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For the last several weeks, workmen have been hammering on the walls of the apartment two stories below, destroying the old and preparing the way for the new. Unfortunately, due to the architecture of the building, it is as if the workmen were pounding the walls of my apartment for eight hours each day, only […]

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Week two of school is coming to an end today. Thanks for those of you who prayed for our kickoff pozole meeting, it went well and we had about 25 students show up, several of them for the first time. This week we’ve had our first Bible study in Philippians and our first English Club, […]

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The UNAM website doesn’t give numbers for this school year, but the last “academic cycle” had the following characteristics:
33,256 Professors
20,747 Graduate Students
156,434 Undergraduate Students (including 35,505 1st year students)
1,641 Technical Degree Students
106,913 High School Students
That combined with some students in other extraneous categories gave a total UNAM system population of 286,484, and a combined undergraduate […]

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Today is the first day for students to return to school at the UNAM. About 47 minutes ago, the first brave souls began the new semester, and over the course of the day more will follow. Little will happen this week, except thoughts of new beginnings and an immense amount of schedule sorting, but for […]

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This is the tale of Jared (pronouned ha-RED) in the great concrete jungle known as La Ciudad de Mexico.
PWD: So, Ha-RED, how have your first six days been? Good? Bad? Ugly?
Ha-RED: Good.
PWD: Want to elaborate?
Ha-RED: (Laughing). Oh, dear. Frida Kahlo was awesome. Frida Kahlo’s house, I should say.
PWD: Is that because you could see her […]

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As you may know, Ruth has been unable to come to the US since she returned to Mexico several years ago after completing her Master of Arts in Counseling at Covenant Seminary. Today, however, through God’s providence and with help from a few friends, Ruth was granted a visa to go to Dallas for RUF […]

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Just a week or so ago Josh & Amy Oettle, our future 1.5 year interns, were at 88% of their support and doubtful they would make it to the UNAM before the school year begins. Thanks to a couple of very generous donations, however, they are now at 98% of their budget and we’re picking […]

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Jared arrived yesterday afternoon, and has since taken a spin around the city, lifted many heavy objects, and walked the entire UNAM campus. Oh, and he’s eaten tacos al pastor, fulfilling his first and principal desire.

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