Yeah, I know it sounds like some Mexican vacation hotspot. It's not. I just returned from there last night. Hacienda Sinaloa is a small camp of agricultural laborers who pick tomatoes and peppers. It's about 20 miles north of IDT and then another 10-15 miles east into the mountains of Baja. Most of the people are there to harvest and then move on to other camps once the fields have been picked. Imagine living in a homemade tent with a frame of sticks you found and wrapped in black plastic 30 gallon lawn & leaf trash bags. That's how they live.
The Lord let me give away two CD boomboxes with Bible stories and songs on CD in Spanish and Mixtec Metlatonoc (the dialect of Mixteco spoken by many at Hacienda Sinaloa). The two ladies who received them were knocked out. Within minutes, they were listening to the CDs! A huge THANK YOU! to the folks at http://globalrecordings.net for providing the downloads for the CDs! If you're looking for a ministry to support that distributes the gospel of Jesus Christ around the world, I can definitely recommend them. Be sure to check out the pics in the "Trip to Hacienda Sinaloa" photo album to the left.
In other news - the Lord's funnel of clothing, food, drinking water, etc. was active again recently. A couple from the Lodi, California area took the roughly 1,500 mile round trip over labor day weekend to bless the poor of Baja and also IDT's missionaries. Much of what they brought was distributed in Hacienda Sinaloa last night. Thank you to this couple with such servants' hearts and Cornerstone Church http://www.cornerstonelodi.com
This past Thursday, God provided two wonderful young ladies from our La Paloma children's home to help me lead worship for our church service. They're also learning to play guitar. This wasn't their first time to sing with me, but it was their first time to sing three songs in English. It was a challenge for them, but they practiced and, with the Lord's provision, they did it. We also sang three songs in Spanish. They're learning quickly and will probably be turning professional soon. ;-) These girls are at our children's home for good reasons and my desire is, as the Lord leads and provides, to help broaden their view of the world. Many come to the children's home thinking their future is to pick strawberries as migrant laborers. God has given them more than that. Learning to play guitar and lead worship helps give them the abundant life Jesus promises.
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