Pictures from Mexico

So here are some pictures from our trip! They're a little out of order but it doesn't make much difference. this first one is the city of Creel, where we stayed. It is beautiful there and I took this from up on the rocks behind our hotel...


This is Dean and I at the top of Copper Canyon. It is amazing and about 4 times bigger than the Grand Canyon. Not the greatest picture of me but my husband looks GREAT!


This is a woman from one of the Tarahumaran tribes there. We went to two villages to do outreaches and deliver food and clothing. We also did clown skits and Dramas and then shared the Gospel with them. It was a really amazing experience!


This is a little boy Tyler and I played with before the outreach started. they had so much fun and Tyler did really well playing with them!


During the outreach we put Tyler in the back of Pastor Gonzalo's truck (the pastor that lives in Creel) and he loved it! He didn't want to get out and I was thrilled because I didn't have to chase him around!


This is VBS (Vacation Bible School) at Pastor Gonzalo's church in Creel. We had the opportunity to go help after the village outreaches. Gonzalo's wife Crystal led it and Dean and Tyler were helping with the actions to the song up front....


The kids did a craft at VBS and here is Dean helping some of the boys....

This is actually the beginning of our trip on the tour bus... it was Tyler's naptime. The ride was about 33-36 hours, so we were glad to get off!

We had to get food ready for the outreaches, so this is some of our team dividing up flour... notice the white powder on the floor?


We dressed up the little boys as clowns a few times.....


This is our team doing a craft with some of the children at the orphanage. We made sock puppets with them and they loved it!


This is Chico... he's a Tarahumaran evangelist who speaks Spanish as well as tarahumaran. He translated the Spanish into Tarahumaran at our village outreaches. He is such a sweet person, we really love him!

So that is our trip in a nutshell. On a side note, there was a mass shooting in Creel the night before we left. It was awful. We heard the semi-automatic weapons from our hotel, but didn't find out what happened until later that night. Most of the victims were minors. A group of men (including Dean) went out that night to minister to the families or do whatever they could to help. They talked to a family who had lost the the father and 1 year old son. It was horrible. The Lord really protected our team... we had been in the town only about 45 minutes before the shooting happened. Please, whoever reads this, pray for Creel and the families that lost their loved ones!