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Theresa’s glamour shot – fire proof coveralls, steel toed shoes, vest and all. She has taken off her hard hat though<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cMake sure that no one misses out on God\u2019s grace. Make sure that no root of bitterness grows up that might cause trouble and pollute many people\u201d.<\/i><\/span> Hebrews 12:15 (CEB)<\/p>\n It has now been over two months since my last blog entry, and high time that I communicate again. A lot has happened, and many trucks have passed through the gate for Theresa and me since my last blog. Things have also been very busy with the ministry in Mexico. Let me bring you up to date:<\/p>\n As you may remember from other entries – things have been very volatile and insecure in the oil industry lately. The price of crude oil has remained very low \u2013 wonderful for us as consumers, but not so pretty for the producers as the margins of profit are falling drastically making it unprofitable for them to continue to produce at high volumes. At this point the costs involved in drilling and fracing new wells are higher than the cost that the produced oil will merit (or at least, the margin of profit is low enough to get the industry shaken up and into cut-back mode). Over the past months we have personally seen those dependent on the industry (mainly truck drivers – our main contact point in the industry) being forced to take pay cuts, having their work hours cut back, and many have also received pink slips until further notice due to the extreme economic uncertainty presently.<\/p>\n Steven (the beardless wonder) at the LACT meter ready to check in a new truck. Note the cool Texan hard hat.<\/p><\/div>\n The spill-down effect of this has been that it has been devastating for those of us employed as gate guards (being, admittedly, pretty low on the totem pole in the pecking order of the industry). LOMA Rentals, the guarding company that Theresa and I had been working for initially, reduced its gate guard staff of well over one hundred only a bit more than a year ago, to eleven gates as of about two weeks ago. Thankfully, Theresa and I were with the last of their gates to remain open.<\/p>\n You may also remember that Theresa and I were blessed to be able to get into this gate guarding work initially by taking over for a couple who needed to go north for some months beginning in May of last year. This gave us a foot in the door without having to go through the normally often lengthy and uncertain waiting period usual in applying for guarding positions. However, it also meant that we had a finite time that we could work at our gate until they notified us that they wished to return.<\/p>\n This is the scene outside our front door. That is the tongue of our travel trailer that you see. Not much room between us and the trucks<\/p><\/div>\n A bit more than a month ago we did get notice from them of their impending return, and their desire that we vacate the post. Needless to say, this came as less-than-welcome news to Theresa and me. With the extreme uncertainty in the industry, and with gates closing down around our ears, we had no guarantee that we could find further employment in the area. However, we had made a commitment to the ministry in Cd. Valles, and most importantly to the Lord, that if He would provide us with work we would do so for a year in order to support the Mexican ministry as it transitioned into full autonomy. We fully felt that we needed to honor our hand-shake agreement to leave when the first couple wished to return, but we didn\u2019t know what we could possibly find to replace our employment there. But even so, we also had no certainty that that particular gate would even continue to stay open. In some ways I even felt bad handing that gate back to the original couple because I had the gut feeling that by that time it was a smoldering ember at best, with a very short life expectancy left.<\/p>\n This is our front yard with a full lineup of trucks in the stations. Our trailer is in the background<\/p><\/div>\n But God is very good and his mercies everlasting as the Psalmist states so many times. While we were still thinking, praying, (and worrying) about this whole situation we got a call from Mitch and Kathleen Medina, close friends of ours who initially got us involved in this whole gate guarding gig, saying that they needed to take some time off from their job over the winter and would be willing to leave earlier than they had originally planned and return later into the spring than anticipated if we would like to cover their position for them while they were gone. In this way their leaving and return would coincide with what we needed, and they would guarantee that they would get their job back in the spring when they wished to return. This would be beneficial to everyone involved. We thankfully arranged to take over from them in the middle of October through to the end of April 2016, after which we intend to finish working in Texas and return to Manitoba.