RGVBaptist.com - Independent Baptist Missionaries to the Hispanic people of the Rio Grande Valley, Texas

This website focuses more on the ministry related activities which we are currently and will eventually be involved with in Starr County, Texas. To that end, we have provided links that explain some of these various ministries in greater detail. We encourage you to take the time to get more information concerning each of these, and would be happy to answer any questions you might have. NOTE: We began language school at the Independent Baptist Language School of Southern Texas in McAllen on August 18th, 2008, and will be focused on these courses for the next 8 months. Though we are certainly making progress towards beginning the ministries shown above, most activity will not actually begin until the summer of 2009, once we have completed our language training..

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2009 07-02

Well, it's now July and our ministry has "officially" begun. Not that we haven't been busy the past few months preparing, but now we are actually conducting our weekly Bible Studies and moving forward with the direct aspects of the ministry. That said, preparations in other areas are continuing. While the group from Holly Hills was here they were able to clear an Aloe Vera flowerbed along the fenceline beside our enclosed trailer. They also moved a large pile of dirt that was beside another flower bed. Both seem like simple, unimportant tasks. However, because of that work being completed we were able to move our trailer about 5' closer to the fence and then move the bus into the grassy area beside the trailer (their was not enough room before). That change, combined with the removal of the dirt pile in the driveway freed up parking for at least 3 more vehicles. This will be very important as we begin to have visitors, as previous visitors (workers from Betania) didn't really have a place to park and it confused them greatly. So, this will certainly help. We will eventually improve the parking more, either with cement or gravel, but this arrangement will work for the time being. Today I am also ordering signage for in front of our property as well as on the main road, which will help people locate our facility and understand where to go once they arrive. Our neighbor was gracious enough to grant permission to place signs on his property along the main highway, which will help direct others onto our road. Last night we held our first "service" here on the property. There have been others, but July 1st was the date we gave to the general public as far as our first service date. We did not see any visitors, but are not letting that discourage us. We are willing to wait as long as it takes for this work to move forward. We are already conducting the services in Spanish, even though for now it is just our family . This is excellent practice for me, and will help the rest of the family as well. Until we have visitors, Melissa translates everything into English, which allows me to double check that I said what I intended to say!! I am very thankful for a wife with a gift in the area of languages. Yesterday afternoon I re-arranged the casita and moved our "meeting room" into the smaller of the two rooms. Because of the dimensions of the room we are actually able to seat more in there, plus it is the room with the Air Conditioner! At this time we have seating for 14 people, but will be able to add about 2 more seats in the near future. As we grow we expect that Melissa will take the youngest children into the other room for a more child-oriented service, which will increase our capacity even more. We will probably "max out" at around 25-30 people, but by then should be ready to begin pursuing other arrangements for a meeting facility. Not much else to report at this time. Have a great day!

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