Festival de la Luz

Tonight begins the Fesitval de la Luz in San Jose, Costa Rica. This is the country’s largest annual Christmas event and begins with a parade featuring floats and high school marching bands.  The parade draws a million people!  It has been described as a cross between Mardi Gras and Christmas.  Although the parade begins at 6pm people begin to stake out their spots at 10am.  We are excited to experience this grand event…by watching it on TV from our home.

Catch-up #2: December Newsletter

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Michelle gets a little help with her Spanish grammer homework from our 9 year old neightbor, Chantelle. Adam leading a weekly ESL class in the neighborhood. Crossing the bridge between Costa Rica and Panama.  We are required to leave Costa Rica every 90 days in order to renew our visas. Our newest teammate, Lyssa Melonakos studied at The Institute with us for 6 weeks before starting her internship in Honduras. Jacob played the part of Joseph in the school Christmas Pageant. Decorating the Christmas Tree as a family. Schedule Dec 5 - Placement Test for next Trimester Dec 13 - We finish our first Trimester Dec 21-26 - Michelle's sister and brother-in-law visit Dec 22 - Jacob's 4th Birthday Dec 31-Jan 8 Michelle's parents visit Prayer Requests Please pray against homesickness as we spend holidays away from friends, family and our church home. Please pray that Christmas would be an opporunity for us to share the Gospel in a country where most people celebrate Christmas but few know Jesus as Savior. Please pray for our spiritual growth as we worship in Spanish.

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Catch-up: November Prayer Letter

Hey, Prayer Warrior!  Lift the Cains up for the next 30 Days.

Praise & Prayer 1.) Please pray that our Spanish vocabulary would grow rapidly. 2.) Please pray for increased communication and prayer within our marriage. 3.) Please pray that deep, long-lasting friendships would develop for our family during this year.   Mail Can Be Sent To: Adam Cain Instituto de Lengua Española Apartado 100 - 2350 San José, Costa Rica América Central Schedule 11/1 30 Days of Prayer Starts 11/15 Visa Renewal Trip to Panama 11/22-23 Thanksgiving Break How to Give Online: Click Here By Check: Please be sure to put#11369 in the memo line Mission to the World P.O. Box 116284 Atlanta, GA 30368-6284 Life Together by Michelle We go to an incredible school.  It is a school specifically geared toward missionaries learning the Spanish language.  It is an easy place to make a quick friend.  There are so many commonalities between students.  The person sitting beside you in class knows what it feels like to sell all their possessions, pray for support, leave friends, say goodbye to family, depart from a great church, and uproot their lives to a new land.  Friends from home have asked us what it is like to be mixed with so many people of different denominations and mission agencies but we seem to have a blind eye.  Our common thread with our fellow students is far greater than any other commonality that exists: a love for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  It is a love so strong that all the other similarities as well as differences pale in comparison to the reason we are here.  It is one of my favorite things about knowing Christ: you have an instant family and unbreakable bond regardless of birthplace, color of your skin, occupation, likes, dislikes, and even theology. I was delighted to read the following passage a couple of weeks ago in my daily devotion because I feel it is the summation of my enjoyment of my school and classmates.  I also feel it is key in the unity of the church body and mission as believers so it also applies to you, our friend reading this.  The key is always the Gospel: the good news of Christ’s saving work on the cross.  Everything else is secondary: “The key to the missionary’s message is the propitiation of Christ Jesus— His sacrifice for us that completely satisfied the wrath of God. Look at any other aspect of Christ’s work, whether it is healing, saving, or sanctifying, and you will see that there is nothing limitless about those. But— “The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”— that is limitless (John 1:29). The missionary’s message is the limitless importance of Jesus Christ as the propitiation for our sins, and a missionary is someone who is immersed in the truth of that revelation.” -My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers Michelle with her classmates. 30 Days of Prayer Each November is Mission To The World's official "Month of Prayer for Global Missions". Thousands of churches worldwide will be praying daily for missionaries.  Here is acalendar with specific prayer requests for our family and our work.  Will you please take a minute each day this month to pray for us?  Your prayers are powerful and we value them.  Also, will you please send us your prayer requests?  We pray for friends and family at dinner each night and would like to know how we can pray specifically for you. 30 Days of Prayer Calendar   School Supplies for Honduran Kids In Honduras, the government provides education only through the 6th grade Only 33% of the population has any education beyond 6th grade The average person makes under $4,000 per year Our team in Honduras helps to make school a reality for hundreds of kids by providing school supplies.  Will you please consider helping by sending school supplies? Mike & Erin Pettengill P.O. Box 1090 La Ceiba, Atlantida Honduras Central America Video of Students Receiving Supplies

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