tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15443292249062952772023-11-15T22:08:01.974-08:00BajMission BlogBajMission Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246617313388112546noreply@blogger.comBlogger333125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544329224906295277.post-4211289659173715312019-09-13T14:59:00.001-07:002019-09-13T14:59:16.340-07:00Modeling Gratitude and ThankfulnessSept 13 2019<br />
ONE important thing we do in our ministry is give the people who benefit (including the kids they bring) with the Community Outreach classes, as well as the Mexican Star Seamstresses, is that there are people who help FUND their projects, and that it's important to say THANK YOU.<br />
We give opportunity for these folks to write some form of THANKS.<br />
Here are scans of the last Community Sewing Class.<br />
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We also have women write specific people with TY notes, especially when things happen like 'funding for a sewing machine' or 'new start-up learning sessions and product' costs. We translate those individual cards and send them to the peeps.<br />
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Just to say, modeling the Godly character-quality of GRATITUDE and THANKFULNESS is important to us.<br />
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Blessings<br />
ChrisBajMission Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246617313388112546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544329224906295277.post-49897806526002707282019-09-13T14:49:00.004-07:002019-09-13T14:49:50.171-07:00Baj Mission August NewzHere are the jpegs... IF you are on the BLOG but NOT on the email list, email me<br />
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Thanks for reading and praying!<br />
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Hello, BajMission Blog readers!<br />
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SO, we are making a shift in our digital communications.<br />
We will be blogging LESS on BajMission Blog.<br />
We will be sending out a MONTHLY Baj Mission Email update, which will essentially be a 'mini-Monthly Newsletter'.<br />
This update will, as named, be sent out BY EMAIL.<br />
SO, IF you receive our Emails now, you SHOULD have the June 2019 Update in your InBox.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">We WILL be putting WAY more pictures up on our Instagram, and those pics automatically feed over to Facebook, SO there should be a stream of visual updates with bits of the stories through those two on-line venues: </span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Overall, we are just trying to spend 'adequate' time doing on-line reporting, and MORE time actually out with people in Baja Mexico, doing... umm... </span>ministry...</h2>
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(here's the Update bit we just sent out via Email, to help you fill the gap...)<br />
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We are SO amazed at the incredible things that GOD did these
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‘redemptive friendships’ emerge and great encouragement come out of the Sewing
Outreach, as well as FOUR ministries working together to hold the week-long
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connections to encourage and equip two ‘Lead Worshippers’ in Mexican churches</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--two distinct
opportunities of personal ministry that brought significant break-through of
God’s Grace and Healing to people</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--and SO many more
‘God-stories’!</div>
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We’ve also been blessed as missionaries with God’s wonderful
provision...</div>
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vehicle getting much-needed work (brakes, tires, tune-up)</div>
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Center getting some construction and clean-up attention</div>
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attend a Worship conference in LA, then a two-day mountain-camp retreat for
prayer and reflection, seeking the Lord for His Voice moving forward</div>
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Lori</span></div>
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<br />BajMission Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246617313388112546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544329224906295277.post-42008800003457629502019-05-02T12:13:00.000-07:002019-05-02T12:14:48.915-07:00 ORTIE Saving Lives!<br />
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Healthcare Education ministry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">[You’re thinking... <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">what
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 22.0pt;">~~ORTIE Briefing~~</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">-ORTIE stands for <u>O</u>ral <u>R</u>ehydration
<u>T</u>herapy <u>I</u>mplementation and <u>E</u>ducation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">-When somebody is dehydrated, they
immediately need to be given Oral Rehydration Therapy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">-The basis of Oral Rehydration
Therapy is Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS). Safe water + electrolytes and
citric acid = ORS. Commercial Pedialyte® is a form of ORS. In Latin America,
ORS is called ‘Suero Oral’. The World Health Organization (WHO) calls the packets
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">-The ORTIE campaign is the 2019
ramp-up and revision-launch of our old effort ‘ORT’... this has been a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">major</i></b>
project Lori and I have worked on as missionaries since 1991.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">-The ORTIE effort, in short, is teaching
moms and kids how to make ‘home-made Pedialyte®’ in resource-poor areas of the
world, especially with our beloved Mexican villagers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">-ORTIE is SO needed world-wide: over
3,000 sick children world-wide will die <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">today</b>
from Dehydration, which <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">most</i></b> of those children can be
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">-Dehydration, the condition that ORS
treats, is also behind the illnesses of an estimated <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">50,000 children</i></b>
world-wide today... huge!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">-Teaching and How-To materials we’ve
developed have made it to 52 countries around the world since 1991 via
missionaries and health-care workers on short-term outreach... every continent
except Australia and the South Pole (hmmm...)...</span></div>
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to make it SALTY AS TEARS (too salty, add more water; not salty enough, add
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">-IF AVAILABLE, squeeze in juice from
a slice of citrus fruit (lime, lemon, orange, etc). IF citrus not available, go
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they are making/giving urine every 2 hours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Except for ‘profound humanitarian
crisis’ areas (war, earthquake, typhoon, etc), many dwellings around the world
have the water-sugar-salt ingredients easily available to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">-We teach anyone age 5 and up how to
make ORS [Demo and Return-Demo].</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">- Our ORTIE Save-A-Life-Stations
utilize graphic charts (wordless AND with local language/dialect), pictures,
posters, colouring sheets (sight), hand-outs, puppets, music, simple how-to
promo talk (sound), AND actual hands-on (taste, smell, touch)... engage all
styles of learning and memory</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">-We make sure <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">everyone</i></b> at a ORTIE
Save-A-Life-Station tastes and drinks the ORS... that way, a young child will
be familiar with it when they are sick and encouraged to drink! Drink! Drink!</span></div>
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available, use of WHO Oral Rehydration Salts packets, such as those available
from government clinics and stores, OR buy-able Pedialyte®... although such
products can cost >400% more than soda-drink products, and difficult to find
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">-live ORTIE Save-A-Life-Stations in
villages are up-and-running; 2 held in April 2019</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">-pre-work and professional
literature review for a major re-write of the ORS curriculum is under way (we
published a nursing journal article in 1999; an updated version is in the
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">-all the previous ORS education was
built and deployed in the pre-on-line world. With the revision, all education
will be built for digital platforms and use on digital devices (it’s amazing
how tekk is available and used world-wide, even in the middle of the most remote
places you could imagine...)</span></div>
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COURSE that students will be able to enroll, learn all the finer points,
receive a certificate (yes, we are investigating college on-line platforms and college
credit availability) and will give alumni long-term access to all the tools and
resources.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the jars with
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festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">“Anyone who is thirsty may come to me!</span></span><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"> <span class="text"><sup>38 </sup></span><span class="woj">Anyone who believes in me may come and drink! For the Scriptures
declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.’”</span></span><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"> <span class="text"><sup>39 </sup>(When he said
“living water,” he was speaking of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Spirit,</b>
who would be given to everyone believing in him. But the Spirit had not yet
been given,</span></span><span class="text"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"> because Jesus had not yet entered
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whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I
give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
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especially Mexicans... have been told that God is very angry with them, wants to
punish them and their children, and that they are living under a curse that He
put on them [the Hispanic concept is known as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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demonstration of the Love of the Father, and a powerful platform to break these
oppressive curses over people and their children. The healing waters of ORS are
a parable of the Living Water that Jesus gives, and leads people to a God who
wants to rescue lives and peoples, especially women and children. We’ve ‘shared
Christ’ with SO many people while standing in their dirt-floor homes, making ORS
for their sick child and ministering life to them through prayer and practical
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the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Like
many of you, I love this Scripture. There is a crisp simplicity to the words of
Jesus, labeled with a big ‘do not’ that deserves attention, with a
rock-our-world reality tagged on... YES! All things said, this is a Scripture
to ‘open up the doors, and let the music play, let the children come!’...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Looking
over the BajMission blogs and social-media posted from the last few years, it
would easy to miss a big aspect of our ministry in Mexico. With the large focus
on the ‘Star Seamstresses’ and the Sewing Outreaches to the community, it’s
possible to think that the vast majority of outreach efforts and our
teaching-discipling platforms involve only women, spools of thread, bobbins,
and fabric.</span></div>
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as is true with lower-socio-economic areas, doing any activity means the women
always have kids in tow. Kids. Lots of kids. The neighbor’s kids (they swap
entire kid-packs to get things done, especially in emergencies or urgent
matters). The extended-family’s kids (many single daughters with children living
with mom). The kids who are currently on extended visit with them (typical Mexican
cultural life means a woman with kids travels from the other side of Mexico for
a visit... a two- or three-month-kind-of visit...).</span></div>
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Lots of kids.</span></div>
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well, the Baja Mexico education system uses a very fluid schedule. Fluid,
like... school today, but oh! Tomorrow cancelled! Opps, scheduled vacation
dates changed! Short day tomorrow (first notice), the teachers are being called
to Ensenada for a meeting (notice when you arrive to drop off our children)...
