Pastor Bruce’s blog

Okay, so I put this photo in for my friend Doug Hickerson, but the Duke seemed somehow appropriate.  Don’t ask me how. 

Our team has been involved with more than a building project.  Jerry and I are the only guys on our team from Brockport with other men from this area.  Matamoros is the border town across from Brownsville, Texas where our good friends Bob and Libby Ordeman pastor International Christian Center.  It’s a lively church of about 2000 people.  Folks from that church are joining with Mexicans from a church they planted in Matamoros, Christo Centro Internationale.  So really our Brockport folks have joined with the Brownsville and Matamoros folks to reach out to a very poor part of Matamoros.  Back to what we all are doing.  The women on our team have been working in a free medical clinic that was set up in a neighborhood soup kitchen.  Jeanette from Kansas, our Diane W, Laura B and Mallory H along with our Mexican/Brownsville counterparts worked the clinic today.  The rest of our team, Kristen P, Bonita P went to a local hospital and offered free bags of cookies and prayed with anyone who would like prayer.  People were so very open to them, but couldn’t believe that they weren’t trying to sell them something.  Gratis, as they say in Spanish!  I forgot to tell you that yesterday our women team members went D2D or door to door and handed out flyers to let the people in this Matamoros neighborhood know about the free clinic.  They also prayer walked the neighborhood and offered to pray for people there.  That accounted for the great turnout at the clinic today.  Likely there will be more people tomorrow as the good word spreads.  I’ll see if I can learn how to upload a photo or two of what’s been going on.  More tomorrow, Lord willing!

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Hi Everyone!  I thought I knew what heat was until we all arrived here in Mexico and started our first project.  Wow!  It’s 95 - 100 every day and one of the tasks our team was asked to complete involves replacing a roof on a poor family’s “house”.  Jerry K, myself, Carolyn M and some others from the churches here tore the roof from the building (it was just rotten plywood) and replaced it with a corrugated metal roofing material.  The reason I had “house” in quotes was for the fact that this little place was no more than what we have in many of our sheds.  One bedroom for a family of five to share and a backroom that serves as a kitchen.  No running water, an outhouse for a bathroom and a curtained off area outside for washing in.  They pay the neighbor a few pesos to run an extension cord to their home for electricity.  I wish every young person in our circle could come here for a week and they would never complain about anything again!  Children and many adults don’t have shoes so parasites and other problems are the norm.  But what’s their hope here!  The same as at home.  That they might know Jesus, the source of Life itself.  More on the trip soon!  PB

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Hi! Welcome to my brand new blog. I hope it will bless and inspire all of us. Please feel free to respond to this moderated blog. I’m in Mexico on a missions trip at the moment, and I’ll be reporting on my trip soon.
Please keep us in prayer for God’s anointing and for physical health and strength.

Blessings!
Pastor Bruce

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