HI everyone,

Time has flown by since our visit to Canada over Christmas! We send our apologies for not communicating sooner. It was such a blessing to be able to attend one of the Christmas Eve services at Promontory Church. We were also able to meet with some of you individually.

God is so good and has blessed us with prayer and fianacial support and we know that we could simply not do the work here without all of you!

The Lord brought us back to reality when we arrived home to find that we had no power, no water and no propane. It helps us remember how many of the people we minister to live. After a few cold nights and showers Stan had eveything worked out.

Ramon was quite happy to be back at home and didn't stop grinning the whole first day we were back. We were so blessed to know that he had such wonderful loving care in the home of Les and Val Klassen while we were away.

Many new things are happening here at IDT. As the ministry has gone through some restructuring, Stan was given the responsibility of being the administrator for the Mexico missions directors of IDT. This means he spends some of his time in his office in meetings with different directors, sorting through their needs and answering emails. Please be in prayer for him as he tries to assist them as best he can. It has been a stressful time for him and we covet your prayers.

I continue to be involved in purchasing uniforms for school children, and outreach with Elia. We were blessed to have doctor Alex Bartel from Chwk.

out here a few weeks ago. It was a joy to take him out to visit sick people in different communities. I have been dispensing the medications as prescribed for some of the patients he saw here.

In Jan. a group blessed IDT by stuccoing the outside and drywalling the inside of our dining hall here at the base.

At present we are beginning to plan outreaches for the coming months. We, Stan and I will be traveling to San Ignacio, Mulege, Loretto and Constitution in May once again. Our focus this time will be on womens and youth outreach. We are planning for a team that will do drama, music, christian videos to been shown for youth, and also share the word of God. We would like to do a ladies retreat in Loretto or Constitution. Please pray that God will provide the team, and the resources for this trip. Our wish is to bless people with whom we come into contact with resource material to further their ministries. We ask you to pray that God will lead and direct us as we plan. We plan to leave here the last weekend of April and return here at the latest by May 11th.

A group of missionaries from IDT will be traveling to Isreal for outreach, on March 19th. Also in April two or three will be heading to Liberia to encourage a pastor there that sought us out for assistance. He is in charge of 200 pastors in his area, and is desperate for some assistance and resources. We already have gathered funds to bless him with a generator. We pray for direction as to IDT's future part in his ministry.

Stan has been working hard at developing IDT new property. It will be our future new campsite for groups. The land has been cleared and leveled and construction of the bathroom facilities is beginning.

The property formerly known as La Paloma is now El Corazon. God sent a gentleman who has been in missions for many years here to IDT and has laid it on his heart to direct this property. It will be used as a retreat center for groups, minister to the fishing villages in the area etc. Pray for him and his two daughters as they take on this task.

In past years some of you may have met Angel. He is a man in a wheelchair that grew up in the orphanage here in Vicente Guerrero. He works out of his home in San Vicente but continues his ministry of converting wheelchairs to be better suited to our terrain here. He has approached IDT for assistance to travel to a large campo of 5,000 people in Sinaloa also to visit Oaxaca.

His desire is to photograph and measure handicapped people in these remote areas and convert wheelchairs to meet their specific needs. He would then in the future need assistance to return and deliver these chairs. Please pray for the finances and people to assist him in this minstry. He is a man in a wheelchair desiring to bless other handicapped people.

In our fellowship times here at IDT we continue to pray for revival here in Baja, Mexico. I Cor. 12 tells us that until we recognize and support one another in our different giftings we will not be a unit. This means between different pastors and ministries as well. When Christians don't operate as a unit we hold back the work of the Holy Spirit, and we hinder revival.

Revival begins in each one of us and until we see the speck of gold in each person we meet instread of the negative, the problem remains with us and we need to allow God to do a work in our hearts instead of asking Him to do a work in them. Then and only then can we be truly effective.HI everyone,

Time has flown by since our visit to Canada over Christmas! We send our apologies for not communicating sooner. It was such a blessing to be able to attend one of the Christmas Eve services at Promontory Church. We were also able to meet with some of you individually.

God is so good and has blessed us with prayer and fianacial support and we know that we could simply not do the work here without all of you!