absolute craziness for all the parents involved.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">SO,
besides the volume of kids factored into the change-on-a peso-coin schedule,
women coming to the Sewing Outreach have to bring kids... lots of them.</span></div>
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has worked diligently over the last decade of Sewing Outreaches in San Vicente to
build a Kidz Ministry that is way bigger than a glorified child-care corner.
She realized long ago that these women, handling a half-dozen kidz on most
days, with ages easily spanning 6 months to 14 yrs old... that the only way
they (the women) can learn how to make a straight stitch on a machine is to NOT
have the children about, being those children are a constant flow of need and
issues.</span></div>
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also has felt from the Lord the ‘nudge’ that kids at the Outreach means an
opportunity for them to hear about Jesus and His Kingdom while having some
fun... (maybe this should be titled Kidz Outreach...?). Many of the homes these
kids come from are NOT following the Lord or plugged into any Church...</span></div>
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Lori has built quite the elaborate system for Kidz Ministry during the Sewing
Outreach. Along with the visionary participation of a couple local Churches,
this ministry has been staffed with 2 to 4 people over the last few Sewing
Outreaches.</span></div>
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has well-equipped the Kidz Outreach. There are dedicated ‘Easy-Up tents,
separate from the Sewing area. There are puzzles, make-and-take crafts, games
and activities. Ministry interns from the Churches have brought extensive colouring
sheets.</span></div>
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growing area for the Kidz Ministry has been Kidz worship. We’ve incorporated a
box of ‘kidz praise-rhythm’ hand-made items from the Kidz Church we planted in
the colonia Granjas (south-west of Tijuana) back in 1996. We’ve made song-lyric
posters that feature many well-loved Mexican ‘Sunday School’ kidz tunes. Also,
one of the Mex churches’ worship leaders (Pablo) has participated, bringing a
solid guitar and boundless energy to the songs.</span><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;"> This April 2019 outreach, we went a notch higher, with 2-to-4 times-a-day
song/worship times, with your truly ( ;-) ) adding to the joyful noise. There
were challenges in getting un-churched kidz ‘into’ the songs and lyrics, but...
hey.</span></div>
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past few Outreaches, we were also blessed to have an experienced Kids’ pastor,
Mayra, who affiniates to the little ones in diapers and kept the colouring station flowing.</span></div>
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yes, there were cookies... any Kidz Outreach in Mexico means cookies...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">This
last outreach lasted 5 days; we had a total of 39 kid-visits in that period of
time, over half previously un-churched.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">The
women who come to the Outreach are getting linked-up with the Star
Seamstresses, all who live in that Village, and are helping bridge the
un-churched moms into a friendship that can lead them to one of the
congregations in the Village.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Kidz...
Kidz Outreach... Kidz coming... “let ‘em come! Hey, here’s Jesus! Jump up on
His lap! He’s the coolest, fun-est, most awesome-est, safest person in the
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Open
up the doors... let the (noisy) music play (Bang! Bang! Clank! Go the tambourines)
... let the (kidz tent) be filled with chaotic, loud, happy, joyful-noise <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">singing</i></b>...</span></div>
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Lori and I spent an afternoon doing a home-made project for the up-coming Sewing
Class/Outreach. We made 10 ‘cone-thread holders’. These are a sewing accessory
to help feed thread to the machine from the large thread spools (yeah, I had to
learn what that all meant)... the high-volume sower uses large-spool thread
(fraction of the cost of small spools).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We
used scrap pine board, dowels, dis-garded thick-gauge wire and a lot of elbow
grease with simple tools.</span></div>
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COULD have just bought the needed ‘cone-thread holders’, at about $12 each...
(well, 10 x $12 is a bit...)</span></div>
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that is NOT what Community Development missions does. </span></div>
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main objective of Community Development is to demonstrate how to make needed
accessories and processes using locally-available material. We needed to model
how to make a home-made version for students to see, and... well, replicate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Community
Development missionaries are always a bit obsessive about these type of things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">‘Give
someone a fish, you fed them today. Teach them to fish, you fed them for many,
many days” is the Community Development axiom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fish
and fishing, or... sewing and product development and how to make cone-thread
holders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stay
tuned, the next step is probably to hold a ‘how-to’ workshop and have students
make their own cone-thread holders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That’s
what Community Development missions do. </span></div>
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</style>BajMission Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246617313388112546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544329224906295277.post-122449076427921162019-03-24T09:44:00.003-07:002019-03-24T09:44:43.018-07:00Bajmission Newsletter March 2019 OUT NOW<br />
Hello, Blog-post readers!<br />
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Our Bajmission Newsletter March 2019 is out NOW, and being sent to the 'email posse' we have the Bajmission ministry.<br />
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THREE important things:<br />
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<>If you are on our 'email posse', and receive your digital copy... rejoice! "Ain't God good??", as an old church friend used to ask every Sunday!<br />
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Feel free to print off copies for your friends, pastors, home groups... for sure, we can always use the prayers!<br />
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<>If you are a regular Blog-reader, you'll notice that we are basically referring newsletter readers who want to read the 'whole story' back TO the Blog... SO, as a regular Blog reader, you're already 'in the know'.<br />
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<>IF, for some reason, you are NOT on our 'email posse', send me an email TO<br />
admin@bajmission.com<br />
... and we'll get you hooked up<br />
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Thanks for being a Partner in reading, praying an giving to this ministry with the Mexican peoples.<br />
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hugs!<br />
Chris and Lori<br />
<br />BajMission Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246617313388112546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544329224906295277.post-5811173744092612032019-03-04T08:57:00.002-08:002019-03-04T09:17:27.550-08:00Finally... ABOVE average rainfall!!March 4, 2019<br />
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YES YES YES YES YES<br />
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Average rainfall for our San Diego-North Baja Mexico region is set at 7.2 inches from October 1 to April 30.<br />
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Some areas of our crazy region, particularly the high-desert mesa regions (chapparal biome) run 3 to 3.5 inches/year.<br />
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We looked at Mexican government data last year, and our San Vicente region averaged out 3.6 inches/year over the last 40 years.<br />
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Last rainy season (2017-2018) , we only received 1.8 inches (yes, the Mex govt has a hydrometer in San Vicente).<br />
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Guess what?? RIGHT NOW, we are at almost 130% of normal rainfall!<br />
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San Diego is well over 10 inches of rain for the Oct-Apr season. We won't receive the Mex govt data for a couple of months, but we are SURE it's right up there... we've been there, the mud is ankle-deep, some roads are totally im-passable, and we've had to do significant 'seal up' work on the Ministry Center/House.<br />
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Oh, yeah... GREEN can be seen everywhere... not the usual brown-brown-brown...<br />
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WE ARE NOT COMPLAINING!!!<br />
Yes, Lord! You've sent the physical rain... send Holy Spirit rain in a Revival and Visitation in San Vicente!<br />
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Chris <br />
<br />BajMission Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246617313388112546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544329224906295277.post-71207147525595647602019-03-01T14:34:00.001-08:002019-03-01T14:34:47.973-08:00Modern Missionary Struggles – Part 2: When There is Family Crisis<br />
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Chris here. </span></div>
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series of Blogs about the missionary realities, especially ‘modern missionary
struggles’ is, hopefully, a window for some of our serious partners to ‘pray
with understanding’...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville"; font-size: 18.0pt;">So what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will
also pray with my understanding; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also
sing with my understanding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1 Cor
14:15</span></div>
