Christmas Greetings

Beloved Friends,
We wish all of you a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!
From the entire YUGO EOC Staff!

A couple of Updates:

This past November 1st, all EOC National Staff (Abraham, Juan, Jose, Hernan, Rodolfo, Ricardo, Alejandro, Marvin) became official employees under YUGO Mexico! This means they and their families are receiving full medical benefits, as well as social security (retirement, disability etc) and receiving their paychecks directly deposited into bank accounts we set up. This has been a year-long process and we rejoice that they are they are being equipped to provide for their families. Please continue to pray for our team (nationals from Mexico & US/ Canadians) as we prepare for the upcoming season.

You may have seen a couple of updates on the fire (October 22nd), please continue to lift up the community of Ejido Melendez as well as Cantu (not affected by the fire directly, but now by mudslides as a result of the fire). Pastor Abraham (EOC Staff) continues to connect with local area pastors & direct the relief effort. *see slide-show at right

All EOC staff are on vacation for the week of Christmas to be with their families! But we do have four teams arriving after Christmas; building three houses, providing dental clinic, working in a migrant camp, project joy & community development.

See you next year!

Thanksgiving @ EOC

Hope your Thanksgiving was a special time to join with family & friends.

We enjoyed coming together at EOC as one community of friends from three nations. (Mexico, Canada & USA)

Brenda Barnes coordinated the "Potluck" style dinner. We had expected 75 people, but ended up having close to 100! Thankfully there was enough for all.