Tuesday, March 22, 2016

March 2016 visitors!

We have had visits from Seattle! and crazy, but we have met cruisers here...from Seattle too..



                           Full raft of folks...Tasha, David, Anna Nina, Nina and Aunt Leila..
                                                         Tasha and David of course!
                                                                                    Kristie made the trek down too!
 Jim of Sailing Vessel, "Double Angel", headed for the Marquesas next month!!
Marshall of Sailing Vessel, "Tenacity" who took us sailing yesterday around the bay and also crewed with us to sail a bit with Tasha and family when they were here! Marshall is bound for La Paz, leaving in the next couple of days!!
And finally, our first Bible study participants from the A9 anchorage here in San Diego, Joel and Coronado and little Taffy... who are headed back east to home after their adventure of life on the water here for the past 6 months or so. Our prayers and love go with them, such a neat young couple!!
Well, that's it for now... hope I spelled everyone's name correctly..my apologies if I didn't. Will make my best effort to blog once a month... plan for now is to be in San Diego, free anchorage until middle of May... then hopefully, crew will be joining us to head to Ensenada, Mexico!!!
Thank you all for remembering us and keep those prayers going up to the Lord for us. We are just here in the bay, but our boat is on the hook (at anchor), so its fun and different, but a bit nervewracking at times too. We have had a couple of incidents of boats dragging their anchors, towards us! And its very different getting used to swinging around and around all the time! Our precious gatos are doing great!



















More March 2016...

 Here is Ernie walking in to Mexico...
                                                                         Gato who comes to visit our corner in Tijuana!

We met up with Miracle Center outreach a couple of weeks ago to minister with them (did some health screening activities, led by Sister Kimberly McCowan).
Great seeing sisters and brothers again and the people in Mexico are so grateful for any little thing you do for them.


March 19, 2016

Hello all! Wow, time flies... we are still in San Diego, CA, awaiting crew, Steve and Antonia (hurry up already! geez!!) But we are making good use of our time. We got a beater La Bamba car for the Mexico and Carlsbad commute.
We have been going to Mexico to serve the homeless in Tijuana with Pastor Leo & his lovely wife Gloria. Gloria and I are teaching each other our native languages! She is better at English than I am at Spanish, but its cool trying to communicate! We took sleeping bags from Valley Iranian Christian Church donations (Connie & Saied took us to their wonderful church in Chattsworth where we met Pastor Johnson & Klara and their awesome congregation!!)
Ernie loading up sleeping bags from big boat to raft to take to Mexico!!
Pastor Johnson and his wife Klara at Valley Iranian Church in Chattsworth, CA.
Members of Valley Iranian Church after Thursday night Bible Study. They blessed our mission with bedding, sleeping bags and love gift for Mexico!!