We have been in Mexico for a little over three weeks and are excited about what God is doing in and for our church. For the last seven weeks, the church has been having great attendances averaging over 80. Our meeting place for adults is full every Sunday, and we have had services where adults have had to sit outside the door for lack of room.

I am especially encouraged about seven men in our church who are there for every service, men's Saturday night prayer meeting, and soulwinning. They average around 30 years old and all but one, Jesús, a military officer studying law, is married. God has also sent to our church in the last few weeks two more majors in the Mexican army: José Luis, a lawyer; and another doctor named Maria de Socorro. He has also added to our church an elderly lady named Magdalena, a Christian for many years.

Rocío, a grown daughter of one of our women, made a decision to accept Christ at our last anniversary Sunday in November. When I announced upcoming baptisms, she asked if she could be baptized. In fact, we have several people lined up to be baptized including Gabriela; the daughter of Gabriel, a soldier who came back to God a couple of years ago; Victor and Marisela, an accountant and his wife, who was saved in the last year; and Brenda, a wife of another soldier. Speaking of baptisms, we are grateful that, next week, we will be receiving a fiberglass baptistery with water heater from our home church.

At the same time the Christian real estate agent from Century 21 has informed us that the owners of a building we have been looking at purchasing for the last two years are willing to rent it to us with an option to buy. That would get us in the building, and the deposit and rent for at least a year will go towards the price of the building. That will also give us a place to install the baptistery.

Before I heard about the offer from the owners of the building, I wrote in our prayer letter that next year we would need a building to hold all the visitors who will inevitably come through our efforts of getting a New Testament into each of the 120,000 homes in the delegation where we are located. It looks like God is providing us that building.

The place we are looking at has never been used, has two nicely furnished bathrooms, and a 4,800 sq. ft. open space with paneled ceiling and tile floor. It has parking for nine cars in front and parking for at least 20 cars next door that we can use on Sundays--almost unheard of in the city. It is along a well-transited avenue with dozens of vehicles of public transportation passing it every minute. The avenue is in back of a Walmart that is along the main highway which goes through Mexico City all the way up to the States.

In order to have the New Testaments personalized for our church, we will need $12,000 in funds. I thank God that, while attending a church in Texas, the pastor announced a prayer meeting before the Sunday evening service. At petition time, I mentioned our project. How exciting it was when the pastor announced in the service that they would give us the first $500 for the project. Please pray that God continues to touch hearts of churches to help with this. Please pray also for our four-week spring campaign, beginning with Kid's Day on April 25, that souls will be saved.

Thank you for your faithful support and prayers.