The Smith Connection

Here is our new, long over-due, prayer card
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Click below to see some July prayer items. We appreciate your prayers for us!

Dear Prayer Partner,

Greetings from Mexico! This will be the last prayer update you will receive from us from Mexico for now. Bright and early this Friday morning we plan to head north. Please keep us in your prayers in these specific areas:

1. Strength and endurance as we finish packing up and moving our things and continue to say goodbye's. We PRAISE the Lord for Bryan's parents here in Mexico who are caring for and pampering our children these last few days. It has been a HUGE help.

2. Good travels during the whole month of July as we visit family, friends, supporters, and churches all the way from Arizona to Michigan before we head to Pennsylvania and settle in our home there the first day of August. Please pray for good health and safety for our family and vehicle.

3. For wisdom to know what to share with our supporters and supporting churches. That God would use us however He would like to during our home assignment.

4. For a good transition for our family and for the church here in Mexico. God is answering your prayers in this regard as we see excitement on the part of the newly formed servant team here at our church. God is doing some GREAT things.

5. We praise the Lord for one call we got from the World Cup evangelistic tracts that were handed out in the last couple of months. One lady is interested in studying the Word of God, and a church family is interested in contacting her. Please pray for the salvation of Mari Elena.

Thanks for your prayers for us during this busy time. We look forward to seeing many of you in this coming year. We will update our website with photos a little later this month, Lord willing. Please note our new mailing address as of August 1.

We Appreciate You!
Bryan, Lori, Kendra, Tara, & Ben

Mailing address as of August 1:
Bryan & Lori Smith
2062 Bossler Rd.
Elizabethtown, PA 17022

E-mail: bsmith@cam-mexico.org
Webpage: http://smithconnection.com

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Kendra, Tara, & Ben at Koinonia Camp, Amealco Mexico

*Click below for more family and ministry photos from the month of June
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FAMILY

We visited Camp Koinonia as a family one Monday, and saw the progress being made. A bathroom/shower complex is being built, along with a septic system. Four cabins like the ones pictured above are up and being finished as well.


Kendra presented her end-of-year dance program on June 10. Her Grandma and Grandpa Smith were able to make it for the show.

More packing and storing of our things. Bryan's parents were a HUGE help as the kids spent a few days with them while we finished packing up, cleaning, and tying up loose ends in Queretaro.

One of the kids' last pictures at this house. The house worked out very well for us the last three and a half years.

The kids on first day of travel north. It will be a long haul!

MINISRTY

On June 11 we helped Karla celebrate her 15th birthday, a huge deal in Mexico. Here she is with her family and our family. We had the priviledge of leading this lovely family to the Lord and discipling them the last two and a half years.

We also watched the first Mexico game in the World Cup soccer tournament after church on June 11. Mexico had a great start in the tounament with a 3-1 win against Iran.

On June 18 we had a special service at church for Father's Day. Lori helped lead some interactive activities with the fathers and their children and Bryan had a lesson after each activity. The kids gave gifts to their dads, and we had a fellowship time after the service.

Three of the many times that we got together with people for a "good bye" meal

On June 23 we had our last meeting with the church "servant team" and their wives, except for the case of Fernando who is still looking for one. Any takers? These five men will be responsible for ten areas of resonsibility in the church. We are encouraged to see the Lord raise up these servants. Please pray that they would carry out their responsibilities faithfully in the Lord's strength.

On June 25 our church had a "good bye" service and fellowship for us, including a cake and the traditional "mordida" or bite out of the cake. As you bite it there is always someone behind you to push your face into the cake!

The church group on June 25. Please pray for the New Birth Bible Church, that they would have unity and patience with each other, and that they would continue to grow and develop in this year that we will be away on home assignment.

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