Today we are still in Shock. Last weekend a paramilitary goup broke in a block party of collage and high school students in a sector of our city. They came there affter entering other two houses and killing the people they finded... at the end of the day, they kill 14 people, and wounded other 14.

Yes, you may have heard about it in the media and in the department of State reports advicing you to avoid comming to my sad City, Ciudad Juarez Chihuahua. And most of what you´ve heard is true. In 3 years, the drug related violence have charched us a toll of over 2500 men and women murdered in our community.

When i go to El Paso Texas, each and every time I can see people travelling nothbound loaded with their personal belongings, leaving their hometown and their country in fear for the lives of their love ones. Manny times my Wife has asked me: "Are we going to endup leaving our town too?".

When this happens, I remember Psalm 46:1-3, because as christians this is what we see and experience everyday here:

 ^1-3 God is a safe place to hide, ready to help when we need him.
   We stand fearless at the cliff-edge of doom,
      courageous in seastorm and earthquake,
   Before the rush and roar of oceans,
      the tremors that shift mountains.    Jacob-wrestling God fights for us,  God-of-Angel-Armies protects us.

So, is this the time of fearing and saving our own lives, or is it the time to be the much needed ligth in this area, the salt in these acrid times? The first believers will not hesitate, in facing such conditions, in fact, they adviced us to expect trials and troubles for sake of Jesus. This is the Time for the Gospel to claim its pertinence in our behalf. If we can be a blessing "to all Nations", we need to hold this city for the Kingdom of God.

A Million and a half souls are in stake... We need to remember always: Jacob-wrestling God fights for us,  God-of-Angel-Armies protects us. Aleluya! Amen! Emanuel, God with Us.