Hi everybody,  

We hope this letter finds you and your family well in this new year. We are doing well and are very excited for what God is doing in our family in this coming year. Our time here at CMTS (Christian Missionary Technical Services) has been a blessing. We have learned so much, and God has been so faithful. We have been through many different challenges in our lives, and all we can say God is good and faithful. After looking at several different options and praying about it, God is leading us to serve at Youth With A Mission in Monterrey, Mexico. We’ll be joining them in August, and our last day at CMTS will be June 30th. From April to June, we’ll be packing, selecting what we’re taking, and deciding what we will be selling or donating. We’ve been married for 25 years, so we have a lot of stuff.

As to what we will be doing there, like most missionaries you wear a lot of hats. We’ll be working with the different schools they offer, doing evangelism, doing relief work with the migrants passing through, serving with a local church that asked us to help them out, and many other things as well. We are very much looking forward to this. It will be sad for us too, as our kids will not be joining us. So please pray for us, especially for Juanis as our kids are moving on with their own lives. 

The next six months will be focused on getting ready for this move. We need to raise more financial support as it will cost more to be there. Spending time with David & Jessica will also be a priority. There are many things that we need to do before we leave, so please pray for us.

David is in a gap year program right now with CMTS and is planning on going to college next year. He’s planning on getting an engineering degree. We are working on getting everything ready for that. Jessica has a nice job right out of high school. She loves her job and is doing well. She is seeing a young man, and we ask you to please pray for both of them that God will lead their lives and their relationship. Our nephew Gaddiel who has been living with us for the last few years will either come with us or go back to live with his mom near Cancun.

Prayer request: 

• We will need to raise $4,500.00 a month
• For David: for God’s protection over his life, for direction for what God has for him until he goes to college, and that he keeps his relationship with God strong
• For Jessica: that God would be with her and protect her life, and that her relationship with God would be strong in her life.

We want to ask if you and your family would be interested in praying about partnering with us. Together, we can share the love of God to the people that don’t know God’s love, mercy, kindness, and most of all what He did for us: His sacrifice on the cross to take our sin from us and give us the freedom of having a direct relationship with our Father God. Would you be interested in investing in God’s Kingdom and partnering with what He has called us to do in Mexico? 

We want to thank the families that are partnering with us for all your prayers and financial support for our family over the years. Thank you very much. We would not have been able to do what God has called us to do without your help.

Thank you very much!!

May God bless you and your family.

With all our love and gratitude.

Michael & Juanis McDermott.

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