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this Blog will give you some solid ways to pray for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Gone
are the days where missionaries pack their earthly belongings in wooden caskets
and ship off to a land that they will never return from alive. [Hence, the
casket-shipping containers]. These heroes of missionary history would usually
find out their family and friends passed away in a letter or post that took
months to reach them. For them, the call of missions meant a tearing away from
any real family involvement, literally following the Gospel passage,</span></div>
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<span class="text"><sup><span style="font-family: "baskerville"; font-size: 18.0pt;"></span></sup></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: "baskerville"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Many people were traveling
with Jesus. He said to them,</span></span><span style="font-family: "baskerville"; font-size: 18.0pt;"><span class="text"><sup> </sup>“If you come to
me but will not leave your family, you cannot be my follower. You must love me
more than your father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters—even more
than your own life!</span> <span class="text">Whoever will not
carry the cross that is given to them when they follow me cannot be my
follower. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "baskerville"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Luke
14:25-27, ERVersion</span><span style="font-family: "baskerville"; font-size: 18.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">When
we are in the SF Bay area, we’ve stayed at a wonderful, historic missionary ‘transit
house’, where so many missionaries waited for their ship passage, mainly to
China and Japan. Some of the portrait-pictures were the last pictures taken of
them in America... ever. They served, and were buried in their field of
service, never to have returned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">That
was then, this is now.</span></div>
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to the days where;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">^^you
can travel to anywhere on the planet in 72 hours from wherever you currently are
on that same planet, with no regards for $$$, of course, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">^^we
are fully available for phone calls, texts, emails and Skype video calls anywhere
there is a cell tower signal, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i></b></span></div>
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families know this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Given
we are missionaries working 4 hours out from the major city with a fly-able
airport, sometimes hampered by bad roads and un-safe weather (especially the
mountainous travel)... </span></div>
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all our travel is on a limited budget...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">...and
all our family are between 500 and 1,800 miles away...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">...and
it’s more than air-flights: it’s ground transpo, places to stay, cost of
travel-eating...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">...Sooo...</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">...what do we do about family crisis and emergencies?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville"; font-size: 18.0pt;">If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives
generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>James
1:5</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville"; font-size: 18.0pt;">In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord
establishes their steps<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Proverbs 16:9</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville"; font-size: 18.0pt;">My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John 10:27</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>^^we begin making appropriate plans, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>^^we keep listening for the Voice of our
Shepherd, </span></div>
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listening, and... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Yes,
there can be significant work-flow disruption in our Mexico work by being ‘pulled
away’ and having to quickly change plans and fly to where family is. Working
with people in a Mexican farming village has an entirely different pace,
planning rhythm and final ‘it will happen’ factor. </span></div>
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have been some tough spots along the way. For the family who all live and work
in America, there can be an assumption that we can ‘drop what we’re doing and
fly over’ for the ‘expected family involvement’... and they let us know that.</span></div>
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is a really, really tough thing, especially given the cost of ‘time-talent-treasure’
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good friends and partners... PRAY-PRAY-PRAY for us in all these matters, that
more than anything, we can hear the Voice of our Lord and respond to Him and
His calling in the situation, not the pressures of expectations in a family
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('What? Cold in Mexico?', you say... )<br />
Yeah! High mesa desert... it's really cold!<br />
That's why we connect with dozens of people to give out hats in Mexico... hundreds and hundreds of hats for hundreds and hundreds of heads... especially the kiddos.<br />
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The Kintergarter in San Vicente... "oh, yes! Please come! We love your annual visit (Lori's been doing an annual hat give-away at the Kinter for over a decade...)<br />
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Over a hundred kids plus the staff, over 170 hats, controlled chaos, a roaring 'Gracias!', grateful parents... saw so many kids days after the outreach in the community with their hats...<br />
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The Kinter was just on of many venues to get warm hats on the heads of kids and people in San Vicente... Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hats distributed these past weeks, including with the work of our local partners...<br />
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We celebrate... we are grateful to those hat-makers... we get so excited by working with our San Vicente 'team', representing leaders from five local churches... yeah!<br />
Your brother, Chris<br />
<>BajMission Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246617313388112546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544329224906295277.post-36636092821809133452019-01-28T16:10:00.000-08:002019-01-28T16:10:13.470-08:00Discipling and Raising Up... One Stitch at a Time!Jan 2019<br />
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¡Hola, amigos!<br />
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One of the main-stay ministries in San Vicente is the 'Cottage-Industry Star Seamstresses', guided by Lori since 2008 (11 years now!).<br />
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Needless to say, the main-stay of the ministry is mostly Discipleship, learning solid work-habits and business 'behaviors'. Most of these women have only attended SOME schooling (usually up to the 6thor 8th grade), and ran only their houses and families.<br />
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Besides the countless days of 'sewing workshop' and 'product-making', there is much teaching that goes on, both individually and in a group.<br />
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Not only is it 'technical skills' related to sewing and the machines needed to do that, but personal disciple and responsible-work behaviors.<br />
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Each woman has a posted 'accomplishment board', with recognition for when they exhibit positive self-business behaviors... coming prepared to work, being on time with their water bottle [they get one when they join the ministry], calling ahead of time when they cannot keep an appointment ['just not showing up' is a bad-habit problem with the culture of the village here]<br />
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When the women achieve a certain level of points, they get free stuff... all very desirable...<br />
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PLUS, Lori gives 'workshops' on things like keeping your sewing-machine in good, working order...<br />
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Discipleship... day in, day out, slow-grow... the beauty of coming into Good things that God has for them!<br /><br />
¡Dios es Bueno!<br />
your bro, ChrisBajMission Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246617313388112546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544329224906295277.post-47986663889409706322019-01-28T15:55:00.002-08:002019-01-28T15:55:56.825-08:00Hat Outreach + Invite-to-Church = 10% bumpJan 2019<br />
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Hey!<br />
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We love hat outreaches here in San Vicente! The winter months can blast winds and low-30 temps. For our neighbors who live in shaky housing, with little kids... it can be serious health concern. We've given away around 1000 hats every for the last 16 years, and they are always well-received and appreciated, especially by las madres con hijos (mums con kiddos).<br />
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[Lori getting the hats sorted for the outreach]<br />
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[Gracias! Little heads covered up for the cold nights!]<br />
One thing we've joined together is Hat Distribution outreaches with churches going into the community and inviting people to their church. So it was this past Saturday with a church co-pastored by one of the Star Seamstresses in the Ministry. We met up in the morning at the house-church (in this case, a house that gets used AS a church), divided up our 'areas', and off we went!<br />
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[Team plan, hit the road... good walking shoes a must!] <br />
Our teams went to over 15 blocks in SW San Vicente, gave out over 170 hats, invited a slew of people to church, and prayed for those who would let us... that's alot of little heads!<br />
