Summer Youth Team from Manitoba Visits

July has been a good month!  We had a youth team from Manitoba come to Hermosillo to help out with a kids VBS at our church.  Only a youth team would be crazy enough to come during the summer and endure the heat!  They were a great group though!
Many kids showed up for the VBS which not only presents Christ as the only way to salvation, but also increases the exposure and reputation of the local church in the community.
The team also helped out at the Orphanage where we partner, located just outside of the city.  It is always a busy busy time when teams come but at the end of each one I find myself thinking it is always worth it!  God does so much through each team and so much in each team!  We see some of the effects of short term teams who come, but we won't see the full extent until we are in heaven!
Please pray for the young people who leave their comfortable lives in Canada for a week or two.  They come and see needs some of them have never seen before and they are impacted by it.  Impacted by the spiritual needs as well as the physical needs.  God calls them to reach out and keep reaching out, sometimes even calls them to a life of ministry.  Sadly the pull of our materialistic society in Canada often seems to push that call to the background and they don't end up doing what God called them to do, settling for the comfort that Canada offers.
Please pray that God would send out workers into the harvest field!
Also continue to pray for our adoption!  We haven't heard anything since we were there in Haiti.  We are awaiting the email that says that Jackson and Judeson are now Elliotts!  Thanks for your prayers!