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THE

MARK L . MORTHRUF

FAMILY

MEWSLETTER FROM MEXTCO

KEEPING BUSY

WITH

FALL

199A

iBits

PieTces

ERENI E

At

th e t ime I

graduated

in

Ju ly

from

B a c h i l l e ra t o e q u i v a l e n t

to High School , I

wanted

to he

s tudying Odontologia hy

now.

There was space fo r 60 in t h a t

f ield . (Dentis try) .

I wasn*t

one

o f

th e 60

on th e list so

wi t h

that

door

c l o s ed

f o r

now

I

was one

o f abou t

5 ,000

who had

to

look

around for something as

an a l te rna t ive

fo r t h i s year .

The State

Univers i ty

system has

not

grown to match

the

popula t

io n e xp lo sio n.

I am now enrolled in

a 72

week

computer-

course . The peop le

s tudy ing

t he re

a re

se r ious ly s tudying

COMPUTER

because t h e i r jobs

depend on computers .

hours

th e re a re from 9

to 1 .

Two

o f class and two hou r s

t o

f i n i sh

ass ignments .

I

a l s o e n r o l l e d

in a

s c h o o l

I

a t t end from 3 to 7

p.m.

which

drains

b e au t i c i a n s .

I*M

no t

su re

bu t

I may have

b i t

o f f a

little

more

t h an I can chew I

wi l l

have to round

up

l o t s

of

my

f r iends to f u l f i l l

my

cuotas

o f p erm an en ts , m a n ic ur es , e t c .

Our

family

had

a happy summer

on

the

camp c i r cu i t .

Camps

a re

a g r e a t help

to

th e churches in

Mexico.

They

may

be

popular

because so many f ami l i e s l i ve

so crowded

t oge the r

and camp

i s

a

t ime

to e njo y o utd oo r

life

in a

Chr i s t i an

atmosphere. To

ge t to the Chamacuero camp where

my Dad was on the

s t a f f

youth

week ,

some

o f u s w en t on t h e

t r a in .

That

week

a t camp rea l ly

got Diana,

a

new Chr i s t i an , on

th e

r i g h t t r a ck .

She is

even

to be a song l e ade r a t our next

youth re t rea t ^erenjct

Youth Events

4:

ANA

SILVIA NORTHRUP

will

be

15

on

November

3 r d , 1994-. Fo l low

in g a

custom

b rough t

from

Spain,

g i r l s

may

have

a spec i a l

p a r t y on t h e i r 15 th . Pa r t i e s

a re

popu l a r in

Mexico so

Dec.

23 r d

is t h e

d a t e c ho s e n f o r a

Christian

r e u n i o n

a nd

1 5 t h

b i r t hday p a r ty in her

honor .

FAMILY

AND

MISSIONS INST ITUTE

MARK AND MAGDALENA NORTHRUP

Mail ing

addre ss :

APARTADO POSTAL 306

SALTILLO

25000,

COAHUILA

MEXICO

The Mark

Northrups l i ve

on

Obregon

(Street) Sur (South)

Number 935

i n t e r io r

3

MARK S

MILEAGE

Heat ,

r a in

and

co ld

n igh t s

were p a r t o f our

summer

camp c i r cu i t

in

our two

bedroom

t en t

During t he se

camps, severa l

dozen

young

people

and severa l

adul ts

were bap t i zed . There were

nume r ou s r e c omm i tme n t s .

Our kids

helped being

team l eade r s

(wi th

lot ' s

of exper ience) ,

and

by

making l o t s of

f r i ends .

When the

camps

in Mexico

we r e

ov e r

we d r o v e

f rom

Mexico City

to

Dal las ,

Texas

fo r a Labor

Day

weekend Camp

fo r

f ami l i e s

in

Spanish . It

became

a

camp

of

r e conc i l i

ation

We*re

Home Again

To you who

have

been keeping

us in your prayers and you

who have been shar ing to

make a l l o f

t h i s

pos s i b l e ,

WE t h a nk

you

AND PRAY

God*s

c o n t i n u a l

b l e s s i ng upon you.

MARK AND MAGDALENA

B ere nice 1 7, Ana

Si lv i a

14

Mark

Caleb

11 ,

She i l a

8

Packages

may be s en t

t o :

Mark

L. Northrup

c /o COLEGIO BIBLICO

264.

Brazos S t r e e t

Eagle P ass,

Texas

78852

(p lace i n s t ruc t i ons with

i n s ide con t en t s . )

Please note: Do

not

s e n d

boxes or packages to Mexi

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RODNEY

ND

MAYSEL NOR THRUF NEWSLETTER FROM

KEKIGO

FALL 199^

FAMILY AND MISS IONS

INSTITUTE

RODNEY AND

MAYSEL

NORTHRUP

APARTADO

POSTAL

306

SALTILLO 25000 , COAHUILA

MEXICO

A

HI^UTE

w t

MAY S E L

The

v i l l age

up

in

th e

mounta ins o f

San

Juan ,

where Rodney and

Baldo dr ive

to

each

Fr iday

to hold a

s e r v i c e ,

i s

busy

ha rve s t -

app les . That means it s apple p ie and app le sa uc e s ea so n.

