The Real World

Today we spent the day at a place called, "Mundo De Adeveras," which translated means, "The Real World." It is like the real world meets amusement parks. It consists of about 6 blocks of little stores that range from a hospital to a firestation, grocery store, Volkswagen dealership, Home Depot, etc.

You start out by paying for parking and admission to the park. The parking is reasonable and the admission is as well. Then, upon entering Mundo De Adeveras (which I will refer to as MDA), the fun begins. You have to first go to the bank (named after a large bank chain located here in Mexico) and fill out some paperwork and go up to the teller to obtain your devis card, which is like an ATM card.

Then you go to different stores around the town and do different activities, for example, in the grocery store, you shop, but you also practice checking people out. In the radio station you get interviewed as part of a radio program (and you also learn how radio works). At each location you accumulate points on your card that you can cash in at the end of the day for various things. They actually have a Boeing 727 airplane that you can go inside the cockpit, watch a movie and do a flight simulator. At the VW Dealership, you get to drive miniature battery powered cars (where Gabriel almost ran me over, not intentionally). There is a Televisa TV Station where the children actually put on a short TV show. Dominoes Pizza for lunch and plenty of icecream, popcorn and soft drinks. We haven't had a weekend outing like that in a long time and the children really enjoyed it.

A Calling for Mexico

Well, Go Fest Mexico, Day 1 looked a little something like this.

6:00am - wake-up, prayer and God time before breakfast.
8:00am - Breakfast
9:30am - Worship/Intercession
10:30am - Teaching - Roger Audorff
12:30pm - Lunch
2:00pm - Workshop - Working with Unreached Peoplegroups
4:30pm - Worship
5:00pm - Teaching with Joe Rojas
7:00pm - Dinner
8:00pm - Meeting
9:00pm - Movie - Luther

And what a day it's been. God gave several people words this morning and the Holy Spirit moved in many of the youth. Several people sensed a confirmation to a calling to long-term missions and responded to the Lord's prompting.

What a day!

Thanks Dad.

The Road to Guadalajara

Today we set sail for Guadalajara, Mexico. YWAM Monterrey, YWAM Mazatlan and a few other YWAM Mexico bases are meeting in Guadalajara, our National YWAM Mexico headquarters for a week of worship, prayer, fellowship and seeking a deepened relationship with God. Up at 3:30am and on the road by 5:00am. It was a beautiful day for a roadtrip and we arrived in Guadalajara at 6:00pm. It was cool meeting students from the other bases in Mexico. It is awesome the energy that goes along with getting youth together from all over the world for one purpose, to seek more of God.

The Holy Spirit

This week's teaching is on the Holy Spirit. This was an awesome time last year during our training and it is proving to be an awesome week this year as well. This evening we will have a prayer service where there is a very strong liklihood that the Holy Spirit will show up and do some amazing things. Thank you Jesus for leaving the Holy Spirit with us.

I have to say that my understanding of the importance and power of the Holy Spirit is changing. I used to think of it as a nice-to-have sort of perk that went along with being a believer. I'm reassessing that. The other day I was teaching my children's bible class to them and it mentions the fact that the Holy Spirit contains the complete power of God. And if my memory serves me correctly, at the point of Salvation, we have that living inside us. I am humbled by the fact that I should not be living anything short of a victorious life with that kind of power within my reach, yet somedays I feel defeated.

Father, may I hunger and thirst for a deeper revelation and experience with your Holy Spirit.