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[Check out the cool striped hat for the mom of the house!] <br />
We attended church there on Sunday. Usual attendance is about 48 people (adults+kids). Six people came to church who had never been before, invited by the Hat outreach... yes!<br />
One woman received prayer for a leg injury on Saturday, and told us her leg was significantly better that Sunday morning... yes, Jesus!<br />
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THANK YOU to the dozens of people who send us the Hats for Outreach each year.<br />
Stay tuned for more Hat OUtreach news!<br />
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¡Gracias nuestro Dios!<br />
Bro Chris<br />
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<br />BajMission Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246617313388112546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544329224906295277.post-54498114316081220612019-01-22T15:21:00.000-08:002019-01-22T15:21:11.286-08:00Incredible! A Cafe in San Vicente!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here in the small farming village of San Vicente (around 4000 people), with only one major paved road (the Trans-Peninsular highway, right down the middle of the road), filled with ply-wood houses and cow-path roads... right here, we now have...<br />
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A cute little, coffee-tea-serving, free wi-fi CAFE!!<br />
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It's a bit off the beaten path, but it seems to be getting regular customers (like me).<br />
It's got jazz music playing, serves hot and cold coffee-tea beverages, and some hand-made Mexican pastries (yummm).<br />
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A Christian sister, who used to run a Cafe in the US, moved here and opened the Cafe. <br />
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Yes, my friends, this very POST is being written from the 'Cafe Ronn' de San Vicente.<br />
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Pray for me, to stay focused and keep my Cafe visits in balance.<br />
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Hermano Crisbaj<br />
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<br />BajMission Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246617313388112546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544329224906295277.post-40815759558647283262019-01-17T16:51:00.000-08:002019-01-17T16:51:03.989-08:00Modern Missionary Struggles... Part 1: Far From Family<b>Modern Missionary Struggles... Part 1: Far From Family</b><br />
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¡ Hola, amigos !<br />
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On a recent trip to the Midwest, we participated in a special day-long 'Intercession for 2019' event (glorious!), and this bro came up to me, "the Lord wants me to pray for you this year... what can I be praying about on your behalf?"<br />
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Immediate answer: "... our being <i><b>far from family</b></i>, and having to deal with <i><b>complex family issues long-distance</b></i>... or getting a last-minute flight and red-eye-ing to where family are located"<br />
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Life in 2019 means that family are living all over the country... or all over the world... for everyone! This is true for so, SO many people we know. The days of the entire family living and working within a 50-mile circle have gone the way of the party-line telephone. We could unpack the WHY this reality... but it's true.<br />
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For missionaries who are serving the Lord OUTSIDE the 50-states-USA, this is especially true. Those of us who have responded to Jesus' call to GO (Isaiah 6, Matt 28) means that we... um, actually <u><b>GO</b></u>.<br />
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The last quarter-century of being 'missionaries serving abroad/foreign' has meant that we have family in every corner of the US map. Our daughters are in the Calif 'Bay area' and in central Texas, with our 4 grand-kids. Our remaining parents are in the 'Mid-west'. We have close family peppered all over the US.<br />
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This makes it tough to 'stay in touch', talk a few times a year, exchange greetings at holidays and birthdays, and even know what is going on in their lives. Then, BOOM! something BIG happens, like illness or tragedy, and WHOA, does life become really INTENSE.<br />
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Imagine standing in Mexico, on the phone (thank the LORD for cell phones and International calling plans!), finding out a loved one is seriously ill, just admitted to the hospital, in ICU, OR even 'nigh unto death'. Know that it's a 6-8 hr trip away from the US border, and you are wiped out from a hard week of mission-ministry. Consider how hard it is to <i>quick-close-down</i> living quarters and ministry center, get across the border (remember the 8 hr trip, thru 3 mountain ranges and 2 major Mexican cities?), and then you have to begin to work out finding a 5-hr flight that doesn't cost thousands of dollars, and get across the country in 48 hrs.<br />
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<b>It is hard, hard, HARD serving the LORD and being far from family</b>... and not seem that we've abandoned our family responsibilities, especially when the inevitable crisis comes up.<br />
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I would be amiss to not mention that over the last quarter century, the LORD has graciously guided and provided for us to get to 'where we need to be' in these family crisis. We have experienced a massive out-pouring of the generosity of God's people in providing flights, ground-transpo (airport pick-ups at 0-dark-30 are the worst), housing, and loving-kindness (God bless each and every one of you, and thank you JESUS!).<br />
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We also know that 'God did it then, and HE will do it again'.<br />
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However, it is hard, hard, HARD to serve as a 'cross-cultural missionaries abroad' AND be a responsible member of your family.<br />
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By the way, we have had this conversation with SO many who serve around the world. It is NO different for these wonderful servants of the Lord... sometimes with <i><b>greater </b></i>difficulty, as with our friends serving in the central African continent, where getting back to the USA can take days and thousands of dollars... <br />
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Lori and I would ask for a special 'reach up and pray for us' here in early 2019, as we are experiencing major 'family issues'... definitely, <b>Lori </b>needs a major amount of 'covering prayer'... and for us to be able and discern how to be family-connected, especially in crisis, while responsibly maintaining our mission-ministry commitments with our Mexican brothers and sisters.<br />
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¡ Hasta mañana, amigos !<br />
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Crisbaj<br />
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<br />BajMission Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246617313388112546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544329224906295277.post-1208823440894367752018-12-23T19:25:00.000-08:002018-12-23T19:25:56.870-08:00Amazing Miracle in San Vicente Dec 2018Miracles in San Vicente Dec 2018<br />
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Hello, friends!<br />
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I have to tell you about an actual miracle that the LORD worked in San Vicente.<br />
It's been a slow-grow miracle, that has taken quite a number of years to bring about.<br />
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Remember this picture: it's a picture of a miracle under way!<br />
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What's that miracle? It's churches and their peeps willing to 'cross borders' and fellowship together.<br />
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Background: when we arrived in Mexico as missionaries in 1991, we were shocked and 'not sure what to do' when we constantly encountered a severe 'no tresspassing' rule between Christian churches in Mexico.<br />
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I could tell you story after story we experienced in Juarez, Chihuahua, Baja California, Los Cabos, Oaxaca, Chiapas... painful stories when we witnessed kind-hearted members of one church who went to an activity at another church... and for 'cross-fellowshipping' with people from another church, they received a public castigation for going 'to another church for an activity'. These activities were as simple as special speakers or special music, a celebration, or an outreach to the community. In the community of Juarez we lived in for 6 months, there was an instance that a couple went to their friend's wedding at another church, and they were kicked out of their own church for having gone to that 'other church'.<br />
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We have experienced situations in 'our village' of San Vicente where youth from one church went to a special youth event at another ministry center, and had to withstand 20 minutes of being yelled at from the pulpit on a Sunday morning.<br />
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Super-sad.<br />
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However, GOD is doing an incredible work. He is making the situation in San Vicente so that churches have had to begin trusting and interacting with each other.<br />
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The Bajmission ministry 'Star Seamstresses' is purposely INTER-denominational. We have Assemblies of God (AG) women, we have Nazarenes, we have Baptists, we have Pentecostals, we have Calvary Chapel people... you get the point. Lori had some difficulties in the early days, but now we are seeing positive interactions between Followers of Jesus in the Sewing ministry that has nothing to do with 'what church they belong to'.<br />