The

other

morning I

got

busy and

made severa l

p ies

to take to

th e

women's

meeting

and

th e youth

meeting. While se rv ing ,

Sandra, a young

mother

of

l6

whispered

in

my ear in

Spanish:

I f there

i s any l e f t ,

may I take a

piece

to

my

husband?

(There

was

and

I

plan

to

teach her

how to make them.)

We

had more

r a i n than usua l because o f th e t r o p i c a l s to rms .

I t was

a

greener

summer

but

we

also had more than the usual

number o f

s co r p i on s . -

Rodney and I read about s ix

chapters

of the Bible together

each night and

I

was reading

Luke 10:19

where Jesus was t a lk

ing

to

the Seventy. (Read

i t . )

I t

made

me feel

better

about

a l l the

scorpions I 've

stomped on

Sa l t i l l o ce l eb ra t ed its 4-17 b i r thday

t h i s

year .

The a rea

now

has more than a

mil l ion

peop le . Prayer needs . . . f o r the 7

congregations

of

Christ ians

in Sal t i l lo

to be

fa i thfu l

in

t he i r dai ly walk among the non-chr i s t i ans .

. . . . f o r

enthusiasm

h e a l t h and means t o con t i nu e t o

r e a c h

t h e lost.

...for

t h e

young

men

and

women

studying

to

become

Chri st ia n s er van ts .

Praises . . . f o r you

who

remember the

Northrup

fami l ies

in

your

prayers.

Did you know?

. . . t ha t about 60,000

Mexico

ci t izens are

in

U.

S.

prisons?

Right there i s qui te

a ministry

I t happened in MEXICO August 21st ,

199-i

was the pres ident

i a l elect ion day.

There

was a lo t

of

te ns io n le ad in g up to

it

but

prohibit ion was in ef fec t 98 hours for

the

sale and use

of a lcohol ic

beverages in bars ,

r es tauran t s ,

s tores

and

any

places tha t

sold

such. This

las ted

unt i l

the

night of August

22nd. I t

produced

such

a calm and

pleasant

atmosphere

in

our

city tha t

one

20

year old

young

man

commented:

I t would

be

nice if it were t h i s way a l l of the

t ime

Watch th e

News

December

1 s t ,

199^. The

new p re s i d en t wi l l

be

inaugurated that

day.

I t ' s

usually

quite

a show

and

i t only

happens

once every s ix yea r s .

We' l l be espec ia l ly

busy Octobe r 21,22

and

23 when

the

missions

convent ion wi l l

be he ld

on

Rancho

Al tami ra . Every nook and

corner wi l l be f u l l of people fo r the th ree day meet

Christmas

i s

coming

and the days f ly by

so f a s t

t ha t we might

as w e l l take t h i s

oppor tuni ty

to wish you a Merry Chris tmas

a s we remember t h a t th e Lord came to seek and

to

save th e lost.

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THE M RK L. NORTHRUP FAMILY NEWSLETTER FROM MEXICO FALL

199Y

GET

acqu a i n t ed

w t A N A SILVI NORTHRUP

I am

14 .

School

going

on

15

My c l a s se s

taught

in Spanish.

I^m

scheduled

i n t h i r d year o f

Secondary

i nc lud ing English

are

a l l

to gradua te from

Secondary

in

June

1995 . I

marched

with th e Drum Corps in th e parade

th e

16th of September celebrat ing Mexico 's independance from

Spain.

The parade was

about

two

hours

long

and thousands

do

watch other thousands march by . When th e 1993-1994- yea r

of school was o ve r, B e re ni ce , my o lde r s i s t e r an d I went by

bus

to a t t e n d th e

CONFRATERNIDAD NACIONAL

CRISTIANA

in th e

ci ty

of

MONTERREY Mexico

July

l l -H ,

1991. I t was

held

in

a ne w convent ion c en t e r , Cinte rmex. It

wa s

a g r e a t

conven

t i on an d we

saw

l o t s

o f

our f r i end s . When it wa s

o ve r o nly

68

stopped overnight a t Rancho Altamira where

Rodney

and

Maysel, my

grandparents

have

the i r

home base. Mi

abuel i ta ,

my

grandmother)

go t up early and made a special bread for

them

t o

have on

t h e i r

t r i p home.

T^RGGTI

. . .w i t h M A R K C LEB NORTHRUP

Thi s s choo l

year

I am in

th e

6 th g rad e.

s i s te r .

