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         Andy & Jessie Clark

             Missionaries in

​           Tecate, Baja California      

Tecate Mission International

Animals

10/29/2014

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         As some of you know, we have some animals here in Mexico. Coming from a kid who only knew fish as a pet which my lovely wife points out that it is not really a pet. We moved to Mexico almost 7 years ago, and the flood gates have opened. I first have to say that when you live in a house like ours, our doors are always open as well as you have to go outside the house to get to various parts of the house having animals is easy. For example, we gave up having a litter box because the cats stopped using it due to our back yard area. This past July we ended up getting a guinea pig for Aletta's birthday. So that means we added to our collection with 10 chickens, a rooster, one quail, four cats (some who will be leaving shortly), two dogs, and one turtle. I am a city kid who is now living Mexico enjoying the things that are just normal here. To have chickens is just part of life. We enjoy having fresh eggs all the time. It is enjoyable that is for sure.
    So this past week, we ended up getting another kitten. We have decided to phase out our male animals to eventually only having females around. I never knew that male dogs and cats need to mark their territory. Well when you have an open house, there are other cats who come down and make their marks around our house. We know this because in the middle of the night there are cat fights that happen on our roof. Being we have a tile roof, it gets loud as they fight and roll across the tiles.
    You may be asking why I bring this up. On Saturday, I was at youth group and Jessie called me to say that I needed to come home and put the little kitten out of her misery. So rushed home to find that Lilly had accidentally squished the little kitty under her knee as she was playing with it on the floor. Jessie was sure it was not going to survive due to the blood loss from her mouth and rear end. I found the kids in the living room, the three girls crying. When I got to the house it was breathing better but was still in pain. So Jessie and I decided to wait to see what happened during the night. What Jessie told me after she called me, the girls began to pray for the kitty. They all prayed that God would heal the kitty. I am not one to pray for animals, but seeing these little girls all crying, I am certain that God is moved with compassion for us His children. Even Jesus said let these little children come unto me. My thought on this is that it is times like this that God answers simple prayers of his children. This will become a moment in time when they will remember, though it be small as praying for a little kitten, they will remember that God does answer prayer. My wife's family has a story of how the kids prayed for a dog and the next day someone came to the door with a collie. The kitten is doing fine now. The girls are happier than ever about the kitten. Who knows how God will use this situation?!!

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Beach and Special Visit 

10/14/2014

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Busy day are just part of the life we live. At times we have less things going on, but other times like now, there is one thing after the next. Last week, as we started talking through some of the things we needed to talk about we realized we needed a break. So with that we decided to head to the beach. It was there that we were able to "unplug" from  ministry for a few days. One blessing about us going is when we got to our bungalo where we usually stay, we had heard that the owners were Christians. So we thought we would just introduce ourselves. We met the owner and after talking with her, she said we could stay our two nights for free! Wow what a blessing. This almost never happens to us here. Being Christians and Americans here often goes to our disadvantage. The Lord blessed us this time with a few days of relaxation and down time as a family. We so needed it.

Today we have a special visitor our Mission director Ron Hoffman. The last time we saw him was over two years ago due to his visa issues he couldn't come inland. We will be meeting with him today and tomorrow one-on-one as well as Thursday for our mission conference. We look forward to this time with him and
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Youth confrenece photos posted. 

10/1/2014

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We put on a youth conference this past Saturday. I will post more later but I loaded some photos of the event if you want to check it out. 
Blessings.
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38 pesos ($3 USD)

10/1/2014

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So Autlan now has a modern movie theater. There has always been a local movie theater that plays one movie for a week maybe two if it is popular movie. We had heard this past year that there was a new one going to open up just outside of town. There is always rumors of various different places opening up here in Autlan. I have heard that there was going to be a Burger King and a Pizza Hut were going to come. That has not happened and it is something I have heard for over 3 years. Autlan still maintains a small town feel even there is over 50,000 people here. There is only one chain restaurant but is locally owned called Pollo Feliz (happy chicken). But this past month, the new movie theater open up. It has stadium seeing as well as air conditioning. We went to the movie last week. Wow was that ever nice. Tickets were 38 pesos which is about $3 dollars.  After the movie the sent you out some side doors to exit the building. Out the doors and there is a huge John Deere tractor right on the other side of the fence about 10 feet away from the doors. It really keeps it in perspective as how small and rural our town really is. Also right next to the movie theater is a Auto Zone motor parts store that opened up as well. Our first American chain in Autlan. I never thought that would ever happen.
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