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Scholarship event
planned for dec.

One of our outreaches is in supporting Becas Vallarta (Beca in Spanish means scholarship or an allowance to a student). Keeping children in school is the goal of Becas Vallarta. They provide tuition, uniforms, books, and other resources for children who wish to further their education. They have helped thousands of young students over their 50 year history. This coming year they will give scholarships to more than 300 students, 8th grade through university.

Becas this year is having a special fundraiser called the "Becas Holiday Happening" on Thursday, December 2, 2010 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Avalon Sky Bar at Avalon Condominiums- Calle Gardenia #248 Sky Bar C.   Restaurateurs are donating botanas/tapas and a good friend is donating all the liquor and beverages.

Our hosts will be Suzanne and Lance  in their gorgeous Avalon penthouse and the opportunity to view another penthouse and condos.  

Ticket price is $50.00 U.S. or peso equivalent which includes drinks, food, live music, the tours and the most beautiful views of Banderas Bay.  Only 150 Tickets will be available.

E-mail our parishioner, Mary Megin mislajoya(at)hotmail.com for reservations.

Baby Gifts from
San Diego

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July 2010

Sandia, a member of St. Dunstan's in San Diego,  just arrived back home from Puerto Vallarta. While there, she was working with Jan at Christ Church by the Sea to bring layettes to the hospital. Sandia made many blankets while she herself was on vacation in PV and brought with her many baby outfits made by the people of St Dunstan’s Episcopal Church  in San Diego. Our many thanks to Sandia and her family and to the people of St Dunstan’s who so graciously support our ministry in PV.

Here's the a letter Sandia sent to her friends at St. Dunstan's about their outreach in Puerto Vallarta.

-Fr. Jack

Your gifts are used and appreciated! You entrusted me to take to the state hospital in Puerto Vallarta 101 baby hats (George made 96!), 49 blankets, and 27 outfits.

The ladies at Christ Church by the Sea (Iglesia Cristo del Mar) Anglican church in Puerto Vallarta make these up into packets to personally deliver to new mothers in the hospital. I had the pleasure to go two days with Jan (my local Puerto Vallarta contact) to smilingly give these precious gifts in the Nombre de Jesus Cristo. These gifts also contain a tract in Spanish explaining the love of Jesus and inviting the families to Iglesia Cristo del Mar. Some of the families do bring their babies to Fr. Jack for baptism.

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The ladies also package up gifts of soap, shampoo, and lotion for women in the hospital, soap, shampoo, and razors for the men, and toys for children who are in the hospital. One man was quite grateful to be able to shave!!! And two boys with broken left arms enjoyed the airplanes. If you have gently used TY Beanie Babies, please leave them in the cradle at the back of the church.

Your efforts are truly appreciated. Thank you. But do not stop now. Fr. Jack and Shirley will be going down in October. Let’s give them another batch of blankets, hats, and baby clothes! So keep bringing the baby stuff to the wooden cradle at church. If you go to a hotel, you are welcome to also bring the shampoo and soap samples. They are most welcome!

A Summer message
from fr. jack

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We arrive each year in Puerto Vallarta just in time for the festival seasons of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Easter and we leave just before Pentecost.

It’s a fascinating time of liturgy, colors and the life story of Jesus Christ. The first Sunday of Advent this year is November 28th.  In Advent (violet) we await the coming of Christ; during Christmas (white), we celebrate His arrival; and at Epiphany (white), we proclaim that Christ is manifested to the world as Savior.

During Lent (purple), we prepare for His death. In Holy Week (red), we reenact His death; then in Easter cycle (white), we celebrate His resurrection and complete the Easter cycle with the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost (red).

I praise God for having the opportunity to be able to celebrate these festival seasons each year in the beauty of Puerto Vallarta in our beautiful palapa church. But once the festival seasons are over, there is a long stretch of time known as the non-festive or ordinary time (green), spans through the summer and fall months until we again begin the festive cycle. 

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Christ Church by the Sea, Iglesia Cristo Del Mar, is part of the Anglican Church in Mexico, and the world-wide Anglican Communion.

Sunday Services, in English, are held at 10 a.m. from November to the beginning of May in our beautiful palapa-roofed place of worship, located right across the street from the Puerto Vallarta airport, right next to Thrifty Car Rental. 

Our church is the only English-speaking Anglican Church on the west coast of Mexico and one of only a handful of Christian congregations in the Puerto Vallarta area.

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Contact us! mexico: 044-322-229-1129  US: 619-822-2656   Copyright Iglesia Cristo Del Mar 2009