The Lord brought us back to reality when we arrived home to find that we had no power, no water and no propane. It helps us remember how many of the people we minister to live. After a few cold nights and showers Stan had eveything worked out.

Ramon was quite happy to be back at home and didn't stop grinning the whole first day we were back. We were so blessed to know that he had such wonderful loving care in the home of Les and Val Klassen while we were away.

Many new things are happening here at IDT. As the ministry has gone through some restructuring, Stan was given the responsibility of being the administrator for the Mexico missions directors of IDT. This means he spends some of his time in his office in meetings with different directors, sorting through their needs and answering emails. Please be in prayer for him as he tries to assist them as best he can. It has been a stressful time for him and we covet your prayers.

I continue to be involved in purchasing uniforms for school children, and outreach with Elia. We were blessed to have doctor Alex Bartel from Chwk.

out here a few weeks ago. It was a joy to take him out to visit sick people in different communities. I have been dispensing the medications as prescribed for some of the patients he saw here.

In Jan. a group blessed IDT by stuccoing the outside and drywalling the inside of our dining hall here at the base.

At present we are beginning to plan outreaches for the coming months. We, Stan and I will be traveling to San Ignacio, Mulege, Loretto and Constitution in May once again. Our focus this time will be on womens and youth outreach. We are planning for a team that will do drama, music, christian videos to been shown for youth, and also share the word of God. We would like to do a ladies retreat in Loretto or Constitution. Please pray that God will provide the team, and the resources for this trip. Our wish is to bless people with whom we come into contact with resource material to further their ministries. We ask you to pray that God will lead and direct us as we plan. We plan to leave here the last weekend of April and return here at the latest by May 11th.

A group of missionaries from IDT will be traveling to Isreal for outreach, on March 19th. Also in April two or three will be heading to Liberia to encourage a pastor there that sought us out for assistance. He is in charge of 200 pastors in his area, and is desperate for some assistance and resources. We already have gathered funds to bless him with a generator. We pray for direction as to IDT's future part in his ministry.

Stan has been working hard at developing IDT new property. It will be our future new campsite for groups. The land has been cleared and leveled and construction of the bathroom facilities is beginning.

The property formerly known as La Paloma is now El Corazon. God sent a gentleman who has been in missions for many years here to IDT and has laid it on his heart to direct this property. It will be used as a retreat center for groups, minister to the fishing villages in the area etc. Pray for him and his two daughters as they take on this task.

In past years some of you may have met Angel. He is a man in a wheelchair that grew up in the orphanage here in Vicente Guerrero. He works out of his home in San Vicente but continues his ministry of converting wheelchairs to be better suited to our terrain here. He has approached IDT for assistance to travel to a large campo of 5,000 people in Sinaloa also to visit Oaxaca.

His desire is to photograph and measure handicapped people in these remote areas and convert wheelchairs to meet their specific needs. He would then in the future need assistance to return and deliver these chairs. Please pray for the finances and people to assist him in this minstry. He is a man in a wheelchair desiring to bless other handicapped people.

In our fellowship times here at IDT we continue to pray for revival here in Baja, Mexico. I Cor. 12 tells us that until we recognize and support one another in our different giftings we will not be a unit. This means between different pastors and ministries as well. When Christians don't operate as a unit we hold back the work of the Holy Spirit, and we hinder revival.

Revival begins in each one of us and until we see the speck of gold in each person we meet instread of the negative, the problem remains with us and we need to allow God to do a work in our hearts instead of asking Him to do a work in them. Then and only then can we be truly effective.

Thankyou for your prayers. Our first stop was at the home of a pastor Rita in San Ignacio. It is a beautiful little town built around a mission. It is an oasis in the desert with many Palm trees. As we drove into town the damage from the hurricane was evident although not severe. All twelve of us were welcomed into the pastors home for the night. We were able to spend the evening praying with her and her husband and encouraging them with a promise to come spend more time with them on the next trip. The next day we were off to Mulege, where there was extreme damage. There was not much rebuilding going on as yet, as they were still working on the roads, water systems etc.

We stopped to visit another pastor whose new block church had water almost to the roof. The only damage however was the windows were blown out.

