Hey every one, well so many things have happened lately first off I want to thank the men’s trip for coming down the last three days have easily been the happiest I have ever been in my whole life and there are many reasons for that first and most that god is truly working in my life now I am seeing change that I love, also getting to see all of my brothers from the church was just such a joy to get to hang out with all of you and the last reason since many of you already know I figure that I will just tell you all so you all know the same thing, since I have been here I have developed a very very good friendship with one of the staff members down here Alicia she is an incredible girl with her heart set on advancing gods kingdom and I am in love with that, so as for now our plans are that after our time here in Mexico she is going to move back in with her parents and I will attempt to buy a house in San Diego we will both be working to save money for a missions school and for living on mission, Alicia will also be going to college to learn to be an art teacher her goals being that she will be an art therapy teacher over seas to children that have suffered a lot, while I will continue to be a mechanic overseas, so if every thing goes well them in three or four years we will hopefully get married sell the house that will hopefully have gone up in price, and head off to a missions training school there we will be praying that god shows us where we are to go then during the two years at school go on a short term trip to where ever we are thinking at the time and then in six to seven years from now we will hopefully be heading to somewhere in the world . So I am telling you all this for a couple reasons so that you know what is going down here and in my life but mainly so that you can all be praying for us there are many things that need to happen between now and then so pray for anything in regards to the above, also be praying for her and her family especially her father (no father is happy to let her daughter go) pray that we go threw hard times together so that we can learn and grow together and with god during this time, and please I am new at this please write me with thoughts questions and advice, because I really do want things to work out for us and us working for god.

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Hey there every body I just want to let every one know of our discipline this week not really expecting any one to follow along with it this week but I want you to know, that our discipline this week is no phones, no computers and no music, so I wanted to let you know that if I haven’t send you back an email tonight I wont send any more out until Wednesday or Thursday of next week so I am sorry for the incontinence if for some reason there is an emergence get a hold of Eddie or marry and then them know the situation so it can be dealt with other than that you all have a good week keep up the prayer and I will talk to you all in one week

work is going well mostly just been doing maintenance work lately but right now I have taken the entire steering column out of a truck and need to get a new one to replace it with so that is really hard to learn with out breaking stuff and no one to ask or manuals to check with but it is going really well I am trying to get every thing running by Friday we have 100 people coming in so it is going to be loud and packed but they are going to build eight houses and we have eight trucks so they all have to be running good by this weekend so that is a big deadline for me but it is going well

So today was really cool we had a cultural day were in the morning we got to go out to the open air market and with 50 Paso’s or five dollars buy as much food as we could and then in the evening we would go out to a family and give them the food to connect with the nationals, however there were a few problems that we had to over come first my partner (Mandy) and I didn’t know the roads any families or how to get to their house, how to speak Spanish or for the most part what we were doing but we bought the food and since we didn’t have a specific family or place to go or really know where we were at any time we just drove out in to Tijuana to find some one that looked like they needed food for a while all we saw were really nice houses but it was a great time to talk with Mandy and connect with her then after we had gotten horribly lost and it was getting dark I stared to get scarred so I saw a house and said because it is getting dark we are just going to go here whether they need to food or not, we got out and there were two men talking we waited until they were done and told the man that lived there that god had brought us to him to give him food he did not understand English but the man he was talking to said in English tell me what you want to say and I will tell him for you so we talked with him for a while gave him the food and threw the translator said want eggs we interpreted it is him saying that he wanted eggs we showed him the food that we did bring and told him sorry we could not get him eggs, so he walked away and came back with nine dozen eggs and gave them to us and said not you want eggs and then continued to say that if we ever need eggs to come back and he would give us egg, he was a very nice man, and so we said are goodbyes and then off to the next hurtle to get home, we went back pretty much the same way we came and then turned right hoping for the best and jokingly I said it would be nice if this road came out in front of the taco stand and god provided at the end of the road right in front of us was a bright blue taco stand so we had an easy drive home every thing that we had to over come and get threw today god just put them all together and provided safety, direction, language, connection, growth what more can I say god is good

Hey every one I wanted to ask for your support for an opportunity that myself and the other staff members received, we where invited to a dinner sponsored by the International Justice Mission, it is a benefit dinner on march 8^th however it is 95 dollars per person the majority of the money is used to help there program. The main idea behind the International Justice Mission is a human rights agency that rescues victims of violence, sexual exploitation, slavery, and oppression.

• Victim Relief - Relieve the victim of the abuse currently being committed.
• Perpetrator Accountability - Bring accountability and just consequences under the law to the specific perpetrator(s) of abuse.
• Structural Prevention - Prevent the abuse from being committed against others who are also at risk by strengthening community factors that are likely to deter potential oppressors, reduce the vulnerability of at-risk populations and empower local authorities to stop such abuses.
• Victim Aftercare - Provide access to services to help victims transition to their new lives and to encourage long-term success.

You can find all of there information and if you are willing to come to san Diego attend the dinner your self,  or also they will be speaking in Seattle on May 3^rd there is registration on line at, http://www.ijm.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?&pid=178&srcid=-2

But as I was saying I think it would be a great opportunity to hear more views on the world and yet another opportunity too hear someone that needs prayers, and as I said most of the money will go to help the organizations too, if you can sponsor me and the people in the program with what every you can to help, buy giving threw the church (Snoqualmie valley alliance ) offering with (“Christopher in Mexico on the envelope”) thank you all so much for you help sponsorship and love.

Christopher

Well today was long and very hard today we pored cement and because it was cement we all had to work long and hard but every thing is pretty much paved now so that is very good it makes it nicer now that we wont have mud every were when it rains but it looks very good and we had one of the best lunches ever we had tortas with cuboña it is so good pretty much all the food down here I have loved so far, right now there are two staff members that are getting sick (not food related) so pleas pray for them that they get better and that the rest.

Pray for my strength, that I would not fear doing gods work, and that I keep focused on god every minute of every day that any problem big or small I would take to god first

so the weather around here is starting to look a lot like Seattle there are a lot of clouds and a lot of rain the last two day and there is mud every were and to a point it kind of shuts a lot of things down but not use we still have work to get done so that last two days haven’t been as much fun as usual because I didn’t come to Mexico for the rain and the mud that is now every where, but the next two day it is suppose to dry up and we will be poring concrete so that will be fun and different and something else new to learn