<\/p>\n Our pumping station – Hendricks T1811<\/p><\/div>\n How very wonderful and past understanding are God\u2019s ways as he takes care of his children. We have committed our work and our path to him desiring to be a financial blessing to the work in Mexico, but we can only do so if we are able to continue to be employed. God has provided this for us with a seamless transition from one job to another. Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n We handed over our gate and work site in Catarina to the former couple on the afternoon of October 15th<\/sup>, hooked up our travel trailer to a rented U-Haul truck and headed towards Kermit in northwestern Texas, where our new work assignment was to begin early Sunday morning, October 18th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n Truthfully, even though we knew that our new position would be heavier than simply gate guarding and would involve many new responsibilities, we were also delighted because it was to be only a twelve hour day \/ seven days per week rather than the twenty-four \/ seven that we had been working for the past, almost six months. We were so very much looking forward to being able to hand the job over to the night staff at the end of our 12-hour shift and leave for town together for a cup of coffee, or simply to do our laundry together. We might even be able to watch a movie together on the couch in the evening without being constantly interrupted; and wonder of all wonders, we might even be able to sleep in the same bed at night rather than one of us constantly needing to sleep fully dressed on the couch in order to be prepared to run outside whenever a truck pulled up at any hour throughout the night.<\/p>\n Trucks lining up to off-load. It is when the bays are all full and the trucks lined up back to the highway that things get rather stressful<\/p><\/div>\n This now, as you probably already realize, is the \u201crub\u201d (as Shakespeare would say), and where the truth of Hebrews 12:15 became very real for Theresa and me. The whole concept of the root which can cause much disappointment and bitterness is a very real and tangible thing, and against which we need to vigilantly and constantly guard our hearts. Although theologically I may be using this verse outside of the context that the writer to the Hebrews intended it, I think that it also fits my usage as well. Let me explain what I mean:<\/p>\n We had no sooner than finished our one-day of training, and the couple for whom we were taking over had no sooner than pulled off the lot, and the new saddle that we were trying to fill still chaffed and rubbed and sat poorly, and the work was still very, very scary \u2013 on Wednesday afternoon, our third day on the job taking over a very busy and responsible position \u2013 that we had a visit from our regional supervisor to inform us that due to cut-backs the company was removing our night coverage, and as of the following morning we would be covering the site completely alone \u2013 on a 24 hour \/ 7 days per week basis!!! (and, let me add – all for the same pay).<\/p>\n Bitterness!<\/p>\n Disappointment!<\/p>\n Deceived and mislead!<\/p>\n Perhaps all of the above apply.<\/p>\n Truthfully, Theresa and I did not pass this particular pop quiz with honors, and I am afraid that we may have even received a pretty mediocre grade at best. Through it all though, I also was reminded of a truth \u2013 something that I have seen played out many times, but of which I constantly seem to need to be reminded over and over \u2013 that is that, if one feeds on bitterness and anger you will get a belly full of it, and it will absolutely fill you up. Jesus said it well when he said that it isn\u2019t what goes in (ie., food that is ingested into our body) that defiles a person, but rather what comes out. It is what comes out that identifies what is inside \u2013 in the heart \u2013 in our inner parts so to speak.<\/p>\n This is our life at present – 24\/7<\/p><\/div>\n The night-shift couple that was given the short-noticed pink slip was understandably not highly amused by the actions of the company and soon very unhappy and bitter words and attitudes came spilling out of a belly full of bitterness. Soon Theresa and I were lustily feeding off of their anger and bitterness in a feeding-frenzy like piranhas on a bloated carcass. Our bellies were filling with the vile stuff and soon all thoughts of thankfulness for God\u2019s abundant mercies and provision in this new job were long forgotten. We felt violated, abused, and ill-treated. We felt that we had been taken advantage of! This was not fair!!<\/p>\n Only moments before we had so clearly seen God\u2019s hand in the provision of this work. Now we saw nothing but that we felt that we were being abused, and we were extremely disappointed that we were now back to being married 100% to the work site, and to a never-ending job \u2013 to work that never ends 24\/7.<\/p>\n The view from the top of one of our bulk tanks. She ain’t perdy, but she does produce oil out here<\/p><\/div>\n Actually, there is even more to the story that I have not mentioned so far; only days after we handed back our former gate in Catarina to the returning couple – a grand total of five days after the handover – we got a text from our former employer informing us that BYRD Gate, the name of our previous gate, had closed, and that the returning couple were now without work. Although she is not a professing Christian, her text read \u201cYou made a good move. The Lord is watching over you\u201d. Undeniably and unequivocally we recognized this to be true \u2013 or, should I say, we had recognized it to be true. Now we had a belly-full of disappointment which was soon to turn into anger and rot if it wasn\u2019t quickly taken care of.