As part of the summer course this past week, many of us had an opportunity to learn and perform traditional Mexican dances. In addition, we taught and practiced many songs with the children who participated in the course. Thanks to the great photography of Scott Kerens, these activities are pictured below with a focus on [...]
Archive for the ‘Community Center’ Category
28 Jul
Santa Cruz Summer Course
This week a group from Twin Oaks Presbyterian Church has been helping with the summer course at Armonía’s community center in Santa Cruz. So far, it has been a week full of singing and dancing:
Sports and games of all kinds:
Serving food to the 100+ kids that come to the summer course every day:
And giving and [...]
22 Jun
More Dancing!
Why post more pictures of dancing at Santa Cruz during our Sunday celebration and worship service? Well…
It’s beautiful!
It’s a wonderful window into the heart of Mexican culture.
I’m proud of my wife for learning how to dance so well!
The church around the world needs more examples of worshipping with our whole mind, heart, and BODY.
It is [...]
4 Jun
Zacchaeus was a wee little man
This week in music class, I taught the kids the Spanish version of “Zacchaeus was a wee little man.” I also used the opportunity to talk a little bit about the story of Zacchaeus. How he was small and not a good guy, but he wanted to see Jesus. How Jesus chose to go to [...]
26 May
Through New Eyes
We had a very busy but enjoyable last weekend. We helped to host a vision trip – a group of 11 people, many of which are visiting Armonía for the first time to look into the opportunity of building a lasting relationship between themselves individually, or their church, and Armonía. And the other day we [...]
25 May
Celebrating
Every Sunday we come together as a Christian community and celebrate the transformation that we have, are, and will experience in Jesus Christ. Yesterday we celebrating with singing led by the children:
Dancing:
And food!
16 May
A Trip to the City
Yesterday I went along with the team from Armonía to take packages of groceries to needy families in each community where Armonía works. Since things are opening up again in Mexico City, this is the last week that Armonía will be providing these emergency grocery supplies since people are now able to go back to [...]
30 Apr
Collage of Santa Cruz
Stephanie and I have been enjoying using the collage feature on Picasa. Below is a collage of pictures that we have taken at the Santa Cruz Community Center and our work there. You can also view the pictures from which we created the collage at our Picasa web album, which is where we will be [...]
13 Apr
Diabetes – #1 Killer in Mexico
According to a recent report at one of our favorite Mexican news sources, thenews.com.mx, Diabetes is the no. 1 killer in Mexico today.
The article explains, “Sometimes called adult-onset diabetes, diabetes mellitus, which is a disorder characterized by high blood glucose, is almost always caused by poor diet and lack of exercise.”
This does not surprise me.
Personal [...]
7 Apr
Collaborative Reflection and Mind Maps
This week is Holy Week, Semana Santa. Since Mexico is overwhelmingly Catholic, Holy Week is a pretty big deal, and everyone gets the week off of school, and some off of work.
Since the children don’t have school, the daily Homework Club at Santa Cruz Community Center is not happening this week. Instead, we have used [...]
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