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Enter one of the Star Seamstress ladies, Elsa, who is the AG church 'women's ministry' leader. She felt the leading of the Lord to have a Woman's Event, and invite the women from other churches... including their female leadership and pastor's wives... to a time of worship, an 'inter-sharing' with skits and music, a special speaker, a time of prayer and a meal. The women of the AG church raised the $$ to do it, and the event would be free to the women of the surrounding churches.<br />
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Guess what happened? EIGHTY women came out, 55 of them from other churches. Mainly from the Nazarene and Baptist churches, they were together for almost 4 hours, and had a glorious time together.<br />
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The pastoral leaders of women at these three churches, standing together, worshipping, praying for each other, sharing tortilla...<br />
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As Lori and I prayed for the event 'the day of', we were so drawn to the fact that, in Psalm 133, that it is the ONLY place in the Scriptures that says that God will COMMAND a blessing in the presence of demonstrated Unity within the larger, multi-congregational Church.<br />
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The gathering happened. The Miracle took place. The ladies we've talked to are super-jazzed at the PResence of the Lord in their gathered midst.<br />
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God is commanding blessing on the Church of San Vicente<br />
After 28 years of Mexican ministry, I got to see a true miracle in a small farming village in Baja California, Mexico.<br />
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your brother,<br />
Chris<br />
<br />BajMission Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246617313388112546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544329224906295277.post-48468623262318429142018-12-23T18:52:00.001-08:002018-12-23T18:52:08.743-08:00Bajmission Strategies and Methodolgies 2018-2020Hello!<br />
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Here is the final installment of our 'Mission Perspectus'... we want our Partners to know that a great deal of prayer, waiting on the Lord, discussion within our ranks and careful consideration of 'what is the Lord saying' has gone into all that we have built.<br />
Also, these areas have been written and re-written over the course of 28 years of being 'out in the mission field'. They are not casually drawn, and they give us great direction along the way.<br />
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<u><i><b>Here are the Bajmission Strategies and Methodolgies 2018-2020:</b></i></u></h2>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On-going
Development of Micro-Enterprises in Baja Mexico</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">
(participation is limited to those who are active in their faith & local
church)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Providing an avenue toward restoring
financial health in Christian families</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Teaching Jesus’ Parables to impart biblical
truths and kingdom business practices</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Assisting individuals, especially those with
limited education, in setting up their own businesses</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Establishing a pattern where accomplished
participants willingly train new apprentices</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Creating an environment of learning advanced
sewing skills and building self-esteem</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Training of assistants for community wide
sewing courses</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Expanding venues for hand-made product sales</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Increasing product line both locally and
beyond</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Week-long
Community wide sewing courses</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Outreaching into the community</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Providing an activity that can be used for
friendship evangelism by local churches</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Training
others for the purpose of reproducing the sewing ministry</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Offering an occasion for families to gather
and learn together</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Teaching new skills in order to build
self-esteem </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Creating useful handmade items for their
homes and families</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Specialty
sewing classes</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Growing discipleship relationships with
individuals </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Providing new skills for intermediate
students in a small group setting</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Training in sewing machine maintenance and
care</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Worship
and Creative Arts Evangelism</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>+Training ‘Lead Worshippers’ for Hispanic
ministry through individual and corporate gatherings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Continuing to build and grow <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AdoreTheLord.blog</i></b>
as an avenue for ‘modern worship’ praxis in the Western church, as well as
devotional and Scriptural study for developing ‘Lead Worshippers’ in the modern
era.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Developing training and teaching guides,
materials and workshops</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Growing worship communities in the region of
Baja Mexico</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Encouraging individuals moving in worship
arts ministry</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Community Heath Education </span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>+Rewriting of the (huge!) ‘Save 3000 Kids a
Day’ educational material. This is better known as the ‘Oral Rehydration
Treatment for Diarrheal Disease’ class. This is involving a significant ‘just
in time learning’ to turn the entire curriculum into a digital, on-line,
interactive course to be hosted through an on-line learning platform and
available world-wide with a click. Before this is over, it will reflect
hundreds of hours of course-build. (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
previous content was published in a nursing journal, taught at multiple mission
conferences, and used in training curriculum that has been taken to over 55
nations of the world by the Health Care Evangelists we’ve trained)</i></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">+Revamping of the
‘Festival of Health’ educational outreach for use by Mexican churches and
youth-groups. The previous ‘package’ is adequate, but needs major up-grading
for outreach in resource-poor villages and locations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Increasing a community presence through
health education opportunities</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Responding to felt need of community leaders
regarding health</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Teaching disease prevention and healthy
habits through innovative methods</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Sharing outreach opportunities with nationals
in order for them to have an occasion to give back to their communities</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Encouraging a “Touch Point” for local
Christians to build relationships with their neighbors</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Conducting health screening and evaluation
for improved self-management</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Developing new health educational tools</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Hat
distribution</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Working alongside churches to provide
“friendship evangelism” opportunities </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Building an ever expanding network of people
making hats</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Providing child-focused give-aways at feeding
programs, migrant camps, schools and orphanages</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Passing
it on</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Mentoring those who the Lord is calling to
serve in similar ways</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Modeling Jesus’ method</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jesus
did, disciples watched and learned</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jesus
did, disciples participated</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Disciples
did, Jesus encouraged </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Disciples
did, Jesus left and sent the Holy Spirit</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Creating on-going relationships,
communication, and encouragement </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Seeking the Holy Spirit’s leading to new
locations for possible expansion and duplication</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Offering logistical support</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Sharing ministry resources in order to
jumpstart self-reproducing works</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">+Encouraging local Mexican churches to reach
out and minister in innovative ways</span></div>
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(Here is the continued series of 'reports'. This section lists Outcomes that we have, through the Grace and Mercy of our Lord, seen in the last 12 years... if you are a Partner with us in ministry, this is a Praise Report on the GOOD THINGS we've done together... enjoy!)</div>
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We are long-term missional workers sustaining an in-country
work over the course of 27+ years, working directly with the nationals in the
region. Our work is a Spanish-language intensive, relationship-intensive, and
Mexican-culturally intensive method of ‘incarnational ministry’ with the poor
and resource-critical families in Baja Mexico. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
may be helpful for you to see some of our outcomes during the past 10 years.
