Blog 57 22 Aug 2017 School Starts

The Beginning  of My 3rd Year at ACMH!

First Day of Classes: Thursday, August 17

Our New Computer

(provided by friends of MHCA)

Pictured are the 1st Graders (-1 absent boy).
We also have a 4th Grader, a 7th Grader, 2 seniors, and 3 Kindergarteners.  The K4-K5 make it necessary to have help, so please pray that the Lord sends the right person at the right time.

I will also be teaching English in the Bible Institute, Levels 1 & 2.

The Great Commission:

This picture of houses streaming up the side of the mountain is just above a very popular mall in an area filled with American stores and restaraunts.  
(That's Chili's in the foreground.)

This is typical of Monterrey housing: brick and small.  This is also typical of our bus route areas.
I will be soulwinning on Tuesday afternoons now that school has started. My partner will be Stephanie, who is attending Language School.  This will force us to learn the plan and to become 
the "talking" partners.  Stephanie has led three people to the Lord by reading the tract with them.  I am still working up to my first.

The Local Church:
School has started, the institute students have returned, and almost everyone is back from vacation; so our attendance is up and our ministries are back in full force.  This week we are having a family conference with Evangelist Bill Smith, and in November, our annual Missions Conference.

Language Victories!

I have continued practicing Spanish even though I have not been able to load Rosetta Stone. Here are a few examples that have been an encouragement to me over the summer:

1. One afternoon I rode with Pastor Jonathan and Mrs. Jenny to the teen camp where Jon was speaking that evening.  A youth pastor's wife from another church struck up a converstaion with me about why I was at Mount Hebron and how long I would be here.  I did not understand every word, and my grammar was not great in my answers, . . . but I asked her about her children and her time as an Institute student at Mt. Hebron.
  *Update:*
This patient lady and her husband are here for our Family Conference and we were able to talk again.

2. I am able to pass out tracts and introduce myself soulwinning.  I am still working on the salvation plan.

3.  The little corner store delivers.  Jessica has called and ordered a garafon (a large 5-gallon jug of water) for me.  I was excited to be able to do that for myself  for the first time.  I started by asking for patience with my bad grammar, told them what I wanted and that I lived next door to Pastor Tommy Ashcraft.  Just a few minutes later, my water was there!

Prayer Corner

Thank you for your faithful prayers for our school and other ministries.  Please continue to pray for the Ashcraft family, for me to learn Spanish, and for help in the Christian school.

A big "Thank You" to those who have faithfully supported Mount Hebron Christian Academy and to those who sent school supplies this year.

Also, please pray for Mrs. Brenda Ashcraft (Pastor Jonathan's mom) as she is still not able to put any pressure on her leg from her fall on the day Megan was born (June 13). For two months she has not been able to get out of bed other than her scheduled exercises with a nurse.