Excerpt from correspondance (Jan, 2007):

...The revival meetings went very well! They are not really revival meetings as much as they are outreach services. We were in a Native village in the mountains and set up a sound system and chairs outside for a public service. The people in these villages are very shy and not nearly so many actually come and use the chairs as stand and listen from behinds some bushes or down the street. It was really quite an encouraging event for us and for this town.
Let me explain briefly the circumstances in a town like that (there are many similar). First of all, there is a beautiful setting in the cooler, cleaner air, and the views of the mounitain tops. The mountians are lush and green with vegetation. In the villages, however, there are very few people in town who have a job and income. Many travel north to work for a few months then return and live off of that. The lack of work, ambition, purpose and the boredom creates quite a depression. Work is very healthy. TO be idle is deadly. There is then often feuding between families or towns, and spurts of violence and murders. Drinking is a snare for many. Lack of discipline and care for the children causes them to make trouble as they seek expression of their restlessness and hopelessness.
The message of salvation and hope, and the wisdom for living, in Chirst and the Bible is indeed light –in a dark place.



Feb, 2007

Guess where we are now? If you look on a map to the hook part of Mexico (East of the Gulf of Mexico) you will find Cancun on the North shore. We are in Chiquila which is along the coast towards the West from Cancun: not very far. This is a small fishing town of 4000 inhabitants approx. The culture of the people that live on by the sea is very different: the food, the atmosphere, the smell, the architecture, even the people seem to look different (many of them in this town were thick chested and bearded), and I am enjoying this experience. The food is wonderful! I have seen so many different kinds if fish, and tried a few. These people are very hospitable, like everywhere we go.

Tonight Dad will preach his third message in this church here before we head back out tomorrow. We have really enjoyed the fellowship and services with these people! We are, however, a little quieter and withdrawn than usual, ready to be going back to Hueyapan… One more week; which will be the fastest week we’ve had here, I’ll bet. It has been a fruitful and edifying trip for us.

It is really important to see how my Dad is growing and being shaped. His messages day after day seem to be inspired and his delivery is skilful and mature. But then you know, Dad does things in the most unlikely places to shake people of their social limitations and cause them to open up. For example, he breaks out of his professor Henry role at the Bible school to sit on the dirty ground and pretend to be a beggar in an illustration for the lesson. He pulls it off without awkwardness and it is affective in causing the students to open up. I am fortunate to be able to learn from his growth into a stage in his life when youthful superficialities are losing their grip in observable degrees.
Mom is interesting. She is being forced to be more social while on the road. It does her a lot of good as far as enjoying her time goes. She too is on a journey and I think her personality is strengthening more and more (whether we are ready or not). We are in an adventure and this is part of her journey in being an ever shaping person. It’s pretty neat.

Together, my parents, are growing closer to each other as well. God is good to us.

If you have questions about anything for us, the questions are welcome. Soon we may have internet at home, and then I’ll make an effort to send some pictures.

We are starting to talk about coming home to Canada in April, but in an airy way because there are some questions to work out. We are very excited to be with our family and church families for a time of sharing life and experience together. God willing, we will come in mid April, and for three weeks, hopefully?

On behalf of Henry and Anna,
John Wall






March 05, 2007


David/ Nacaxtle:
David is a man with whom we have been working with and discipling in order for him to serve amongst his own people in Nacaxtle. We have been working with him closely, and have observed growth in him, as well as a love for the people and desire to serve them.

David and his wife hang around the church cleaning and trying new things. They hold services every night and David visits the people and is establishing his ministry in town with energy and vision.
The church is growing in numbers and maturity! When we are in town we have roughly 40 people come out steadily.
With David taking some ownership and initiative in this congregation, there are visions and projects brewing; there is a desire and prayer to be equipped with sound and musical equipment. (And there is one youth learning to play guitar, and they have just bought a keyboard). There is a need for more seats in the church (here in Hueyapan too actually).

