Today , March 2oth, marks the fist day of spring.

Spring is a great season… It’s always been one of my favorite times of the year.

Some of the words that I think of when I think of Springtime is:

• Fresh
• Vibrant
• New Beginnings
• Sunshine
• Joyful
• planting (crops, flowers, churches, etc)
• I especially like the word “New”

For the next 4 days we  will be celebrating Spring with an intensive ministry schedule.

Many of you have asked for me to give you a heads up when we are in heavy ministry times so that you can pray for us.

Here’s our schedule for the first 4 days of Spring:

Friday, March 20-

Today I’m ministering in an all day Bible College with the Tzeltal Indians. This is our second sessions for 2009. The Tzeltal Indians are located in Cancuc, Chiapas.
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Saturday, March 21

Tomorrow I’ll be giving out close to 500 Children’s Bibles in Tzotzil. I’ve  asked the American Bible Society to help us with Bibles in the Indians native languages.  These children’s Bible include the Gospel of Mark. Coloring pages, stickers and a dvd with  with both Spanish and Tzotzil languages. The dvd is great since illeteracy is amajor probelm with the Indians.
We’ll be ministering in Tzeneembolon.
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Sunday March 22

Sunday afternoon I am doing a campaign in las Magaritas with the Tojolabal Indians
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Monday, March 23

, Bible School with the same group of Tojalabal Indians from Las Margaritas

Thanks for your prayers. I hope your spring plans are s as joyful as ours.

This past week or so we have been very busy and I just wanted to post a quick update.:

Greg Speaking

Here’s what we’ve been doing:

• Last Friday, Feb 20th- First day of Bible School with The Tzeltal Indians in Cancuc Pozo
• Saturday- Ministry in Pantehlo Chiaps with the Tzotzil Indians
• Sunday- Took  a Tzeltal Pastor To Tuxta Gutierrez to preach for his first time in Spanish
• Monday & Tuesday, Feb, 23 & 24 – Bible School with the Tojalabal Indians, I ministered in churches in the evenings.
• Wednesday- Time with the family, We built a chicken pen to house all the chickens I receive as offerings
• Thursday- Caught up on office work
• Friday- Bible School with the Tzotzil Indians
• Saturday Feb 28, A public event with the Mayor of Comitan Chiapas on Values.
• Today, March 1st I will be ministering in a Church here in San Crsitobal and then we are hosting a fellowship dinner at our house for 4 churches

The Tzeltal Indians gave me a wardrobe that is worht over $200 dollars. It was a major sacrifice on their part and was very touching to me:

Greg with Tzeltal Wardrobe (click to enlarge)

Here are some of the ministry photos from the event with the Tzeltal Indians:

One of the biggest challenges to starting new churches is to have leaders to Pastor them.

For that reason we are concentrating on Training Leaders.

This is the the 2nd purpose of our PEACE plan:

• Planting Churches (to attack spiritual lostness)
• Equipping Servant leaders (to attack ego-centric leadership)
• Assisting the Poor (to attack poverty)
• Care for the sick (to attack disease)
• Educating the next Generation (to attack illiteracy and minister to children)

Last Year Unanimous Ministries started one leadership training school with the Tojolabal Indians. More information on them can be found at http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/598176/Tojolabal

This year we started our first monthly training with the Tzeltal Indians in Chenalho on January 30. We also will launch our first training  event with the Tzeltal Indians on February 27 in Cancuc Pozo.

Hope you enjoy the photos: