ESL Class at the church in Playa

This is our clean up team giving thanks for the new worship center church building in Playa.

I feel under a lot of pressure mostly about the lack of money.. I have so many hurting people here on my team and I am trying to keep this ministry up and going. about a third of our funds come from mission teams coming in but we have not had a team in three months and we have had others canceled for Oct. and Nov. I am praying to God for help.. We now have a little larger ministry and it takes about 8000 a month just to pay the bills we had about half the funds we needed last month.

I think most people would give up but we are a little crazy. If we are going to go out we are going to go out with a bang. We are putting everything we have on the line. We are going to move the church in Playa to a new place. It is going cost us but it is our best chance to reach the people of Playa. We are going forward in Chan Chen as well... We need help but I am not asking people to do any more than I am willing to do.. I am not going to sing "I surrender all" if I am not willing to do it. When I was young this was easier but the older I get I think, who is going to take care of my wife in old age. And God says HE IS....

Please invite your friends to join us...

You can help by sending a check to our non-profit mission organization.

Global Community Fellowship

1904 Red Bud Cir.

Greenville, NC 27858

Or you can give on line http://www.globalcommunityfellowship.org/give.html

Church on the Move in Playa

We are moving to a new location in Playa Del Carmen. Nov. 7th we are going to be making this big step of faith. It is true that this is a weak economy but our GOD IS STRONG! Today as I preached the message it hit me God knows my needs. The older I get the harder it is becoming to put it all on the line for Christ... I think who's going to take care of me if I give it all to Christ and His work. Today God answered me he said I Will. Please pray for the people of Playa Del Carmen and those living in the Mayan villages where we work.

Need your prayers!

Sept. 9th Thursday - we hope to start our training program in the Mayan zone.

Can you or your Bible Study Group help us with a door.

We were able to pour the floors this weekend. We now are trying to raise money for the doors. Each door is going to cost about 200. each. We need 13 doors for phase 1 of our Chan Chen Project. If you can to help us with a door or two, you can give on line at http://www.globalcommunityfellowship.org/give.html

I built a small fountain in our backyard

It was a lot more work than I thought but it works.

We need mission teams in 2011

Please pray for Rodolfo.. He is the one who is heading our building project and the one who gave the land for the project. A few people in the village are jealous and they are attacking this young man. We know Rodolfo is not perfect but if God used only the perfect people this Chan Chen Project would have never started. Pray that these people would not hurt Rodolfo or his family and that they will not slow down the project. Pray also that Rodolfo would live life in a way that honors God is all that he does. When you try to do good there is always opposition.

Golfing for Global Impact a Great Success

We have a great time in Myrtle Beach raising support for missions through a Golf event.

We have a new unique and innovative way for raising funds for mission and ministry. Plan your next retreat or conference with Encanto Resorts in Playa Del Carmen and they will donate 5% to our mission work here in Mexico and 5% to your ministry or charity... This is a great deal!

Mission team from OVBC in Myrtle Beach

This team did a great job! They headed back to South Carolina today.

Westwood men moving dirt in Chan Chen.

News from our volunteer missions leader Page Hughes

Thank you to all of you who prayed for ladies event today. It was a

joy to see and hear so many women who longed to grow in their faith.

Cherylyn was a beautiful lady who came needing a special touch from

God. She is a ministering leader in an English speaking church in

Cancun. Through a broken heart, she shared how there were power

struggles in the church. They were trying to work through them, but

their hearts were heavy. We prayed for the church and prayed for the

leadership of the church.

Cherylyn represents one of about thirty women who came today to hear a

word from God. God spoke through Liam, a Spanish-speaking friend from

the church at Playa as she sang. Our team gave testimonies and we

even had an artistic team member paint to the “Resurrection Song.”

The messages were well received as a each lady were challenged to live

out their walks with Jesus and lead others to relationship with Him.

Each lady went home filled with delicious food and a gift bag filled

with goodies in addition to a fresh word from God.

Please continue to lift up this team as tomorrow will be worshiping

with two churches here in Mexico.

The Hotel Worker's training Center taking shape in Chan Chen

It has been an exciting time in the small Mayan village of Chan Chen. Yes, we still have a long way to go but now we are beginning to see real progress. This is what we hope to see by the fall of this year, 20 High School students enrolled in our training program. This program will take students in their last two years of High School and teach them conversational English and skills

needed to work in tourism. It is our hope that at least half of these student would want to continue on to college in Playa where we will continue to work with them through the ministries of our church in Playa. The long term dream is that many of theses college graduates would return to their villages as missionaries to help educate and evangelize the next generation . We need your prayers, we are still so far from the finish line it would be easy to give up. Pray that the funds would come in and that God would start working now in the hearts of these future missionaries.

Report from the field

Unloading a truck by hand can be an all day job.
We are building our "mission retreat training center" on the Solid Rock.
We are still teaching the Bible each Monday.

Baptismal Service in Paamul

God is changing Lives in Mexico. We had a great time today, two of our men on the English speaking side of our church were baptized... We also have a mission team here from New Bern NC and they are working hard.

Pray for a movement of God at tomorrows services

I am so busy I don't have time to write. We have a volunteer team coming in from New Bern NC. next week to work in Chan Chen. We have had a family of five staying with us the last two weeks in our small house in Paamul. God is doing great things in our church we started a new men's small group that thursday and we had seven men come out to the first meeting.

Working with the Golf Channel this week.

Working with the Golf Channel today at Mayakaba PGA event. They had me with John Daly today. I talked to his girl friend and was able to give her a Golfer's New Testament. This is a bible with testimonies of other PGA golfers. She was real excited and said she would give it to John tonight. So pray for John Daly. He made the cut now we are praying that he will make God's finial cut.

PGA event in Playa

PGA event in Playa

Many of our church members are working this week as volunteers with the Golf Channel. Last year they donated $5000 to our mission organization.

Please pray for our team of volunteers....

No Groundhog Day in Mexico

Down here in Mexico we don't celebrate groundhog day because by Feb. 2nd summer is already here. We are looking forward to seeing all that God is going to do in the next fee months.

Feb. 7 Super bowl Sunday and outreach party

Feb. 8 Starting a new small group bible study.

Feb. the 10th Darla is making a trip to States to visit family and promote our mission at a Global Mission Conference at Westwood Baptist Church in Alabaster, Al.

Feb 18-21 we are going to working as volunteers for the Golf Channel at the PGA Golf Event they for donate funds to our mission work in Chan Chen.

Feb.22- 27 working on the Project at Chan Chen

We need your prayers and your support.

Great Sunday yesterday.

We baptized 7 new believes yesterday! One was in her eighties.

Another cool night in Paamul