Hola, we have returned!

Dear friends,

After a long period without using this blog, and although we have communicated through e-mails and letters, we look forward to using this resource more --- with more news, more ideas as well as with our gratefulness and prayer petitions. 

As we go into the presidential elections on Sunday July 1st, we ask you to please have Mexico in your prayers. As you have probably heard or read in the news, during this last six year presidential term things have worsened in our country, with more poverty and more corruption, and especially through the terrible problem of the drug cartels.

We believe we have a good chance to improve the situation with one of the candidates, however, since it wouldn’t be appropriate to make a political statement in this blog, we just ask you to please have Mexico and Armonía in your prayers this weekend. As we also do this - we read this passage on Isaiah 58:9-10.

"If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.”

We also have some very good news - and we will write more about this during the next few weeks:

• Irene, who comes from Yalahui in the high mountains of Oaxaca, and Lola who comes from the Chinantec region of San Juan Petlapa, both graduated from their university technical degrees two weeks ago.

• Lupe from Chichicaxtepec, one of the most remote villages in Oaxaca, and Alejandra, who also finished a university degree in Psychology this month, and who comes from Jalalpa, one of the most neglected and impoverished areas in Mexico City, are in Germany at the moment. They are part of an International Camp, called Baucamp, with a wonderful ministry called OJC (Offensive Junger Christen).

• Eight students from Casa Margarita and Oaxaca and the University Students from Mexico City have had a two week Seminar with Saúl and Pilar.

• Seven students from High School are graduating this Monday and five of them will become Older brothers for the Student Residence in Oaxaca.

• We are having friends from Florida visiting us in July, August and September.

• The foundation for the second student residence in Oaxaca has been layed, 

  --- and so much more news!

Last but not least we are delighted to introduce the new Armonía UK Trust Administrator to you, Irish Sirmons, who we have asked to also introduce herself to you on a blog post.

We look forward to hearing from you soon, and trust you are having a good Summer!

With love,

Eidi Cruz