11/24/2010 Cancun Christian Fellowship Newsletter

11/24/2010

1 Peter 4:10 As each has received a gift, employ it for one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace

Remember to look at the new pictures on the website: http://www.cancunchristianfellowship.com/  and also check out our Blog Site at http://cancunchristianfellowship.blogspot.com/ .

If you are considering a commodity donation, here are some items that are currently needed:
1. Locking file cabinet
2. Diapers #6
3. Eggs
4. Milk
5. Lunchbox size packages of fruit bars or cookies
6. Lunchbox size boxes of fruit drinks
7. Cheese
8. Children’s clothes (any size-any gender)

Financial contributions are always appreciated. If you would like to make a financial contribution, please contact Tom Martin tommartin@inbox.com or Cherilyn Martin cherilynmartin@inbox.com .

SPONSOR A CHILD FOR CHRISTMAS

It’s that time of year when we need to think how we can make a difference in one child’s life for Christmas. We are asking for Sponsors for the children at Casa Hogar para Ninos Esperanza, the Cancun Christian orphanage. We have 14 children’s wishes to make come true so please search your heart and help with your $50.00 donation for one child. You can give in person or through our PayPal account (tom@cdymexico.com). Thank you for helping to make these children’s wishes come alive.

If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?

Cancun Christian Fellowship donated and delivered Beef, Chicken, Eggs, Cereal, Lunch Box Snacks and Rice to our Cancun Christian orphanage today. We also delivered clothes, curtain fabric and the fitted plastic mattress covers that had been donated by Don and Carolyn Pfennig.

Many members of Community of Faith English Church have made “Children’s Christmas” donations and they are dearly appreciated. For numerous reasons, the newsletter will only reflect acknowledgement information concerning donations from our non-church “Mission Partners”. They are the ones that give to us by FAITH not sight, having confidence in our work and what we strive to accomplish as servants of God serving others.

Teresa Weatherly, one of our truly devoted mission partners in the US, has blessed us with another financial donation, this one to be used for the children’s Christmas. As always Teresa, your continued confidence in our mission activity is greatly appreciated.

In keeping with the season, “Cartoon Night” at Casa Hogar para Ninos Esperanza will be a little different in December. A mission partner from Playa del Carmen as furnished us with a DVD copy of Mickey Mouse Celebrates Christmas. The movie duration is 77 minutes and, as always, we are looking for helpers. Please contact us for details.

Children’s Christmas sponsors: It is a pleasure to acknowledge new mission partners that have sponsored childen for Christmas this past week. Please welcome to our family Hollis and Sue Scott, Mike and Pam Harris, Kevin and Sharon Harris, Joey and Tiffeni Briones, Friends of Cancun Christian Fellowship in Playa del Carmen and Santa’s Helpers with the Cancun Wednesday Ladies’ Group. It goes without saying that it would not be Christmas for the children without your help. Thank you.

WE HAVE WONDERFUL NEWS! Wendy Sombito, our Guardian Angel with 2nd Baptist Church in Houston, will furnish Dr. Ed Young’s Christmas Service sermon for us this year. You enjoyed Dr. Young’s Easter sermon last year and his Christmas sermons are equally as good. It is faithful servants like Wendy that keep us going. Wendy, you really are our ANGEL.

We are looking for a Christmas Tree for Casa Hogar para Ninos Esperanza. If you have an extra one, desire to donate one or know someone that would like to donate one, please have them contact us or tell us so we can contact them. Cancun Christian Fellowship will be furnishing new lights, ornaments and decorations.

Pastor Mancilla donated several Children’s Bibles to Community of Faith English Church. The Bibles are in English and make bedtime Bible reading with your younger children enjoyable. I can testify that they are great reading for adults also. If you would like a Children’s Bible, please send me an email and I will be happy to give it to you in church (while supplies last).

You are the only Bible some may ever read. The greatest testimony you have is not what you say you have, but how you live.

If:
• If you enjoy attending church services
• If you find our new location comfortable
• If you feel welcome
• If you feel like you are part of beneficial mission activity
• If you find the sermon content meaningful
• If you feel your opinion matters
• If you feel you are part of a Christian family
Then: Why not invite someone to attend church services with you?  When Christ is at work in your life it is your responsibility to tell someone! It may be just exactly what they need to hear, to give them faith that God can work in their life, too!

I am happy to tell you that Dan Grounds, a twenty+ year friend, fishing and hunter partner from Texas, that has been on our mailing list for some time, recognized the value and need of our mission work and acknowledged it with a welcomed donation to benefit the children at Casa Hogar para Ninos Esperanza, the Cancun Christian orphanage. Dan, from the bottom of our hearts…THANK YOU, your generosity is overwhelming!

Members of our church received this warm email wish from the Pastor Mancilla family:

Dear Pastor Tom & wife:
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. It is just a beautiful day. We hope you will all find yourselves around the table with family or friends this Thanksgiving day and be thankful for each other and for what we have, and for God's love to us. "Happy Thanks Giving from the Mancilla"
Pastor. Ascencio M. Mancilla.

All members of Community of Faith English Church have been invited to have Christmas Eve Dinner with Pastor and Esther Mancilla and the children at our Christian orphanage. Cherilyn and I have made plans to attend. If you and your family would like to join us, please tell us in advance so we can give Esther a “head count”. We hope to see you there.

Leoncio and Amy Dominguez and their two children just moved from Tennessee to Cancun and visited our church last Sunday. It is nice to see new “young Christians” attending our service. Please welcome the Dominguez family to our family.

God is in control and Satan is on the prowl. Be humble before God and be alert to Satan's devices.

“If you are born once, you will die twice. If you are born twice, you will die once"   Remember Sunday’s sermon?

If you have a non-food donation (clothing, toys, books, games etc) please bring the item(s) and give them to Cherilyn or Laurie for sorting and distribution. It will allow us to make better use of donated items.

Of course, food items should always be delivered on Wednesday. If you take a food donation to the orphanage, please send us an email telling us what you donated. It will keep us from duplicating your donation and allow us to put funds in other needed food areas. If you want to make a food donation but do not have time to go to the orphanage, we will be happy to deliver your donation for you on Wednesday.

This Sunday, November 28th is Communion Sunday at church. We will be viewing a special service, “Know That You Know” by Dr. Ed Young, Second Baptist Church Houston. I review the sermon yesterday and found it to be very meaningful.

A Wednesday Men’s Group is offered by Cancun Christian Fellowship. For information, please contact Tom Martin. tommartin@inbox.com or 998-121-1316.



A Wednesday Ladies’ Group also meets in Cancun. For information, please contact Cherilyn Martin. cherilynmartin@inbox.com or 998-121-1315.

If you were not in church last Sunday, we missed you. Remember, church now meets at 10:00 AM, Floor B1 at Hotel B2B behind the bull fight arena just east of Avenida Bonampak and Malecon Las Americas. We hope to see all of you Sunday. Tom

And for my friends that don’t know You, I pray that You would save them too!

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