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June 2008    Prayer Needs & Praises:  Please pray for one of the students on the team and her parents. They are concerned about her safety, and she may not be able to go on the trip. Please pray for their discernment and for God to reveal to them His plan; Praise that Kristy's sister, Kimberly, has joined the Mexico team and will be going down to Tijuana with us in August!!  Prayer for Dale (Ron's brother and Kimberly's husband), as he is planning to go as well.  He needs to have his job and school situations all in order first;  Praise that with Dale and Kimberly, our team total is 22, plus our family (Ron, Kristy, Brittany & Will - we're all going).  Six of the team members are teenagers; Please pray for the Lithuania team from our church, as they are currently ministering to junior high and high school age kids through english camps.  Pray for their safety, health and for their energy levels.  There are 10 high-schoolers and 6 adults.  Pray that their ministry would be powerful and effective!  They are gone for a total of three weeks and will return home July 9th.
 
May 2008    Praise! Our Mexico team is continuing to grow. It's amazing to see how God works!!
 
April 2008    Prayer Needs:  That God will lead us to the right people to partner with us, prayerfully and financially, for us to get to Tijuana; For preparations and fund raising for the team from our church going to Tijuana in August; For our small group meetings, that we may communicate our ministry clearly.
 
February 2008   

We are taking our first team down to Tijuana!!  We will be building a home for a Mexican family.  We are so excited!  Not including us, the team consists of 13 adults and 6 high school youth.  The trip will be from August 3rd through the 10th.  One of the best parts is that Ron's brother, Joe, his girlfriend, and a few of our closest friends are on the team.  How awesome it is going to be to be able to share this experience with them and give them a taste of what we will be doing when we move to Tijuana. 

 
August 2006    We took our second trip to Tijuana.  This time, William was able to come with us.  On this trip, we again visited various teams and their work in the different neiborhoods and churches.  This time we also got to watch, and participate a little in, the building of a house for a Mexican family.  It was awesome to see the process.  We also had a chance to visit YUGO's Ensenada Outreach Center.  We visited the site of a construction project in Ensenada while we were there.  They were building a pastor's home.  This trip was incredible, and definitely reaffirmed that this is where God wants us to be.
 
Dec 2004    Ron, Kristy and Brittany took their first trip to Tijuana, Mexico.  We spent time in California, getting to know the people at the YUGO office and interviewing with them.  Most of our trip was spent in Mexicali, Mexico.  There, we visited all the teams that were there, out in the different ejidos (neighborhoods).  We also helped the construction team as they were doing some work on Sharon's children's home, including pouring a new floor, some electric work, etc.  We really got to know a lot about YUGO and some of the missionaries there.  We also fell in love with Mexico and the people there all over again.  We have officially become Missionary Candidates with YUGO Ministries!! 
 
August 2004    This was Ron and Kristy's first mission trip to Mexico.  On this trip, we helped lead a team of about 20 high school youth to the Chihuahua area.  We learned a lot on this trip - especially about what God has in store for our lives.  It was on this trip that God showed us that He wants us to go into missions full time, serving in construction ministry in Mexico.  When we returned home, we searched the internet and came across YUGO ministries.  After much prayer and consideration, we contacted YUGO and set up a trip for this coming December.