Ensenada, Mexico!
We are so excited about the Lord’s movement in Baja
California. As you may know, we were a
bit surprised when the Lord led our family to move to this small town called
Chapultepec, south of Ensenada. We weren’t sure what our life here would be
like, or why the Lord even wanted us here, but we knew He said “Go.”
It’s getting close to
a year that we’ve been here and we’re full of joy and gratitude for the Lord showing
us His will and for this season of our lives.
As you may know, after much prayer, we were led to plant a church. Actually, the Lord brought the people, before
we realized the church had been planted! It was incredible to start with just 2
families meeting together and before we knew it, word was spreading of a new, english
speaking house church.
Now, BAJA FELLOWSHIP, has about 40 regular
attendees….sometimes more. Families, missionaries, interns serving different
ministries, and locals have been attending.
We’ve had the privilege of having a separate kids teaching for our kids
who are 10 and under, for the last few months as well.
The time has flown by and we are feeling roots go down
quickly here. The role the Lord has given us in pastoring a church has produced
a deep love and burden for the people we are serving. We are learning the discipline and joy of
serving the Body like never before. Our relationships with the people who
consider Baja Fellowship their home
church is a new and unique thing for us and we truly feel the love of God for
them!
We are asking that you would pray for us as we help lead them
toward Christ Jesus in a deep, convicting and powerful way! We are zealous to
share the good news and truth of our King, to those we are shepherding. We
would love you to pray for wisdom and understanding for us, and also for the
people here.
Baja Fellowship meets every Sunday at 10am for
worship, Bible teaching, personal prayer and ministry, then we enjoy a potluck
together. The friendships have a chance to grow during that time of ‘breaking
bread’ together. That is a critical time
as we believe the Lord is using that fellowship to forge relationships between
the different ministries represented here.
We also meet on Thursday evenings for worship and prayer and have had
amazing and unexpected personal ministry times. Theo leads prayer at the YWAM
prayer room, has been teaching interns at YUGO and YWAM and meets with several
different people to pray with and be a brother in their lives.
Throughout our time together, we’ve celebrated many
birthdays, dedicated babies to the Lord and recently said goodbye to a close
family, The Whitted’s, who the Lord led back the States. We also prayed over
and said goodbye to one of our worship leaders, Rachel Villaire, who left the
Ensenada YWAM base to serve the base in Geneva, Switzerland! Within the next
month we’ll sadly say goodbye to another worship leader, Jacob Kemp, who will
be moving back to his home country, England, for worship school. We are VERY
excited to have good friends of ours, Henry and Aneliz Bruno and their 3
daughters move down from IHOP_KC to be part of our fellowship and leadership at
Baja. They are scheduled to arrive in October.
Melissa has been the kid’s teacher at Baja Fellowship over the last 3 months. Beginning next week, we
will be training a local believer, Teresita, who is attending our church, to help Melissa
serve the kids on Sundays. Teresita loves the Lord, has a passion for prayer
and is eager to use her gifts to serve the church, especially with the kids! It’s exciting for us that we even have a role
for someone to serve in and get more connected! Besides Sundays, Melissa is
working hard with the girls at home.
She’s been learning more and more, the biblical role of wives and
mothers and feels strongly the conviction to pursue it with her whole heart.
If you weren’t aware via facebook, Melissa miscarried last
month. It was a time of difficulty where the Lord showed us His kindness in a
way we’ve never experienced. Fear and sadness were far removed from us, and we
were filled with the love and grace of God. I wrote about our experience with
it on our blog. www.steinhauerfamily.blogspot.com
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Stella
turned 5 this week and she’s very excited to begin Kindergarden in the Fall.
There are several families, including us, serving the Lord in our immediate
area who will be starting a homeschool co-op this year. We are excited for a
Christian, structured, homeschool opportunity for the girls here!
Naya is doing great and is learning the basics of preschool.
She still loves to pray and enjoys playing with Stella and being Taina’s best
friend!
Olivia is currently getting over the chicken pox! We’re
blessed that it was a mild case and besides 1 or 2 days, she’s been her normal
happy self. She’s a year and a half old
and we notice that like the other girls when her age, seems to grow over night!
She’s also enjoying being able to play with her big sisters more and more.
The Lord has given us a new vision to raise up a team of
people who have a heart for missions and to pray for what the Lord is doing
through our family and actually partner with us in the Lord’s purposes. We are
becoming more and more confident in the Lord’s provision and ask that you would
consider a personal partnership with us. This is kind of how you ‘adopt’ a
child who lives in another country, only it would be us. J
That would include us praying for each other regularly, being
in touch on a regular basis via email, phone, facebook and/or skype, and supporting our family and Baja Fellowship through prayer and
finances.
We have a few 1-time/random needs that there is currently no
budget for and if you are interested in helping with those, please let us know.
Our most consistent need though, is that of monthly income to cover our normal
bills. Over the recent months our
support has dropped so we are making about $800/month total. Obviously, that is
more than ‘tight’ for a family of 5. The Lord is showing us how to live
modestly, with joy, but there are still some consistent needs that need to be
covered.
We continue to be covered by and accountable to our sending
church in Florida, the Harbour Church,
and still raise our support through their missions organization, Light International. If you would like to “adopt”-partner with us please tell
us! We thrive on relationships and truly
want that with whoever the Lord sends to support our work for Him!
Contact Info.
Magic Jack phone: (949) 945-5956
Facebook: Theo n Melissa Steinhauer
Skype: theo.melissa.steinhauer
Mailing Address: Theo and Melissa Steinhauer
PMB-022 , PO BOX 189003
Coronado, CA 92178
Click on ‘Sponsor a Light Missionary,’ then on ‘give online.’
You can set up automatic with-drawl as well if you’d like. If you need help or
would like more information, you can call Light International at (954)
876-0302.
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Theo teaching the interns at YUGO.
Trisha, Melissa, Debbie and Charity after church.
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