Swine Flu, Delayed Team Members & Cell Church

This past week Mexico made headline news with the alert to the world that the Swine Flu was causing thousands of illnesses and numerous deaths.  Therefore, the CDC announced also that all unessential travel to Mexico be avoided which means our team members, the Woods family, has been put on hold indefinitely.  Please pray for them as they wait in Costa Rica for the “all clear” to fly to and get settled in their new home, Mexico.

Scott & I are doing well and are not worrying one bit about this flu.  We have not altered our schedule to avoid public places or canceled our meetings with Nationals. We would like to thank you all for your prayers for our health and safety as we all need them wherever we live.  God has been faithful to allow some of our National friends to share the reason why they don’t have fear about the flu and He has also brought good out of seemingly lousy circumstances.

This week, the Mexican government mandated all churches cancel their services for Sunday (5/3). One church we know is making lemonade out of lemons. They are anticipating having 19 cell church meetings in their member’s houses! What a great idea! The two pastors of Hananeel (pronounced On-a-nel) met together earlier this week to put together the lesson, the order of service, selected songs and even provided coloring sheets and crayons for the kids’ activities. Tonight they had a meeting of all those who will be leading the groups so that they could review the lesson and ask questions.

We are praying for God to use this time to strengthen the members and allow them to see the benefit of having small group meetings in houses throughout the week and one corporate celebration meeting on Sundays.