{"id":610,"date":"2021-11-13T21:39:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T03:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rocamission.com\/davidlaura\/?page_id=610"},"modified":"2022-05-02T16:28:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T21:28:50","slug":"november-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rocamission.com\/davidlaura\/november-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n

March to July, 2021 Update<\/strong><\/p>\n

March\/April<\/strong><\/p>\n

We received a team from the Radiant School of Ministry from Michigan in March and April of this year.\u00a0 They stayed for six weeks and did a super job.\u00a0 They worked extremely hard to complete a project we have desired to do for a long time \u2013 to build a basketball court for the use of the Multigrade School and High School students to use.\u00a0 The children at the children\u2019s home on the base and other students and families at the Missions Base \u00a0make good use of it also!\u00a0 It took lots of dirty, sweaty work to make it happen, but they did!\u00a0 Ben and Hannah Clark also worked very hard to plan and coordinate this project and other activities of this group!\u00a0 A big thank you to Ben and Hannah for the great job they have done with this team as well as other teams as they serve as directors over short-term teams (among many other hats they wear J).\u00a0 Ben is also now using the basketball court in his role as the physical education teacher for the Multigrade School!<\/p>\n

\"\" Finished Basketball court. Best when orphanage kids are using it!<\/p>\n

The Radiant team members also had great times of ministry as they passed out bags of groceries in the local town and prayed for people in their homes.\u00a0 There is often a special connection made when we are able to go into people\u2019s homes. This team also participated in medical and children\u2019s ministry \u00b4s and home visits to families in Loma Bonita, Rio Grande.\u00a0 There were a number of salvations and reports of meaningful ministry times in people\u00b4s homes.<\/p>\n

June 4th \u2013 August 4th<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are grateful to Coby Veenji, Nathan Arnold, and Cade Plunk, and to Ken and Nedena Pimentel from St. James UMC in Tulsa and daughter Rachel for serving with us in the summer months.\u00a0 What a blessing to have their help with patient care (Nedena is a Nurse Practitioner), pharmacy, vital signs, Ken with car repairs, and other needs in the clinic and on outreaches.\u00a0 Also thanks to Brandon from Larned, Kansas who helped us in evangelism on some of the village trips!<\/p>\n

\"\" The three interns with Laura and Elo at pharmacy table<\/p>\n

We had a great outreach to Puerto Angel with Pastors Oscar Pacheco and his wife Gabby assisting them in reaching out to the neighbors where they are in the process of constructing a church building for their congregation in Puerto Angel.\u00a0 Grace Chapel church in Pickwick, Tennessee is partnering with the church in Puerto Angel to help them reach this goal of completing their building, so it was an appropriate time to visit them during the visit of Cade Plunk from the Grace Chapel church. \u00a0Ken and Nedena Pimentel and daughter Rachel, interns Coby, Nathan, and Cade, members of the clinic staff, and students and staff from the Spanish School joined together to offer medical care and children\u00b4s ministry to the neighbors of the new church site.\u00a0 The people were very receptive, and many people opened their hearts and responded to the invitation to know Christ in a new way and to allow Him to work in their lives and touch the broken places that so many shared about as they talked with our evangelists and counselors.<\/p>\n

\"\" Oscar and Gabby with Cade Plunk<\/p>\n

\"\" Spanish School students with children in Puerto Angel<\/p>\n

June 13 \u2013 18, 2021 and June 23 \u2013 July 2, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

We received the Gateway Student Team and Gateway Family Team for a week each mid June through July 2nd.\u00a0 Between them, they covered six different towns and villages with medical and dental care and children\u00b4s ministry, and ministered to a group of children in a very needy area of Puerto Escondido and also did some street evangelism there in Puerto.\u00a0 It was an extremely fruitful time!\u00a0 The towns they ministered in were primarily in the coastal villages – Pueblo Nuevo, San Francisco de Arriba, Charquito, Puerto Escondido, and here in Cacalote – and one town in the Chatino Indian region, Juquila.\u00a0 Many meaningful connections were made with the patients, children, and mothers of the children who gathered for these events, and many people received the Good News of the Gospel!<\/p>\n

One of the towns which this team visited is Juquila, a town known for idolatrous practices.\u00a0 One of the patients brought her 4 year old girl in for prayer reporting many extreme behavioral problems.\u00a0 The child had said she wanted to kill her teacher and was exhibiting many very angry behaviors like screaming and hitting, but received ministry and prayer from members of the team, and afterwards was a different little girl \u2014 sweet and friendly.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n

\"\" The dental team with a patient in the dental chair in Juquila<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Another town we visited is Charquito.\u00a0 We were there on July 1st and saw lots of need in this town.\u00a0 One thing that impressed us in Charquito was a couple who came especially to receive Jesus.\u00a0 They were not drawn by the medicine or other special activities.\u00a0 They knew that they needed Jesus, and found the person they really needed!<\/p>\n

\"\" The Gateway Team on the Basketball court in Charquito<\/p>\n

Laura Springeman visited end of June \u2013 2nd of July<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>We enjoyed having Laura Springeman, RN, from Tulsa with us for two weeks in June.\u00a0 Laura came to Roca Blanca as part of her training for leadership in nursing at Oral Roberts University a few years ago, and it was a blessing to have her back to help us on some outreaches in June and early July.<\/p>\n

