Another photo-less blog... Oh well, it's the content that counts and for you die hard blog readers, this has good content if you can wade through my wordy writing...
Daniel and Family
A few years back, Jean Paul (my boyfriend, works at Horizonte Church) met a neighbor named Daniel. They were about the same age and became good friends. I'm not sure if they met before or after JP became a Christian, but they point is, at JP shared with Dany about the hope he has in Christ. Dany became a Christian, began attending Horizonte, and about a year later enrolled in the school of evangelism. During that year in the school he always said that his greatest desire was that his family would become Christians and attend church as well.
The school of evangelism ended, and Dany didn't exactly make some good choices, and the next thing you know he and his very young girlfriend were expecting a baby. During this time, Liz, Dany's older sister, began to take interest in Christianity and began attending Horizonte. Shortly after, their mom came too. About a year ago along came the dad to church as well. All three of them - Liz and both parents - accepted the Lord and began to get involved in small groups at Horizonte, and the mom even teaches a childrens' sunday school class. Dany's whole family became Christians and were attending church, but Dany wasn't there.
Every saturday morning for as long as I've been here, JP has asked for prayer for Dany in our weekly prayer meetings. So we all pray for him.
About a month ago a young couple at Horizonte got married, and Dany came to the wedding, as the groom was a friend of his from the school of evangelism. At the wedding was the first time I met Dany (he'd been a good friend of JP).
Last saturday was independence day, and I went to Liz and her parents' house (Liz and I are in the same small group) with the single ladies' small group and the single guys' small group. Dany and his now wife Ili, and their little daughter were there. Ili was very shy and was in the house most of the time that the rest of us were outside BBQing, but Dany spent pretty much the whole night talking with Juan (another young guy from church).
The next day - Sunday morning - I was pleasantly surprised to see Dany, Ili, and the baby come into church. After the service ended, a lot of guys played soccer, and Dany and JP went to play, and since I was the only girl at the church that Ili had ever met, she came and sat by me and we talked a little. Later that afternoon, Dany was talking to Juan again and said that he'd decided that he needed to start going to church again and starting living to please the Lord! After well over a year (probably more) of praying for Dany, then seeing his family come to know the Lord, it's amazingly wonderful to hear that Dany wants to serve the Lord again, and hopefully Ili will be in it with him. I definitely want to make it my goal to get to know her better and introduce her to some other young moms at Horizonte... We'll see what God has in store for this young couple!!
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Pastor in Training?
Two weeks ago, Toño (worship leader at church) and his wife Elsa left Horizonte church on a Sunday afternoon after the soccer tournament and lunch, to spend the evening with their boys, helping them with their school work. Around 6pm, about the time they were setting down into the homework routine, there was a knock at the door. It was a young couple who had just begun attending Horizonte. They were having some pretty bad problems with their marriage and thankfully, rather than just give up and separate, they decided to first go talk with Toño and Elsa about their problems. The two couples talked for a couple hours, then went to the store to buy supplies for the boys' school projects (together, so they could continue talking!). The young couple stayed with Toño and Elsa until about 2am! It didn't turn out to be the relaxing evening that Toño and family had imagined, but it ended with the young couple willing to start working out their differences and begin meeting regularly with Toño and Elsa.
This past weekend, Martin (the pastor at Horizonte) and his family were in Mexico City visiting relatives. They were going to come back to Querétaro on saturday afternoon, but that night Toño received a frantic call from Martin saying that his father in law was in the hospital and that they wouldn't be able to come back for the Sunday service! He asked Toño to preach. This normally wouldn't have been such a big deal, but we are in the middle of a 4 week sermon series that Martin is preaching, using sermons from Andy Stanley (in English!) as his outline. Martin had his sermon all planned out, and basically preached it to Toño over the phone!
On Sunday morning, Toño clamly preached the message, and it came out just how Martin would have done it - same basic principles and ideas of the Andy Stanley sermons (I translated those for Matin, so I know what the originals were!). They day went really well despite several set-backs: Those of us who arrived at 8am found the church courtyard flooded, water entering the auditorium, and more water coming through the back wall onto the stage. Juan, who usually helps with maintenance and cleaning on Sunday mornings awoke to find his car filled with flood water and wasn't able to come early to help clean up the waters at church. Sara and Fer, two others who usually come early to help set up were respectively sick and in Mexico City. Martin and Mayte were in Mexico City. The rain had flooded the soccer field and we have a soccer tournament going on for 6 weeks.
Things were really looking bad for the day, but all turned out really well! Toño's impromtu sermon, new volunteers who arrived early to help clean up all the flood water, Mauricio who stepped in to organize the communion service, and good attitudes from those who had come to play soccer and didn't get to this week...
Anyhow, I think the point of this was orriginally about Toño... It's been really amazing to see how God has used him as an extension of pastoral ministry in the church, and opened up Elsa's heart to be willing to serve and support Toño in what sometimes seems pretty crazy.
Another example of how God is working in the lives of His people through Horizonte!
This past weekend, Martin (the pastor at Horizonte) and his family were in Mexico City visiting relatives. They were going to come back to Querétaro on saturday afternoon, but that night Toño received a frantic call from Martin saying that his father in law was in the hospital and that they wouldn't be able to come back for the Sunday service! He asked Toño to preach. This normally wouldn't have been such a big deal, but we are in the middle of a 4 week sermon series that Martin is preaching, using sermons from Andy Stanley (in English!) as his outline. Martin had his sermon all planned out, and basically preached it to Toño over the phone!
On Sunday morning, Toño clamly preached the message, and it came out just how Martin would have done it - same basic principles and ideas of the Andy Stanley sermons (I translated those for Matin, so I know what the originals were!). They day went really well despite several set-backs: Those of us who arrived at 8am found the church courtyard flooded, water entering the auditorium, and more water coming through the back wall onto the stage. Juan, who usually helps with maintenance and cleaning on Sunday mornings awoke to find his car filled with flood water and wasn't able to come early to help clean up the waters at church. Sara and Fer, two others who usually come early to help set up were respectively sick and in Mexico City. Martin and Mayte were in Mexico City. The rain had flooded the soccer field and we have a soccer tournament going on for 6 weeks.
Things were really looking bad for the day, but all turned out really well! Toño's impromtu sermon, new volunteers who arrived early to help clean up all the flood water, Mauricio who stepped in to organize the communion service, and good attitudes from those who had come to play soccer and didn't get to this week...
