Sometimes I have to wonder if the natural circumstances around us reflect the inner and spiritual condition in which we find ourselves. I realize that the incessant rain that is drenching Mexico from north to south, and the resultant flooding that it is causing is related to tropical storms brewing in the gulf waters. However, I can’t help but see spiritual applications as well to the raging tempests.
Those of you who have been reading my blogs will know that our daughter in law, Jessica Frey, has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. As black clouds roll across the region and rain pours in tropical torrents outside, causing flood waters to rise in the streets of the city, I sense a similar rising deluge in my own spirit. If one looks at the raw
medical data, it doesn’t look good. However, praise God, we are not limited to the natural, but can look beyond the physical to the supernatural. We worship a God who loves us intimately. A God who knows and loves Jessica more, and better, than we ever can. I am unspeakably proud of both James and Jessica as they voice their faith during this difficult time. Nonetheless, I feel the floodwaters rise in my spirit.
I wonder if the rising, mud-chocked, polluted and foul-smelling water which is taking over city streets and filling homes, carries the stench of what is taking place in the nation 
on the spiritual level. Does the natural reflect the unseen? Darkness is rising – sometimes silently and stealthily, sometimes in a raging flood across the nation on Mexico. The nation has been reeling in horror over the past few short years as it watches the rise of violence, abuse of power, and sometimes open anarchy. The engulfing tide sweeps across the nation.
But God is on his throne! I love the imagery in the second Psalm – while the nations rage, shaking their fists against God – the one who sits in the heavens laughs. The Lord himself scoffs at them, and rebukes them in his anger. It is he who will break them with an iron rod and smash them like clay pots. We know that this ultimately speaks of principalities and powers in the heavenly realms, as Paul describes. Nonetheless, “nations” refers to people – people who
are in rebellion against God. As the flood torrents of violence and evil arise, we can rest assured that the day is coming soon when every knee will bow, including the knees of those who are so proudly and arrogantly in rebellion against the King today.
The chapter ends with the statement “But what joy for all who find protection in him!” What a place of glorious joy and protection against the rising waters of the enemy.
Pray with Theresa and I in several other areas as well please:
On Tuesday we looked at a beautiful property that we would love to be able to purchase 
for the Leadership Training School. The land consists of five hectares of sugarcane fields, and one hectare of scrubland. The five hectares of sugarcane is under contract with the sugar mill. The fact that the land is contracted makes a huge difference in its value. Further, the hectare of undeveloped land would provide us with an excellent place to begin building the school and housing necessary for the work. There is a new highway being built from San Luis Potosi, the state capital, to Tampico, on the gulf. This new highway will pass within only half a kilometer or so of the landsite. There are power lines passing in front of the land, and water accessible if we drill a well. The
vision is to be able to use the sugarcane to form the backbone of self-financing for the school, as well as the agricultural base providing a hands-on training platform for the students as they are trained to be laborers in the Kingdom.
We are still in the initial negotiation stages with the property owner. The price is not cheap, but it is certainly within range of the going rate for land in this area. There are some definite pluses with this property that increase its value immensely, and we are excited to see if God will open the door for its purchase. It is by far the most exciting piece of land that we have looked at yet, and the potential is tremendous. We need several miracles to take place if we are going to be able to purchase it – all of them involved in the difficulty which we face every time that we attempt to purchase land in Mexico. There is a great chasm between the unbending nonprofit laws of the Canadian government which regulate Canadian charities, and the equally stringent land laws which regulate property ownership in Mexico. Both are unfeeling, unbending and impersonal, and both are the final word for their respective nations. Please pray with us that if this is the place that we are to own, that the impasse will be overcome.
Also, Theresa and I have a very big personal need which greatly affects the ministry as well. We are in the process of opening an English Language School (other than the Easy English School which did not do well, as you will remember from earlier blogs). I will write more about this school, and the vision for its ministry at a later date. However, for the present, let me simply say that our pressing need is for two ESL teachers to come down immediately. These must be very special people with not only the ability to be excellent English language teachers, but who also have missionary hearts and who will have a similar vision for ministry. As I have already stated, I will write more about the ongoing vision for the school later.
If anyone feels the “niggling” of the Holy Spirit in their heart following my very brief 
description above, and if they are qualified ESL teachers who can come down to Mexico almost immediately, you would be a definite answer to our prayers. The urgency has arisen because of the unforeseen need for Theresa and I to return to Canada as soon as possible in order to be with James and Jessica during this crisis time in their lives.
I am attaching a link to our ESL Job Description below:
http://sites.google.com/site/eslministries/
You will see the heading “URGENT! ESL Teachers needed for New ESL Ministry in Mexico!” If you click into the link you will be taken to our job description.
Or, you can simply click directly onto the link below to see the job description as well.
We covet your prayers in these maters. Theresa and I want very much to be with James and Jessica and their two little boys as soon as we can be. However, we feel that we also need to fulfill commitments and promises here in Mexico before we can go. Because of this, ESL teachers is a big prayer item for us at present.
