"...that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Romans 10:9-10

Hello everybody!

Hope that you all have been really blessed this month. The Lord has really been working here in La Gloria with our family (our soon-to-be-born son is getting very big), our team here at CTC, and with all of the teams that have been coming down to serve the people here in Mexico. Thank you so much for all of your prayers!

God has answered so many of our prayers! He is so good! Just this month, the base here was donated thirty brand new mattresses for the dorm rooms! Please come and try our new ones out because they are very comfortable. By blessing the base here, the Lord was also blessing others as we are now able to donate all of our old mattresses to ministries and families here. Just another proof that the Lord is faithful to hear our prayers.

The base was also donated some grass seed by CCSV and some cow manure by a local dairy farm; with it, we pray the Lord will change our sandy soccer field to one covered in green grass. Please be in prayer for those little seedlings. The kids that we have told from our after school program are excited and blown away at the thought of their own grass-covered soccer field. (Thank you CC Spring Valley Jr. High team for helping us spread that steaming cow poo everywhere! You made our lives a little easier to say the least.)

CC Gilroy and CC Skyline after reinforcing a tire wall behind a local home.

One of the most awesome events we'll mention this July was the outreach held in the isolated middle-class city of Del Prado. This city will hopefully be the site of a new Calvary Chapel church plant in the near future, and two churches from California ( CC Gilroy and CC Skyline) worked together to hold a small carnival for the children of the area. Because no one had ever done an event like this in that area, we had no idea how many children would show up. By the end of the day, over two hundred kids had lined up to play the carnival games, have their faces painted, get caricatures done, and receive candy prizes (so much candy that we ran out at one point and had to clean out a local supermarket to get more)! The teams also handed out hundreds of tracts, New Testaments, and one man even accepted the Lord into his heart! Everybody was invited to attend a local Bible study, which we are praying will grow into a flourishing church.

CC Spring Valley after cleaning up a field in Santa Fe the day before they held a big carnival for the neighborhood kids.

There are so many other stories that we could tell of outreaches put on by different teams that have come. Thank you to all the teams who have entertained children, worked hard in the sun, picked up garbage, evangelized local communities, and done all these things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. God bless you all!

CC Spring Valley Jr. High standing in front of the amazing bus they came in and also in front of the soccer field we had covered in cow manure.

James performing the "walk of faith" with one of our summer school kids, Jamil. The "walk of faith" is an obstacle course one has to go through while blindfolded with a guide who gives you directions.

Meanwhile, Friday afternoons here at the base have been summer school days! All of the CTC team has had lots of fun playing with these kids, but we can't believe that the summer is already almost over! The after school program for children will be starting up again very soon, so please pray that there will be many children enrolled. It has been so quiet here without the sound of children three days a week. 

Two very cute kids from our summer school making crafts.

 

This craft was supposedly a refrigerator magnet, but has many other uses as well. :-)

Last but not least, our son has been moving a lot inside of Angelina's tummy! His due date is November 16^th, and it is approaching us very quickly. To let you all know, we will be returning to Las Vegas for the last three months of Angelina's pregnancy to receive our healthcare there. We can't believe that it's almost September! We are almost parents! Isn't life with the Lord an adventure?

We love you all! Hope to see or hear from you soon! If you have any questions or would like to talk, please email us at brennandvs@gmail.com. Thank you so much for all of your prayer and support!

Look out for our mail newsletter in the next few weeks. If you've haven't received one or given us your address feel free to email us that information as well.

God bless!

Brennan and Angelina