Anyhow, I think the point of this was orriginally about Toño... It's been really amazing to see how God has used him as an extension of pastoral ministry in the church, and opened up Elsa's heart to be willing to serve and support Toño in what sometimes seems pretty crazy.
Another example of how God is working in the lives of His people through Horizonte!
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Lives Changing...
There's been a TON of wonderful things going on here with the ministries of Iglesia Horizonte QRO, and I'd like to share just a few of those with you...
Dustin and Cecilia
Yesterday I went to the UAQ (State university of QRO) to hand out flyers for english classes that we offer at Global Grounds Cafe. While I was there, a young guy (Dustin) came up to me and asked if I teach the classes and if I am from the States. I said yes to both, and he excitedly started telling me how he recently moved - permanently - to QRO from Atlanta. His girlfriend, Cecilia, came up and joined in on the conversation. It turns out that Dustin has Mexican family members who live in Apaseo el Grande Guanajuato (about a 40 minute drive from QRO). He came to visit his family last Christmas, met Cecilia through his cousin, and really liked her. He decided to drop everything in the States and move to Apaseo! Here's the thing - Dustin barely speaks spanish, went to college in Atlanta, had a really good job, and is clueless about Mexican culture, much less small-town-Guanajuato culture (which is vastly different from life in the somewhat lage city of Queretaro).
Dustin and Cecilia came to Global today. Brisa, Lluvia, and I were talking with Cecilia which Justin was talking with Dustin. Cecilia told us girls that she feels so bad because she thinks Dustin moved to Apaseo to be with her, but she really isn't interested in him, and he left his life in Atlanta to come here! At the same time, Dustin was saying to Justin how he wants to build a house in Apaseo or maybe QRO, and marry Cecilia! Now THERE'S an interesting situation...
I hope to be able to build a friendship with Cecilia (especially as I more or less understand Central Mexican culture, and kind of Atlanta culture, and am in a cross-cultural relationship myself). We are also inviting the couple to the soccer tournaments that are going on at Horizonte church on sunday afternoons, and Dustin really like soccer.
Speaking of the soccer tournaments...
Karla and Family
A few weeks ago, a young girl (maye 14 years old?) was walking down the street on a sunday morning, passed Horizonte, and happend to notice a poster in the church entryway about a soccer tournament. Karla LOVES soccer, so she asked for more info, and found out that the tournament started at 1pm after the church service, and that they still needed more men and women for the teams. She went home and got her dad, and both attended the morning service (which happened to be a Salsa praise concert) and played soccer. The mom came to watch them play. They hadn't gone to evangelical church before, but kind of liked it! Karla, her mom, and dad all returned at 10am the next week for the service and soccer. But this past week, only Karla and her dad were here. When someone asked about the mom, they said that she had decided to go to the church across the street (it's a Jehovah's Witness place!!) because she liked those people better, but that she'd come to watch soccer. Oops! We are now worried about the mom, and want to make a huge effort to reach out to her, befriend her, and love her with the love of God, so she will know and accept the Truth!
Yaneth
I'd mentioned Yaneth in a previous entry, she's the young mom/wife with cancer that we painted her house. Well, the last two weeks, Martin (Horizonte pastor) has been talking about investing in peoples' lives, and inviting them to church. We want our sunday morning services to be a welcoming environment to those who are normally scared of church and Christians, and that to do that, we're starting 2 Sunday services (to be able to reach more people), and we'll need more volunteers to be able to have 2 services.
Yaneth went to the church during the week (getting from the truck to her wheel chair by herself! Something that she hasn't been able to do in probably 6 months!) to talk with Martin and his wife Mayte (MY-tay). She said that Martin's messages had really touched her and that she was ready to serve wherever needed! Martin says that if this isn't a wake up call to all the people who sit on their butts every sunday and never help out with anything at the church, to actually VOLUNTEER, nothing will probably get them in gear! So, Yaneth will be joining the welcome team on sunday mornings helping us pass out boletins, and helping visit the sick people of the church during the week! Isn't it amazing to see a woman in a wheel chair who has a good deal of pain on a regular basis still want to serve God in the church wherever needed?!
Dustin and Cecilia
Yesterday I went to the UAQ (State university of QRO) to hand out flyers for english classes that we offer at Global Grounds Cafe. While I was there, a young guy (Dustin) came up to me and asked if I teach the classes and if I am from the States. I said yes to both, and he excitedly started telling me how he recently moved - permanently - to QRO from Atlanta. His girlfriend, Cecilia, came up and joined in on the conversation. It turns out that Dustin has Mexican family members who live in Apaseo el Grande Guanajuato (about a 40 minute drive from QRO). He came to visit his family last Christmas, met Cecilia through his cousin, and really liked her. He decided to drop everything in the States and move to Apaseo! Here's the thing - Dustin barely speaks spanish, went to college in Atlanta, had a really good job, and is clueless about Mexican culture, much less small-town-Guanajuato culture (which is vastly different from life in the somewhat lage city of Queretaro).
Dustin and Cecilia came to Global today. Brisa, Lluvia, and I were talking with Cecilia which Justin was talking with Dustin. Cecilia told us girls that she feels so bad because she thinks Dustin moved to Apaseo to be with her, but she really isn't interested in him, and he left his life in Atlanta to come here! At the same time, Dustin was saying to Justin how he wants to build a house in Apaseo or maybe QRO, and marry Cecilia! Now THERE'S an interesting situation...
I hope to be able to build a friendship with Cecilia (especially as I more or less understand Central Mexican culture, and kind of Atlanta culture, and am in a cross-cultural relationship myself). We are also inviting the couple to the soccer tournaments that are going on at Horizonte church on sunday afternoons, and Dustin really like soccer.
Speaking of the soccer tournaments...
Karla and Family
A few weeks ago, a young girl (maye 14 years old?) was walking down the street on a sunday morning, passed Horizonte, and happend to notice a poster in the church entryway about a soccer tournament. Karla LOVES soccer, so she asked for more info, and found out that the tournament started at 1pm after the church service, and that they still needed more men and women for the teams. She went home and got her dad, and both attended the morning service (which happened to be a Salsa praise concert) and played soccer. The mom came to watch them play. They hadn't gone to evangelical church before, but kind of liked it! Karla, her mom, and dad all returned at 10am the next week for the service and soccer. But this past week, only Karla and her dad were here. When someone asked about the mom, they said that she had decided to go to the church across the street (it's a Jehovah's Witness place!!) because she liked those people better, but that she'd come to watch soccer. Oops! We are now worried about the mom, and want to make a huge effort to reach out to her, befriend her, and love her with the love of God, so she will know and accept the Truth!