The numbers below correlate with the “Areas of Service above” (ed note: previous BajMission Blog). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><1></1></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Mexico village of San Vicente</i>:</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>-we have
worked in the greater San Vicente region since 1992 (25+ years).</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>-prior to
the current long-term work, we had worked 1-2x/year in San Vicente for 14 years
(1992-2006).</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>-we have
worked in a focused, long-term missional approach in San Vicente for 12 years
(2006-2018).</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>-we have
maintained a dedicated ‘ministry center’ in San Vicente for 7 years.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>-we have
built and sustained positive, interactive working relationships with 6
established Mexican churches in San Vicente, as well as 4 large para-church
missional works in the area. This includes long-term works with the pastoral
leadership and outreach teams within those Mexican national churches, involving
complex language and cross-cultural relationship management.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>-we
regularly participate in a number of local-church and local-ministry
outreaches, as well as engaged in a number of joint-venture outreaches and
ministry activities to the San Vicente community.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>-during the
winter months, we have conducted multiple annual ‘Great Cover-Up’
hat-distribution outreaches since 2003 in Baja Norte, Mexico. Number of hats
distributed range from 750 to 1500 hats each year (est. 17,000 hats given in
last 15 years).</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>-‘Great
Cover-Up’ outreaches are done through and with the existing churches and
ministries alongside evangelism and church-planting efforts. Many hats have
been part of Bible-study outreaches to the farming work-camps that surround San
Vicente and community-health care outreaches.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>-the ‘Great
Cover-Up’ project touches people around the US as hat-makers. All hats
distributed are hand-made by these individuals.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><2></2></span>Community-wide
Sewing Outreaches began in the SV area in 2008. Due to multiple logistical
complexities, the number of community classes has varied over the last few
years, but over 300 community classes have been held over the last 10 years.</div>
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<3> We are working to build a long-term,
Biblically-based, social-justice, economic development project with poor
Mexican families in Baja Mexico. This is through the development of
Micro-Enterprise Cottage-Industries with women who sew high-quality product for
sale. </3></div>
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-The 7-year duration of the ‘Star Seamstress’ project has
had a huge impact on the financial health of 12 women and their families. Here
are just a few of the ‘economic benefits’ realized by the ‘Star Seamstresses’
Micro-Enterprise participants:</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>-Albina,
windows and poured floors in house</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>-Camalia,
children able to attend school, buy block to build water cistern</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>-Alejandria,
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-Yolanda, purchase of small plot of
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-Sina, dental work, property
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-Yazmin, surgery costs</div>
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<4>Developed nutritional educational program that has
been utilized dozens of times in the kindergarten and elementary schools in
Mexico.</4></div>
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Wrote and taught a response to the “Ebola Crisis” at the
request of a SV church.</div>
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<5> Part of leadership and teaching team for several
International Missions Healthcare conferences.</5></div>
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Trained over 300 individuals in Oral Rehydration Treatment
(ORT) to prepare them to serve internationally.</div>
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<6>Assisted at mobile medical outreaches in the
greater Tijuana area and other communities in Baja Norte, Mexico.</6></div>
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Helped coordinate dozens of “Children’s Health Fairs”. A
fun-filled educational program that we developed geared toward elementary-aged
school children.</div>
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<7> Worship ministry support: held a number of
training classes and workshops through local San Vicente churches, and have
helped train 4 guitar players who now serve as worship musicians in that
region.</7></div>
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Thanks for reading!<br />
Bro Chris<br />
<<>>BajMission Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246617313388112546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544329224906295277.post-36012927496685567192018-09-09T19:29:00.001-07:002018-09-09T19:31:09.006-07:00Tell Da Mountains 2 Move... Sept 2018Well, our usual trip down to our Ministry Center in San Vicente has become significantly longer.<br />
Why? The Mexican government is doing a MAJOR upgrade of the Highway we travel along to the village, the 'Mex 1' that goes from the US-Mex border in Tijuana alllll the way down to Los Cabos, at the tip of Baja, well over 26 hours south.<br />
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SO.... the Mex 1 going thru the mountains south of Ensenada and north of Santo Tomas have been a tight, narrow 2-lane highway for decades. Why? Those mountains are solid granite, with a 1500 foot climb to get over them.<br />
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Well... the government has been re-doing the Mex 1 from Ensenada all the way past San Quintin (well south of our San Vicente location), and those roads have been fantastic.<br />
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But, the Santo Tomas mountains ... well, re-doing that 5-mile stretch... tough to do.<br />
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Guess what, there is NOTHING about a mountain that will hold back a Mexican crew from blasting and chipping away. They started doing the hard-core section last month: they blast away a chunk of the mountain, clear out a single lane, then let us crawl thru... close the road and Kaboom!<br />
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That means we get stopped for well over an hour while they are doing the Kaboom-clear it out-let us thru cycle.<br />
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Last time, we were stopped behind a rancher truck with a massive, snorting, angry bull, and the gate was held closed by a twist of twine to keep it closed... yeah, we were nervous!<br />
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Upside was that the usual Mex popcicle guys came out to sell their wares, and we were able to enjoy some tasty Mex ice-cream and 'palatas de limon'...<br />
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KA-BOOM! Dust clouds in the distance...<br />
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The big benefit WILL BE a fantastic new, wider road thru the mountains... but it's gonna take at least a year.<br />
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(Hey, popcicle guys... keep comin' around)<br />
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<br />BajMission Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246617313388112546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544329224906295277.post-44971737312017233462018-08-31T22:27:00.000-07:002018-08-31T22:27:49.378-07:00BajMission Calling, Areas of Service [2]Aug 2018<br />
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Hello!<br />
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^^^<br />
We've been recently asked to articulate our CALLING as missionaries.<br />
Here's what we came up with (thru alot of prayer and discourse)<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bajmission: Our calling is:</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-to work
alongside the Father in the Holy Spirit as faithful witnesses and
disciple-makers of the Master Jesus among the peoples of Latin America and
those in the ends of the world. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-to know God
deeply, and make Him known among the peoples of the world, especially the poor,
disenfranchised, and under-served in Latin America.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-to see the
Kingdom of God realized in families and churches throughout Mexico,
particularly Baja California.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">^^^ </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Our AREAS OF SERVICE were something that the Lord had us prayerfully craft way back in 1993-94, as we were sensing His call into life-long Mission service. We had encountered a great deal of teaching about Jesus and His 'areas of service' in His 'mission' as the Saviour, which resulted in a pretty effective outcome (the redemption of all mankind).</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our ‘Areas of
Service’, guide what we do... and don’t do, unless directly led by the Holy
Spirit. These best describe the outcomes that we look for while ministering.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">BAJKIEWICZ
MISSION AREAS OF SERVICE </span>are:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><1> </1></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ministering to hurting people while
working alongside of national churches, sharing the “Good News” and making
faithful disciples of Jesus in order to restore the spiritual health of
individuals, families and their communities.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><2>Teaching new skills through DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS that
focus on building confidence and restoring emotional health while encouraging
friendship evangelism.</2></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><3>Coaching those who start MICRO-ENTERPRISES by expanding
and advancing their knowledge in order to assist in restoring financial health
to their families.</3></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><4> </4></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Focusing on impoverished families and
children in underserved areas through COMMUNITY HEALTH AND EDUCATION, restoring
health to body, soul and spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><5> </5></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Instructing nationals, healthcare
workers and field missionaries serving throughout the world with TRAINING AND
PREPARATION, equipping God’s people for works of service that extend “His”
Kingdom.</span></div>
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organizations working in the ‘Emerging world’ through SUPPORTIVE ROLES of their
ministries, outreaches, and training programs.<br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><7> </7></span>Restoring hope within
overlooked children and youth through CREATIVE ARTS EVANGELISM AND WORSHIP,
shining “Light” into their darkness with the Presence of Jesus.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Thanks for listening!</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Brother Chris</span></div>
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-->BajMission Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246617313388112546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544329224906295277.post-85230465853482650382018-08-31T22:12:00.001-07:002018-08-31T22:12:16.042-07:00BajMission Statements of Faith [1]Aug 2018<br />
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Hello!<br />
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On occasion, we get asked about our BajMission 'Statements of Faith'.<br />
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Valid question: what are our 'Statements of Faith' rooted in?<br />
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Of course, these are usually coming from 'pastoral people', who are studied, have theology degrees, and spend a great deal of time flowing in these areas.<br />
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Our website ( www.bajmission.com ) has always listed our Statements of Faith, two of the most fundamental and historic 'statements of faith' in traditional Christianity:<br />
The Apostles' Creed<br />
The Nicene Creed<br />
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Thanks for asking!<br />
Brother Chris<br />
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^^^^<br />