Sheila Maysel

i s

in

the 3 rd

grade. I

was 11 on

June

26th, 1994-.

classes

are in

Spanish .

My school ce l eb r a t ed its CENTENNIAL

l a s t

year.

In June 1995 I am scheduled

to

graduate and then I

go to

Secondary Schoo l for th ree y ears . This

summer

as

soon

as

school

was ou t I

t raveled

with

my

father , Mark Northrup,

and

ou r family to th e camps

in

which

we

a l l

part ic ipate .

I

have

been

going

to

camps with

Mothe r and Father

a l l

my l i f e

so I

d o n 't r ea ll y, know

how

many

I

have

a t t ended .

One

summ-erwas

bapt ized

a t a camp,

know

l o t s of people

of school because I wanted to ^

th e program,

think s h e h ad

When

you're

a Missionary

Kid you

get

to

in

l o t s of

p l aces . I missed

the first

week

go to Dallas , Texas

fo r

th e

Family

camp, in Spani sh . My f a t h e r wa s

scheduled

on

th e program. The

whole

family went excep t my little s i s t e r . I

enough t r ave l i ng

s i t t i n g

on

th e ic e

ches t

CELEBRATING w i t h

SHEIL

M YSEL

BACK T O S CH OO L

NORTHRUP

Have you ever been

to

MEXICO

CITY?

I t ' s b ig

an d l o t s o f people

l i v e

t he r e . When camp

wa s

ove r

in

Quere ta ro we t r a v e l e d to

Mexico

Ci ty

8th birthday was August 26th so my mother

made a cake

and

a

little

pa r t y wi th bal loons

wa s

pu t

t oge t h e r . Th e

bes t

pa r t

o f

my

b i r t h

da y t h a t I wi l l always remember

i s

the t r i p

to CHAPULTEPEC

PARK

The r e

a r e

lots

o f ne w

c a r n i v a l r i d e s

and

some

a re

th e s p la sh k in d

I t wa s

g rea t fu n

even

if

I did ge t soaked.

Back in

Sal t i l l o

there was one(?) more camp

fo r the

fami ly

to

a t t end an d I would miss my

first week o f sch oo l so I dec ided to s tay in

S a l t i l l o

wi th Maysel

Nor thrup ,

my

grandmother .

She

took

me to and

from

school . We p r a c t i c e d

mu l ti p li ca ti o n t a b le s ,

Engl i sh , cap i ta l s an d

s t a t e s and

sh e had me

r e ad

th e Bible e ac h d ay .

Now I sometimes

s ing in Engl i sh in the shower

Sshetlq Ho^y^el hJo^fkrup

h ad

r o

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RODNEY

AND

MAYSEL NEWSLETTER

RODNEY

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Lo r d ' s

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By

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mil l ion

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FALL

199A

FAMILY

AND MISSIONS

INSTITUTE

Rodn.y

nd Horthrup

Aeartkdo

Poitl

30^

Salt l l lo,

Cohull 25000 H * 1 c

Krk

nd Herthrup

sS?auo/c hiiu 25000 M X1C0

RODNEY'S

RESOURCE

REPORT

The September i s sue

o f th e

Nat iona l

Geographic Maga

z ine

has

a doub le supp le

ment of th e map

of

Mexico.

Locate someone wi l l i ng to

sha re

t h i s

map wi th

you.

For miss ion s tudy o f Mexico

it has most o f th e p la c e s

wh e r e

hristians h a v e

cong rega t i ons .

RODNEY

R JOI S

Many

years ago while evangel

i z ing in a

40 v i l l age

area I

di scove red

some

p r iv a t e l and

no t

in

any way

connected

with

t h e u s u a l

communa l f a rms i n

Mexico.

I t

was

purchased

and

th rough th e yea r s has been a

p lace

to l i ve fo r

seve ra l

of

the hristianwo r k e r s .

The summer camp on th e grounds

h as d ev elo pe d i n to one

of th e

outs tand ing Chr i s t i an camps

in

Mexico. While

a t t end ing th e

Chr i s t i an Family Camp in Ju ly

I

re jo ic ed to see

how

well the

younger

generat ion

i s '

t ak ing

interest

iiv.^^rrying the

work

forward. / / /^ B

//

REPLIES

I want to

thank you

who

sen t

b ir th da y c ard s.

There i s a

Bir thday cake in

th e

deep

f r e e z e with Happy Bir thday

Rodney

on

it We hope

to

have a family

dinner one

of

these days now t h a t Mark and

h is

family

a re

back

from

th e

summer camp d e t a i l .

Three o f

us have b ir th da ys in August

RODNEY

MAYSEL

MARK

MAGDALENA

BERENICE

ANA

SILVIA

MARK

CALEB

SHEILA MAYSEL

August 30

November

18

August 17

February 22

March 24-

November 3

June

26

August 26