Doug and Cheryl's first day in Mexico

We just spent a wonderful Sabbath with the group in Corozal. We received a warm welcome from the church members and met the other [Maranatha Volunteer International] team [who is working at Corozal]. The service was lead out by one of the elders of the church who had a great salvation message. Jose, from the building team interpreted for us. The team presented the church family with new Bibles, hymn books, and witnessing books. We met in the new church as they have most of the structural steel up with a blue tarp over it.

Dave Shull [from the volunteer team now in Corozal] provided me with a couple of drawings and some basic instruction sheets. More importantly, he gave me some good advice and ideas and covered some of the things that he would have done differently so that we would benefit from his experience when setting ours up. There will be some challenges but they can be overcome. For instance the framing jig did not make it into Mexico for some reason.


I saw your message about the Dengue Fever outbreak. I will say there does seem to be much more standing water here than there was in July. There were a few bugs out, but not really too bad.

God Bless,


Doug & Cheryl

Note:  In the desire to keep our team healthy and strong, we will take the precautions as already state:  mosquito netting on the windows of the sleeping rooms; and we recommend participants bring face masks, instant hand sanitizer, and mosquito repellent.             ~Lynda