Shutting down our journey

Stay up to date with us...

We have decided to end posting on our journey blog. You can catch up what is going with our journey and ministry on our Facebook page -- hit our like button on the page to receive our updates. Also, check out our website for further happenings at Antioch and our lives here in SMA.






It has been quite a journey and continues to be. We started our fifth year here in San Miguel. God continues to amaze us with His love, provisions and guidance for our lives and ministry.


Thank you all for your prayers and support! We love you all.


Scott and Tammy

Family fellowship

Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Hebrews 10:25

Koinonia is a Greek word meaning "fellowship, sharing in common, communion". Here at Antioch we give many ways to fellowship and share in Koinonia.
Scott and I believe in fellowship with other believers and it is what binds us together. Since Christmas, we have had some special times in our home and around San Miguel.
We kicked off our 2014 Prayer walk in January with several of our members. We always meet up at the Jardin the fourth Thursday of the month. This past prayer walk we met Juan. He saw that we were praying and he asked if he could join us and to pray for his sister. He was such a sweet man, and afterwards he played us a Christian song. Here is a snapshot of Juan. God is doing amazing things here in the body of Antioch. We look forward to this time together to lift up and glorify our Lord together in our community.

 

We met again for a "big game fellowship" in our home. Everyone brought some finger-food snacks and we had the best time together. We opened in prayer and then the fellowship took place. Although the game wasn't that good, the Koinonia was wonderful!

 

 



We continue to meet every Wednesday evening for bible study. The ladies are meeting once a month for prayer brunch and the guys meet every week at Café Monet for breakfast. The past couple of weeks the guys are having anywhere between 12-15 guys at the table. Our Sunday service is growing and at our last weeks Antioch Family Meeting was the best ever attended meeting we have had.

Antioch is Family! We are one big family! The bible says that we are brothers and sister in Christ and we are putting that into practice. It is so encouraging to know that we have others who love and care for us. We need that - we all need that.
We look forward to all that God has in store for 2014 here in San Miguel. If you are visiting San Miguel, Mexico. Check out our website and come be apart of our family.

Christmas Happenings 2013

Antioch has been quite busy over these last few weeks. Returning from the Chiapas mission trip on December 11th and we went into full swing. Here are some of the things that we have been up to the last few weeks. Enjoy!

 

 

The community sing at the Jardin. Four churches we represented and sang several songs to the public. This was put together by the Community Church. It was a blessing to be apart of this.

Our Christmas Ever service was on December 24th at Hotel Imperio de Angeles. We had a nice crowd of about 75-80 people. This is always a special service where our Lord is lifted up in song. Scott gave a wonderful message and Martha sang a special music song.

On Christmas day we did a Flash mob in the Jardin. Antioch members and the children's choir, Orquesta Sinfónica Infantil y Juvenil "Crescendo" put on a flash mob. God was glorified and lifted up during this time. We hope to have a view of this on video. We have had a wonderful December. "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family"

 

John 3:16

 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."

Ecclesiastes 3:11

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”

 

Our Chiapas Mission Trip

We just returned home from an awesome mission trip to Teopisca, Chiapas Mexico. Our visit was from December 2nd to the 11th. We partnered with Clint and Karen Hough and Casa Canaan Orphanage. Most of our pictures are posted on our Facebook page.

We had a small but effective team of six. We all had different gifts and abilities and the Lord was glorified and lifted up.

Our Team: Cindy, Karen, Scott, Tammy, David and Josh

 

Some of the things we did while we were there is went into a village and did a two day VBS. This village is one that Clint and Karen used to do shirts in. We partnered with a school there and had a wonderful time. We had four stations, Craft, Bible story, Game and Music. The kids enjoyed themselves so much. At the end they gave us a wonderful thank you in speech and song. 

Lives were changed that day. We plan to see them next year.

 

Our Team and the Kids in the village

 

We spent a lot of time at the Orphanage - Casa Hogar Canaan What an awesome group of kids and parents. Carlos and Yara take care of 21 kids in a small home. They teach them about Jesus. They all come from horrific backgrounds. There are many needs. We took gifts from to them from our congregation and took them all shopping and out to lunch for Sam's pizza. It was an unforgettable day. We plan to stay in touch with this wonderful family.

 Carlos, Yara and some of their kids

 

We went into the prison for a day and did a church service. They wouldn't allow any photo's. Three souls were saved that day by Scott's testimony. We also did a Jesus film in the village where we did the VBS. Over one hundred people heard the gospel in their Mayan language.

 

We were introduced to a wonderful missionary family, Lance and Sarah Keeling. They helped us and hung out with us while we visited Teopisca. They have a ministry called living among them We were blessed by them. Check out their website.

 

A church service at Lance and Sarah's house

 

God is so good. We plan to pray and ask God, "Now what"? We went, we served, now how do we continue our help? There are so many needs there. These verses come to mind:

Psalm 82:3-4

Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

James 2:15-17

Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish  you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

 

Action - God wants action from all of us. I know I don't have to walk far from my home to see the needs of others. God opened our eyes to the needs of Teopisca while we were there. We need to seek and see where he leads. If he opens your eyes today for a need, follow with action. He will be pleased.

 

Please visit our Facebook page to view more pictures from our visit.

 

Antioch Prayer Walks

 

Antioch Community OutReach has committed to pray for our city once a month with a prayer walk starting at the Parroquia. Each month we have specific prayers to target and walk as a group to pray for each one. We have opened it up to other churches in San Miguel to bring unity to our city. Check our website for date and times at antiochcommunityoutreach.com Below are a few snapshots of our time on our prayer walks. If you would like more information about this, please contact Pastor Scott at 415-103-3132. God belongs in our city and we have seen Him working in the hearts of the people of San Miguel. We give Him all the praise and glory.