Yaneth
I'd mentioned Yaneth in a previous entry, she's the young mom/wife with cancer that we painted her house. Well, the last two weeks, Martin (Horizonte pastor) has been talking about investing in peoples' lives, and inviting them to church. We want our sunday morning services to be a welcoming environment to those who are normally scared of church and Christians, and that to do that, we're starting 2 Sunday services (to be able to reach more people), and we'll need more volunteers to be able to have 2 services.
Yaneth went to the church during the week (getting from the truck to her wheel chair by herself! Something that she hasn't been able to do in probably 6 months!) to talk with Martin and his wife Mayte (MY-tay). She said that Martin's messages had really touched her and that she was ready to serve wherever needed! Martin says that if this isn't a wake up call to all the people who sit on their butts every sunday and never help out with anything at the church, to actually VOLUNTEER, nothing will probably get them in gear! So, Yaneth will be joining the welcome team on sunday mornings helping us pass out boletins, and helping visit the sick people of the church during the week! Isn't it amazing to see a woman in a wheel chair who has a good deal of pain on a regular basis still want to serve God in the church wherever needed?!
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Hurricanes in Queretaro??
Since last sunday, when we heard that a hurricane was coming toward Mexico, I heard lots of people say that we don't need to worry because hurricanes never come to QRO.
On tuesday, we got a call from an International Teams' supervisor in Costa Rica wondering if we were going to be okay here. Immediately after that, we got a call from North Point in Atlanta wanting two guys who were helping us out that day to go back to Atlanta (they stayed here). Wednesday, it rained all day, but not really very hard. I left the church at about 7pm though, and there were NO busses running. In fact, a lot of stuff had closed down for the evening. The hurricane was projected to hit wednesday at midnight. Schools and many jobs were cancelled for thursday. So we all hunkered down in our homes for the night. I even moved everything that could be ruined if wet off my floor and onto my desk, put towels under my window and by the doors of the house. (My window leaks lots of water if it rains and is really windy). I was pretty nervous about our "skylight" in the stairway that is corrugated plastic. But I went to be about 11pm, and it was just raining a little bit. I didn't wake up until 7am, and everything was fine! The ground had even started to dry from the rain the day before.
So, my first hurricane I guess wasn't exactly anything to worry about. But, hurricane season has just started...
On tuesday, we got a call from an International Teams' supervisor in Costa Rica wondering if we were going to be okay here. Immediately after that, we got a call from North Point in Atlanta wanting two guys who were helping us out that day to go back to Atlanta (they stayed here). Wednesday, it rained all day, but not really very hard. I left the church at about 7pm though, and there were NO busses running. In fact, a lot of stuff had closed down for the evening. The hurricane was projected to hit wednesday at midnight. Schools and many jobs were cancelled for thursday. So we all hunkered down in our homes for the night. I even moved everything that could be ruined if wet off my floor and onto my desk, put towels under my window and by the doors of the house. (My window leaks lots of water if it rains and is really windy). I was pretty nervous about our "skylight" in the stairway that is corrugated plastic. But I went to be about 11pm, and it was just raining a little bit. I didn't wake up until 7am, and everything was fine! The ground had even started to dry from the rain the day before.
So, my first hurricane I guess wasn't exactly anything to worry about. But, hurricane season has just started...
Friday, August 17, 2007
A Day in the Life
Just wanted to add a few pictures of "normalness" that I rather enjoy here in Queretaro!!
A group of us hanging out at Global:
Chalio and Daniela at a taco stand:
Chalio, Dany, Me, and Brisa with Elotes (corn on the cob smothered in mayonaise, rolled in cheese, and sprinkled with lime and chile):
Making full use of car space to get everyone to the Centro:
And me, enjoying a street taco: (I have a LOT of pictures of food, don't I. Hmmm, you just can't beat Mexican cuisine!!)
A group of us hanging out at Global:
Chalio and Daniela at a taco stand:
Chalio, Dany, Me, and Brisa with Elotes (corn on the cob smothered in mayonaise, rolled in cheese, and sprinkled with lime and chile):
Making full use of car space to get everyone to the Centro:
And me, enjoying a street taco: (I have a LOT of pictures of food, don't I. Hmmm, you just can't beat Mexican cuisine!!)
Daniela and the Others
Divine appointment? I think so. Here's the story of how we met Daniela and the others.
One night, Rafa (a Christian kid who doesn't really have anything to do who's always in Global) was walking in the Centro about 11pm. He passed by a restaurant that was closing, and a girl randomly came out, looked around, saw Rafa and asked him if he's walk with her to her house, which is on the other side of the Centro so she didn't have to walk alone at night. (I personally think that if I'm ever stuck in the Centro alone with no money for a taxi and no phone to call someone I know, I'd risk walking along rather than ask a guy that I'd never met before to walk me home! But not to worry, I always have my phone with me, and I don't exactly find myself alone in the Centro at 11pm...) Anyhow, he agreed and walked her home. Upon arriving and her house, Daniela asked Rafa if it wouldn't be too much trouble to come by the next night to walk with her again. He agreed.
The next night, Rafa asked Elise (a girl who was working with us for 2 months) to go with him to walk Daniela home. She went, and hit it off really well with Daniela. She and Elise began getting togther for lunch and stuff.
Ana (one of the many!) is a girl who cleans house for Jesus and Lucero, the couple that Elise lived with. Ana is 24. Elise invited Ana to go out to lunch with her and Daniela, and the three became friends together, despite the fact that Ana comes from a much different socio-economic background than Daniela.
Maren is a German girl who moved in with Jesus and Lucero about a week before Elise left. She's 21, and is in Mexico for 3 months working at the company that Lucero works for. So Elise took Maren pretty much everywhere with her for the first few days. She is now good friends with Daniela and Ana.
Toni is a guy who just moved to QRO from Zacatecas to study law at the state university here. Rafa saw him by himself one day, and, seeing as Rafa only has like 2 classes and not much to do, and Toni didn't know anyone, the two became fast friends and also hang out with the three girls mentioned above.
Wow. So here we have some definite ministry opportunities. These four young people are all betweem 21 and 24 years old, didn't really know many people in QRO, and therefore became good friends together. None of them are Christians (that I know of) and I really hope that we (myself and other Christian friends) will have many opportunities to share the love of God with them through the friendships that are beginning!