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<br />BajMission Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246617313388112546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544329224906295277.post-9059792419165329282018-08-31T21:55:00.000-07:002018-08-31T21:55:02.979-07:00Just So You Know... BajMission Goals, Objectives, Desired Outcomes, VIsion 2018 [intro]August 2018<br />
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Hello!<br />
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It's been a hot, sweaty summer all around North America, and SoCal/Baja Mexico hasn't been any different in 2018. <br />
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One thing Lori and I have been 'sweating over' and made busy with these past months have been writing formal applications and answering formal questions from some churches who have supported us financially. We welcome these opportunities to be accountable and transparent in our mission work. Many of these 'fill-out questionnaires' were extremely lengthy and detailed...<br />
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... so, as we were praying about the BajMission Blog, it occured to us that ya'll might actually like to see that we are a formative Mission with Goals, Objectives, Desired Outcomes, Vision Statements and Areas of Service. We have always stepped out in Missions with clarity that the Lord is calling us to something specific, something distinct in His service.<br />
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The up-coming Blogs will share some of those formative BajMission statements.<br />
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We hope this will answer questions you may have, or spark vision towards the areas of Kingdom service the Lord is calling YOU towards!<br />
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to know Him and make Him known,<br />
Brother ChrisBajMission Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01246617313388112546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544329224906295277.post-88717633633948107932018-07-26T19:53:00.001-07:002018-08-31T21:39:14.503-07:00The Tarahumara Miracle (a BajMission Rememberance...)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">This is one
of the big ‘life-impacting’ moments, one of those amazing ‘God-moments’ that
‘ruined me for the ordinary’ and signed me up to be a part of God’s Amazing
Mission to all the races, tribes and tongues of our planet <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">for life.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">This is a
story of seeing God do the miraculous for a Tarahumara baby, literally raising
the dead, and bringing a whole village to the Kingdom because of it.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">(Thanks to Jana A. and her home-schooled
daughters Grace, Josie and Anna, who asked for this fantastic 1989 Mission
Moment from our time in Mexico...)</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">While we
were living in south-eastern Michigan, praying about our mission calling to
Mexico, we led a team from our home-church Redeemer to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
for a two-week outreach in 1989. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">While the
team were doing child evangelism outreaches and building a house (that later
became the community church) in the outskirt of Juarez, I was seeing patients
as an Advanced Practice Nurse in the little YWAM clinic near the Juarez dump. A
few days in, there was an ‘emergency request’, asking the YWAM Juarez medical
team to come to a rural church outside the city of Chihuahua and do a medical
clinic for a group of indigenous Tarahumara . Since Lori and I were seriously
praying about coming to Juarez and join this work full-time, I agreed to leave
the Redeemer team in Lori’s leadership in Juarez, and go 7 hours south as a
health-care provider.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">We loaded a
beat-up van with whatever medicines and antibiotics the small clinic had,
packed up medical exam gear, and off we went for a 4-day trip: two days
back-and-forth, and two days of mobile clinic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">A bit about
the Tarahamara people. One of ‘Mexico’s original peoples’, they are thought to
be remote descendants of the Aztecs who moved north to the Sierra mountains. Counting
800,000 in 1980, they were experiencing a huge die-off due mainly to
Tuberculosis in 1989. By 2010 (well after the outreach), they are counted at
only (ONLY!) 70,000 in their region, the Mexican state of Chihuahua. </span></div>
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live in little clusters of 40-80, high up in the mountains, many villages over
5,000 ft <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘up’, and sometimes a 3-5 day
walk from their villages to any city. This remote distance makes it nearly
impossible for the Tarahumaras to access the Mexican TB-treatment programs in the large cities.</span></div>
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specifically to the men) women are referred to as <i>mukí</i> (individually)
and as <i>omugí</i> or <i>igómale</i> (collectively). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The Wycliffe
‘language experts’ tell us that the Tarahumara language is very old and rooted
in indigenous structure, and has no relationship to the Spanish that came into
Mexico in the 1500’s. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The native name is <i>Rarámuri/Ralámuli
ra'ícha</i> for their tounge, a guttural and complex language, and it was my
later joy to meet the Wycliffe missionary who labored over 20 years to
translate the Gospel of John in <i>Rarámuri </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">for the Tarahumaras<i>.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Point of
interest: There are over 60 different languages spoken in Mexico, many with
ancient, indigenous roots. Spanish came into Mexico when </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Hernan
<b>Cortés</b> invaded <b>Mexico</b> in 1519 and <b>conquered</b> the Aztec
Empire in what is now south-eastern Mexico and north Guatemala. Currently,
Spanish is the second-most spoken language amongst Mexico’s people; Mixteco
rates as the most-spoken, it’s root- peoples coming from the south-western
regions of Oaxaca.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Another
point of interest: Tarahumaras are called the ‘running’ tribe because they
literally run between homes and villages in very steep and mountainous areas...
barefoot! Mexico placed 2 Tarahumaras in the 1928 Olympics, and there is a
16-yr-old now training for the next Olympiad.</span></div>
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the spiritual state of the Tarahumara, they were deeply rooted in tribal animism
and poly-theism, ancestor worship and a weird version of Latin America’s major
religion, Santaria. Very, very few Tarahumaras were Christian in 1989.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Arriving in
Chihuahua, we met the Pastor, who was an indigenous Tarahumara, with a church
reaching out to the numerous Tarahumara villages in the surrounding mountains
of the Sierra Madre Occidental. He had contacted the YWAM team to come
‘immediately’, because he had spent a literal month walking up to the villages,
inviting tribal members to a clinic promised by a US-based group. His heart was
to share the Gospel with his people-group. Well, the US group decided at the
last minute not to come, and this Pastor knew many of the Tarahumara had
already left their villages to come down to his poor, little church in
Chihuahua. This Pastor, who had lost a lung to TB 5 years ago, had a word from
God that miracles and salvations were about to happen, and the Lord told him to
call us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I remember
getting my first real taste of ‘outreach to the Least of These’ that first
night. We slept on the make-shift church benches. The smell of the out-house
was... well, significant. The crowing roosters were louder than any
concert-band I’d ever heard. Oh, yeah, the huge, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">flying</i> cock-roaches....</span></div>
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totally jazzed because I had a deep, prayer-born sense that GOD wanted to do
something way, way beyond anything our little medical team could stir up. As we
arose at dawn for prayer and worship, the whole team of 7 people had reports of
dreams and visions of GOD doing amazing things. As we held a ‘YWAM-styled
intercession session’ (ya had to have been in YWAM to know; those times were SO
off-the-hook), the Holy Spirit filled us with wonder and anticipation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The small
clusters of Tarahumara families began to arrive at the church, their little
huddles patiently waiting for clinic exams and care. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">After a
breakfast of cold beans and tortilla, I saw the first ‘patients’, both with
obvious TB. and malnutrition. Somehow, we had brought cases of liquid protein
to help treat the malnutrition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
non-providers were praying with the Pastor over each person who had come, as he
preached the Gospel to each and every one who had come. He and another church
Tarahumara brother served as translators, which was tricky because I had to ask
really good questions (in English, didn’t know Spanish yet), the YWAM teen
translated it into Spanish to the Tarahumara brother, he asked the questions in
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came, then back again. A simple exam took over a half hour.</span></div>
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patient really launched this story. A Tarahumara village leader had brought his
wife and their sickly son 4 days down from the mountains. The man told us that his
son had diarrhea for a couple weeks, and there was blood in his stool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">As I had the
mother ‘un-wrap’ the child (who was bundled up, in a very hot climate), I could
immediately see this toddler was near death, presenting as a ‘limp ragdoll’,
listless, breathing at 35-40 a minute, mouth dry as the desert sand around us,
a heart-beat at 140/minute, and little response to stimulation. His diaper has
streaks of stool with blood (severe bacterial infection). He was critically
dehydrated, and a few hours from death. We immediately began to attempt to
administer oral rehydration fluids (Pedialyte), but the child would only take a
teaspoon drizzle into his mouth without choking. We sent the YWAM teen to the
local <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Farmacia</i>, but they had no IV
supplies, and neither did we. Our little team, along with local church-fold
surrounded the child and began fervent prayer and intercession, pleading for
his life. After 2 hours, we were able to only get him to swallow ½ cup of
Pedialyte. His diaper was bone-dry, and he was comatose. We gave injectable
antibiotics and ground up Tylenol into a suppository, the only meds we really
had with us for him. We explored taking him to the city hospital, but in those
days, Tarahumaras were basically denied care by the local medical system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Inside my
heart, I was in deep pain, seeing this toddler about to die. God, You’ve got to
move! Please! PLEASE!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">As day
turned into night, people continued to pray for the child, doing warfare in the
Spirit-realm and calling out. There was worship, speaking out the Faithfulness
of God and calling it down on this dying child. I prayed with the team. The
family made a make-shift sleeping spot in a shed attached to the church, that
toddler barely breathing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Exhausted, I
slept a little on that rickety church bench, and rose with the dawn and our
team to worship, pray, and call out for God’s Goodness as our Banner today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">After those
morning vespers, in the light of day and the already-warming temps of the
chapparel desert, I was coming out of the church and encountered the father of
that toddler. My stomach sank as my head told me that he was going to be
grieving the death of his son thru the night... and I didn’t know what to do. </span></div>
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The toddler was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">alive!</i></b> Not just ‘alive’, the little boy was awake and fussing
and moving and breathing normal and pink and giving his mom a hard time! God
had literally risen him from the dead! His mom was giving him sips from the cup
(more Pedialyte), which he was freely drinking!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I went and
got the team, and the Pastor was with them. Rejoice, we did! Dance, we did!
