Baja 2018
Well praise the Lord, we had the internet guy finally manage to mosey out here & within 20 costly minutes we were back online. I wish I knew what exactly what he does.
This first real week back after the holidays turned out to be a great one. I’m glad it’s Sunday though and am looking forward to a peaceful day of rest tomorrow.
We ended up having an almost totally all volunteer clinic last week, with a volunteer general physician and an eyesight team! It’s something we could not do without Yahweb making it happen. That being something we’ve been praying about since we lost support for the clinics last August. So we had several very sick toddlers and really don’t like shuffling whole families into the hospital waiting rooms, as they usually pickup some new bug From the hospital..
But the Lord provided a gp and we had funds for vitamins and praise God in the end 27 people, mostly children, received vitamins, parasite treatments, probiotics, and a few antibiotics for severe upper respiratory infections. The infections hit the children the hardest, in the wintertime everyone cooks almost Inside of their dwellings over a wood and trash fire, which causes brutal bronchial distress.
The eyesight team was from Washington State University and fitted 22 adults and children with eyeglasses. It’s the first time we have hosted an eye clinic and it was such a blessing!
The day after this a team of 4 translators from Wycliff Bible Translations came through town. They had heard of the mission (still unsure how) and wanted to find out about our experiences with the mobile Mixtec Indians. It was much fun sharing with them what the Lord is doing here. They stayed two days and set off for Chiara, but not before leaving us with the coolest blessing-60 solar powered audio players of God’s Love Story The Gospel of John in three dialects. These are real treasures!
We’ve already given them out to 20 families in the Labor Camp. .They are great because they are pretty much indestructible cased in some thick melamine and fit for use by the cook fire and the washboard. They also left us with a heap of new flannel baby blankets.
It was awfully encouraging to see provision straight from the Provider as to push us on in a time that has been really rally challenging……. I guess I keep saying that, but really it’s been a time of seeking Yahweb and His Will for us and Then seeking Him again.
I guess there is a time when we are stripped down completely and we learn all over again to lean NOT to our own understanding. A week ago it seemed as if we hadn’t much to offer anyone and that couldn’t have been further from the truth!
We changed Meeting Days to Saturday and yesterday we were an extra hour just giving great stuff away!
Church was a joyous time today! There is a good solid group of mostly womem, right now. About 20 ladies and a million children! We dedicated two new baby girls to the. Lord today and had great prayer time plus a huge pot of Birria for supper. Over the soup Frank taught on tithing and did some Burd like demonstrations. This evening I noticed my stomach muscles were sore and it took me a while to figure out that it was immense laughter, the Joy in the Holy Ghost, really, had caused it!
We pray that all of you there are sharing in that same joy and that you will be Full partakers in Him in Everything He holds for us. Let this be the year that we enter into His HEALING and HIS PEACE on a totally new level!
Please continue to pray for us and know that we are praying for you without ceasing….
Love
Chip and Bean
Word For 2018
Word to the Body Dec 24 2017
I saw an angel to my side dressed in white with a blue mantle upon him and great wings. He held a box in his hands. As I looked he opened the box a treasure box filled with substance. He was about to offer the substance to those who would receive. Then the word of the Lord came to me saying.
There are riches being released Even now unto these people.
This is a people that were called lowly.
This is a people that have been despised.
This is a people who have been looked down upon.
But I say this today.
The Lord says today.
This is a people I have chosen.
This is a people I have I have put My Hand on.
This is a people that I seek to glorify in the earth.
No longer think you are nothing.
No longer cast to the side
That you are nothing.
For you are great in My sight, For you have made yourself low but I shall exalt you before all men.
And before all men they shall not see you but shall see Me.
My glory shall shine forth thru you.
They shall see My signs and wonders and My miracles take place that they too shall come into the place that I desire.
For I am opening a door for you this year.
I am opening a door individually and corporately.
I am opening a door that can not be shut by any man.
And you shall enter in to that place of glory and obtain the treasure that I set before you and you shall bring it forth.
And as you bring it forth you shall not hold on to it, to grasp it but it shall be a thing that shall be given.
For I have put things in your hands to give. Not just money but I have given you power into your hands to give. Healings into your hands to give.
