Laynes' Line

Merry Christmas After our Christmas extravaganza, our attendance was down Sunday but still a good crowd. This has been an excellent week in the Lord's work. We have been studying out prospective cities that we know have a large deaf population and no work there. One of the closest cities in Tepic, Nayarit on the Pacific side of the continental divide. We went there in 2005 to seek out the deaf and found g reat contacts and an open situation there. The missionaries that we made contact with had to come home due to health issues, but we have decided to continue to pray about the city. On Thursday, I found that a long time friend (from 1983-4) was still there and serving the Lord. The same day a new deaf couple came to prayer meeting and we discovered that the man is from Tepic, and still living there. Guillermina ( girlfriend of Christian Carlos and depicted Mary in our Christmas drama) recently requested prayer for 20 deaf friends of hers in Tepic that often come to visit her. She w

Some of the crowd of over one hundred. Armando Hernandez, our new pastor, is from the congregation of Horacio Gonzalez in Monterrey. He preached a terrific message about what the Christ child means to your life today. He used as an example the fact that Christ is the bridge between man and God. He knelt on the floor and positioned his arm like flying and marched his fingers across his shoulders to represent people coming to the Father through the Son. Everybody understood that! Cheyenne trying to position the children to see the drama. THIS Jesus was saved from a life of sin not quite a year ago. Now he represents Joseph as he helps Mary to Bethlehem. This is of the meal itself: pozole; all the fixings of onion, lettuce, sauce, lemon; rice with milk; cake; ponche. We served over one hundred and at least 99 at the same time. Hector and Rogelio, two of the first four deaf baptized. The young lady in pink is the daughter of the first lady we witnessed to in Guadalajara. Her mother was s