Dear Friends,
I spent 2 weeks in Penasco, Mexico in January as we continue to launch the Community Center there. Pastor Manuel had a small event with 30 people from several families. He has also put together a small leadership group to help. I had Pastor Arturo from Nicaragua and Pastor Giovanni from Costa Rica come to help and also to have some planning time together. Attached are some photos from the event, we were privileged to be able to pray over many people and lift this group up as the Lord continues to do great things. We also visited nearby El Golfo and met with a church there.
We are looking at several options for the long-term location so please be praying with us. Pastor Manuel has also been approached about using the stadium in Penasco for a youth event over Easter. We are praying about this as well.
God is moving in new and deeper ways. As Richard Rohr has been writing about, Jesus and Christ are not exactly the same. The formless took on form in someone we could “hear, see and touch. I John 1:1 This has made God easier to love for us finite humans. In the early Christian era only a few of the Eastern Fathers of the Faith noticed that the Christ was historically older, larger and different than Jesus himself. They mystically saw that Jesus is the union of human and divine in space and time. Christ (the pre-incarnate Jesus) is the eternal union of matter and Spirit from the beginning of time.
Pastor Giovanni
When we believe in Jesus Christ, we are believing in something much bigger than the historical incarnation that we call Jesus. Jesus is the visible map. The entire sweep of the Anointed One, the Christ, includes us and all creation since the beginning of time. This is why the Scripture talks of God putting us “in Christ”. I pondered this for many years. I look forward to Rohr’s new book coming out shortly called The Universal Christ.
Pastor Manuel
“Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done.” Proverbs 19:17
New Blessings and Favor of the Lord unto you this year,
Cameron