We are praying that we would find direction and provision for David and his family so that he could focus his time, gifts, and energy in investment into the church and community (evangelism and spiritual growth) according to the gifts and guidance of God in his life and those in leadership and support positions over him.

David has been given a bike by people in Canada and he uses it well; he call’s it his Chevy. He uses it in his town and neighbouring villages and for many trips to Hueyapan and back to Nacaxtle early in the morning, late in the evening, in the sun and rain. He is very content with his transportation.
Last week my Dad gave him a big Bible dictionary. David said that he seen it lying there when he walked into the church and had wondered who was going to get that big Bible. When my Dad gave it to him you could see the disbelief in his face and he cried.

Hueyapan news:
The church building here looks incredibly different with dry wall, tile floor, and aluminium sliding windows… John is working on making some wooden pillars to cover some of the steel structure not covered by the drywall. This project was initiated and paid for almost entirely through work and donations of one family in the church. The money for the floor was donated by a woman that had once been hosted and helped in a crisis by this same family years ago… but several others have also donated labour and materials. After some woodwork, this renovation project will be completed. One day they are hoping to put in suspended ceiling, but some exterior work (washroom and kitchen) will the next priority.

The church was blessed to have Jacinto Delgaodo and Jose Padilla (Musician Evangelist) here in Hueyapan for almost the exact time that we were away in Campeche and Yucatan! We are thankful for the provision of these servants during this time while we were away!

As a church we are praying more, and we are strengthening in the deeper levels, and we are seeking and trusting in God with a desire for his glory to be expressed in us and through us.

Campeche/Yucatan:
From Jan 27th - Feb 24th we were on a preaching tour in the states of Campeche, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo. After one week in Campeche ministering amongst Mennonites, we commenced three week ministering agenda (organized for us by a local pastor) amongst a variety of churches and places. We ministered in many small towns and new missions, of different denominations, we also preached a few evenings in larger settings and Henry and John both taught some sessions at a Bible school on missions and the church.

We slept in various different places: at a camp in cabins (what a provision for privacy and rest in a peaceful environment!), we were hosted in different homes; we slept in hammocks several nights, sometimes hung one right next to the other.

We ate well, we were hosted well, and we pray blessings of God in the physical, relational, and spiritual realms for each of these servants.

None the less, a month on the road influenced greatly our appreciation for home in Hueyapan! We were all tired, but my Dad preached more than once a day in all for 28 days without very much alone or study time. We prayed for him a lot, and God faithfully provided food for those who hungered for the word of truth. And the churches were very blessed. God is good, and God is faithful!

On thing I should add is news about our outreach campaign in our first week while we were in Campeche: Last time through the area we helped two men come to the Lord. They were then the only Christians in their town. This trip we held a two day open air campaign (first evangelical event in this town remembered) Many more have now heard the gospel. We made good connections with two area churches to do some follow up work there... Praying for them.



Please pray with concerning our decisions and provisions for potentially coming home to Canada in April. My parents are aiming to be there during the time that my sister and her husband will have their first baby (late April-early May). Details uncertain.

Marriage news: John will be marrying a local girl named Maria de Jesus. Surprise! We are being deeply blessed in this our journey, and we have a wonderful story to tell. Do pray for all of us. We have a lot of work in planning, communicating, and normal everyday responsibilities. But we both have peace and a strong sense of God being glorified through this. I am profoundly blessed in this!

Please do pray with us in all these things I have shared. And praise God too for He has been faithful!

Grateful for you,

John on behalf of Henry and Anna

Details/ Needs/ Provisions/ and Administration:
We found bibles here for 25 pesos/each ($2.80 CDN roughly). We ordered 100, then one of our connections in Hopelchen, Campeche, surprised us in paying for them... We are blessed! We will be taking these Bibles with us tomorrow as Dad preaches in a Jail nearby.
Praying for wisdom in this ministry of giving Bibles.