The Evening Church Visits

We shared evening church visits at the Filadelfia church in Xochimilco on May 14, at the Neuvo Amanecer Church in Texcoco on May 19, and the Jerusalem church on May 21.

In each of these visits, accompanied by Daniel Ambriz and Daniel Valencia, Walter had opportunity to bring greetings to the people, and both he and I had short teaching sessions. Walter opened with acknowledgement of the pain that exists in the home, and gave practical ways to help resolve conflict. His teaching on The Blessing, taken from Gary Smalley's book of the same name, meant a great deal to people. He pointed out the frequency and the impact of blessings that were given in the Old Testament and in the New, and he higlighted five key and oft-repeated elements of the blessing.
These five elements are: physical touch, affirming words, communicating worth, listening to your child's dreams and putting them into a word picture and, reinforcing their dreams and hopes in practical ways. Since I didn't have Spanish language powerpoints ready for these evening gatherings, I prepared images of children at different ages and described the opportunities and the importance of teaching and encouraging children at each age.



The Filadelfia church, mentioned in an earlier blog, is led by Pastor Francisco Ranget. This church has doubled in attendance in a year, and continues to grow.

The Neuvo Amanecer (New Dawn) Church was full of people in the middle of the week.

This is Cedric, age 7, one of the most enthusiastic guitar players.Children are part of the life of the church, and little treats and nametags were waiting for them in the building.

The pastoral couple Josuet Alvarez and Carmen Garcia lead this church and two other churchers as well.  As one church grew strong, a daughter church was planted, and then the daughter church also planted a church.


Getsemani Church was the original mother church, and Neuvo Amanecer is the daughter church.

The third generation church plant, Neuvo Amanecer in Xalostoc, is the 'granddaughter' of Getsemani Church. The church in Xalostoc was the location of the quince party mentioned in an earlier posting. A Centre Street Church work team added a second story to this church, doubling the available space and allowing room for children's minstry.

On Friday evening, May 21, we attended the Jerusalem church. It is currently padlocked, due to a dispute with a neighbour. The sign tells of the various home meetings.  Please pray for a peaceful, gracous and just resolution to this problem.

Work teams from Centre Street Church put the second floor on this church during a recent visit.

The church, led by Pastor Reuben Velasquez, continues to function without use of a building. We met in a home and about 25 people were able to crowd in.

As sang and prayed and learned from each other, this home setting helped to anchor the important truths in the reality of everyday life.