"Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.” 1 John: 14-15

Jadon on his very first airplane on the way to Mexico

Jadon with our neighbor Diana, in La Gloria.

Hi everyone,

    We have officially made it down south! For the last two weeks, we have been enjoying unpacking and getting back into the swing of things here in Mexico. Thank you all so much for your prayers, it has been so nice to see familiar faces of our sweet family here and to experience the feeling of being home again. Jadon especially had fun meeting all of his new familia here in Mexico. He fits right in! :) 

Jadon meeting some of the children from Ninos del Rey.

Our first week back, the CTC after school program for kids instated a monthly Olympics, and we got to experience the very first one. It was so much fun! There were four teams of mixed big kids with little kids, running all kinds of races and obstacle courses. Watching the kids laugh and play(and roll and fall!), we were reminded of what a blessing it is that the Lord has given the CTC kids a beautiful soccer field to play on! God is so good.

 

He has blessed so bountifully the ministries here at CTC. The children’s program(Ninos del Rey) now has so many children in attendance, we’ve  actually reached our limit! The wonderful staff of teachers are working hard to help every single child with his or her homework because we’re almost 40 kid’s strong! The weekly ladies Bible has grown as well! It is up to 14 ladies (now including Angelina :) ) regularly in attendance, fellowshipping and seeking God’s face together. We praise God that CTC has also recently been able to reach out to a local rehabilitation center with weekly Bible studies to the youth there as well.

Calvary Chapel Antiochia

 We’re very excited and would be so grateful for your prayer about ministry opportunities coming up for us here at CTC.  We hope to share with you in our next blog more details about the Rehabilitation Center Bible study as well as the new church building project for CC Antiochia in Granjas.

We are currently seeking the Lord for His will for more ways to share His love with the community here in La Gloria. Will you pray with us? Some things that He has put on our hearts include weekly community park cleaning and evangelism, evangelistic English classes, outreach to local pastors, coming alongside and assisting more local church plants, and orphanage and hospital outreach. Some other ministry prayer requests include: transportation for our Ninos del Rey children(currently we pick them up from school in the back of the CTC blue truck), thick gloves for community park cleanings(we find lots of glass!), and other play equipment for the after school program.

Thank you so much for praying with us, it is such a gift to be able to pray and know that our Heavenly Father is listening! Luke 11: 9-13 says, “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”  

We plan to update you all every month with what we’ll be praying about and with what the Lord is doing.  Please write and let us know if there is anything we can be praying specifically for you! We love you all and look forward to writing again soon.

God bless you,

Brennan, Angelina and Jadon

Feliz Navidad Prospero Año y Felicidad!!

 Hi Everyone, Merry Christmas and happy New Year! We are delighted to introduce you to the newest member of our family: Jadon Benjamin Davis! He was born at 11:39pm on November 23, 2010, weighing 7lbs 6oz and measuring 20 inches long. We have been having a blast these first few weeks of parenthood getting to know Jadon and developing a new respect for parents everywhere(we have officially joined the 2am diaper change club :D).

We hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year!! In Mexico, they had an incredible Christmas at CTC, take a look at these pictures Charmaine took of the Ladies' Bible Study tea and Ninos del Rey Christmas party:

 

Do you have any resolutions this new year? We have three, not at all in order of importance: One, to healthily and gradually lose our baby(and sympathy hehe) weight.  Two, to grow closer to the Lord than ever before. What a blessing that He gives us the promise in James 4:8 "Draw near to God and He will draw near to you." We really like the verse before that too, "Resist the devil and he will flee from you" Woohoo!

And our other resolution?  To return to Mexico! Well, I'm not sure you can call that a resolution, but we are really excited to finally be returning! It is such a blessing to be there. Please pray for us as we get Jadon's passport and prepare our little family to travel back to Mexico at the end of this month. We are looking very forward to seeing all that the Lord has this year in La Gloria.

We love you all very much and will write again when we've officially made it south.

Love and God bless,

Brennan, Angelina and Jadon

Psalm 106:1-"Praise the LORD! Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever."

Hey everybody!

Hope that you're all doing really well and blessed. We are here in Las Vegas playing a waiting game with our baby that could come at any minute. Thank you all so much for your prayer through this season! While we are still able to catch some sleep and free time before the baby, we wanted to update you all on what's been going on since we last wrote.

Throughout these past months, we have been getting checkups for our soon to be little bundle of joy. We praise God that the doctor says he's nice and healthy and probably about 6 pounds. It's cute, though, because Angelina is a little lady. We are praying for a natural birth, but are open to whatever His will may be. We will most definitely be getting you pictures of baby Jadon Benjamin Davis ASAP (meaning... in between diaper changes) once he comes. His expected due date is THIS Tuesday(we're so excited!).

While being back in Las Vegas, working at CC Spring Valley has really been a blessing. The leadership has been so awesome to give us the opportunity to keep busy during this waiting period. Angelina was able to serve as the church receptionist up until a few weeks ago, and I've been given the privilege of overseeing the translation of the Basics course into Spanish. We're hoping the newly translated copies will not only benefit the Hispanic community of Las Vegas, but also be helpful in ministry in La Gloria.

Although we love being with our family at CC Spring Valley, we really miss Mexico so much. Thank you all so much for your prayer and support of the work there. Thanks, as well, to those who went and blessed us behind our backs with a new room for Jadon! It will be such an amazing "welcome back" when we return.
 So much has been going on there while we've been away, check out some of these awesome pictures taken by James and Charmaine of the work going on there:

A graffiti-covered wall at a local soccer field in an area called Santa Fe.

Some local members of Calvary Chapel Santa Fe in Mexico paint "Christian graffiti" on that wall using supplies donated CC Spring Valley. The words in bold state, "Jesus is the way."

Our CTC soccer field as we first began to cover it with cow manure.

Our CTC soccer field as it is today thanks to the Lord.

The outside of the house that Pastor Gonzalo and his wife, two sons, and daughter moved into next door before a team from Spring Valley transformed it.

The house after with a beautiful green paint job, an overhang, and brand new furnishings and remodeling on the inside.

 Many people have asked us when we plan on heading back to Mexico, and we are praying for God's perfect timing. We understand that it's recommended for new mothers a minimum six-week recovery time for a natural childbirth, and we will also be securing a new passport for little Jadon and getting our family visas in order. God-willing, our prayer is to be back about mid-January. Please pray for God's favor as we embark on getting all of this paperwork together quickly, and also as we prepare for child birth in the next few days (or even minutes :D maybe!) and walk into this new season of God's plan for our lives...parenthood!

We love you all very much, and we hope that you know that you are in our prayers. We look forward to updating you soon!  God bless you all and keep you safe.

Love,

Brennan and Angelina

"...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

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