NTM

I hollered that I had trouble over the walkie-talkie to Terry who was driving ahead of us, and glided to a stop along the side of the road.

Nearly two years ago one of my fellow instructors came up with the hair-brained idea of taking our students to Mexico for a month to practice what we’d been teaching them in the classroom. We’ve been preparing for that on and off ever since. In early October of this year we embarked. Four staff, 12 students, and three children all headed south of the border.

Before I left, one of the passages of Scripture that God had impressed upon me was the one in Hebrews 3 where He says, “See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.” Here God is telling us not to be like the ancient Israelites whom Moses led out of Egypt. In spite of seeing some of the greatest miracles of all time, they continually failed to trust God.

Well, I had plenty of opportunities to trust God on this trip. And consistent with His promises, God went with us and took good care of us. When we were traveling up into the mountains to get to our destination in Mexico, and a pulley really did fall off the engine of the van I was driving, God provided some construction workers  to find a new part and put it back on for us.

One of our main concerns going down was finding enough Mexican folks in the town we were to stay in who would spend time with our students every day, helping them to learn Spanish and become familiar with the community. God worked that out too.  Every person we’d talked to ahead of time about helping our students came through for us and did a great job.

Our students were able to get to know some very special Mexican folks. And they were able to make progress in their ability to communicate with them in Spanish. All this was done in the context of having to live and work together in fairly rustic conditions. In spite of my own tendency to get up tight and worry about how things were all going to work out, God was faithful and met all of our needs.

 As a reminder of how God took care of me, I was awarded a special homemade plaque complete with the car part that fell off and landed on that road in Mexico! All my students and co-workers signed it.

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Thank you so much for praying!