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and ^'{iiiioni Cmt'dult

njune22, 1986 Rodney

APARTADO POSTAL 306

SALTILLO. COAHUILA. MEXICO, ocnrtrt

25000

and Maysel

Northrup

celebrated their 39th

wedding anniversary.
They have been on the
Mexican Mission Field

38 years

working out

of Saltillo,

Mexico

since Jan, 1950. They

have seen the Mexican Churches of Christ grow
from less than 15 ministers and 25 congrega

tions to over 300 congregations,

conventions per year along

3 national

with ten or more

\

camps, a number of regional conventions with

tvjo Mexican Dible colleges, besides Colegio
Biblico, v/hich are all directed and

mostly

supported by the Mexican churches.

THE MARK NORTHRUP FAMILY

Mark Caleb, Mark, Magdalena,

Berenice and Ana Silvia.

Mark was A months old when Rodney and Maysel

Northrup moved to Saltillo, Mexico, Thirty of

his 37 years he has spent on the Mexican Miss
ion field, working in camps, conventions, church

planting and raising a family,

V/hen Mark married Magdalena he became an intant uncle to some 30 of Magdalena's nieces

and nephews.

Jorge Gasta-neda,

a ne^jiiew-of

Magdalena is co-minister with Mark in the est

ablishing of a new congregation in Saltillo,

Here Jorge is baptizing a Mexican teacher

converted through a correspondence course sent

out by the missionaries in the Mexico City area.

I
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n-1 \

WOULON T YOU SAY THIS SORT OF THING POINTS

UP TH6 GREAT NEED FOR EXPANDING
FOREIGN MISSIONS"''

HANCHO ALTAMIRA, the Northrup's home base, often serves as a staging,

resting, repairing of vehicles or recovery area for ^^ssionaries or groups

...depending on their needs...going as far south as Honduras, Central
erica.

In this case David Lucas group, on it's way to help build the

Bible College in Queretaro, Mexico, stopped to pick up Bob

and interprlter. Groups like this often help out with things here at the
ranch too...This group helped us pour a cement roof.

^ort[]rups in ^extro

Summer 1986

^aniiCy and c^'ilniom (Jnitiiult

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SALTILLO. COAHUILA. MEXICO. 25000

?'

I Rodney and Maysel Rorthrup I

MUITI-PURPOSE VEHICLE

The Multi-Purpose Vehicle will be such a bless-^^^

in- to us.

Mjl

i ^ I/Vt.

It may not get us everywhere that we

might want to go such as the 7 villages you can

see from the "Devil* s Back Bone" (if you have

field glasses) highway between Durango and Kazalan.'

Mexico on the
, . west coast,
. T

X'

-opnTgwgLL rr
beats WALKING
walking TQ
tq chijhch.
QUOTE-WELL
rr BEATS
CHIJHCH.

Mark is busy making special adaptations lor

DOESN'T IT UHlSuOTE '

ooesntit-uhouote-

the trim to Indianapolis.

We saved over $2,000 dollars by paying cash and a similiar "Alu
minum Value Van" in the States cost nearly $14-000 dollars more than
the $10,000 dollars we paid.

The only thing we are uncomfortable about is the $2,200 dollar

loan we must pa.y one church by the first of Oct. 1986 and the second
loan of $2,500 dollars we owe the bank about Christmas Day 1986.
Please pray with us that we will be able to use the van well and please
helo us with these loans.

^M

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Street
Church of Christ was founded in the home of Anacleto Sanchez
-..a leper. The confessions of
Anacleto
and his wife Rita were the

^ Northrups was also started in their

W

crises, the Llave St, congregation

fn ' e x p a n d and they are

^ "f
beginning to build a two story build-

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I
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tOMj
toa Do.'t
want
toM'i coHtPieure
coHTBieure If
If TOa
Dowr want
TO0ur ooN-r
DON'T ee
6C So
So osAiAATit/*
ORAtAATlt /
TOeur

ing.

They are a thriving congrega-

where the elders do the preach-

' betheirsentbuilding
your offerings should
to Family and Missions Insti
tute
designated
for -ithe Llave St,
uv>-.
.
. .

Church of Christ building.