning of this project. The ground has been flattened and is ready to start building the orphanage on the other side of the campus.
We have lots of things to accomplish here, we just as for your prayer and support in what God is doing at this new Bible College in Ensenada. We are going to be leading students on the streets on Friday's to do some outreach and Evangalism, as well as leading prayer groups and missions. We are planning a mission to Southern Baja to work with some Indigenous people groups. My bro John and I are surfing in San Miguel when ever we have free time and are going to be praying for oppertunities to share the love of Jesus with the surfing community here.
I ask for your prayer for guidence and wisdom in all these things, and for my own strength as I'm feeling very weak and strained, I miss Becca terribly in Morocco, we have little to no communication. I'm just leaning on the everlasting arms and trusting God for everything.
In the Love and Grace of our Lord Jesus,
~Paul
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Hey brother...Awesome to read the update from Mexico. I pray for you on a regular basis. Told Jesse and Tanya about our dream to all minister together overseas. They were stoked. Will be sending a check to your mom each month as we raise funds at SkateChurch. Love you, man.
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