A time of worship under the tent

Ethnic Groups parade

Attendee in native dress

Gateway Students and clinic team praying over the Pastor and leaders of the Santa Cruz church after a medical brigade held in front of the City Hall in their town in July.

Also in July, the Multigrade School graduation, and presentation of the school’s dedicated teaching staff by Director Paulina Martínez.

Irlanda, who has been living with Rene and Vicky at our New Day Orphanage since she was 16 years old and is now a 3rd year medical student. Thank you to those supporters who have helped Irlanda be able to accomplish this dream. Her desire is to help others with the medical abilities she gains.

Irlanda, one dedicated student, one of several of our graduates who are studying medicine, special education, teaching, etc., aided by your kind donations.

Pastor Buzz Birney of Live Like Jesus Ministries teaching adolescents, while his wife and other team members ministered to the children,

and led them in worshipping the Lord with banners and song.

Another team in El Mosco, ixtayutla, using crafts that help them understand who Jesus is and what he’s done for us all.

“Live Like Jesus” group members and local staff manning the pharmacy in La Boquilla, an Afro-Mexican mission.

Dr. Enver is seeing patients. Below, the team members are ministering to the children through dramas.

You can see from the mural behind the children’s ministry that there are many damaging practices in this culture. (The mural contains a picture of a man with horns like the devil, and an older woman smoking a cigarette.)

And many had a true encounter with Jesus.

In late July, Drs. Ted and Karolyn Cook with others from Olathe, Kansas visited and worked in the high Mixtec region of Ixtayutla. Above, Drs. Ted and Karolyn are pictured at the Corban Clinic in front of a plaque dedicating the clinic to the memory of Corban Jonathan Cook, their son who died at 4 months of age. Memorial funds after Corban’s death were designated to build the first clinic building on the mission base, devoted to serving the people of our region in southern Mexico, blessing people with medicine and also with the Good News of the Gospel.

Counting pills at the clinic in preparation for outreach to Ixtayutla.

Dr. Ted is praying over a Mixtec family he was seeing in a medical consultation.

The prayer tent at the medical brigade in Ixtayutla. Almost every patient is prayed for.

Patients lined up to get a ticket for their medical consultation in El Mosco, Ixtayutla.

Mixtec patients in Pastor Carmela’s church in Ixtayutla waiting for medical consultations.

Above is the almost finished nursing school that is a part of the new trade school building on the mission base. The left four windows on the second floor of the building are the area for the nursing school.

Inside, the classrooms are being finished.

We currently are teaching groups of students from the Bible School who are interested in health care two-month courses in First Aid and Community Health. We are using one of the rooms in the clinic building for this course. Here two of the students are practicing injections (with very small needles for minimal pain!)

Melissa Huber, an RN who is serving as a volunteer in the clinic, is shown instructing the students.

Much is happening as we go into 2024! Dave had a December and new year class of 24 Spanish School students, mostly first-time or current missionaries. He continues to teach in the first and second year classes in our Bible School, and supervise our Mexican high school and Multigrade school.