Psalm 63:3 "Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You."

Hi Everyone!
We just wanted to share with you a little bit about our last week. Brennan and I were so blessed to be able to work with a group of 18 sweet people from the Calvary Chapel in Redbluff, California.  Their stay was actually the first trip that Brennan and I got to plan and lead together! It was a busy busy week, and so much fun, and we believe that God really ministered through this willing group of people

The first two days of their stay, the team headed down to minister to the community of Granjas. On Monday, Pastor Gonzalo and some members of his church(Calvary Chapel Antiochia) led us in groups around the neighborhood to invite  locals to come to an outreach that we were holding the next day at "la cancha"(the field). It really touched our hearts to get to talk to the people in the neighborhood and to hear members of his church, also residents of Granjas, testify how the Lord had radically transformed their lives.God is so amazing.

In the afternoon, we had some free time to walk around the church and clean a little bit. By the end of the day, the team collected about 30 bags of trash. It really made such an impact on the outside of the church.

On the outreach day, CC Redbluff served lunch to about 200 children from Granjas, led a VBS, Sport's Ministry, and Women's Bible study.  Here are a few pictures from the outreach: 

On Wednesday, the team got some time to rest and enjoy a day at the beach in Rosarito; then later, they joined our Bible study at CTC, it was such a good time. Pastor Gonzalo even taught us all a dance to one of the worship songs, we have a really funny video of it =), definitely email us to see it! Afterwards, the girls from Redbluff taught the kids that attended our study.

Early Thursday morning, we went to an elderly home about 30 minutes from CTC. The team blessed those who live there by cleaning their kitchen, shaving the men, and giving the women manicures and lots of hugs. 

Later in the afternoon, they began a two day VBS with the kids of the colonia Leandro Valle. We personally think these kids are the sweetest in the whole wide world =). Check out a few pictures from their VBS and playing with the kids:

We also must mention, that during this past week at CTC we were actually DOUBLY blessed. 

While Brennan and I got to spend our time ministering with CC Redbluff, James and Charmaine hosted a team from our home church- CC Spring Valley. The guys from Spring Valley did a lot of work at our base, staining our deck, painting one of our houses, and even helping finish our basketball court and new hop scotch court! They also got to spend time over at Calvary Chapel Antiochia in Granjas, working to plaster the outside of the children's ministry building so that it can be painted soon! We're so thankful for these two teams!

Tomorrow, Brennan and I are heading to Las Vegas for our 20 week doctor's appointment and ultra sound, and then we are preparing with James and Charmaine for a whole month of back-to-back blessings as we'll have teams staying with us from Monday July 5th-Saturday July 24th. Three of the teams will actually be from our home church, so we are very excited to see some of you here soon =) We can't wait to update you with all the pictures and exciting things that we know the Lord is going to do.

Love you and God Bless,

Brennan and Angelina

"He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." John 7:38 NKJV

Hello Everyone!

We hope that you're all doing very well and that you got our newsletter that we mailed! If not, please let us know so that we can send you one in the future. So much has happened, over the last few months in Mexico, we're excited to update you all with some pictures!

First of all, we'd really like to introduce you to a local church in Granjas. God is really doing an amazing work in this community, and His church is growing! The church is actually no longer able to hold the number of people that come to worship there, so they are currently holding their services outside. We hope that sometime you will be able to come visit this awesome work, and that you'll keep the people of Granjas in your prayers. We've been blessed at CTC to be able to work closely with this church, the Pastor, Pastor Gonzalo, even teaches our Bible study here on Wednesday nights. We look forward to updating you more on what God is doing at this church! Here are a few pictures from the neighborhood of Granjas:

Pastor Gonzalo and his daugher, Elizabeth:

The church's childrens' building:

A sweet family that attends and lives above the church:

A few weeks ago, CTC was blessed to host a huge gathering of a few local churches, including our own Wednesday night Bible study. Pastor Gonzalo taught, some of the children performed, and our Bible study presented a drama that Brennan got to participate in. Check out these pictures from the gathering and potluck: 

 

 

 

 

Last month was “Marriage Month”, so to speak, for Calvary Chapel Rosarito (Angelina and I were grateful to attend some of there classes on marriage), and to wrap it up, they had a huge Date Night that CTC got to host. It was so much fun to decorate our dining room that usually only seats missionaries and kids and to turn it in to a romantic restaurant. It was even more fun to pretend to be waiters and chefs and to serve them while they played games and fellowshipped. You should have seen our packed kitchen while we prepared chocolate cake for 80+ guests! We even served chocolate strawberries for desert! It was very romantic :) Check out these pictures. 

We're really excited because tonight our first summer team has arrived, and they are the first team that we got to prepare for personally. God really showed us and taught us a lot while trying to plan for their trip. He had a plan in mind for them and was the One in complete control; we're so grateful.  The team is from Calvary Chapel Redbluff; they'll be working a lot with the church in Granjas as well as doing VBS in some other areas. We will take some pictures to show you how everything goes in our next blog. Hopefully, we'll be taking pictures of YOU here soon! :-) This next coming month is really busy with teams and we're definitely looking forward to it. Ministering with teams is so much fun.  

Angelina is almost half way through her pregnancy! We're so excited! Her tummy is really getting big and cute. We only have a few more doctor's appointments before we'll be coming back to Las Vegas to serve at CC Spring Valley during our third trimester (September-November 16-ish). Thank you for your prayers. Love you all, and talk to you soon! God bless, Brennan and Angelina