Dear Praying Friends,

God continues to bless! Just when I thought our attendance could not get any higher and soon would taper off, we had another high day of 243 this Sunday, six more than last week. The routes helped contribute to the increase with 72 (our goal this year is 60) with 15 adult riders on the new route and 38 on the military route (their goal is 25). We still had a great drive-in turn out of 171, compared to the average of 130 before this growth spurt began in mid-January when 180 was our average total attendance. Once again, we had to use our lobby bench as we ran out of metal chairs and people were sitting in the hallway as there was no room in the auditorium with197 adults and teens attending. We now have as many adults as we had before the 50 adults and 20 children went to the new church that started in October. We are still down by about 10 children than what we had in October.

New people continue to attend every Sunday; several continue to visit us from finding us on the internet. Two new couples came at night who had found us on the internet. We had 101 attending at night. Several of the relatively new people come at night who, if they attended in the morning, would make our numbers in the hallway even more. Just think if we had the 70 who left in October! We'd have dozens in the hallway looking in. Of course, we probably would not have so many. I think God was waiting for the new church to start before giving us so many new people.

It was a blessing to see Ana, a young lady who was saved in our services two weeks ago, bring her two parents to church; as well as Petra, recently saved and baptized, bring her husband, Jesus, to church again. It was also a blessing to see another trust Christ as her Savior; Rosy Morales is her name. We have had multiple people (I believe three last week) saved five out of the last six Sundays. I am looking forward to seeing what God will do when we enter our five-week spring evangelistic campaign on Easter Sunday, the 20th of April. I am thinking of giving our regular people who don't work on routes or the children's ministries the option of coming to a 9:00 am service to make room for the 11:00 service during the campaign.

Please pray as we seriously think about looking for a bigger place to purchase. I was thinking we had another two or three years, but we may need to buy a place before the end of the year.

Thank you for your prayers,

Clint Rardin

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Dear Praying Friends,

Thank you so much for praying for our 20th anniversary. God blessed more than I expected. Since we lost 70 people to the other church we started last month, I expected about 180 adults, although I told our chef to prepare for 200 just in case. We had 220 adults and used every seat we had in the church, including the two seats on the platform and our bench in the lobby! Our ushers stood in the back. We still had plenty of food for all. We had 117 on the routes, including 16 on the new route (14 of whom were adults). I just imagine if we would have had the other two routes! We had 276 altogether.
Of the 22 adults visitors, we had three men and one woman saved plus 7 children. Three other ladies received security of their salvation. Of those adults saved, Ezekiel and Isreal were from the new route. So were the two children saved - Jacob and Mateo. The other man saved, Manuel, was invited by one of our families, and Maria de la Luz, who was saved, came from one of our other routes.
Thank you for your prayers,
Clint Rardin

Dear Praying Friends,

We have had record heat temperatures here in Mexico City. The other day we broke an all-time record of 93.4 degrees F., which may not seem high in Indiana, but we are not used to these temperatures. The forecast for June is in the mid-70s and rainy. I can't wait.
God has blessed this campaign with great attendances as well as many souls saved. On May 12, despite it being a three-day weekend (as Mexico's May 10 Mother's Day is like an official holiday), we had a great day on the buses with over 160 (our average is around 105) and we had 259 in church.
The drop in church attendance was due to dozens of the drive-in crowd taking advantage of the three-day weekend and going out of town. Still, God blessed with four souls saved in church as I preached on Jesus, the Friend of Sinners, and Zaccheaus as it was our Friend Day. At night, we had a young man named Jared, a friend of one of our young men who is in the Military Academy, join the church in our business meeting. Jared was saved and baptized the last few months and wanted to join the church. God is blessing the church's finances like never before with record offerings and in the black by a good margin.
We bounced back in attendance this Sunday in an amazing and unexpected way! Usually, Family Day is our lowest Sunday of the spring campaign. Our attendance bounced back to 321, just 4 less than our record-breaking Mother's Day service two weeks before! Never have we had so many in our church besides our famous Kid's Day and Mother's Day. We had over 190 on our buses and our drive-in crowd was back in church. We had 224 adults and teens overflowing our auditorium and 97 children. It was an incredible day! Three adults were saved: Cesar, Ismael, and Susana, as I preached on becoming a child of God in the family of God.
The great thing about the campaign is we have people coming back, and more importantly, some newly saved continuing to attend. In our mission by the airport, we have a new young lady named Araceli attending the last two weeks. I haven't had much time to talk to her as last week I was out preaching somewhere else, but she seems like she comes from an independent, fundamental Baptist background and we are looking forward to getting to know more about her.
God seems to keep on bringing us new people to this mission. The 84-year-old mother of Virgina, Guadalupe, whom I led to the Lord a few weeks back, accompanied her daughter to the mission this last Wednesday.

Thank you for your prayers,
Clint Rardin

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