Please pray for Daniela, Ana, Maren, and Toni!
Here are Chalio, Daniela and Elise hanging out at Global:
One night, Rafa (a Christian kid who doesn't really have anything to do who's always in Global) was walking in the Centro about 11pm. He passed by a restaurant that was closing, and a girl randomly came out, looked around, saw Rafa and asked him if he's walk with her to her house, which is on the other side of the Centro so she didn't have to walk alone at night. (I personally think that if I'm ever stuck in the Centro alone with no money for a taxi and no phone to call someone I know, I'd risk walking along rather than ask a guy that I'd never met before to walk me home! But not to worry, I always have my phone with me, and I don't exactly find myself alone in the Centro at 11pm...) Anyhow, he agreed and walked her home. Upon arriving and her house, Daniela asked Rafa if it wouldn't be too much trouble to come by the next night to walk with her again. He agreed.
The next night, Rafa asked Elise (a girl who was working with us for 2 months) to go with him to walk Daniela home. She went, and hit it off really well with Daniela. She and Elise began getting togther for lunch and stuff.
Ana (one of the many!) is a girl who cleans house for Jesus and Lucero, the couple that Elise lived with. Ana is 24. Elise invited Ana to go out to lunch with her and Daniela, and the three became friends together, despite the fact that Ana comes from a much different socio-economic background than Daniela.
Maren is a German girl who moved in with Jesus and Lucero about a week before Elise left. She's 21, and is in Mexico for 3 months working at the company that Lucero works for. So Elise took Maren pretty much everywhere with her for the first few days. She is now good friends with Daniela and Ana.
Toni is a guy who just moved to QRO from Zacatecas to study law at the state university here. Rafa saw him by himself one day, and, seeing as Rafa only has like 2 classes and not much to do, and Toni didn't know anyone, the two became fast friends and also hang out with the three girls mentioned above.
Wow. So here we have some definite ministry opportunities. These four young people are all betweem 21 and 24 years old, didn't really know many people in QRO, and therefore became good friends together. None of them are Christians (that I know of) and I really hope that we (myself and other Christian friends) will have many opportunities to share the love of God with them through the friendships that are beginning!
Please pray for Daniela, Ana, Maren, and Toni!
Here are Chalio, Daniela and Elise hanging out at Global:
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Enthralled by Rain
After living in Salem Oregon for 24 years, you'd think that I wouldn't be very amused by rain. I'm really not sure why I am, and this is probably like the 4th journal entry I've written about weather since I've been here, I guess it's just an interest of mine!
Here's one day in July (supposedly not rainy season yet) in the Centro. This was not even FIVE MINUTES after it started raining!! The drainage system leaves a lot to be desired...
And here's my foot in the grass in our back yard, I think this was in June. I didn't even know there COULD be such big puddles in grass!
Here's one day in July (supposedly not rainy season yet) in the Centro. This was not even FIVE MINUTES after it started raining!! The drainage system leaves a lot to be desired...
And here's my foot in the grass in our back yard, I think this was in June. I didn't even know there COULD be such big puddles in grass!
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Yaneth
Ok, here's the pictures I had promised from Yaneth's house... Yaneth is the young mom with cancer from Iglesia Horizonte who we (the college group) helped paint their house.
Yaneth (in the wheel chair), her mom "Mama Tere" behind her, her husband Javier, and son Emilio.
The outside of the house before:
Brisa rolling on some fresh white paint on the inside of the house, with Jimena, Yaneth's little daughter watching. Jimena actually helped a lot with painting inside! And she's only 7!
Marly, Brisa, and I get in on the fun...
Tuesday through friday we worked on the house. It was really rather tiring, but WELL worth the blessing we received, and I hope that Yaneth and family recieved too!
Yaneth (in the wheel chair), her mom "Mama Tere" behind her, her husband Javier, and son Emilio.
The outside of the house before:
And after! Yep, we just said "no" to pink panther pink, and put on a nice green instead... good choice Yaneth!
Brisa rolling on some fresh white paint on the inside of the house, with Jimena, Yaneth's little daughter watching. Jimena actually helped a lot with painting inside! And she's only 7!
Marly, Brisa, and I get in on the fun...
Mmmm, chilaquile day! Chilaquiles = fresh tortilla chips dropped into boiling salsa until they get soggy. I LOVE Chilaquiles, and I made these ones... from scratch! No canned salsa in my house, this was cooked tomatoes, tomatillos, onions, jalapeños, and epazote!
(In the picture from left to right - Dora (Yaneth's sister), Dora's daughter, Mama Tere, Emilio hiding in there, Dora's son, Yaneth, Jimena, Jana, Dany, me, Marly, and Elise.)
Jean Paul trying out the paint for the outside of the house:
Even Jana's dad Pepe (a roofer by profession) got in on the painting action, with JP looking down from the roof:
You THINK I'm standing on a ladder, but I'm really standing on the decorative metal bars that protect the window, holding on with my right hand leaning over to reach all that I can... having only one small ladder available meant lots of climbing window bars and leaning over the roof!
Dany finishes off the outside-back of the house...
Tuesday through friday we worked on the house. It was really rather tiring, but WELL worth the blessing we received, and I hope that Yaneth and family recieved too!
Friday, July 13, 2007
Horizonte x2
It's official, Horizonte Church will now have two morning services! We are at about 80-90% capacity in the auditorium, and have actually have new people come into the church and leave because it looks like there are no available seats!! We DON'T want that! There are of course going to be people who are reluctant to change to two services, as in all churches when it's time for a change. But this is being presented to the church like this:
Our goal is to reach more people in QRO through our morning service. In order to to that, we need to have enough seats for everyone so no one leaves from lack of a seat. In order to have more seats we either need to: expand the auditorium (can't exactly happen due to lack of money), or have another service. It's all about reaching more people!
Please pray for us during this transition. As of now, we don't have two sets of people to cover two services, so many will be serving during both services (worship team, greeters, sound, etc). We also want to offer sunday school classed (UpStreet and Waumba) during both services, so we'll need more sunday school volunteers so each set of teachers can go to a service as well.
We will be doing vision-casting services for this soon, and a celebration service because God has allowed us the opportunity to grow and reach more people! The first day of double services will be September 30.