There were tears of joy and squeals of delight and songs of Victory... Jesus is
alive, and so is this little boy!!! There was no doubt in anyone’s mind...
including the ‘medically-trained skeptics’ ... </span></div>
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wrought a mighty miracle! We had seen the dead brought back to life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I had
noticed the Pastor talking with the village-leader-child’s father. It seemed
intense. After a bit, the Pastor came over to recount to us the conversation
(once again, thru interpreters). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The
father-leader committed to the Pastor that he and his family would follow this
Jesus he had been told about by the Gospel preaching yesterday, because this
Jesus truly saved his son from death, and that He must be the True God. Not
only that, but the Pastor needed to come back with him to the village, because
he (the village leader) would tell this story, and the whole village will
commit to follow this God-Jesus who has the power to raise the dead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Yeah, there
was a lot of Praise and Worship and joy and singing and dancing! This is the
Kingdom of God turned up to 10!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">There were
other great victories as we cared for the sick and prayed that second clinic
day. We saw the toddler playing in the yard by evening... from death to life!
My heart was in a continual dance of Joy for what GOD had done!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">We had been
told that photography wasn’t going to be allowed of the Tarahumara on this
trip... complicated reasons. However, right after the glorious news of God’s
miracle, I asked the Pastor to ask the couple if I may take one picture, and
they said yes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">This is the
‘Tarahumara Miracle’ family in 1989.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">This picture
is fixed in my personal Bible, and has literally traveled the world with me, as
a reminder of WHAT GOD DID for a little Tarahumara toddler. What God did
then... what He can do again... what He WILL do again...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I hope this
picture of FAITH and VICTORY will stay with you, as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">We finished
up the clinic, left at dawn the next day for the long journey back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Yes, we
followed God to Mexico as missionaries in 1991. We served in Juarez for 6
months, then Tijuana for 17 years, and now San Vicente for a decade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Yes, we have
other interesting Tarahumara-related ‘God-stories’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">No, I’ve
never forgotten the Tarahumara Miracle of 1989.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Chris.</span></div>
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(yes, a rented house, but hey!) a few weeks ago, and after opening it up and
settling in, we realize... “WOW! We haven’t been robbed here in over a year!
Guess the security bars and doors made a big difference! Way to go, Lord!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A year ago, we were at a difficult point...
what to do? Installing security was going to be expensive... would the owner go
along? Adjust the rent if we pay? What about the enormous amount of time to do
this installation?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For us, the words in Obadiah 1:5 were not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">IF</i> but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">WHEN</i>... </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“If (when!) thieves came to you, if (when!) robbers in the night— oh,
what a disaster awaits you!— would they not steal only as much as they wanted?”
We felt like the Israelites in Joel 1:4, “What the locust swarm has left, the
great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left, the young locusts
have eaten; what the young locusts have left, other locusts<sup>[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joel+1&version=NIV#fen-NIV-22296a" title="See footnote a"><span style="color: blue;">a</span></a>]</sup> have eaten.”
Getting robbed, and robbed, and robbed again was not do-able for us long-range.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The LORD worked it out. Julio and crew did a
fantastic job, designing security measures adapted to the styles of robbery in
the Village (no kidding!) and installing them in a brilliant way. The rental Owner
worked out the issues of rent-credit. It took two months of hard work back in
2016-17, but we secured the Ministry Center from most forms of robbery. Thanks
to SO many of you, our Partner-Team, who re-supplied us after the robberies,
did fund-raising to pay for the security measures, and SO much ‘stay strong!’
encouragement... thanks, team!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Now, January 2018, we feel like the Joel
Chapter TWO bit: “</span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“I (the LORD am) repay(ing) you for the years
the locusts have eaten—</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <span class="text">the great locust and the
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His Mercies are new every morning!!</span></span></div>
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Hello from our Influenza-ravaged household!</div>
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For the third year in a row, the large area of over 6
million people that we live and work in has been hit hard by the influenza
season. Greater San Diego has 3.5 million peeps, Baja Norte Mexico... which
includes Ensenada and the village we work in, San Vicente, has confirmed 2.5
million souls. A combination of dense population, friendly winter weather (cool
but not ‘stay home and don’t go out’) and punchy viruses have meant for thousands
and thousands of people affected by winter colds and flu. Each of the public
health administrations in San Diego and Mexico have declared the level of
Influenza as epidemic each year.</div>
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Lori and I have, for the last 3 years, been hit hard by the
yearly Influenza epidemics here. This year was no exception; December was
marked with some serious home-sick days, and the lingering coughs are still
hanging on. We end up ‘down with the bug’ for a couple of weeks each year. </div>
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Yes, we have had to slow up or postpone some ministry
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I’ve been studying the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">maskil</i>
Psalm 88, where the writer... David’s lead-worshipper Hamen... in a time of intense
sickness and suffering;</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Have you ever been lying on the couch,
super-sick with a flu, with coughing/fever/body aches, unable to get much
done... and prayed that Psalm 88 prayer? I sure have been there... recently...</span></div>
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Why? Why our annual ‘down-sick’ battles? Regardless of all
the precautions we take (first to get flu vaccines each year, vitamin and diet regimens,
vigorous hand-washing, etc.), being ‘in ministry’ means <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">working closely with people</i></b>...
and people easily share the viruses they are fighting themselves. Also,
ministry means a great deal of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hard schedules, travelling and activities</i></b>.
This means a great deal of expended energy in long, tiring days, and it also
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SO, dear friends, join us as we are praying for a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">higher level of protection</b> from these
regular, seasonal, debilitating illnesses that we keep fighting. These past few
years, the coughing lasts for a couple of months, regardless of the talented
doctor’s interventions.</div>
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‘Higher Level of Protection’... <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">please, PLEASE, Lord, we are a bit sick-and-tired of feeling so
sick-and-tired...</i></div>
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#GivingTuesday<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">It’s GIVING TUESDAY!!</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Please
consider <b>adopting a “seamstress”</b> for a week, helping to bring
financial health to struggling families in farming villages of Baja Norte,
Mexico.</span></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Your $25 donation</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> provides a
week of:</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">*learning
sewing techniques</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">*creating
items for her family &/or products for sale</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">*accessing
tools, fabrics, patterns, & supplies</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">*training
to build her own home-based business</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">*receiving
encouragement & support</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bajkiewicz
Mission</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>P.
O. Box 120265</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chula
Vista, CA 91912</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Many
Thanks,</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lori and Chris Bajkiewicz</span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">There is no charge to the ladies for the training. </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Your donation helps to defray the expenses of providing
the above supplies and services.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Bajkiewicz
Mission is a ministry of South Coast Set Free Inc., 526 Kingwood Dr. #168,
Kingwood, TX 77339,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">a
registered 501(c)3. E.I.N. #46-2632765</span></div>
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