Author Archives: Ivonne

About Ivonne

Ivonne is a fiesty little latin fireball. Her energy and wit are a wonderful asset to the ministry and our marriage. She received her MS in Counseling in 2005 and is currenly a Licensed Professional Counselor.

A New Beginning
avatar

Pheww…after loading a mango truck and the new van with our belongings, cleaning out the rental house in Arriaga, and three trips to Comitán, we are finally moved into our new house. It was a lot of work but the … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Life Mission Minutes | 1 Comment

The New Ministry Van
avatar

Saturday night Ron and I were on our way to buy our much needed ministry van. We were $100 short of the asking price and the owner of the van had already dropped the price $500 adamantly stating he was … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Life Mission Minutes | Tagged | Leave a comment

Mousers Stateside
avatar

We came home for a month to rest, visit family, enjoy good times with friends and share about what God is doing in Chiapas. So far on the trip, we have stayed the night in 7 homes, visited 4 churches, had dinner with 14 … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Life Mission Minutes | 1 Comment

Summer Youth Camp 2010
avatar

getting to know each other We had 55 teens join us this year at Youth camp. We had 3 goals, to grow closer to God, get know each other more and have fun. As you can see we accomplished all 3 … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Life Mission Minutes | Leave a comment

Women’s bible study
avatar

Our weekly women’s bible study with Tammy had grown to over 50 women. A few months ago, Tammy felt from the Lord to divide into six groups. Now every Thursday morning at 10am, we have small groups meeting all throughout Arriaga. I’m so … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Life Mission Minutes | Tagged | Leave a comment

Children’s day
avatar

This past week we celebrated “Dia del Niño” a.k.a. Children’s day here in Mexico, a day set apart to honor and bless our children, to shower them with gifts and allow them to eat more candy than usual. Sunday at church we … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Life Mission Minutes | Leave a comment

Carmita’s “new princess smile”
avatar

Before Three years ago Carmita, along with her sister Romelia, came to live with Bill and Tammy here at the orphanage. She had gotten beaten all night long by her drunken father. Through much prayer and love many of her  scars have disappeared however everytime she … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Life Mission Minutes | 2 Comments

Hope
avatar

On January 12th, 2006 my son Caleb was born in Plano, TX. Three months later in Arriaga, Chiapas a little boy by the name of Christian would be born to a prostitute with AIDS. The other day as I watched … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Life Mission Minutes | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Faith
avatar

We have a brother in our church that everytime you ask him how he is doing, he answers “Thank God, I’m doing well”. What a faith statement because this brother is battling cancer and it is obvious that the chemo has … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Life Mission Minutes | 2 Comments

Love
avatar

As I was walking out of the church on Valentine’s day my husband informed me a family had come to visit from another town and he wanted to have them over for lunch. I immediately said, “no way!” A flood of … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Life Mission Minutes | Leave a comment