MAY, 2008
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The Hoagland family is dedicated to reaching the people of México City and our world with the gospel of Jesus Christ through preaching, teaching, witnessing, discipling, and training. Our purpose is to establish new churches and to train future leaders in order to fulfill our Lord's Great Commission by making disciples from one of the world's largest cities, México City.
Edwin Fredrick Hoagland Jr. 5/8/59 edwin45@prodigy.net.mx
Annita Hoagland 6/27/58 annita45@prodigy.net.mx
Anniversary 6/6/81
William Michael Hoagland & Dorcas (our daughter-in-law) 1/9/84 meheco1@yahoo.com
Jessica Lynn Hoagland 9/3/85 juicylynn@hotmail.com
Edwin Frederick Hoagland III 8/10/88 donedito16@yahoo.com
Stefan Allen Hoagland 2/7/90 sahd15ss@hotmail.com
Annita and I had the opportunity to attend our National Fellowship meeting just outside of Monterrey. It was a time for us to be spiritually motivated, to fellowship with many of our Mexican pastor friends and their families, and I also had the privilege of preaching at the meeting. God is blessing our fellowship. Please pray that He will call out more Mexicans to carry the gospel to other countries.
This is the church building that our Mexican fellowship helped build for the Huichol Indians in the San Isidro community of Nayarit. On this day (March 20th, 2008) we held our graduation services for the 5 students who finished their education. We had 150 Huichols arrive for this event from four different States (most of them traveled by foot for 3 days to arrive). They were very motivated by the gifts we left them (a generator, a screen, extension cables, one with light bulbs, a laptop, a video projector, and some children's Bible stories on DVD). They will be using these tools to take the gospel of Jesus Christ to many small communities in the mountains.
These are the students from our 2 Bible College extensions with the Huichol Indians (one in San Isidro and the other in Huanacaxtle). They do not have the "things" that we have to do ministry, but they are some of the most dedicated servants of Jesus Christ that I have met. Their compassion for the lost is what motivates them. They want to reach their entire nation (which is spread out in the mountains of 4 different states in small communities) with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Please pray for them.
This is an aerial view of the community called "San Isidro" where we went for the graduation services of our Bible College. They have no electricity (but now they have a generator) nor water (the closest stream of water is about half a mile away). The church building is the white spot on the right side of this picture.
1 of the 5 students that graduated from our Bible College with the Huichol Indians (pictured with him is my father-in-law Harold DeVilbiss missionary in México since 1946). This Huichol pastor is planning to begin a new work in a mountain community this month.
In March 2008 we graduated another 3 students from our Bible College.
This is our mission work in Coacalco. Please pray that they can soon find a larger facility.
Our mission work in Tultepec continues to reach out to more families in the community. Pray for the young pastor Hugo Hernández that God's power will be upon his life.
We had 54 couples attend our marriage seminar in February. 3 people accepted Christ on that day.
God gave us our first grand child on Sunday December 30th, 2007 at 1:58 PM. Her name is Amelia Haddassah, she weighted 6.7 pounds and was 20.1 inches long.
Annita put together a small choir to sing on "Friend Day" (November 18th) where we had 29 first time visitors and 3 accepting Christ.
Some of the damage we came across that was caused by the floods in the State of Tabasco as we searched by boat for needy people.
These are the children that arrived for the inauguration of our second Manna Feeding Center on Tuesday the 16th of October, 2007 We had 35 children show up on this day. We are renting this house and using it for our new mission work that will launch on Sunday the 21st of October.
22 of the 24 students now in our Bible College. Pray that God will continue to call out more men and women to serve Him here in México and the world.
We had 445 people present on August 5th, 2007 at our main church which was the end of our Vacation Bible School. Another 7 adults accepted Christ as their personal Savior on this day.
These are the 280 young people who attended camp #1.
This is our daughter Jessica after one of the games we played at the youth camps.
During the "Night Games" at camp Annita took the role of a lady from Japan.
4 times a year we produce a Christian paper that is distributed all over México and to 9 other countries in the world (mostly Latin America). We are up to 16 pages and all in color now with a circulation of 5,000.