<\/p>\n Thankfully, God is gracious and he gently reminded us that he is still with us and that we can still trust him. It is kind of funny really \u2013 nothing had changed in the blessing department. Our pay had stayed the same. We were still getting more per day than we were making at our former job. We were still blessed with work, etc., etc. True, the work was now 24 hours per day \u2013 never ending again, and without any breaks \u2013 but still, what we once saw as being so positive had not changed, only our attitudes towards it had.<\/p>\n Am I turning hick? But I think that this sunset against the 18 wheeler is rather pretty<\/p><\/div>\n The complete irony is also that for the past seven nights now – ever since the previous night-shift personnel left with their pink slips in hand \u2013 we have had night staff coverage on a temporary, loaned basis. What happened immediately as the previous night staff left is that one of the other sister pumping stations closed temporarily while they are doing some renovations on it. This meant that we have received their diverted trucks and would have been swamped without additional night help. So, for the past nights Theresa and I have had help, and only a 12 hour shift. This will only be temporary while the work at the other station is being done, but nonetheless, it is very, very much appreciated. The saddle feels a little less stiff at present after one week on the job, and calluses are beginning to form making things less scary. God is truly good. He even has a sense of humor I am finding. Certainly, I have found that I should never expect him to give many details before I absolutely need them, and he really does like stretching us whenever possible. I simply need to learn to trust him more.<\/p>\n Even here there is beauty when you look for it<\/p><\/div>\n I think that I am also beginning to understand the workmen in Jesus\u2019 parable about the hired vineyard workers as related to us in Matthew 20 a little better. However, perhaps I can identify a bit more with the attitude of the laborers than with the deep truths of salvation that Jesus was trying to set forth in the story. In our case, we contracted for a certain job for a certain pay. We got the job and the pay, but then the hours, or at least our perception of the hours and the pay, changed. We were then no longer satisfied with the wages that we had agreed upon and now felt deceived, mislead, and disgruntled. Doesn\u2019t this all have the exact same ring as the complaints of the workmen in Jesus\u2019 parable! Yes, but\u2026it isn\u2019t fair! My personal rights (or, at least my perception of them) have been violated.<\/p>\n Moon rise against the bulk tank, cleachy pad, and power lines. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder<\/p><\/div>\n But there has been something rather funny about this whole job as well. The rule of the company is that all employees must be clean shaven. So, my beard had to go! Poor Theresa had never seen me without a beard, and wasn\u2019t very excited to do so either. She has finally stopped laughing and pointing and is beginning to get used to my new look. Thankfully, I was allowed to keep my mustache. My beard has come and gone over the years, but had become a permanent fixture for at least the past fourteen years or more. But my mustache is a different matter. The last time that I shaved it off was in 1972 when I was a wee itty-bitty guy and lived in Berlin, Germany. I hated my upper lip so much when I shaved it off that I immediately grew it back, and swore that I would never torture the world again by removing it. It has been a permanent fixture on my face ever since.<\/p>\n There is also much to write about concerning the work in Mexico. The ministry there has been moving forward rapidly, and the Kingdom of God is being advanced. Javier has begun an outreach into the drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Cd. Valles every Friday afternoon. This has provided a means of ministering to these needy, mostly young men, as well as providing a perfect classroom for training the disciples who he is mentoring into ministry in a hands-on setting.