Preparing for Easter in Mexico!

As we prepare for our first Easter at Lighthouse Church, we want to thank our wonderful church family for their commitment to God and their church. Many have given hours of their time over the past few months to volunteer with set up, preparing continental breakfast, greeting, overheads, nursery & children's ministry, clean up after service and small groups (just to mention a few). Thank you so much!

Much to do this week and we trust God to honor our efforts as we communicate Easter Sunday Services to our area. We will hand out hundreds of fliers and posters to individuals, resorts and hotels. We have several listings on local electronic forum pages, and we'll try any other way we can find to invite people to church. Our goal is to have over 60 in our service. We trust God for a great Sunday.

We are praying for churches across the world as they celebrate the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ this next week. We look forward to hearing from you and we expect great things for you and yours. Because of Jesus.

Quiet, Productive Week

It was a cool, quiet week in Tulum. We had our normal activities; small groups, staff meeting, weekly outreach and added a Saturday birthday party for Bill and Renee.

We are gearing up for Easter 2010. We have had new fliers, posters and business cards made and hope to get them delivered to hotels, resorts, restaurants, and local businesses by April 1st. Our goal is to have 60 people for our first Easter Service. Yesterday our attendance was 35, with 4 first time attendees. We're going for the "everyone brings ONE" and trusting God we'll go over this goal. We've never had 60 before. 52 has been the high, so we're planning to break this attendance barrier.

God is presenting us with new opportunities here in Tulum. We have 2 more mission teams on the calendar for this summer and fall. Many others have contacted us about the possibility of coming to assist us with local fix up construction projects and local outreach. We continue to trust God for leadership and direction as we reach our area for Christ.

"Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before you. Make level paths for your feet and take only ways that are firm. Do no swerve to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil." Proverbs 4:25-27

First Lighthouse Church 101

Victory Outreach Ministry

We had our first Lighthouse Church 101-Discovering Church Membership yesterday. We had 8 attend and everyone enjoyed learning the purposes and strategy of Lighthouse Church based on God's Word. Thank you, Terry, for preparing this seminar with your people in mind, and you did it in less than 3 hours. You are my favorite!

We had a good week in Tulum and finished off the week with about 3 hours at the beach on Friday with Estrada, Cora and EJ from Anchorage, Alaska. How sweet it is to renew friendships. Our time together made us grateful for Christian friends who have shared their lives with us and we have shared ours with them. We were also blessed to see Faren and Stephanie Chase once again before they left Mexico. FRIENDS ARE OUR BLESSINGS FROM GOD THE FATHER!

We had 2 contacts this past week from churches wanting to send down mission teams this summer and fall. We are so excited. We have many things in mind for them to do in the way of ministry and outreach. Please keep us in your prayers as we reach out into our community and through our church to assist those in need and to enable others to be blessed by others wanting to serve God here in Mexico on short term mission trips. I know this will only make peoples lives better and will make Jesus smile.

First Mission Family to Lighthouse Church

We had our first incoming Mission Family serve at Lighthouse Church this week. The Campions, our good friends from Minnesota. They were able to paint a bodega (storage shed), redo our courtyard flower garden, attend our small group, visit and take some supplies to Victory Outreach Ministry here in Tulum, assist in set up at worship on Sunday morning. They worked very hard, and were a great encouragement. They were also able to go to the beach, go sailing on a 50 foot catamaran, go to Xel-Ha and enjoy the pool here at the house.

We are so thankful they were here to help us. We truly enjoyed renewing our friendship and sharing our vision for our work here in Tulum. We were able to also see Doug, Faren and Stefanie Chase from Anchorage.

We have our first Lighthouse Church 101 this Sunday, March 14th and have 6 signed up to attend. We continue to see growth everyday and continue to trust God for a more permanent place to hold Lighthouse Church worship on Sundays.

Check out the slide show of our First Mission Family to Lighthouse Church.