Next morning we were off to Loretto. We had a full schedule of church services, and on Saturday we led a pastors and leaders luncheon. This was such a blessing though a little intimidating for some of us. Wealso did puppet shows and took the Jesus video to two campos of men. Both campos consist of men working on the construction projects in the new retirement village in Loretto. The second campo had approx. 250 men and we women in the group were not allowed in because they felt it would be too dangerous. The men in the group showed the Jesus video to about 60 men in one of the rooms and 53 of the men came forward to accept Christ!

Sunday we were off to Constitution which is about two more hours. We held a church service on a dirt lot under a tarp for a small group of people that are hoping to build a building to meet in soon. After this we were able to meet another pastor couple for lunch and plan for some future programs for their church. We already have a group of people interested in going once again in May. The pasotrs down there just beg us to please keep coming because they feel so very alone. We would like to in future do a youth rally and maybe a ladies retreat.

It was so amazing to see how God worked in the hearts of everyone in our group. We spent an afternoon at one of the beautiful beaches in the area and were able to witness to several travelers. We pray that seeds were planted and that God will send someone to water them.

Please pray that we will be able to set up a fund for these very important trips, as it is a real stretch to the budgets of some of the missionaries in the group.

When we arrived home we found that someone had cut our wires so we had no power. They targeted some other missionaries that were away as well and actually took all the cables.

As for Ramon he was the best traveler in the whole group. He was so content which was another answer to prayer. He was sleeping in different places and never getting his naps it seemed. We are still praying that we will be able to get him to his appointment in L.A. for Dec.14th although it would take a miracle at this point to get all the paperwork done on time. As with everything in Mexico it is taking extreme patience and perserverance to get it done.

Thankyou so very much for all your prayers and support, and if all goes well with Ramons papers we hope to see you around Christmastime.

Marilyn

Stan & Marilyn's Monthly update             October 2006

Hi,

Just wanted to let you know what is happening with our trip south. We are planning to head out on Monday at about 5 a.m. We didn't find out till yesterday wether we could leave on Monday without jeperdizing Ramons passport proceedure. We will have to go to Mexicali at some point but they couldn't tell us if our appointment would be next week or three weeks from now. SOOOOO frustrating. We will be gone to Loreto from one to two weeks.

After the first week we will call from there to see if we have an appointment yet and if we do we will adjust our trip.

Please pray for us as we are having such opposition from the enemy. We have all been struggling with sickness that we can't seem to shake totally.

Stan was not able to get the electrical done on the van locally that would allow us to pull the trailer with it. ( we were going to take our truck and another one) He is trying to get it done in San Diego today after he drops the group off at the airport. A whole group of people going on the trip went to Enscenda yesterday to get their visas to get into Baja South and one of them accidently mentioned that they were missionaries and they were all denied the visas and threatened with arrest and told to get out of the country immediatly. Of course they came back here, and we will head out anyway and try at the Baja south border. We feel that God has something special planned for this trip, or the enemy wouldn't be trying so hard to discourage us from going. We have prayed and prayed that if it is not Gods will for us to go right now that we would know it in our hearts, and yet as we pray we feel more determined and we feel we are supposed to go. On Monday night we will stay in San Ignacio(only 6 hrs from here)and visit a pastor there. Then on Tuesday we will continue to Mulege(there were several chirstian churches detroyed there during hurricane John)Hopefully we can encourage them and leave them some resources for their churches. Then on Wed. we will go to Loreto and share music and testimonies and a short message in several churches. WE are also doing the program for a leadership cpnvention on Sat. We will definitely be stretched. On to Constitution for Sunday to do a service there. We are bringing puppet shows, and the Jesus film and Passion of the Christ as well to show in the campos in the mountains. Our main music people have backed out of the trip at the last minute, so that throws a whole twist into as well. We really need your prayers as Baja South is even more strict about missionaries. We have to be very careful and not do anything that is not under the umbrella of one of the churches there. Not even give out Bibles unless someone asks us for one.

We hope that you can still come visit us soon(Jake and Loretta) and we would love to have the rest of you anytime as well. Take care,

love Marilyn