Dearly beloved, It's been a while. Thank ya'll for being patient with us! I kinda wanted to do somethin a little different that in the past I hope y'all enjoy. This was what our summer looked like.

Our Summer...





We received in three teams this summer, two from FBC Jonesboro & one from DBC. We painted, shared the gospel, hung out and encouraged the youth group, we have traveled to Denton (2,000 mile round trip drive!) for the Missions conference, broke down on the way, spent three days in hotels waiting, had a great time with our family, spent Memorial day with good friends, had a fish fry with my uncle a week before he died, went to Chihuahua to see the family, lost a niece in Chihuahua, I had emergency knee surgery in Xalapa, lived thru the initial round of the Swine Flue, Watched as our son started futbol, and our daughters start swimming. preached @ a youth retreat an saw 8 come to know Christ as their saviour, Preaching thru 1 Timothy in the Church, I turned 41, celebrated 8 yrs of Marriage, taught my son how to fish, moved from Xalapa to Coatepec, painted the church, painted the girls room, Painted Selvas house, finally got my work visa, exercised church disciple on an Elder, added one more FAT Boy, had our truck fixed, fixed the Black Pearl (my Scooter), hosted numerous important futbol games, continually encouraging the body, Got a new grill for the hospitality ministry and I got glasses.

Coming home...

Well, I need to tell ya'll that we will be coming home sometime in March. the reasons are two fold.

1st, for every four years of service over seas, DBC wants the Missionaries to come back to serve a "Home service" tour. This recharges the battery's of the Missionaries & helps them to reconnect to their Church & their supporters. we have served faithfully in Mexico for the last 5 1/2 yrs. so our time is due to return for a bit.

2nd, Over this last year, we have lost a lot of our monthly support. so our goal when we return to Denton will be Get our support back up to where it needs to be, spend some good time with ya'll, and serve the body there at Denton Bible! Please remember, we live off of your support, in the field AND at home. Immediate Needs? we need furnished housing. preferably in Denton. our family is 5 (and no we don't Smoke). Please, if you know of or have housing that will be available in March-Dec., email me right away at bfox@serve-intl.com or you can call me @ (940)-488-4695.

The Future...

Proverbs 16:9 "The heart of man plans his way,but the LORD establishes his steps."

As ya'll know, we have been alone here in Xalapa for the last two yrs. there was no Team Mexico. Well, now we have our new team leader in Paul Lambert! Paul and his family are in central Mexico in a city called Querétaro. Once we get our support raised, we will be moving to Querétero to join Team Mexico! Our team will be Paul & Deniese Lambert, Tim & Tona Bedford & Bryan & Placy Fox. it has been such a pleasure serving our Lord and Saviour here in Xalapa. Thank ya'll for your support.





Prayer Request:

A home for the Foxes in Denton (Cheap Rent)

Our move to Querétaro and all that it involves.

Our health. We have already been through a few bouts with the Flu!

Peace in the Storm of change.

GOD to bless our support raising in Denton.

Please Pray for Placy's Mom. She is 75 and battling Lupus.

for my FAT Boys to Grow on without me.

For Pastor Sergio to be blessed in all that he does for IBUC.

Pray for our Church here in Xalapa, IBUC to be spiritually strong and grow.

This is Awesome! This is My KING. Do you know him?

FoxNews Update! March Edition

What in the world are we doing?

FBC Jonesboro Missions trip: we just said good buy to the fellows from FBC Jonesboro. They spent 5 days here ministering to the people of Xalapa. We went to the Lost City and had a two day medical campaign along with a futbol game or two & a gospel Presentation to about 55 kids! Then we had a taco shindig & invited all of the unbelieving friends of our youth group. We had 10 show up and that 10 was exactly the ones GOD had appointed to be there. Robby Fowler held an in depth time of Q&A for the Chavos. After it was over we cooked tacos and had a great time of fellowship (for a more in depth report on that story check out below).

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FAT boys: My FAT boys study has been suspended for the last few weeks because of the planning of the FBC Jonesboro trip that has come in to Xalapa along with the fact that we are house hunting.

BTCP: I am in a BTCP study with the pastor & Elders & their wives on Thursday night. We are studying book 3 New Testament survey: Revelation. All Thats about to change I think (see the next point). We have the study at Julio & Ericas house.

Erica: Erica, Pastor Julios wife, Just found out that she has Breast Cancer. They did a biopsy, and then called her into the hospital and then next thing that we know, she had a breast removed, they found more cancer, and we are awaiting the results of that test. PLEASE pray for her. She is 30yrs. Old and has three little girls. Yamilet 9, Abigail 6, & Ruth 3. She is one of Placys closest friends here in Xalapa.

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Church Fellowship: What does it look like in Mexico? Well, we are far from a Mega church, so it looks a bit different than what you would think. Two examples that have happened recently:

Cookin out @ Letys: One day after church, one of the older ladies came up to Placy & I and said that we need to do a carne asada (cook out) for the New year. We all agreed and started inviting people to the cook out the following Sunday. After Church the next week we bought all of the meat and Charcoal, and such and drove out to Letys house in the Country. I cooked for bout 40 some odd people and bout 35 came! It was an Awesome time. We love cookin out for anybody! GOD has blessed us with the ability to serve in that kind of capacity.