I put miracles in your hands to give.
So receive this year, this season this gift I have given you.
For I love you with a great love A love that was formed from before the foundations of the earth.
I knew you and called you by name. I was with you when you were formed in the substance of your mother’s womb.
I was with you in the earth, the very substance of the earth.
I have known you from that time and I have know you forevermore.
I have called you unto Myself. My sons and My daughters.
And I have called you to walk this earth in the greatness of My glory.
In the greatness of My sonship for Me and My family.
God bless you
God bless you
God bless you.
In the Name of the Messiah.
Don’t forget this is a new day and a new beginning. 2018 is a new beginning for you.
Don’t let the devil steal from you any longer. Ignore him- give him no place-give him no heed. For he has been rendered powerless by My son. By the Blood of My son. Don’t let him torment you any longer.
Be free today.
Be free today.
Receive freedom today.
Receive the word of the Lord and be free in Jesus Name. Amen
Baja Years End 2017
Greetings in the Name of Jesus to all of our brothers and sisters around the world!
It is that time of year again! The time of year when everyone is a lot more aware of the Goodness of our King, the time of year when we are more aware of Him working on our behalf all along ,(even when we thought He was not) and the time of year when we are all a little more kind and a lot more generous to each other because of the Gift we were given from the beginning of the world.
Thank you Yahweh!
This has been a year of challenges and a year of victory over what looked to be some pretty dire circumstances. I highly doubt that I personally would be alive if it wasnt for precious people like those of you who are reading this praying for us and if not for His shed blood and broken body.
Its time for us to shout a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has sacrificed time on their knees praying for us, and hard earned money to keep this Mission going.
Please know how thankful we are for your love and prayers,your encouragement during times that I thought I just couldnt go on, and thank you for your obedience in giving!
It is also that time of year when I sit at the dining room table and go through the records that we keep so that we can share the accomplishments made here in Mexico.
This past year we served 3925 free nutritous meals .(Those are the regular daily meals and do not include the spontaneous Ramen feast, the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and the scores of watermelons that are given to the 10 kids who came late and missed the meal because they are 6 years old and lollygagging home from school with no concept of time…….or the passel of toddlers whose tummies cant wait until 1pm.)
There are always these and we are honored that the Lord has entrusted us to feed them, no matter the hour. It doesn”t reflect the few times that I am sure angels disguised as tired travelers wandered into the Mission either.
We were oh so blessed to give away staples to take home as well. This part of the helps ministry is near and dear to my heart , because it enables families to stay together. Here in our area (within a 40 mile radius at least, we are the only ministry that gives away uncooked food to take home. Other than Pastor Frank’s gift of discernment,there are no prerequisites to receive food. We do not require that they sit through a sermon with a growling stomach first or that they be unemployed. We believe that if they show up asking for food that they must need it and beyond that it is between them and our Father. You see, it is very common here for families to be split up due to lack of food. Many a mother has been forced to leave one or more of her children in an orphanagme “temporarily”because there is not enough food . Sadly, most of these temporary situations end up to be permanent as the systems in place are not set up to handle what ,in tbe USA, is a foster home type of arrangement. It is heartbreaking to see children lose contact with parents and siblings because Mama just needs a hand up. Yahweh has called us to be that hand and He flows through YOU to enable us!
Let us look at what the Mission gave away in 2017-
1800 lbs beans,
1450 lbs rice
2000 lbs flour(!)
850 lbs oatmeal
1000 eggs
190 lbs sugar –
52 liters vegetable oil-
1200 lbs powdered soy milk 300 liters of boxed milk Drinking water= 29,000 gallons
400 lbs chicken thighs&legs
200 12 oz. Cans salmon
300 units self heating US Military rations
200 16 oz cans crushed stewed tomatos
We give these foods weekly to aid approximately 49 families ( an avg of 9 people per family.) on a regular basis.
This does not include the people who come from farther away (town) for staples only 1 or 2 times.
HEALTH CARE-
10 Free Medical Clinics were held and 72 patients were seen and received appropriate medications.
Over 100 women and children received vitamins. We distribute the vitamins in 15 day increments.(This helps us to know whether the children are taking them once daily or whether they gobble them all up like candy as soon as they are out of sight. We stopped purchasing the tasty gummy vitamins and went back to the yucky tasting cartoon type for precisely this reason.
