November 2010Los Morros—Rounded Hills
I look past the pristine beach stretching to the left and to the right and I gaze straight ahead towards “Los Morros” lying approximately 5 miles from shore, huge white rocks that stand immutable against the power of the waves and ocean currents. Just recently towards sunset a fisherman brought his little boat too close to those mammoth rocks in his search for fish. The waves threw the boat onto rocks that were just below 
the surface of the water. The hull of his boat was damaged and within minutes it sank, fortunately a nearby fisherman heard his cries and was able to get to him on time and pull him from the water into his boat, saving his life. This struggle for life itself after an unexpected shipwreck consumes many hours of our lives lately. And we are not alone in this struggle to save families, marriages, and individuals' lives when they are despairing of life itself.November 11 through the 13 we had our first ever pastors' retreat. For two and a half days the weariness and the weights of ministry rolled off their shoulders and ours as well, as they played in the pool with their
children or bared their hearts in the conferences and the devotional times. It was AMAZING! Words cannot tell the totality of what happened in those couple of days. There were 13 couples and 8 children along with a few singles that are involved in the ministry full-time. As they shared we realized that the WAVE of attack of the enemy was a lot more wide-spread than what we had been experiencing. On one hand the violence that surrounds us is unimaginable. All of the pastors had received threatening phone calls demanding “safety” money to avoid kidnap or worse. All pastors had refused to pay.Pray for the continual violence here in Mexico. Pray for “Mexico without blood.”
May God's blessings be on you. Thanks for praying for us.
Dave & Becci
Photos (1) The “Rounded Hills” (2) One of the sessions in the Retreat (3) Wayne & Sharon Dent who shared in the Pastor's Retreat