Oh, and I'll be in Salem (and Willamette Valley area in general!) Sept. 5-12, so if anyone wants to get together, let me know!!
Our goal is to reach more people in QRO through our morning service. In order to to that, we need to have enough seats for everyone so no one leaves from lack of a seat. In order to have more seats we either need to: expand the auditorium (can't exactly happen due to lack of money), or have another service. It's all about reaching more people!
Please pray for us during this transition. As of now, we don't have two sets of people to cover two services, so many will be serving during both services (worship team, greeters, sound, etc). We also want to offer sunday school classed (UpStreet and Waumba) during both services, so we'll need more sunday school volunteers so each set of teachers can go to a service as well.
We will be doing vision-casting services for this soon, and a celebration service because God has allowed us the opportunity to grow and reach more people! The first day of double services will be September 30.
Oh, and I'll be in Salem (and Willamette Valley area in general!) Sept. 5-12, so if anyone wants to get together, let me know!!
Hasta Luego??
One thing that I am really terrible at is saying goodbye to people. I've been to Honduras and El Salvador several times each, and everytime I cry when I leave. I know that I'll be back, but I still cry and it takes a few days (or longer!) to get over it. My first time hosting a short-term mission team (well, helping host) was in Honduras in 2004. A team of high school students came for a week and I bawled when they left. I realized that if I was going to be a long term missionary, I'd need to get over it and not let it bother me so bad to leave people.
I'm fine with the short term teams leaving now. But the first time we had an intern here in QRO for 2 months, I bawled when she left! I'm actually starting to get used to the two month people leaving. But now, we had Helena, who was here for FIVE months. I bawled when she left! It's really hard to have people leave, and Helena was especially hard... It's rare that we get people here that are truly from MY culture. Many of our interns and all of our teams are from the southern USA, and truth be told, I fit in a lot better in Mexican culture, and understand better Mexican culture than the culture of the south. Helena's from Arizona, so we're both extremely informal westerners. She's 20 and single, and speaks the same native language as I do... even with the same accent! haha! She was here for a third of the time that I've been here, so it's like she's just always supposed to be here. But she's not anymore.
Will I EVER be able to learn to deal with saying goodbye to people?! I dread the day I have to leave QRO for good if that ever happens! Even tough Helena left, I still live in the same place, have all the same friends (minus one without her), do the same things. She is the one who has to re-adjust to everything again. What happens if someday it's ME leaving here?! I don't even want to think about that...
Anyhow, God has always gotten me through the goodbyes (I want to call them BADbyes), and I suppose it might get easier...
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Here Comes the BOOM!
Casualties avoided, but the grace of God!!
Yesterday Roberto (my little brother here) was outside and I smelled gas. He was trying to light the water-heater and said that he thought it wouldn't work because there was a gas line explosion somewhere. Well, we have our own gas (I think it's actually propaine) tank on top of our house, so I lit the water heater and went on with life.
A little while later, Gaby came home from work - like 3 hours early! She said that the school she works at was evacuated because everything smelled like gas, but just on her street.
I went on with normal life and proceeded to go to the Centro to run some errands. When I got off the bus, my nose was assaulted with a nasty gas smell. And the pizza place that I was going to grab a slice at was closed. Well, on my trek to the post office, I noticed that everywhere smelled like gas, there were angry restaurant owners talking with the police on almost every street, and traffic was horrible.
I found out later that there had indeed been a gas line explosion!! It happened in a small town on the Queretaro/Guanajuato border (like a 20 minute drive from my house!) I probably would've heard the explosion had I been awake when it happend. My friends Ana and Ahide who live even closer to the explosion woke up from it. Miraculously, NO ONE was killed! There was a LOT of damage done to buildings and land, and all the natural gas in the City of QRO and surrounding areas was knocked out for the day. But wow, it could've been a lot worse! In Mexico City (in the 80's I think?) a whole neighborhood got blown to smithereens from a gas explosion! I'm thankful that this time ended with no deaths, and I'm thankful also for our propaine tank on top of the house!
(Just one question... I have smelt natural gas in Oregon many times when the stove doesn't light right away, and it stinks like animal poop or eggs or something. The gas line that broke here was natural gas, not propaine, and it didn't smell ANYTHING like natural gas in my parents' house, but everyone said that the smell is natural gas! Are the gas pipes in Oregon rotten or something??)
Yesterday Roberto (my little brother here) was outside and I smelled gas. He was trying to light the water-heater and said that he thought it wouldn't work because there was a gas line explosion somewhere. Well, we have our own gas (I think it's actually propaine) tank on top of our house, so I lit the water heater and went on with life.
A little while later, Gaby came home from work - like 3 hours early! She said that the school she works at was evacuated because everything smelled like gas, but just on her street.
I went on with normal life and proceeded to go to the Centro to run some errands. When I got off the bus, my nose was assaulted with a nasty gas smell. And the pizza place that I was going to grab a slice at was closed. Well, on my trek to the post office, I noticed that everywhere smelled like gas, there were angry restaurant owners talking with the police on almost every street, and traffic was horrible.
I found out later that there had indeed been a gas line explosion!! It happened in a small town on the Queretaro/Guanajuato border (like a 20 minute drive from my house!) I probably would've heard the explosion had I been awake when it happend. My friends Ana and Ahide who live even closer to the explosion woke up from it. Miraculously, NO ONE was killed! There was a LOT of damage done to buildings and land, and all the natural gas in the City of QRO and surrounding areas was knocked out for the day. But wow, it could've been a lot worse! In Mexico City (in the 80's I think?) a whole neighborhood got blown to smithereens from a gas explosion! I'm thankful that this time ended with no deaths, and I'm thankful also for our propaine tank on top of the house!
(Just one question... I have smelt natural gas in Oregon many times when the stove doesn't light right away, and it stinks like animal poop or eggs or something. The gas line that broke here was natural gas, not propaine, and it didn't smell ANYTHING like natural gas in my parents' house, but everyone said that the smell is natural gas! Are the gas pipes in Oregon rotten or something??)
Friday, July 06, 2007
The Good Old Days
Those of you who have been here in Queretaro know that I don't see a lot of poverty on a daily basis. Yes, there are the homeless people asking for money in the streets, but hey, I worked at Great Harvest Bread in downtown Salem, I think I now see about the same amount of homeless people per day as when I worked there. My friends here, as well as the young people with whom I work, aren't starving to death by any means. They have a moderate array of clothes to choose from everyday, and can generally scrounge up some money to go to a movie or grab a coffee. The people that I am with on a daily basis are your basic middle-class Mexicans.
