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APARTADO

POSTAL

306

SALTILLO.

C OAHUIL A. ME XIC O 25000

cnrtrt

njune

98

Rodney

n d

Maysel

No rth ru p

c e l e b r a t e d their 39 t h

w edding ann iversary .

They

have

been

on th e

Mexican Mis s i o n

F i e l d

38 y e a rs wor king o u t

o f Saltillo

M e x i c o

s i nce

J an ,

1950 .

Th e y

h a v e

seen

th e

M e x i c a n C h u r c h e s o f C hr i s t grow

from

l e s s than

1 5 min i s t e r s

a n d 25 c o n g r e g a

t i o n s

to

over

300

congregations

3

n a t i o n a l

c o n v e n t i o n s p e r y e a r alo n g w ith te n

o r

more

camps a number o f reg io n a l c on ve nt io ns w it h

tvjo Mexican D ib le c o l l e g e s

be side s

Colegio

Bibl ico , v/hich a re a l l direc ted and m o s t l y

supported

by

the

Mexican

churches.

Uo

\

TH E MARK NORTHRUP FAMILY

Mark C a l e b

M a r k M a g d a l e n a

Be r e n i c e and A n a Silvia

Mark was A

months

o ld when Rodney and

Maysel

Northrup

moved

to Sal t i l lo ,

Mexico

Thirty

of

h is 37

years

he has

spent

on the Mexican Miss

io n

f ie ld ,

working

in

camps

co n v en t i o n s

church

planting and raising a

family

V/hen

Mark

m a r r i e d M ag dalen a he became an

in -

t an t u n c l e

to

some

30 o f M a g d a l e n a s nieces

and ne phe ws. Jorge Gasta-neda a ne jiiew-of

Magdalena is co-minister

with

Mark

in

the

est

ablishing of

a new

congregation

in

S a l t i l l o

Here Jorge i s baptizing a Mexican teacher

converted

through a c or re sp o nd en c e c o ur se sent

out by

the m issionaries in the

Mexico

City area.

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WOULON

T YOU SAY

THIS SORT

OF

THING

POINTS

U P T H6

GREAT N E ED F OR

EXPANDING

F O R E I G N

MISSIONS

I

H N HO

LT MIR

th e Northrup s home base often serves as a staging

resting repairing of vehicles or recovery area for ^^ssionaries or groups

...depending on their needs...going as far south as

Honduras

Central

erica. In this case David Lucas group on i t s

way

to help

build

the

Bible College in Queretaro Mexico stopped to pick

up

Bob

and interprlter. Groups like this

often help

out with

things

here at

the

ranch

t o o .. .Th i s

group helped us pour a cement roof.

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APARTADO

POSTAL 306

SALTILLO.

COAHUILA. MEXICO. 25000

? .

Summer 1986

I Rodney

and Maysel

Rorthrup I \

MUITI-PURPOSE VEHICLE

The Multi-Purpose

Vehicle will be such a bless-^^^

jl

i ^

I/Vt.

in - to us. I t may not

get

us

everywhere tha t we

might want to go such as the 7 villages you can -

see

from

the

Devil*

s

Back

Bone i f you

have

f ield glasses)

highway between

Durango

and

Kaz-

a l a n . Mexico on

th e

wes t

coa s t ,

' , . . T j X X o -opnTg-

wgLL

rr beats walking

tq

chijhch.

Mark i s

busy making spec ia l adap ta t ions lo r ooesntit-uhouote-

the trim to Indianapolis .

We

saved

over

2,000

dol la rs

by paying

cash

and a

simi l iar Alu

minum Value Van in the States cost nearly 14-000

dol la rs

more than

the 10,000 do l l a r s we pa i d .

The only

thing

we are uncomfortable about

is

the 2,200

dollar

loan we must pa.y one church by

the

first of Oct. 1986 and the second

loan

of

2,500 dollars

we owe

the bank about Christmas

Day

1986.

Please pray with us that we

will

be able to use the van well and please

he lo us wi th

t he se

l o ans .

y

^

-P-J

Street

Church

of

Christ

was found-

M ed in the home of Anacleto Sanchez

E3B - . .a

leper.

The confessions of

m n Anacleto and his wife Rita were the

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^ orthrups w also started in their

r

crises,

the

Llave

St, congregation

fn e x p n dand

they

are

^ f beginning to

build

a two

story

build-

ing. They

are a

thriving congrega-

\ I

where the elders do

the preach

^J ' their building your

offerings

should

be

sent

to Family and

Missions

Ins t i

tute designated

for

the Llave S t,

tOMj

coHtPieure

If

toa

Do.'t want

uv>-.

. .

TOeur ooN-r ee

So

osAiAATit/ Chur ch o f

Ch r i s t

b u i l d i n g .

QUOTE-WELL

rr BEATS WALKING TQ CHIJHCH.

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