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Ranch Life in Full Color

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I am enjoying the culture and Latino lifestyle here in Mexico.  After watching the Super Bowl half time show this week, this message really resonated with me.   Bird watching (and more importantly, bird listening) at the ranch house has become my newest peace-filled pastime. It feels like God’s own Spotify playlist out here!  Have you ever tried Merlin Bird ID? Last week’s headliner was the Coppery-tailed Trogon. I didn’t even know such a pretty creature existed. Meanwhile, I continue my efforts to seal every screen and crevice in the straw bale house.   Scorpions and snakes are going to have to try extra hard to make their way in! This round’s weapon of choice: spray foam. If duct tape is the handyman’s best friend, spray foam is its chaotic cousin. The house has about 15 tiny vent screens placed approximately 47 feet in the air (or so it felt), and I was up on a ladder spraying blindly into the abyss. I’m fairly certain I sealed the ...
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Horseshoes, Home Projects, and Holy Work

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Lately, our life in Mexico has been suspiciously close to “normal.”  We’ve taken in many beautiful sunsets from our ROOFTOP OF REJUVENATION, where worries are released, prayers float upward, and everyone becomes an amateur philosopher by golden hour. I’m considering putting together a sunset playlist, so feel free to send your favorite “watch-the-sun-go-down-and-thank-God-for-your-life” songs my way. Home sweet home! Here’s some pics of our abode/ Missionary Home in Tlancualpican. Every nook and cranny has been stuffed with steel wool and expanding foam, the screens have been replaced, and we’re feeling pretty confident that—thanks to prayer, perseverance, and the generous application of pesticides and other materials—our house is about as snake and scorpion free as possible.   We are open for visitors! We also carved out space for horseshoes in the backy...
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January 2026 Global Missionary Newsletter

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  Our January 2026 Newsletter is now available! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W5Ju2xNfSizUHxCBsWCPqfZd_Tm7Oacd/view?usp=drive_link
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Cheers to 2026!

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Happy New Year! The holiday season flew by in a blink. Christmas in Mexico was beautifully, unexpectedly different—rich with color, rhythm, and reverence. We loved seeing the season through another culture’s eyes, though the biggest difference this year was a tender one: we weren’t with our family, and that absence was deeply felt. Still, Puebla held us in its joy. From celebrating the coming of Christ, through the twelve days of Christmas, and all the way to Día de los Reyes, we were reminded that even when traditions shift and settings change, the heart of the story never does. We even attended our first Mexican Methodist potluck. Let me just say: Yum. Loaves and fishes have nothing on this crowd.  I would add this experience as a few of my top favorite gastronomical feasts in Puebla! Christmas Eve services were especially beautiful. Imagine singing all the hymns you know and love—in Spanish. It was powerful and joyful, ending wi...
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