My friend Mariana is included in this "middle-class mexican" group of friends. Mariana is an 18-year old girl who just graduated from high school. I've been meeting with her on a regular basis since the beginning of the year. Her house is small, and nothing extravigant to be sure, but they have everything they need - food (really yummy food too! her mom's an awesome cook!!), enough clothes, money to get to and from school, money to enter college in august, a roof over their heads, hot water showers, etc. And I know that if Mariana or her brother wanted a candy bar or something, they wouldn't be denied that from lack of money.
The other day I was talking with Mariana, and she was telling me about when she used to live in Ensenada (about 2 hours south of San Diego CA). After Mariana and Alan's (her little brother) biological dad died, her mom got remarried, and later THAT dad died too, so they moved to QRO about 5 years ago to be close to the grandparents. I'd known all that since I've known Mariana. But it's always interesting to me to hear more in depth about what life was like in Ensenada...
Silvia (Mariana's mom) and her husband began to build a large house in a nicer neighborhood in Ensenada when the kids were young. I don't know what happened exactly, but the money dried up and the house was never completely finished. The family was stuck with a big house (owned by the bank because of loans they couldn't pay off) and no money to eat, buy clothes, etc. In fact, they didn't have cupboards or furniture in their kitchen, and got used ones from a rich friend who remodeled her kitchen. But the cupboards went in the bedrooms to make closets for the kids. And the countertops that they had in the unfinished kitchen were plywood; the kitchen floor bare concrete. Mariana told me that she remembered that right before her dad (second dad that is) died, a team of people from San Diego came and put a countertop in the kitchen, and tiles on the kitchen floor, and patched up holes in the non-waterproof roof. She told me about receiving a basketball from a team that came to help at their church, and she was SO happy to have the ball, she and her mom cried because Silvia couldn't have afforded to ever buy Mariana a basketball. Mariana and Alan remember receiving "Operation Christimas Child" boxes from Samaritan's Purse, and Mariana even told me with a smile on her face that she was so happy to open a box that had a doll, gloves, and toothbrush and paste in it! They even received their clothes from people from the States who gave away their used clothes. (Mariana and I wonder if they ever got MY clothes, we think it's funny that I went to Ensenada in 1999, and they were still living there, and were poor then!)
It's so hard for me to imagine all this for this family. God is so good; once they moved to QRO, Silvia's sister gave them a house, and Silvia got a good job, and they are now on their feet financially even to the point where Mariana will even enter college soon. Mariana said she was amazed, even as we sat in a coffee shop together drinking milkshakes, that it's hard to think that 6 years ago a milkshake was only a dream, a 50 cent chocolate bar was even out of reach for them! And today those things are a part of everyday life, just like they're a part of everyday life for you and me. It's amazing the miracles God works in peoples' lives...
My friend Mariana is included in this "middle-class mexican" group of friends. Mariana is an 18-year old girl who just graduated from high school. I've been meeting with her on a regular basis since the beginning of the year. Her house is small, and nothing extravigant to be sure, but they have everything they need - food (really yummy food too! her mom's an awesome cook!!), enough clothes, money to get to and from school, money to enter college in august, a roof over their heads, hot water showers, etc. And I know that if Mariana or her brother wanted a candy bar or something, they wouldn't be denied that from lack of money.
The other day I was talking with Mariana, and she was telling me about when she used to live in Ensenada (about 2 hours south of San Diego CA). After Mariana and Alan's (her little brother) biological dad died, her mom got remarried, and later THAT dad died too, so they moved to QRO about 5 years ago to be close to the grandparents. I'd known all that since I've known Mariana. But it's always interesting to me to hear more in depth about what life was like in Ensenada...
Silvia (Mariana's mom) and her husband began to build a large house in a nicer neighborhood in Ensenada when the kids were young. I don't know what happened exactly, but the money dried up and the house was never completely finished. The family was stuck with a big house (owned by the bank because of loans they couldn't pay off) and no money to eat, buy clothes, etc. In fact, they didn't have cupboards or furniture in their kitchen, and got used ones from a rich friend who remodeled her kitchen. But the cupboards went in the bedrooms to make closets for the kids. And the countertops that they had in the unfinished kitchen were plywood; the kitchen floor bare concrete. Mariana told me that she remembered that right before her dad (second dad that is) died, a team of people from San Diego came and put a countertop in the kitchen, and tiles on the kitchen floor, and patched up holes in the non-waterproof roof. She told me about receiving a basketball from a team that came to help at their church, and she was SO happy to have the ball, she and her mom cried because Silvia couldn't have afforded to ever buy Mariana a basketball. Mariana and Alan remember receiving "Operation Christimas Child" boxes from Samaritan's Purse, and Mariana even told me with a smile on her face that she was so happy to open a box that had a doll, gloves, and toothbrush and paste in it! They even received their clothes from people from the States who gave away their used clothes. (Mariana and I wonder if they ever got MY clothes, we think it's funny that I went to Ensenada in 1999, and they were still living there, and were poor then!)
It's so hard for me to imagine all this for this family. God is so good; once they moved to QRO, Silvia's sister gave them a house, and Silvia got a good job, and they are now on their feet financially even to the point where Mariana will even enter college soon. Mariana said she was amazed, even as we sat in a coffee shop together drinking milkshakes, that it's hard to think that 6 years ago a milkshake was only a dream, a 50 cent chocolate bar was even out of reach for them! And today those things are a part of everyday life, just like they're a part of everyday life for you and me. It's amazing the miracles God works in peoples' lives...
Bye Helena!
Ok, I haven't written here in FOREVER, so here is a brief update at what is going on...
Global is closed for the month of July, so that gives me some much needed time to catch up on the technical side of things at the cafe, and to meet up with some of the girls in my small group, and girls that I've met through Global.
On Monday, Helena, who was with us since the beginning of february, left for Arizona. She will be missed!!
Lots of friends at Helena's good-bye party:
Now THAT'S a mordida!! (yes, that is me on the left helping dunk Helena in her cake!!)
Dany and Helena goofing off enjoying the music!
Global is closed for the month of July, so that gives me some much needed time to catch up on the technical side of things at the cafe, and to meet up with some of the girls in my small group, and girls that I've met through Global.
On Monday, Helena, who was with us since the beginning of february, left for Arizona. She will be missed!!
