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| The worship leader walking with one of the youth. |
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| Our coworker, Pete, with his group preparing their horse for riding. |
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| One of the groups waiting to ride their horse. |
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| One of the youth taking her turn riding. |
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| "G" taking a turn riding. |
Today starts the annual Semana Santa youth retreat out at Rancho el Camino. The theme for the week is True Repentance. The messages will all surround this theme of calling the youth to what it means to truly follow Christ. Please pray for safety during the many activities that will be going on throughout the week and especially for the Lord to move in the lives of the youth who attend. There will be youth attending from many different churches in Southern Baja including our youth group from our church in San Jose del Cabo. As you can imagine, we are very excited about the opportunity to see them again. Josh will also be attending this year as he is now officially a youth here. That seems so strange to us but we are excited for this new phase of life for him as well.
Phil began a bible study last week with a young man from the MDL neighborhood. Our coworker, Pete, and Phil have had the opportunity to share the gospel with "M.A." before but he wanted to wait until his whole family could hear as well. M.A. seems very open to spiritual things. Please pray with us that he and his family will embrace the Truth and find freedom in the Lord this Easter season.
After a short delay, we will be starting up the Spring cycle of the horse ministry Saturday, April 14th. Please pray for those who attend and for the leaders as we share Jesus with them. One of the reasons for the delay was that we had a request to host a group of "At risk" youth at the ranch a couple weeks ago. Several of them are from MDL and its surrounding neighborhoods. Our worship leader at the church here is also a police officer and part of a program they have working with these youth. He asked to bring the group out to the ranch to do some work projects as well as work with and ride the horses. (See photos of their visit above.) Two of the adult chaperones in attendance were a psychologist who works with the police department and his wife. The wife, "G", spent some time sharing a little of her heart with us: "I am so excited that you are doing this for the children and youth of MDL. Many people here don't value helping them. It is a neighborhood with so much need. My husband and I want to help out as much as we are able with what you are doing here. It is so very important." It is exciting to see all of the ways the Lord continues to open doors to minister to the community using the ranch and the horses. Please pray as we continue to develop this relationship with the local police department.
As always, we are so grateful for you and your ministry to us through prayer, support and encouragement. We pray you have a wonderful week of remembering the wonderful gift and sacrifice of Christ for us.
By His grace,
The Eager family
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