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Roca Blanca Mission Base Update – a six month review!<\/p>\n

Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus – Emmanuel, God with us – whose birth and presence with us today we have celebrated in this holiday season! Isaiah 9:6 \u2014 \u201cFor to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

A part of our celebration this year was a large event at the Missions Base, \u201cConvocazi\u00f3n 2023\u201d, a celebration in which all of our 81 churches are invited, along with others from our local communities, to worship the Lord, receive from the Lord, and rejoice together over what He has done and is doing here in southern Mexico through the ministry of the Misi\u00f3n Victoria churches and in the lives of so many. Below are a couple of photos from the event. We believe there were about 6,000 people on the mission base for the event!<\/p>\n

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A time of worship under the tent<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ethnic Groups parade<\/p><\/div>\n

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Attendee in native dress<\/p><\/div>\n

We hosted approximately 20 groups in the past year, served 63 students through the K-12 English curriculum Multigrade School, and 40 students in the Mexican High School, and saw approximately 2,500 patients through the Corban Clinic ministry, with 490 of those coming to salvation as they heard the Good News of Christ preached! The Bible School, Music School, and Trade School are discipling 131 students presently. God is actively working in every area of the ministry here. Below are some highlights of the past few months.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Also in July, the Multigrade School graduation, and presentation of the school’s dedicated teaching staff by Director Paulina Mart\u00ednez.<\/p><\/div>\n

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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.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Irlanda, one dedicated student, one of several of our graduates who are studying medicine, special education, teaching, etc., aided by your kind donations.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Pastor Buzz Birney of Live Like Jesus Ministries teaching adolescents, while his wife and other team members ministered to the children,<\/p><\/div>\n

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and led them in worshipping the Lord with banners and song.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Another team in El Mosco, ixtayutla, using crafts that help them understand who Jesus is and what he’s done for us all.<\/p><\/div>\n

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“Live Like Jesus” group members and local staff manning the pharmacy in La Boquilla, an Afro-Mexican mission.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dr. Enver is seeing patients. Below, the team members are ministering to the children through dramas.<\/p><\/div>\n

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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.)<\/p><\/div>\n

Vacation Bible School was held in July at our local Church, “Jesus, Fountain of Life”. The theme was “Encounter with Jesus”, and many children from the community as well as the church children were blessed by the teachings and activities of the week.<\/p>\n

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And many had a true encounter with Jesus.<\/p><\/div>\n

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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.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Counting pills at the clinic in preparation for outreach to Ixtayutla.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dr. Ted is praying over a Mixtec family he was seeing in a medical consultation.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The prayer tent at the medical brigade in Ixtayutla. Almost every patient is prayed for.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Patients lined up to get a ticket for their medical consultation in El Mosco, Ixtayutla.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mixtec patients in Pastor Carmela’s church in Ixtayutla waiting for medical consultations.<\/p><\/div>\n

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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.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Inside, the classrooms are being finished.<\/p><\/div>\n

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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!)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Melissa Huber, an RN who is serving as a volunteer in the clinic, is shown instructing the students.<\/p><\/div>\n

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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.<\/p><\/div>\n

We have nine mission teams scheduled over the coming three months (the first one arrived just a few days ago), so it will be a busy season. The trade school and nursing school building is steadily advancing. God has blessed this past year. We praise Him for His abundant blessings and the work He allows us to be a part of, and We trust Him for much fruit that remains in the coming year.<\/p>\n

Many thanks to each of you who has supported the work here this past year \u2014 with your prayers, your financial support, and your hands on participation in the ministry. We appreciate you greatly! May God bless each of you and your families in this New Year.<\/p>\n

“I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you, always in every supplication of mine on behalf of you all making my supplication with joy, for your fellowship in furtherance of the Gospel from the first day until now. ” Philippians 1: 3- 5<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

With much love and appreciation, Dave and Laura<\/p>\n

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