Lots of friends at Helena's good-bye party:
Now THAT'S a mordida!! (yes, that is me on the left helping dunk Helena in her cake!!)
Dany and Helena goofing off enjoying the music!
Monday, June 18, 2007
North Point June 2007
Ok, I finally posted my pictures from the NPCC team that was here earlier this month. However, it's a lot easier to post them on FaceBook and not on this blog, so here is the link if you'd like to see the transformation of our children's environments at Horizonte, made possible by 14 wonderful folks from Atlanta! Click HERE!
The team came to help with decoration of our children's ministry areas, as well as do a training session and an example Sunday School class for our teachers, and to throw a thank you party for those who volunteer in Sunday School at Horizonte.
The team came to help with decoration of our children's ministry areas, as well as do a training session and an example Sunday School class for our teachers, and to throw a thank you party for those who volunteer in Sunday School at Horizonte.
Monday, June 11, 2007
No Manches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No manches = you've got to be kidding me
In Mexican spanish.
Ok, I'm probably the only one who really cares much about soccer, but I HAVE to write about this! Yesterday was the dreaded day in soccer that I knew would come to pass at some point in time... The Gold Cup soccer tournament (North and Central America and the Carribean) is happening now, and Mexico and Honduras played each other. Now, I've been "Honduran at heart" for years before moving to Mexico, but I LIVE in Mexico, so this was hard for me. However, if you ask who my favorite soccer players are, you'll definitely hear "Rafa Marquez, Oswaldo Sanchez, Omar Bravo, El Bofo, Ramon Morales" and a few others, all of whom are from Mexico. (Although if you wanted a really thorough list of my favorites, Tyson Nuñez and Wilson Palacios would appear in that list, and they are Hondurans).
So, Honduras doesn't have a world-renown soccer team. In fact, they've never been to a World Cup. It was kind of obvious that Mexico would win this game, but I still love my catrachos (Hondurans) and really wanted them to win. I didn't get to watch the game, and when I got to my house, I checked ESPN.com to see by how many points Mexico won. Front page of ESPN in spanish showed Hugo Sanchez (the Mexican coach) with an angry look on his face, and a game score of 1-2. I was in shock, it COULDN'T have been 1-2 and Honduras won... But it WAS!!!!! And, best of all, my LEAST favorite soccer player, Cuautemoc Blanco (I dont like him because he plays on my least favorite mexican team, and always bad-mouths the Chivas, and is a big show-off) was kicked out of the game!! Anyhow, I know Mexico will be in the next World Cup, which is a way bigger deal than the Gold Cup, and will hopefully do well, and Honduras never makes it far in soccer, so I'd just like to say that I'm proud of the Catracho soccer team, and proud to still be catracha at heart! I'll probably be living in Mexico the rest of my life, so I have plenty of time to root for them. Felicidades Catrachitos!!
Useful Missionary Skills - Part Two
Mom Skills
Ok, for those of you who just spit your Diet Coke out through your nose when you laughed after reading the words "mom skills" in my blog, let me explain...
This week I've had to be a mom to many people. Thankfully, these people all happen to be over the age of 20 (not quite ready for the little folks yet!!) As mentioned in my previous blog entry, we received two new interns a week ago, and also had 14 people from NPCC here this past week. I knew that this week would be in no way a normal week, but I was a little surprised (in a good way though!) at how it turned out!
Let me sum up the whole "mom" thing for you:
Wednesday night, I was walking around the Centro with some other gringos, enjoying the night and enjoying actually being with english speakers that are my age. My phone rang, and I saw that it was Helena (an intern who's been with us for 4 months now), so I figured I should answer it. It was actually Marly on the phone (a new intern) telling me that she was sick. I asked her the basic "stomach sickness" questions that I always ask, not even thinking about the fact that I had 5 other young adults with me who are not accostomed to stomach sicknesses. I had to walk away from them when they started dying of laughter from hearing my end of the conversation, so Marly wouldn't hear them laugh. Then Elise, the other new intern, got on the phone and told me that the couple that she is living with had left in the middle of the night before to go to Mexico City because Lucero's (the wife of the family) dad was dying. Elise didn't know if she should stay at the house, or find another place to stay or what. And quite frankly, neither did I.
I continued through the next day contacting Elise's Mexican family by phone to see what was up, and with Marly to see how she was doing, and that afternoon, Wyndi, a girl from NPCC got sick. I am getting rather good at knowing symptoms of minor stomach illnesses, so we went to the pharmacy and got the appropriate medicines. That night, Lindsey also became sick. I went home, and immediately contacted Marly to see if she was feeling better, and I felt bad for not having gone to visit her during the day. Elise was getting desperate about getting a new place to stay, and I still had no answer for her, so I set up a time to meet with her Friday morning. As soon as I hung up with Elise, the phone rang AGAIN, and it was my friend Ana crying, saying that she really needed to talk with me. So we set up a time to meet Friday, before the meeting with Elise.
I woke up on friday morning feeling rather sick to my stomach, but when you are playing mom to all these people, you just can't be sick yourself. So I met with Ana and we talked, cried, and prayed for a good two hours. I showed up late to meet with Elise, but we got things a little more worked out with her situation. By this time, half the NPCC team was sick, and I wasn't feeling any better myself.
Needless to say, it was a long week, and I'm thankful that I never will actually be a mom all of a sudden to 5 ladies between 20 and 29 years old (I'm only 26!!). All but 4 of the Atlanta team got sick before they left on monday morning, Marly is still sick, and Elise's mexican family has returned - the dad is still alive, but in intensive care, and I checked myself in to see Dr. Jessica at the "Self-Medication Clinic" (in other words, I've not gone to the doctor, just bought what I know I need at the pharmacy).
I wonder if this is somewhat close to what it's like to be a mom - trying to take care of several people while you are not feeling well and are not getting any sleep either. By the way, I really hope this whole story doesn't come across as whiney sounding. I really enjoy having the team here working at the church (more to come on the NPCC team, with PICTURES!) and God has really pulled me though by giving me just enough strength for what I'll need in any given day!
Anyhow, I'm off to take my meds, and get a few hours of sleep before taking Marly to see another doctor...
Ok, for those of you who just spit your Diet Coke out through your nose when you laughed after reading the words "mom skills" in my blog, let me explain...
