“Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.And you are witnesses of these things. ” Luke 24:46-48

Hi again!

Hope that you all are doing well and that you've had a wonderful last few weeks!

We have a lot to celebrate and update you on with this last busy month here in Mexico!

The proud teachers and students pose with their diplomas

A few days after our last post, we were so blessed to see the students of Ninos del Rey running up to us with certificates in their hands! Many of them received “diplomas” congratulating them for being first or second in their classes, and we are so proud! We are so grateful for all of the teachers that so faithfully work with these children, helping them not only with their homework, but teaching them about God's love for them. We know that they are making such a difference in the lives of these children, trusting in God's word “train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it” Proverbs 22:6.

Walking by faith in this promise we have begun a Bible study at the City of Angels orphanage. These past two weeks we've been getting to know the wonderful orphanage family. It's awesome to be coming alongside such a beautiful work of the Lord and to see the directors of the orphanage leading the precious kids in His way. Take a look at some pictures from our times with them:

Thank you so much for your prayers for the Cirad Rehabilitation Center as well! The Bible studies with the youth continue to go well, and the first few studies with the adults have definitely been interesting to say the least! At the first study, during the teaching, one man led his own rendition of “La Cucharacha” for everyone to enjoy. It was definitely awkwardly funny, but the Lord really moved as we got to pray with him and many more of the men afterwards. Please continue to pray for God's Spirit to be guiding through His Word; for salvation and discipleship; and continued guidance for them when they are released from the center. 

We've really been seeing God move in the “community clean up” ministry here. Last week, while a team from CCSV was here, we were able to do some weeding, trash clean up, and a small outreach at the El Campo soccer field(this is the same field where we plan to begin evangelistic English classes soon), and the locals were so blessed by it! A few pictures from the outreach:

Looking ahead, we plan to do a similar outreach there next week, and another one geared towards connecting the people with local churches on April 30^th for a big holiday here called “Day of the Kid!” Jadon sure is glad we live in Mexico because we don't have this holiday in the US! Please keep these upcoming outreaches in your prayers- that God's name would be glorified and that many would come to know Him. We look forward to sharing with you how they went in our next blog.

A few more Praise requests because God is so good:

-He has provided many donations for the evangelistic English classes we look forward to starting! This is an answer to prayer! We hope to begin May 7^th.

-On March 22, our friends Jorje and Erika had their baby Santi!!

Adorable baby Santiago

 And yesterday, him and Jadon met for the first time, they are sure to be amigos por siempre. Thank you for your prayers, Momma and baby are both healthy. 

Jadon and Santiago meeting each other for the first time!

A paparazzi shot of James and Charmaine at the beach

-Also, this week, our co-missionaries James and Charmaine will be celebrating their 25^th wedding anniversary on April 19th!!Woohoo!

-And lastly, we are praising God because Easter is almost here!! Jesus is risen, our Redeemer lives!! We are looking so forward to celebrating His resurrection!

We are actually very spoiled because our family is bringing us to Las Vegas next week to celebrate with them. We hope to get to see some of you while we're there! As always, please email us any prayer requests. We are praying that you are filled with all the joy that we find in serving our risen Savior Jesus this Easter =).

In Christ's Love,

Brennan, Angelina, and Jadon

"Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing."- John 15:4-6

Hi Everybody,

How are you doing? We hope that all is well, and that you remembered the time change yesterday! We didn't =(... thanks for a lot for reminding us. Hehe, just kiddng. We did forget, but of course we're not mad at you =).

Although, it's incredible how one little change can throw off the entire day if we let it! We're so grateful that we serve the the only Person(God) that never changes! Hebrews 13:8 says “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” Even though we might think that the little change messed up our entire day, we know His plans are much better than our own(phew!), and He was and will always be consistent, just, faithful, graceful, merciful, and love us. Thank you Lord! 

Thanks so much for all of your prayers, it's been an awesome month, and we've definitely felt your prayers and seen many answered!

The most amazing after school kids on the planet.

We mentioned in our last blog about the Thursday afternoon Bible study we've been given the opportunity to teach at a local rehabilitation center for the youth; and over the last few weeks we've watched as God is really moving in the hearts of the kids there. And in turn, He is really breaking our hearts as they are beginning to open up to us about their lives and sharing their prayer requests. We know that He has a plan for each soul there and can give them new lives, delivered and restored by His love. And this past weekend, while a team was here ministering to them from Santa Fe, California, many of the young girls made the choice to give their lives to Him! God is so good and His Word is so powerful!

We really feel like God is leading us as a team, opening new doors for ministry. Will you pray with us for God's guidance and will to be done with these opportunities?:

• The same rehabilitation center that we are currently ministering to also houses 40 men that were former drug addicts, and starting this week on Thursday, after the youth study, the door has been opened to begin a Bible study for them as well(Praise God)!

• A popular soccer field near CTC has its own multi-purpose room, and the owner has offered it to us free of charge on the weekends. Evangelistic English classes have been put on our hearts, and we think this may be the place to begin them. However, although we speak English, we've never taught it! You can see we need prayer :D.

• Also, a local orphanage has invited us to come begin a little Bible study with them weekly.We would also love to begin to take teams there as well.

Thank you for praying with us about these things!

Take a look at this prayer request He recently answered:

Some of the after school kids pose for a picture with the new monkey bars!

Brand new monkey bars (woohoo!) hand made by a men's group that visited us last month. The kids love them!

 

Pastor Jorje and his wife Erika

In other news, we're very excited because our friends Jorje and Erika are getting ready to have their very first baby!! They are expecting a baby boy named Santiago, and we are expecting him and Jadon to be best friends. 

Jorje is a pastor at a local Calvary Chapel here, and they are beginning the stages of opening a coffee shop at their church. We personally tried the cappuccino they want to sell, and it is  a w e s o m e.  Please keep them in prayer for their new baby, and also for their coffee shop as they minister in an area where there are a lot of young people, and they believe the coffee shop may be a new way to reach out and share the love of Jesus with them.

Baby Jadon at 3 1/5 months showing you his tummy time skills

Also new this month, Jadon is becoming such a big boy, he is starting to turn over on his own, and laugh, which we think is the cutest and sweetest thing yet. You have to come visit and  see him! Also, our neighbor Trini taught us how to make a food called sopes, which can only be described as “yuuum". 

Thanks so much for catching up with us, and again, thank you so much for all of your prayer!! Talk to you soon, and please remember to email us any of your prayer requests.

Lots of love,

Brennan, Angelina and baby Jadon 

"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