Weekly Bible study with Areli and her family
Bajio couples' conference on "Raising a Family in Today's Society"
Lori and Eva at the conference
Lori and the girls dissected some flowers for science in home school
Looking at the flower parts
At a fellow missionary's wedding
Family picture at the wedding
The kids enjoyed playing with the other kids at the wedding
With the happy couple - Janine & Gabriel
Kendra and her friend, Karina, enjoying cake
Lori teaching Sunday School at our church
Sunday School
A time of fellowship with church people at our home
The fellowship was sweet!
Enjoying a new park near our house - the only thing is that the park is in the medial strip of a busy avenue! I guess they use the space available!
Ben enjoying the new park
Our kids with the McManus boys at the new park- anybody have bananas for the monkeys?
Circuit director's retreat - L to R: Stu & Cristina Grewatz, Bryan & Lori, Pete & Beth Gross, and our field director, Jim Eberline.
Lori helped out in the kitchen at the camp for a lady's retreat
Ladies' Retreat - the women were from the Abundant Life Bible Church in San Juan del Rio
Lori's still in the kitchen!
Ben in his Tuesday & Thursday school uniform
The kidos are getting big!
Ben's ready for another day at school!
An Envoy missions conference where Bryan helped translate. The focus was helping churches begin a missions ministry focus.
A bed-time story
Ben, Tara, and Kendra spent 10 days with Grandma & Grandpa Smith in October while Bryan and Lori were in Dallas at Quest, a CAM leadership seminar.
Tara did some of her homeschooling at Grandma & Grandpa's - she is doing great in 1st grade!
At Grandma & Grandpa's - Kendra is enjoying 3rd grade and doing great as well!
Ben had the week off from school, but did some fun work at Grandma & Grandpa's house
Grandpa Smith's specialty - hot chocolate for the kids in the morning!
In the mean time, Bryan and Lori enjoyed the Quest seminar - it was also great to meet and see missionaries from other CAM fields
Talking with Bob & Sharla Buhler during one of the sessions at Quest
Kendra, Ben and Tara swimming in Grandma's tub!
Having some fellowship time at Quest
A day at the zoo with Grandma & Grandpa Smith, and their co-workers, the Nevin family
Zoo fun!
Lori during our half-day personal spiritual retreat at the Quest seminar
The Quest seminar was held at ALERT Academy in Big Sandy, TX. They have a beautiful campus!
More of the ALERT campus in the fall
ALERT Academy campus - our time there was refreshing and challenging at the same time
Our last meeting at the Quest seminar
Happy reunion with the kids after Quest - playing tiddlywinks
Our kids got a turtle as part of their science studies - they named it "Tortilla"
The kids with Tortilla
A Metro ride in Mexico City when we went to pick up our FM-3 religious worker visas
Lori attended a CAMINA children's worker conference at a church here in Queretaro - they had some great workshops to offer!
We hosted a Peacemaker training seminar in our home for some of our fellow missionaries. Fellow missionary Roger Oliver taught the seminar.
For part of the seminar the adults met in a kid's party hall down the street from our house while our children were cared for at our house by Alan and Bethie McManus.
Bryan doing a skit during the seminar
Lori doing a skit during the seminar
The kids put together little care packages for the people who are flooded in the state of Tabasco here in Mexico.
We, along with other Bible churches here in central Mexico, will be sending some relief aid to the Tabasco area in the near future
The care packages included a donated t-shirt, toy, and an evangelistic tract. In the process we also read the tract with our kids, and Ben was ready to trust in Christ!