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Be fruitful and multiply!
I personally attended 63 healthy births this year!!!
27 were home births, at which I was blessed to pray for the infant before the umbilical cord was severed! Thank you Jesus!)
Prenatal care remains a powerful evangelical entrance into families lives.
We enrolled 29 children in school in 2017. For the first time we have 5 kids who have progressed beyond 6th grade!
21 school uniforms were provided for and everyone whom needed one got a new backpack this year.
Advocacy for indigenous people navigating through governmental requirements and institutions also remains a huge part of the ministry. Be it obtaining birth certificates, school enrollment, or applying for Mexicos new pension or scholarship programs; the people we serve more often than not need a helping hand, and have come to know that Frank will accompany them through these mazes. A big milestone for advocacy this year was helping two Mixtec women obtain their DRIVERS LISCENCES! PRAISE JESUS!! As our neighbors have gotten the revelation of giving the Lord has been faithful to prosper them and they are now purchasing vehicles.
Most important of all ,is our relationship as neighbors who love them and that is thriving.
I am still giving people B 12 injections and getting out the doppler to let young mothers to hear their babies first heartbeats and finding the occasional toddler asleep in tbe playground. Frank still gets up and takes people to the hospital or the bus station when we hear someone cry out for help at midnite under our bedroom window. I put some rather crooked sutures for the 1st time in a little boys knee and it healed rather nicely . WE returned to prison visits and Frank baptized
over 50 men on one visit!
The mission was a temporary home to 3 separate families who otherwise would have been homeless. The last family moved into their own apartment on Thursday.
Gosh, so much has happened.
JUST as we have been encouraged by new fruit……last month I was contacted through Facebook by a young mother of 2 living in Dallas Texas. She messaged me and I could not ,for tbe life of me, figure out who she was……until I saw her.It was a long lost daughter. A 12 year old girl who had lived with us the first year we came to Mexico………lost and now found! She was contacting us to thank us for leading her to Jesus 18 years ago!! What a rewarding , joyful ,albeit tear filled reunion. She is serving God in the USA , now leading others to the King of Kings, voing to college and living her American dream!7
Most importantly the Church has continued to grow,not as an institution but as a FAMILY. A living Bride that breaks bread together every Friday. I believe around 40 plus people confessed Christ Jesus as their King so far this year. Holy Spirit has blown in and filled MANY as angels danced and ministered.
Tribal walls have fallen by the Power and Love of Jesus and people that would speak to or even look at each other now help each other carry their staples home and sit and laugh in the playground and allow their children ,our future, to8 play together.
Sure , there have been hard times. Scary times. In August a nonprofit that partnered with us and made up a big part of our budget-folded, leaving us with about a weeks notice. Our flesh screamed, ” Stop, pull back, slow down!”
While Abba remained silent……because He knows that we already know what to do. For where do we turn Lord, when only You offer eternal life?
And yes, Gods Word remains true……….What man intends for evil, YWVH always turns for good!
But once again looking back II am stunned baffled , and awed by YWVH’s grand Provision. The balance sheets don’t add up. Once again the accountant will be confounded and maybe wonder if we are cartel members.
Obviously, YAHWEH IS STILL IN THE MIRACLE BUSINESS!
Really I’ve only scratched the surface of this past years wonders…..I know after I send this I will remember a bunch of stuff I meant to say. I am excited for 2018.
But I’m writing this to let each of you who pray for us, each of you who give faithfully, that YOU are part of something bigger than it looks. You are part of the grand work of pushing back darkness with His Light, you are here with us. FOR that we shall be absolutely ,eternally grateful!
We love you and we thank you for enabling us to live this life. We thank you for loving the people we live to serve.
May the Lord bless you and yours. May lack stay far from your door and may the health and the prosperity of the King rule. May you and yours have the Merriest of all Christmases and a very abundant and miracle filled New Year.
With Love eternal ,and gratitude undescribable,
Pastor Frank and Sister Deedee
And tbe Church who meets in our home.