<\/p>\n The same moon rise. Notice the pump jack in the distance. These are what make the world go around here in west Texas<\/p><\/div>\n Javier and his group of trainees, along with the assistance and support of their little church in Solidaridad also minister to the poor and needy at the local General Hospital at the south side of the city. In Mexico, when a family member is admitted into the hospital it is often necessary for someone from the family to be present to care for many of their physical needs. These people are often new to the city, having come in from far-flung rancherias and outlying rural villages. Most are very poor, most have little experience in the \u201cbig city\u201d, most are way out of their element, and many need very basic assistance such as meals, while they are waiting on their sick family members. It is to this challenge that Javier and his group of trainees has decided to rise. Without financial funding outside of their very poor, little church body in Solidaridad they have decided to serve at the hospital every Tuesday afternoon by evangelizing and providing a meal to the people there. Javier says that at times they feed upwards to two hundred or more individuals, many of them very open to hearing and receiving the Gospel message, and all very thankful for the assistance that is being provided. Javier stated in one of his letters to me that his heart is always deeply moved by the tremendous needs of the people that they encounter there in the hospital. All of the finances for the purchase of the food for the meals are made available only by miraculous provision, as this is way above and beyond what the little church would normally be able to raise, and certainly on a weekly basis. Javier told me that one time a completely non-Christian nurse provided the money to purchase a zacahuil (a massive tamale-like local dish) sufficient to feed 200 people. I happen to know that this translates into a gift of roughly $200 dollars. I couldn\u2019t help but think that I was listening to stories of a modern day George M\u00fcller as I listened to him.<\/p>\n Javier laying block at the newly constructed Casa del Obrero septic tank<\/p><\/div>\n Very soon Javier is also planning to begin ministering in the new federal prison which has opened up just outside of the City of Valles. They are still in the process of working on the legalities of arranging for this particular evangelistic ministry, but they hope to begin soon.<\/p>\n Javier also writes that he and Armando are very busy with the preparations for this year\u2019s sugarcane harvest on the Missionary Training Center farm. They are in the process of cutting fire breaks and clearing the edges of the field in preparation for the burning of the sugarcane for harvest. Javier told me that they expect the harvest to begin any time, and what is more, it looks like this year\u2019s harvest might actually be a good one. This is wonderful news when one remembers that the last harvest was 100% lost due to the incredibly wet season, and the previous one to that was extremely expensive for the ministry due to the heavy rains that year as well, requiring that a large portion of what should have been profit was instead spent on renting a tractor to haul loaded trucks out of our muck-choked fields. We need, and pray for a good harvest this year.<\/p>\n We are also very excited that pastor Marty Dyer and a group from Newsong Church in Grove, Oklahoma will be heading back down to Cd. Valles over the first week of November in order to minister there. Marty and Newsong have been long-time friends of the work in Cd. Valles, and indeed my first meeting of Pastor Dyer was about sixteen years ago in Huichihuyan, a little town south of Cd. Valles, where he was leading a ministry group from Newsong Church. Since that time we have worked together many times, and our visions and hearts continue to be linked in the service of advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in Mexico.<\/p>\n Alicia and another sister serving up zacahuil in the hospital to serve to the poor<\/p><\/div>\n Javier has a very tight schedule for the Oklahoma ministry team when they arrive in Cd. Valles as follows:<\/p>\n – Tuesday:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Preaching and meal at the Cd. Valles General Hospital.<\/p>\n – Wednesday:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Door to door and visitation evangelism at Solidaridad with a service there in the evening (this is the little town where Javier and Cristina minister, and where their little church congregation is from).<\/p>\n – Thursday:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Door to door and visitation evangelism at Col. Lazaro Cardenas and Troncones. (Troncones is a new mission area for them, and much of the day there will be spent in actual knocking on doors and visiting first-time contacts).<\/p>\n – Friday:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Door to door and visitation evangelism at the mission station of San Antonio Huichimal (this is now a mission church-plant of about two years, and Armando and Alicia are ministering there). In the afternoon the group will be ministering at the drug and alcohol Rehabilitation Center in Cd. Valles (called El Mirador). In the evening they will be back at San Antonio Huichimal for a service there at the little mission (open-air) church which meets in the space between a family compound.<\/p>\n Javier and his team ministering in the hospital<\/p><\/div>\n – Saturday:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Teaching session with the Bible Institute students (Luz de las Naciones). This will begin at 8:00 a.m. and probably will go for as long as the team desires to teach. The Institute classes are all day Saturdays, beginning at 8:00 o\u2019clock in the morning and running through the afternoon.