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What do bored kids do during the swine flu?  Make their own masks, of course!  You can do anything with paper, highlighters, scotch tape, and scissors!

We stayed over on Isla Mujeres Thursday and Friday night with some friends.  I’ll post on that next.  This picture was taken Friday night and is a hilarious take on the swine flu.  By the way, we belligerently refuse to stop calling it “swine flu”.  How can you make jokes about H1N1 flu???

Now, updates……Cancun is still pretty much closed down.  No churches today, and school is closed until Wednesday.  Some stores are open, and some people are wearing masks.  Masks and medicines are all sold out.  The Mexican Minister of Health stated today that new cases of swine flu are on the decline.  We will have our regular Sunday School class here at home today.

I read this morning that Delta and Continental are cutting back their service to Mexico, and the hotels are at about 30% occupancy.   (Usually 85-90%)  You can fly here and stay here super cheap!

Our Cancun Bible Institute, originally scheduled for next week, has been postponed to June 8-12.   We believe that is best, not because of contagion, but because parents can’t come to class when the kids are out of school. 

Still no reports of confirmed swine flu here in Quintana Roo (our state).

April 30 (Thursday) is the Day of the Child here in Mexico, and is a HUGE holiday.  The schools throw big parties for the kids – all day carnival type affairs.  That was all cancelled, but Friday, May 1st, was Mexican Labor Day, so it was a previously scheduled holiday, as is Tuesday, May 5.  The government here was able to tie the closures to a long weekend, and maybe things will calm down.

My passport has been printed and is on its way back to me.  Thank you for praying specifically for that little (very important) document.  I’ll post when it arrives back here – and I breathe a sigh of relief!

We continue to ask for prayers for our health and wisdom.  Many, many of you have prayed for us to have clear thoughts, and in the middle of a very hard day last Wednesday, I suddenly felt the Lord clear out my brain.  It was like He was speaking peace through clear thoughts to my soul.  He is moving and working, and He alone gets the glory!

We do not know where we will be in the future.  Greg’s heart and gifts are in youth ministry, and God is really tugging at his heart for that again.  We believe whole-heartedly in the ministry of the local church to families, and we miss that so much for our children.  We were sent here to get the Cancun Bible Institute set up and going, and we have done that.  The goal is to strengthen the local churches so that ministry continues long after we are gone.   We are confident that God, who made our move to Cancun so clear, will also make our next steps just as clear.  For now, we will stay here until school ends, and then God will show us. 

Psalm 121:5-8

The Lord is your keeper; The Lord is your shade on your right hand.  The sun will not smite you by day, nor the moon by night.  The Lord will protect you from all evil; He will keep your soul.  The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forever.

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