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May 2021

Immediately Jesus reached out His hand, caught hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”

Matthew 14:31

Kids' Day and Mother's Day celebrations this month with the Mexico family

Jesus’ simple rebuke to Peter becomes His words to me when all I’m seeing are the waves and wind - the obstacles and apparent barriers. Why did you doubt, you of little faith? Nothing is impossible for Me...

So I’m reminded to lean on His power and not my sight - to hark His reassurance to me time and time again: TRUST IN MY LOVE.

Xau and I finished our discipleship classes at church this month - after eight levels - each of 16 classes over the past three years!

It's been an interesting month - feels almost like we're just starting the year. Liam's now back to going to school every day, Xau went to visit Twist Chalco twice this month, more movement starting up around the city, etc. At the same time, we know the virus is far from gone. Please pray with us for Pastora Paty's recovery as she's been in the hospital from Covid for the past couple weeks - getting off the respirator just a few days ago (pastor couple for the church of Twist Ixtapaluca).

    
Twist Chalco continues to meet in the seven small-groups in homes which Xau was eager to visit.  The 23 teachers and assistants are mainly youth and teens from the host church. Join us in praying for them to mature supernaturally in their walks with Christ and for us to have wisdom in encouraging and discipling them.  As Xau went out the second time to treat them to a meal and give out gift baggies for Teacher's Day, he commented to me that he almost saw them "as sheep without a shepherd" - willing and eager but with little direction. He was able, however to share a few classes this month in their online Romans Bible study - offered to the youth of the church which many of them are a part of. 

One of the small groups Xau visited as he made a "circuit" to see each one.  (Even though he's Mexican, he heard one of the kids comment to another, "Here comes the guy from America"😂 the power of association I suppose.)




Xau sharing the Word online with a different group of middle-schoolers

Twist Chalco leader, Judith, and her husband Ciro who has been helping as well. They just recently moved and are not as close-by as before which has created some difficulty. Her father asked them to move out of his house (even though they had a separate area) and have been building their own place. 

Some of the teachers and assistants from the Teacher's Day celebration (Twist Chalco)

Xau studying hard this month as he led six nights of the Romans study 

Kids' Day celebration at our place with neighbor Ciro's family (who come for Wednesday night Bible study) and assistant Priscila and nieces 

Thank you for reading! Two other quick updates - 
1. The Twist Manual book is still underway. Our graphic designer suggested unifying the illustrations, so that will hopefully conclude in June.  
2. Also Xau is now back to video editing for the next two tutorials to prepare them for the training website, and we've commissioned web designers to create a separate Twist page. 


Thank you all for joining in this journey with us. We're honored to serve. Praying we can listen all the more attentively to His voice. 


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