This week I've had to be a mom to many people. Thankfully, these people all happen to be over the age of 20 (not quite ready for the little folks yet!!) As mentioned in my previous blog entry, we received two new interns a week ago, and also had 14 people from NPCC here this past week. I knew that this week would be in no way a normal week, but I was a little surprised (in a good way though!) at how it turned out!
Let me sum up the whole "mom" thing for you:
Wednesday night, I was walking around the Centro with some other gringos, enjoying the night and enjoying actually being with english speakers that are my age. My phone rang, and I saw that it was Helena (an intern who's been with us for 4 months now), so I figured I should answer it. It was actually Marly on the phone (a new intern) telling me that she was sick. I asked her the basic "stomach sickness" questions that I always ask, not even thinking about the fact that I had 5 other young adults with me who are not accostomed to stomach sicknesses. I had to walk away from them when they started dying of laughter from hearing my end of the conversation, so Marly wouldn't hear them laugh. Then Elise, the other new intern, got on the phone and told me that the couple that she is living with had left in the middle of the night before to go to Mexico City because Lucero's (the wife of the family) dad was dying. Elise didn't know if she should stay at the house, or find another place to stay or what. And quite frankly, neither did I.
I continued through the next day contacting Elise's Mexican family by phone to see what was up, and with Marly to see how she was doing, and that afternoon, Wyndi, a girl from NPCC got sick. I am getting rather good at knowing symptoms of minor stomach illnesses, so we went to the pharmacy and got the appropriate medicines. That night, Lindsey also became sick. I went home, and immediately contacted Marly to see if she was feeling better, and I felt bad for not having gone to visit her during the day. Elise was getting desperate about getting a new place to stay, and I still had no answer for her, so I set up a time to meet with her Friday morning. As soon as I hung up with Elise, the phone rang AGAIN, and it was my friend Ana crying, saying that she really needed to talk with me. So we set up a time to meet Friday, before the meeting with Elise.
I woke up on friday morning feeling rather sick to my stomach, but when you are playing mom to all these people, you just can't be sick yourself. So I met with Ana and we talked, cried, and prayed for a good two hours. I showed up late to meet with Elise, but we got things a little more worked out with her situation. By this time, half the NPCC team was sick, and I wasn't feeling any better myself.
Needless to say, it was a long week, and I'm thankful that I never will actually be a mom all of a sudden to 5 ladies between 20 and 29 years old (I'm only 26!!). All but 4 of the Atlanta team got sick before they left on monday morning, Marly is still sick, and Elise's mexican family has returned - the dad is still alive, but in intensive care, and I checked myself in to see Dr. Jessica at the "Self-Medication Clinic" (in other words, I've not gone to the doctor, just bought what I know I need at the pharmacy).
I wonder if this is somewhat close to what it's like to be a mom - trying to take care of several people while you are not feeling well and are not getting any sleep either. By the way, I really hope this whole story doesn't come across as whiney sounding. I really enjoy having the team here working at the church (more to come on the NPCC team, with PICTURES!) and God has really pulled me though by giving me just enough strength for what I'll need in any given day!
Anyhow, I'm off to take my meds, and get a few hours of sleep before taking Marly to see another doctor...
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Still Here...
Hey, I haven't dropped off the face of the earth or anything, I've just been real busy, all is well, and there's lots of stuff going on so I'll write a good blog as soon as possible...
Extremely brief summary of the past couple weeks:
Extremely brief summary of the past couple weeks:
- New construction happening at Iglesia Horizonte - building a new nursery and childrens' area.
- Two new interns came for two months, one from Minnesota and one from Iowa.
- An NPCC short term team came in last night to help with the contruction projects and work more on childrens' curriculum with the sunday school directors.
Pictures of all this, plus a better update, coming hopefully later this week!!
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Useful Missionary Skills - Part One
Crafts
Crafts can be a way to get to know people and to encourage people. Who would've guessed that making cards from paper could be a part of ministry?! I've always enjoyed making cards and other things from rubber stamps, stickers, and cool paper. I've found that here, people are a lot more likely to come to an event if they receive a personal invitation. So, to get to know my college girls (from small group) better, we are going to go to a new cafe together this thursday. I decided to make invitations, as it is more personal and easier to remember than intiving by work of mouth. We'll see how the turn out is on thursday! But the girls did seem happy to receive invitations that were hand made and personal! Here are the invitations before actually writing the event, location, date, etc.
Crafts can be a way to get to know people and to encourage people. Who would've guessed that making cards from paper could be a part of ministry?! I've always enjoyed making cards and other things from rubber stamps, stickers, and cool paper. I've found that here, people are a lot more likely to come to an event if they receive a personal invitation. So, to get to know my college girls (from small group) better, we are going to go to a new cafe together this thursday. I decided to make invitations, as it is more personal and easier to remember than intiving by work of mouth. We'll see how the turn out is on thursday! But the girls did seem happy to receive invitations that were hand made and personal! Here are the invitations before actually writing the event, location, date, etc.
Rose makes really neat earrings, and had a once a week class on making earrings for college girls at Global Grounds. There wasn't a big turnout, but this is something that girls are interested in (EVERYONE wears earrings here all the time!), and Rose used it as a way to get to know girls in a casual setting.
Keep looking for blog posts about odd skills that can be useful in ministry!!
Bye Rose!
On Monday we said goodbye to Rose, a 28 year old lady from Indonesia (lives in Australia) who has been working with us since March.
Rose stayed with Silvia and her kids:
We had a goodbye party for Rose on Friday at Global Grounds. LOTS of people who Rose met during her time here came to say goodbye! Here is Rose after taking a "mordida" of her cake:
Some of the party guests goofing around!
Ana, Rubén, Rose, Dany, and Casandra posing for a picture:
Rose stayed with Silvia and her kids:
We had a goodbye party for Rose on Friday at Global Grounds. LOTS of people who Rose met during her time here came to say goodbye! Here is Rose after taking a "mordida" of her cake:
Some of the party guests goofing around!
Ana, Rubén, Rose, Dany, and Casandra posing for a picture:
Rose has been a great blessing to our ministry here, and will be missed!
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Uff, Futbol's Over
I was at Yola's house today with JP. We went because Yola's family (with the exception of her wayward son, Alex!) are avid Chivas fans. Chivas played America (it's a mexican league soccer team, NOT a team from the USA) today to see who plays Pachuca in the final. All we needed to to was win by one measly point. And it was a home game, in Guadalajara. But it didn't happen. It was 0-0 for about 70 minutes, then America scored and we knew it was all over. Bummer.
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