Back in Chiapas

Many of you know that I am back in Chiapas. I flew in to Mexico City yesterday and spent the night with Chuck and Ramona Shawver in Puebla. I was able to have dinner with them and with Keith Myers.

I will be in Chiapas until the 24^th of November.

Prayer requests:

• ·         Chuck Shawver. His pickup seems to be on its last leg. The week before I arrived, he put it in the shop to have a head gasket replaced. We picked it up last night at about 8:00 p.m. We left for Chiapas this morning at 4:00 a.m. We had to stop along the way and have the radiator flushed and a new thermostat put in. That did not help. It still overheated. We made it to Tuxtla-Gtz. We left his truck in TG and drove in the Seminary pickup to San Cris. (I drove from about 2 hours outside of MX City to San Cris, 14.5 hours of driving.) Chuck needs to know what to do replace the engine or try to find a new vehicle for his last year in MX.

• ·         Chris, my lovely bride. She always says that something happens every time I leave town, and when I am out of the country . . .  Well, this morning, on her way to work she was rear ended. She is OK, but her car is pretty heavily damaged. She is pretty shaken up about everything. She said that she had not been in an accident in 30 years.

• ·         Eleazar and Dahlia. They were in an accident this summer. Dahlia had to have surgery. She is recovering slowly, but is not back in San Cris yet. Eleazar had severe whip lash and is still not recovered completely.

• ·         The churches we will be visiting in Chiapas. Chuck was supposed to be at a regional meeting tomorrow, but because of the pickup, he will not make it.

• ·       The people of Chiapas. Their bean crop was washed away with flooding. The corn crop was destroyed by drought this summer. And the coffee crop was damaged. This will increase the pressure to immigrate.

Grace and Peace,

Mike