All My Bags Are Packed...
I'm ready to go
I'm leaving on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again...
We're all packed and ready to go. Right now there is rioting in Centro (downtown Oaxaca) but we will hopefully be avoiding it. Yesterday the guys were delayed coming home from the mountains due to a group of about 50,000 demonstrators marching. They made it home after several detours. We checked, and our flight is on time, so we're planning on leaving in about twenty minutes.
Please continue to pray for the Mattfeld family. Presidential elections are on Sunday, and depending on the outcome, there is the possibility of things exploding here in the city. They live a little ways out of the center of things, but it is anyone's guess as to what will happen come Sunday.
There are three major political parties in Mexico. The current president was elected a few years ago and was the first and only (since the founding of the modern Mexican state) that was from the PRI party. You've probably heard of Vicente Fox. His party is the PAN. However, this year there is a third socialist party. The key thing to be in prayer for here in Oaxaca is that the ruling party is PRI. However, the people here know the current govenor is a crook and the party is fraught with corruption. If PRI wins the presidential election on Sunday, July 2nd it could real ugly.
Don't you just love politics? :-)
Please be in prayer that Christ's peace would descend on all His people and on the world in general.
Last night Chris and Nathan and I stayed up until midnight discussing eschatology. It was interested. Pre-trip, mid-trib, pre-wrath, post-trib, amillenial. You get the picture. It was great but all the women went to bed.
May the God of all peace keep you my fellow beloved bond-servants in Christ.
I'm leaving on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again...
We're all packed and ready to go. Right now there is rioting in Centro (downtown Oaxaca) but we will hopefully be avoiding it. Yesterday the guys were delayed coming home from the mountains due to a group of about 50,000 demonstrators marching. They made it home after several detours. We checked, and our flight is on time, so we're planning on leaving in about twenty minutes.
Please continue to pray for the Mattfeld family. Presidential elections are on Sunday, and depending on the outcome, there is the possibility of things exploding here in the city. They live a little ways out of the center of things, but it is anyone's guess as to what will happen come Sunday.
There are three major political parties in Mexico. The current president was elected a few years ago and was the first and only (since the founding of the modern Mexican state) that was from the PRI party. You've probably heard of Vicente Fox. His party is the PAN. However, this year there is a third socialist party. The key thing to be in prayer for here in Oaxaca is that the ruling party is PRI. However, the people here know the current govenor is a crook and the party is fraught with corruption. If PRI wins the presidential election on Sunday, July 2nd it could real ugly.
Don't you just love politics? :-)
Please be in prayer that Christ's peace would descend on all His people and on the world in general.
Last night Chris and Nathan and I stayed up until midnight discussing eschatology. It was interested. Pre-trip, mid-trib, pre-wrath, post-trib, amillenial. You get the picture. It was great but all the women went to bed.
May the God of all peace keep you my fellow beloved bond-servants in Christ.
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