We had a good solid attendance on Sunday - 92 - and almost 40 ( adults, teens, and children) that came on the bus. They include the three families and their visitors from Naucalpan, Gaspar's family and the children from his neighborhood, as well as Gabriel's family and the military they brought and were saved last Sunday.

I preached on baptism and the military couple raised their hands wanting to be baptized as well as a teenager saved a couple of years ago, a teenager saved during the campaign that comes on the bus, as well as Mariane, a woman saved earlier in our ministry. There is also a boy and two daughters of our members that want to be baptized, as well. This coming Sunday night, we will have our first baptisms in the church building. We will receive some of those baptized, as well as others, into the membership in our business meeting afterwards.

Jacobo is one of the people coming from Nacalpan that is bringing his extended family to church. The teen girl getting baptized is his granddaughter. Jacobo is a retired sergeant and a former airborne ranger in the Mexican army. Donaciono, another man God has used to bring his neighbors from Naucalpan played professional baseball in the Mexican Baseball League when he was young. Julio, another man who brought people out with his wife, is a former soldier as well. They all live blocks form each other.

Miguel, the colonel, will be gone the next two weeks with his battalion.

We had a great Thanksgiving service on Sunday night. They do not celebrate Thanksgiving in Mexico, but it always is good for the church to have a special service. In the past we would only have the Sunday night crowd, and just a few testimonies; but this time we had 61 and about an hour and a half of testimonies. Here are a couple:

Yolanda, a lady in our church, has a friend for whom we had been praying for her salvation for a couple of years. Ernestina is an elderly woman and a famous classical singer here in Mexico. She was asked by President Calderon's wife to donate her expensive piano from Vienna to the Palace of Fine Arts here. Ernestina did not want to donate it because she was afraid that some powerful, corrupt bureaucrat would end up taking it home with him. Well, anyway, Yolanda has been looking for an opportunity to witness to her. Ernestina took her out to eat and asked her what she would like for a gift. Yolanda answered that she would like her to give her a half hour of her time to tell her about her faith. After going several places that day, they returned to Ernestina's house and she said, "Now you can talk to me about your faith. Let's see if I have a Bible here in my library. Yolanda, of course, had hers and witnessed to her and Ernestina accepted the Lord! She still doesn't' know what she wants to do with her piano. Yolanda is praying that Ernestina will give it to the church.

Mary Carmen is a woman that came with Alicia from the other church this year. She had her daughter in the school there from the very beginning of it. She brought 28 people during the campaign in a rented van from Cuautitlan Izcalli. She gave a testimony of how she was when I preached on Kid's Day under the big tarp when we were building the church in Izcalli. I do not remember her getting saved that day. There were a couple dozen that did. But it was a blessing to me because I remember that it was the Kid's Day when we were coming late from the States. I drove all night Saturday night through Mexico stopping a little at a time to sleep. We finally arrived at 6:30 in the morning dead tired. I never knew what was going to happen in the service. It was one of those days where you don't think about the great significance of your efforts. Just to know that that crazy day was used to see her saved, and now raising her kids for God, and bringing dozens to hear the Word; it's marvelous how God uses us when we don't even realize the significance of it all. We're just trying to do what we can, like Mary when she did a seemingly insignificant thing like anointing feet with perfume. Praise God!