Evangelistic film night at church
Making cookies with the neighbors
Trying the cookies!
Nice shorts, Ben!
Ready to watch the cliff divers in Acapulco
Do you see them?
Acapulco Bay where we celebrated our 13th anniversary
Bryan preaching at the Texcoco Bible Church
Field leadership meetings in Texcoco that Bryan was involved in
Lori, and Bryan's mom, JoAnn, did the cooking for the guys during the meetings
Latin-American Tower in Mexico City with the Blair/Blaha team from Michigan
Bajío Circuit meeting in San Juan del Río
Sharing and praying for each other during the meeting
Bryan and the kids climbed Bernal Rock with part of the MI team
Tara near the top of Bernal
Ben near the top
Kendra made it too!
Cactus graffiti at Bernal
The MI team painted and cleaned an apartment for Eva from our church
Hard at work - the colors were all bright green, pink, & red
We scrubbed and scrubbed ...
And painted and scrubbed some more!
The final product - Extreme Home Makeover Mexico!
We went out for tacos with the team and Eva
Karla and Naomi had to try a beef eye taco!
The first bite...
The reaction to the first bite!
We helped Eva move in to her new apartment
Ben's first day of school this year - he is in a Mexican kindergarten
Howdy partner!
A beautiful canyon near Amealco, Mexico
A fun youth night with the MI team
Playing concentration
Kendra, Tara, & Ben atop the sun pyramid at Teotihuacan
Seeing the MI team off at the airport - they were a hard-working group!
Tara looking cute at Grandma and Grandpa Smith's house
Celebrating three birthdays together - we had yummy homemade ice cream to go along with the cake!
Kendra's ninth birthday party with some neighbor and church friends
Pizza time!
Nine years old already!?!
The only friend Ben had at the party
Hosting some families after church
A beautiful rainbow around the sun we saw on our trip to the mountains of Hidalgo
Our church missions team spent the night in Pachuca on our way up to the Huasteca
Kendra with an amazing view behind her
What beautiful scenery we saw!
We showed and evangelistic film in a rural neighborhood
Kendra watching a local sister in Christ make tamales for the conference the following day
A conference our fellow missionary Bob Buhler gave on "A Healthy Church"
The turnout was GREAT even in pouring rain!
Kendra and some youth from our church held a kids' club during the conference
The kids all got some gifts and candy - here the boy's show off their new balls
The girls got gifts too
The youth that went on the trip - they were great!
Bryan gave a conference to the youth on sexual purity - it was a great turnout!
An evangelistic film showing in the town square of Tehuetlan
Bryan gave a conference on "How to Study the Bible" - the space on top of the roof was tight and the sun was hot!
Bryan singing with Bob and Jose Luis
The students were great - a wonderful desire to learn
A last shot of our team with the local missionary - Adolfo (far right)
We hosted a Mexican Independence Day get-together in our home
A science class with other MK's taught by MK educator Bethie McManus - this time it was in our home
Kendra giving a report during the science class
Tara hard at work in homeschooling
Bryan attended another Masters' course at the Puebla Bible Seminary
A marriage conference in the Bajio given by Chuck Swindoll's Hispanic pastor, Carlos Zazueta - it was very good!
A music camp for the Bajio Mk's put on by Sarah Musgrave and Ruth Yingling
Can you see Ben in the tree at the camp?
Tara enjoyed picking wildflowers
More music camp around the campfire
We helped pull a tarp over a structure at camp
Hosting a CAM Board Circuit get-together in our home
Jose Luis (left) lead the mens' Bible study for the first time
Brent and Le'Ann Downs and their family were introduced at church - they are here in Queretaro to help us develop a community outreach center
That day was also our first day to meet on a rented, roofed property that is an extension of where we had been meeting
That day we also gave a missions report on our trip to the Huasteca in Hidalgo ...
And we hosted a team gathering in our home
What's wrong with this picture? Yes, that is a SKY dish on an outhouse at camp ...
also a fresh snakeskin!
The SKY TV is great for Monday Night Football at the camp!
Early morning scenery at the camp
More camp scenery
A maguey cactus at the camp
One more shot from camp - awesome place!
The Downs are doing a great job at adapting to life and ministry in Queretaro - here they are at a prayer group
We had a couples' outreach at church with a great turnout of about 34 people
The topic was "How to Avoid Divorce" - it has been sad to see the increase in divorces here lately
The fellowship was great!
Bob Buhler preaching in our new meeting area