July 21, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>On July 21st, we had a special visit by Kathryn Taylor to the Wednesday night cell group that meets at our house.\u00a0 She has a real heart for the children.\u00a0 She was in Cacalote for about 2 years, first in Spanish School and then serving as an intern in the Cacalote Church, and left to follow God\u2019s call to other nations. \u00a0But she returned for a visit, and were the children in the church and in our cell group ever happy to see her!<\/p>\n

\"\" Kathryn with the children in our living room at Wednesday night cell group<\/p>\n

Also pictured is Albita, a very talented young lady who also has a real heart for and is very loved by the children!\u00a0 Albita has attended and graduated from the three year Bible School program at the Victory Bible Institute here at Roca Blanca and works with the children in our cell group on a regular basis among other ministry activities.\u00a0 She has also taken on giving classes to a young girl 13 years of age named Maria who attends our cell group who because of unfortunate circumstances never had the opportunity to attend school and learn to read and write.\u00a0 Albita has obtained materials to work with her and offers classes for her 3 days a week for a couple of hours each day which is a big commitment.\u00a0 The classes are held on our back porch, and slowly progress is being made.\u00a0 The learning does not come easily to Maria, but we are believing for a real miracle in her life!<\/p>\n

\"\" Albita and Mar\u00eda in front of Mar\u00eda’s house<\/p>\n

July 24 – 31, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

On July 24 \u2013 31, the Church of the Harvest team under the leadership of Pastor Royce Walker, Drs. Ted and Karolyn Cook, and Dr. Chris and Wendy Wright came to serve both at the missions base and in the mountains.\u00a0 They were an excellent team offering medical care, children\u2019s ministry, and blessing the people in the mountain villages of El Mosco and Ixtayutla also with much needed food and clothing.\u00a0 They made a tremendous impact on these Mixteco Indian villages, and also on those they touched at the Roca Blanca Base and the Corban Clinic.\u00a0 Many of the patients prayed to receive Christ as their Savior and received a real touch from the Holy Spirit as they were ministered to.<\/p>\n

\"\" The Church of the Harvest team at the airport<\/p>\n

One extraordinary thing we saw the Lord do in the village of El Mosco on this trip was in the life of a young adolescent we will call Manuel.\u00a0 Manuel is about 14 years of age, and arrived on a very busy clinic day in the village to the clinic gate.\u00a0 There were a number of patients in front of him, but we saw that he was so weak that he had to be carried in, so we took him in to see the doctor right away.\u00a0 Manuel\u00b4s parents reported that he had had approximately 10 seizures lasting about one hour each the previous night, which we had a hard time believing could have happened and he could still be awake and responsive, but on further questioning we found that this was not the first time he had suffered from seizures, and they had gotten worse.\u00a0 The seizures had begun during the last couple of years which was preventing his going to school, and he was not on any treatment.\u00a0 We had him lie down for observation for a while, and he began seizing again.\u00a0 Somewhat miraculously, one of the doctors on the team had brought an anticonvulsant which could be administered intravenously, so we got an IV started and administered the anticonvulsant, and Manuel responded quickly and the seizures were stopped.\u00a0 He waked up and was able to visit with one of our evangelists, who was able to lead Manuel to faith in Christ as his Savior, and he received prayer for healing.\u00a0 It was decided that he had to go down the mountain (about a 2 hour drive) to get to the nearest hospital for evaluation, so three of us accompanied him and his parents to the hospital.\u00a0 On the way to the hospital, we visited more with his mother who also decided to receive Christ as her Savior.<\/p>\n

We were prepared to leave him at the hospital with his parents with an offering for their expenses and with a local contact \u2014 a Christian family who could help them get things they needed.\u00a0 We did wait, though, to be sure they were attended and had established the contact they needed.\u00a0 After about an hour of waiting, we were told that it looked as though Manuel would be released to go back to his village! \u00a0We were very pleasantly surprised!\u00a0 He had been given more medication, and it was determined that he was stable enough to return home on medication and come back in a couple of weeks for testing.\u00a0 It was a much better ending than we had anticipated!\u00a0 It was much easier for his family than having to stay in a place they did not know and with limited ability to communicate with others because they only spoke the Mixtec language.\u00a0 Manuel tolerated the travel back to his village very well, was able to eat, and continued to be stable through the night before returning to his village the next day.\u00a0 Our God is a healing God!<\/p>\n

\"\"

The road between El Mosco and the hospital!<\/p><\/div>

\"\"

The group doing morning devotions in the corredor at El Mosco<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

We will continue with reports that bring us up to the present in Part II of this report in a few weeks!\u00a0 God bless each of you who has played a part in what He is doing here in southern Mexico through your prayers, your gifts, and your hands on service!\u00a0 We love and appreciate each of you very much!<\/p>\n

In Christ\u00b4s Love,<\/p>\n

Dave and Laura Nelson<\/p>\n

Roca Blanca Mission Base<\/p>\n

Oaxaca, Mexico<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March to July, 2021 Update March\/April We received a team from the Radiant School of Ministry from Michigan in March and April of this year.\u00a0 They stayed for six weeks and did a super job.\u00a0 They worked extremely hard to complete a project we have desired to do for a long time \u2013 to build […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-610","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocamission.com\/davidlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocamission.com\/davidlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocamission.com\/davidlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocamission.com\/davidlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocamission.com\/davidlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rocamission.com\/davidlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/rocamission.com\/davidlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocamission.com\/davidlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}