USA vs Mexico: This is the biggest event of the year here. The rivalry between these two countrys is so intense. I live for this game. We have beat Mexico the last 10 yrs. When playing in the US. If ya wanna wear out a Mexican ask them about the US/Mexican games! They hate worse than anything than to loose to us in Soccer. Anyway, we had a group of 15 or so Chavos over to the house for the Game. We cooked for them, had good conversation and then, the US whipped them in soccer 2-0! They Hated me! I loved it. I just didnt hoot the second US goal as loud as I could have out of a deep love & respect for my wife! We try and lead the way by example when it comes to hospitality ministry. Or any ministry for that matter. I personally think this is huge if you are not a Mega Church. If not, you will only see the people from Church on Sunday. Believe it or not, this is an extremely difficult thing for the Xalapeno mind to grasp! Why do we need to meet outside of church? we try and host at least two events or dinners or whatever a month at our house, praying that they get it!

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Fox Family: How are we?

We celebrated Logans 6th b-day! He loves futbol (soccer) & we are lookin at him going to a futbol school asap. Los Pumas de Coatepec! We also just celebrated Isas 5th b-day party ! She had a Strawberry shortcake Piñata and she got a pair of walki-talkies! Go figure! She is the little artist of the family. She love building, drawing, and a show called Art attack. Alejandra is 1 yr and 7 months and is still as wild as the day is long! I have nick named her the Apache. She loves shaking it on the table to any Music! My Placy is the Queen of the house! She takes care of the kids & me, she is the school teacher and Chef AND she is discipling two girls on the side! SHE is AWESOME. I love snuggling with her on the couch watching futbol! We still BATTLE with a date night! Almost 8 years & I still havent got it right. I just turned 41.

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Thats all for now,

GOD Bless yall for all you do for us,

The Foxes

Last week.

Hey ya’ll,
we would love to tell you about what has been going on with us! We just said good buy to a wonderful team from FBC Jonesboro Arkansas! There were five guys: Chuck & Robby (Two of the Pastors), Steve (a Doctor) Chris (pharmacist) & Bill (a Nuclear Physicist)! It was a Great trip! They arrived on time in Vera Cruz 11:30 p.m. By the time we got to the hotel it was 1:30 a.m. The next day we met at our house for Orientation and lunch. As we were finishing up, I told them “If you think Spiritual warfare doesn’t exist, just keep watching” as we were heading out to go visit a place called by the locals “Cd. Perdida” or the lost city, my check engine light came on (Bad News). What could I do? We kept going. We did a medical brigade there at the lost city and more than a few people showed up to see the Doc. While the rest of us fanned out to play with the kids. Logan had brought his futbol and in about 30 seconds we had a game on with the locals! the Doc. treated some patients & we built confidence with the local kids through the day. We finished up there at about 6 in the evening and came home. I dropped off the team and my check engine light started flashing (Worse News). What could I do? I am the only transportation we had. Or so I thought. The next day: we had a whole passle load of people ready to go to the lost city on the way there, my truck dies (The Worst News)! Chris is a wanna be mech. So he starts to mess with it. To no avail. We called a tow truck. After 2 hors of waiting on the side of the highway (the event at the lost city is underway without me & Chris) the tow truck finally gets there. Its a Brand new tow truck. He loads up the X-terra, and we go about ¼ mile and the brand new tow truck dies. We had to call a tow truck for the tow truck. Weird? Coincidence? I call it spiritual warfare. the team at the lost city shared the gospel with 55 kids and various other people & I got to share the gospel with the tow truck driver! I call that successes! GOD gave us miracle after miracle. With transportation, with events, with everything! just when I thought “Hijole, this aint gonna work”. GOD blessed us with miracles. Chuck, the Pastor at FBC, asked me: “How were you encouraged by our trip”? I had to answer “by the amount of spiritual warfare we saw”! I mean we were doing exactly what GOD wanted and what Satan hated. I was also encouraged by the provision of GOD. When we think everything rest on our shoulders GOD shows us it doesn’t. He’s got it all under control. My truck was the only truck we could rely on. Period. There was NO Other. GOD brought us two guys who wanted to nothing more than help this trip out with rides! My truck was in the shop for 5 days and they finally found that the distributor was bad. That’s what they said. I got my truck back and it runs fine. I don’t know what to say other than Praise GOD for HIS goodness!
Prayer Request:
• I would ask that ya’ll Pray for those kids in the lost City & for the driver of the Tow truck
• We are looking for a new house. Pray that GOD would go before us and take us to the perfect house at the perfect price.
• Pray for our Elders wife. She has Breast cancer and has already had one breast removed. She is 30 something with three kids. Her name is Erica & his name is Julio.
• Pray for Safety for our family in these violent times in Mexico.
• We would like to buy a house someday. Pray that the LORD might do a miracle & provide the land and $$.

GOD Bless yall for all you do for us!

The Foxes

Valgame. Preach it.