<\/p>\n So, as you can see, mission trips are really not times for lounging on the beach in skimpy bikinis, but rather, they are times of serving, little sleep, and stretching. But, they are also times that are deeply rewarding as one sees God\u2019s hand manifesting through our frail humanity.<\/p>\n What I have not mentioned is the birth of Aminadab and Juan\u2019s little boy about a month ago \u2013 a great blessing to them after several miscarriages. Nor have I mentioned the ongoing ministry of Janny and Mario as they continue to labor faithfully at the Bible Institute as well as in the little mission church which they lead in their home, focusing upon the needs of the poor children in their area of the city. Mario, a medical doctor, is working two jobs full time besides being a father and husband, as well as a teacher in the Bible Institute. I have also not mentioned any of the others who are so faithfully teaching in the Bible Institute and serving in multiple areas, nor Armando and Alicia who are now shouldering almost 100% of the load of running of the Missionary Training Center farm besides being full-time leader-trainees under Javier\u2019s careful discipleship. There are too many people to mention, and all are worthy of honor and note.<\/p>\n God has truly been very faithful in the work of the ministry in Cd. Valles, and as Jesus stated in Matthew 11:12; \u201cHis Kingdom is moving forward in strength [advancing forcefully], and forceful [or<\/i> violent] people have been trying to take it by force [lay hold of it] (EXB). Barnes\u2019 Notes on the Bible explains this verse as: \u201cPeople have been “earnest” about it; they have come “pressing” to obtain the blessing, as if they would take it by violence. There is allusion here to the manner in which cities were taken. Besiegers “pressed” upon them with violence and demolished the walls.<\/p>\n There is an earnestness and a \u201cviolence\u201d evident in the advancement of God\u2019s Kingdom taking place through our brothers and sisters in Mexico which is humbling and inspiring to me. May God bless them richly as they continue to faithfully serve Him.<\/p>\n I must close this very long blog as I need to get outside to help Theresa as she checks in trucks or else my name will be mud. She has been working all morning, and I need to spell her off.<\/p>\n I do have one need though that I would like to ask for help on: Theresa and I feel that it is important to purchase a truck for Javier\u2019s needs in Mexico. One of the things that we are working for over this year is for the funds to do this. But, what I need help in is finding a vehicle. What we are looking and praying for specifically is a 4-cylinder, standard transmission, Ford Ranger pickup truck. There are a lot of Ford Rangers in Mexico, and the parts and repairs are available for a reasonable cost (unlike many other makes and\/or models). I don\u2019t think that the year is that important at this time, because it will probably be limited more by the cost, and what we can afford. We need to stay somewhere within the $3,000 – $3,500 dollar range in our search if possible. However, it stands to reason that it makes absolutely no sense to send down junk, and doing so would be more of a curse than a blessing for the Javier. So, what I am looking for is a 4 cylinder, standard transmission, Ford Ranger pickup truck in good condition for somewhere around the $3,000 – $3,500 dollar range (or something that someone would feel that God would want them to subsidize, since my pockets are not deep). Also, if we are asking God for miracles, I would also like to add on this list that a 4 X 4 would be excellent since the Missionary Training Center farm is down several miles of almost impassable mud road during the rainy season and a regular vehicle can almost not enter at that time. However, a standard 2-wheel drive version would also work fine. We would really appreciate your prayers with us on this, and your assistance in finding such a vehicle would be awesome since both Theresa and I are stuck to about a quarter acre space of dusty dirt for the next six months, and we have no time or opportunity to look a field. However, the need for a vehicle for Javier is extremely high priority.<\/p>\n Blessings to each of you. Thank you for plowing through this lengthy tome. There is so much to say, and my heart is so full of joy in what I see God doing through our faithful brothers and sisters who are laboring so hard in the work in Mexico.<\/p>\n Theresa and I also personally ask you for your prayers as we continue to shoulder this somewhat heavy load that we are undertaking over this year. We ask you to continue to hold up our brothers and sisters in Mexico. Also, let me again remind you that although Theresa and I are no longer in Cd. Valles, the work is advancing, and with this is the continued need for finances. Thank you for your continued prayer, love and finances for the work.<\/p>\n Your fellow laborers in the vineyard,<\/p>\n Steven and Theresa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cMake sure that no one misses out on God\u2019s grace. Make sure that no root of bitterness grows up that might cause trouble and pollute many people\u201d. 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