The Daniel Update

Date: March 2015

Location: between houses, JA, Mexico

Greetings and salutations once more from your favorite mis-

sionaries! ...at least we feel like we are. We have had some in-

credibly busy months since our last letter was sent out. The

church “Dios de Esperanza” (God of Hope) in Los Pocitos had the

grand opening of their new building; the Faircloth family came to

visit from NC; we had a great conference with Pastors Aheron

(NC), Daniel (NC), Jarrel (TX), McGahan (NC), and Parker (IN) ; I

was given the great responsibility and privilege of pastoring the

church in Pocitos; and now as I write, our home is in complete

disarray as we are in the process of moving an hour away from

where we now live to Pocitos, to more easily work with the church

there.

Praise: Where should I start? Well, the new church building is

wonderful. Many thanks to all those that took part in the funding

of the project and all of you that prayed for its completion. We

are extremely grateful for your participation. The people are ex-

cited to be in their own building now. A new piano was given to

the church recently too, and let me just say that the pianist is

ecstatic about it.

Prayer: There are a several things that I would ask you to

still be praying about for the church. 1) Please, pray for the

spiritual growth of the people. The village of Pocitos is not

known for being one of great opportunity, therefore many of the

people struggle to make ends meet. There is a constant battle of

the folk having to choose between working or going to church.

Many of the better jobs are not flexible at all with their sched-

ules. Specifically, two members, Danny and Gaby, are praying for

their bosses to allow them Sundays off. 2) There is still work to

be done on the exterior of the building before the rainy season

begins in a few months. Please, pray that we can secure the mate-

rials and get the work finished soon. 3) The church needs to be

registered with the government. Please, pray for God´s direction

and provision in this process which can be both arduous and costly.

4) There are several people that have been visiting the church

quite consistently. Please, pray that through the preaching and the

time with the believers they will see the need to accept Christ as

their Savior. 5) Please, pray for God to give us wisdom and direc-

tion as we look into the possibility of starting outreaches into

some of the remote, mountain villages. There are almost an innumer-

able amount villages that have no Gospel-preaching churches. I

would love to see that change.

Praise: I feel incredibly privileged because we able to work with

the people in Pocitos, and my family and I are so blessed to have

all of you backing us up. I cannot begin to thank you enough for

showering us with love. For example our “poor missionary kids” have

received seven huge boxes full of stuff from y´all in the last few

months not to mention the money that has been sent for them to buy

things!

Praise: Also, thank you to you that have helped us with purchases

to fix up the house that we will be living in temporarily. I laugh

thinking about the place. It looked like it had been through a hur-

ricane. It had no water, no floor in places, no kitchen, it did

have scorpions though, and the list goes on. But due to your help,

it is looking more like a home.

Praise: Beyond that, I have been amazed at your overwhelming help

in our efforts to build a house there. We are almost finished pay-

ing for the land where we would like to build. I was honestly ex-

pecting it to take several years, but oh how wrong I was. There is

even talk of teams coming down to help with the construction of the

house the Summer. We´ll see what happens. I´m so thankful that God

is not bound by our ideas and schedules. I am still in shock at how

much God has blessed us these months! As the psalmist said, O Lord,

my Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth!

Prayer: With the move underway I also feel a bit of sadness.

There are a couple of men in the neighborhood that I have been wit-

nessing to that I will not see very often after the move. I would

love to see them truly understand salvation as the Bible teaches

it, not as the Catholic doctrine misrepresents it. So, if you would

pray with me for the salvation of Chuy (Jesús) and Jorge I would be

grateful.

Prayer: In the last letter I mentioned that I was to make a trip

to Texas to get our van changed over to Mexican papers so that we

could have it here. Well, I went with Jerry Sr. in December. The

issue was that I would need to stay there for two weeks to get it

all done. I didn´t have enough time to do it then, and I am still

trying to figure out when would be a “good time” to spend two weeks

sitting at the border to make it happen. Please, pray that we can

find a way to resolve the issue soon.

Anyway, that´s basically what has been going on here. A lot of

y´all already do write us, but I´ll say it again. Please, feel free

to contact us with questions or just to chat any time you wish. Due

to the move, we will not have internet access except on our cell-

phones, but they have unlimited Facebook access. So, besides the

update letters, a lot of our communication will have to be via Fa-

cebook for a while.

If you should need it our new mailing address is as follows:

Lopez Mateos 7

Los Pocitos, Jalisco 46600

México

Well, thank you again for your part in making our work here in

México possible!

In His Service,

BrookhavenBC.org WWNTBM.org

fredandbritt@yahoo.com

P.S. You can see potos of some of the things men-

tioned in this letter on the fourth page, so don´t

forget to check them out!