Welcome to our blog! We hope this will allow us to communicate more often with our families and friends in the United States.

To begin, let us introduce ourselves. We are Greg, Christy, Julianna, Laura, Thomas, and Matthew, and we live in downtown Cancun, Mexico. We moved here on March 1 to work with a partnership ministry between the Georgia Baptist Convention and the bautistia iglesia de Cancun. There are 38 Baptist Churches in Cancun. Our ministry has two goals: To facilitate the Cancun Bible Institute and to match volunteers churches from Georgia with churches here for missions projects.

The Cancun Bible Institute meets for a full week every other month for intense study for pastors and church leaders. Typically, ministers from Georgia volunteer their time to come and teach, although Greg has taught as well. Greg will begin teaching seminary level classes in August for the pastors who have some theological education. The Institute also cooperates with the Baptist Seminary in Merida, Mexico.

The second part of the job is what we are doing today, and what our kids like best!
Greg is at the airport today to welcome volunteers from Eastside Baptist Church, who will work with Maranatha Baptist Church here in Cancun. Last week the kids enjoyed Escuela Biblica de Vacaciones in Espanol, and they are excited about Bible Clubs this week in English and Espanol. Volunteers come from all over the state and do things to help strengthen the churches here like construction, sports evangelism, VBS, and prayer-walking.

Thomas, our 5 year old son, gave us another hospital trip today, falling on the steps – again – and trying to dislocate his kneecap. Fortunately, all is well. Again, we love the Mexico hospital system – x-rays, specialist and all for $64. In March and April, he visited twice with a broken arm and stitches in his chin!