From mail at berkshiremission.org Fri Oct 16 20:56:36 2009 From: mail at berkshiremission.org (Berkshire Mission) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:56:36 -0400 Subject: [News] 10-14-2009 newsletter Message-ID: <5D39EEAD2F954C469F71988BFA30A6F5@eric> Hello mission friends 10/14/2009 I pray that all is well with each one of you and God continues to bless each of you. There is a lot to tell you and a lot I don't know yet. First let me apologize for several things, we are very late getting started this year and have been waiting for more info to give you. We just found out a couple of days ago the exact location of our trip which is different than the area that we were first told. The name of the village is Bethel, (pronounced "Batlel"), in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. We still don't have confirmation on our tickets or the price because we just found out that we will fly to a different airport. As far as I know the main group will fly out of JFK airport to Mexico City then another flight to Tuxtla Gutierrez and then bus to our location. It should be near the Sierra Madre Mountain range. The dates should be Feb 16th to March 3rd. I will confirm dates and times as soon as we hear from the airlines. As far as the excursion, I had originally planned to go to Cancun but now we are farther away. Eric is checking on tickets and hotel prices. Again I will confirm as soon as possible. Second, I want to apologize to all the faithful people who have been donating to Berkshire Mission for all our Bibles, Meds, Bible workers etc. I usually take time to thank each one of you personally. This year I did not get to do this. I want to thank you all, for all you do for Berkshire Mission. We could never do what we do without your help. So now, I want to ask each one of you if you would help again. We are about a month behind already but I really need all of you to support this trip. We will be building a church in the small town of Bethel. We will complete the church, all the steel, the roof, walls windows, doors, sidewalks, etc. I would also like to put up a gated wall for security in front of the church as we have done before. We will visit different communities in the area to provide some medical and dental work and provide eyeglasses for them. I would like to hire the same Bible workers that worked for us in Guatemala for two months to have Bible studies and prepare them for our evangelism effort. Of course we will have a children's program for the young people. They have baptized over 30 people from our visit to Guatemala including 7 young people who went to our VBS. So, as you can see I need some help! All of your donations are tax deductible. I hope that you will pray and ask God what He would have you do for Berkshire Mission this year. I'm sorry I don't have all the details yet, like price and exact times etc. But I will be making a pretrip very soon so I can get all the details. Those of you who have not signed up yet, please do so now. This trip, as in the past, will be full of exciting adventure and a blessing for those we visit and even more important a blessing to us to serve. Please, again I ask that your donations for Bibles, Medicine, Literature, Bible Workers, misc trip expenses etc., be sent as soon as possible. If you need to make a pledge and pay over time, that's fine. Those of you traveling with us, please get your deposit of $250.00 into us right away. Remember, as Eric mentioned in the last email, if you decide to back out once I have all the details, we will return your deposit. Please email us at mail at berkshiremission.org or call me direct at 413-743-4921 or my cell at 413-446-2214. I have noticed this past couple of weeks that there are many of you who are not receiving the emails. Please make sure you are on the mailing list. If you did not receive the last email that Eric sent out a couple of weeks ago, please check your junk email folder and add our email address to your contacts list. Sometimes when email is sent out in quantity, your email program may sort it as spam or junk mail. Also go to www.berkshiremission.org and click on the link on the front page for email to be sent to you. I really want to cut down on the postage. So, unless you let me know that you don't get email, I will not be sending a mass mailing again. Let me know and I will mail things to you. God bless each one of you. We still need lots of workers, lots of prayers and lots of donations. Sincerely Bob Young Mission Director Ps. more email very soon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mail at berkshiremission.org Sat Oct 24 08:31:48 2009 From: mail at berkshiremission.org (Berkshire Mission) Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:31:48 -0400 Subject: [News] Picture of church building in Mexico Message-ID: Hello Berkshire Mission Friends Attached is a picture of the church that we will be replacing in Bethel Mexico. The other file that is attached is a google earth file so you can see on a map where the building site will be located. You can zoom in and out to get a better idea where in Mexico we will be. Eric P.s. just a reminder to those who have not sent their applications back, I need them asap to work on airfare.. Thanks -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_9481.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 68392 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: church location.kmz Type: application/vnd.google-earth.kmz Size: 834 bytes Desc: not available URL: