Monterrey Experience – June 14th
We are at the end of a long day of ministry and some fun as well.
Our first night had a little bit of adjusting for folks. Guys were sleeping on the roof of the three story dorm room under the stars. Getting used to the humidity and the noise and city lights was a bit of an adjustment for sure. One of our little guys struggled a little his first night away from his mom who is also on the trip but they can’t sleep together. But with a little bit of coaxing, looking at stars and talking NASCAR with him he was out. 
Today we had three Sunday services. First I led our team with an hour little service which included worship led by Mike Davidson and Robbi Russell. I was able to do the teaching which was a blast. This was followed by a service led by our host TIME ministry folks; interns led worship and Rick, their leader brought the message.
In between we mingled with the Mexican church folks who were having their services as well.
After a great meat loaf lunch we took a trip down to the River Walk in downtown Monterrey. It was a great time of just relaxing and walking along a very clean man made river and sidewalk with serveral places to get wet. It is very hot, so it was nice. We stopped and had ice cream or Mexican drinks at a little cafe.
Pray for Robbi, I think she’s suffering from a bit of heat stroke. I gave her the “Hurly Girly” award tonight for being the first girl to well “hurl” on the trip.
We went to the Mexican church this evening and enjoyed their worship for sure. The sermon was a little difficult to understand. 
We filled water balloons in preperation for tomorrow evening’s park ministry and then had great fun at our body life time tonight. The cowboy beat the rock star to start the evening. And Bill Lisle shared his testimony with us to end the evening.
Tomorrow starts three days of intense and hot ministry. Please pray for safety from any more heat issues for the team. We are having a great time getting to know each other and are ready to get going on our ministry days; Monday through Wednesday.
The funnest news of the day was that last night several kids accepted Christ after watching the Jesus Film. What a joy to see the minsitry that simple movie had. We served popcorn and juice. There were probably 80 people here, so it was very exciting to see 11 kids come to Christ.
Please pray for the ministry we’ll be doing in the next several days. It’s going to be great.
Mark