Chiapas

Sorry to all of you who are regularly following this blog that I haven't posted in a while, but it has been a bit hard to find the time with all the amazing things we have been doing. Since my last post we left Mexico City and went on to the next leg of our journey which was in Chiapas. In Chiapas we stayed mainly at the YWAM San Cristobol base, which was quite a blessing. Staying at the base gave us a good amount of rest as we had beds, we didn't have to cook all our own meal, we didn't have to shop for food, etc. While there at the base the ministry we did most was going out to the streets, especially the city center and doing dramas and one on one evangelism, which was a great success. People seemed Pretty receptive to the Gospel in San Cristobol. Another ministry we did was working with a local youth group. We had the opportunity to teach this great bunch of young people the dramas we have been doing all through our Putreach and then go with them as they took them to the streets and evangelized with them. It was amazing to see their passion for the Work of the Lord and to see how with such little direction they were able to go out and do very effective ministry! It was really encouraging to see them at work and to see how missions and discipleship should really work! After staying at that base for a couple weeks we took a trip to some indigenous villages out in the moutiains. The whole trip was really almost surreal. We were a took a van for about two hours into the mountains where we took taxis as far as they could go into the mountains because the van couldn't go any further. From there we took a small footpath into down the mountain through the jungle for about thirty minutes where we got to the first village. The next village was a two hour hike from the road andyhe final one was about a three and a half hour hike, mostly uphill. The hikes were extremely physically exhausting, but it was worth it! Most of the people in the villages only spoke Tzotzil (their native dialect) and not Spanish so it was fairly hard to communicate without a translator. The women wore their own traditional clothing that they made by hand and the first two villages didn't have running water so we drank, washed dishes, and bathed in the rivers or other holes in the ground. We also slept on concrete floors or wooden benches. The whole experience was a bit difficult but it was amazing to see our brothers and sisters in the faith that live in different ways than we do! We left the villages and spent our last few days at the house of a married couple that is on staff with YWAM in Chiapas. They were very hospitable and really made us feel at home. It was a great, very relaxing way to spent the last few days of our Outreach! Now we are back in Mexico City for our debrief after Outreach, then it's back from Mazatlanfeom here. God has been so faithful during this Outreach and I can't wait to see what He has for me next!