Equipping the Saints International

12/01/2024

EQUIPPING THE SAINTS INTERNATIONAL
2024 - 2025

I’m leaving for Mexico Dec. 6th. While I am there, I will have the following outreaches and I have listed the amount of money needed for each outreach.
◦ Food baskets for Christmas - $500 (25 families) Last summer gave away food baskets


◦ School Sweatshirts and sweatpants - $500 ($45 - $50, each child
◦ Men’s Rehab and take toiletries and scarf, hat and gloves (75 men) $350
◦ Women’s Rehab and take toiletries and scarf, hat and gloves (45 women) $350

Last year at Women’s Rehab
◦ Four churches scheduled for preaching
◦ Start a ministry with the senior women
◦ Special New Year’s Eve prayer and worship service to ring in the new year - $100
◦ A new little church has been started by the landfill area and they have mostly children and I would like to help them with their needs - $200

Team of 4 coming Christmas Day
◦ Working in children’s feeding program

Me and Lety, the head cook at the Feeding Program at Una Liz de Esperanza

Breakfast Time
◦ Teaching ladies to knit and sew: Knitting needles and Crocheting hooks- $100
◦ Homeless encampment and take blankets : $250 (several years ago feeding the homeless

Homeless people visited a year ago under a freeway.

◦ Urgent Care Feeding Program - $100


Last year at Urgent Care in Monterrey

I’m returning sometime near the end of January

Flying to Florida in February for a women’s conference and speak in a couple of churches there.

Returning to Monterrey for July and August: 2 Teams are scheduled during that time
◦ The biggest outreach will be buying school clothes, school shoes, and school supplies for as many children as we can
◦ We will be hosting a back-to-school bash for the children in our community
TOTAL AMOUNT NEEDED FOR DECEMBER AND JANUARY OUTREACHES : $2,500.

Best Team Ever!

A GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE FROM THE CHURCH WHO CARRIES OUT THE MINISTRY OUTREACHES.

PRAYER NEEDS: Finances for all the outreaches and a van for Mexico to help shuttle trams to and from the airport!

ETSI has several ways you can contribute. My email is [email protected] and I have Cash App, PayPal and Zelle. You can always mail contributions in, but when I’m out of the country, it makes it easier for it to be deposited into the account directly. My address is ETSI 2545 Anderson Station Rd., Unit 306, Chillicothe, Ohio, 45601. However, Christy VanBuskirk will be handling my mail and if something comes in, it will be deposited. Thank you and see you in the Spring!


ETSI Facility in Monterrey. Men’s and Women’s Dorms. Teams of up to 12 people are invited to come in July and August 2025.

Food Distribution Feeding Program

08/28/2024

Hello everyone. I wanted to give you the schedule for ETSI for this year and the goals that have been set. I am planning on going to Mexico December 1 and staying through March and focus on providing food for families during Christmas and school supplies for the second half of the school year for children and several different outreaches. I have a couple of teams coming down during the time that I will be there and we will be doing various projects in my village.
I do have a prayer request. For over a year I have been experiencing a lot of stomach issues and he has gotten so severe that I have been home for three solid weeks. It totally incapacitates me.
Once I get this issue resolved, I will feel much better making my trip. After a CT scan, my back surgeon said that I may have to have another rod sawed off on the top(I have an appointment with the surgeon on September 20. I had that done last year and recovery time was only a couple of weeks. I also have an appointment with the cardiologist because my back surgeon noticed that I had calcification in the aortic valve and in other arteries around the heart.

In the meantime, I have churches scheduled to share about the ministry in Mexico, but I have had to cancel a couple and reschedule because of being sick. I also have a teacher training, conference and a church in West Virginia in November.

If you are interested in helping the ministry in anyway, or you would like to come down and bring a team or your family or yourself, please message me and more than anything, please pray for Equipping the Saints, myself, and the people of Mexico.
Thank you and may God bless you !

08/09/2023

Yesterday, when my friends (Doug, Rose and Gracie Mullett), from Ohio were getting ready to leave, a young boy came to say goodbye, and he began to cry uncontrollably. When he left, his mother brought him back to my house because she couldn’t get out of him while he was crying. He was crying because he did not want them to leave. He was unconsolable for quite some time. I don’t think people realize the impact that they have on the people here. When each team leaves, they say this place just seems dead without the American teams coming down. A lot of work goes into this ministry, but I wouldn’t change it for anything because I am seeing results.

08/09/2023

Hello everyone! I’m in Mexico and a wonderful family, Doug, Rose and Gracie Mullett, we’re here until yesterday. They were able to go on the outreach to the village up in the mountains. Children were ministered to and the adults. They were kicked out of the church after they showed the movie Jesus Revolution. Lol . I guess it was a Catholic church and they didn’t appreciate it. It is vacation Bible school week, my church here and another sister church are both having theirs.
The biggest project I have for the year as buying school supplies. If anyone would like to get towards this project, that would be great and appreciated as it cost each family roughly $120 to buy school supplies, shoes, and uniforms which are all required. Whenever we buy these supplies it is so funny because the cashiers tape runs off the counter onto the floor and down the aisle way. I joked with her that I thought I saw smoke coming out of her register. Lol! If you would like to contribute to this outreach, you can private message me or I have PayPal and Zelle attached to [email protected]. All contributions are tax deductible. 

04/12/2023

04/12/2023

So many wonderful things have been happening since I have been back in Monterrey, Mexico. I am going to post a lot of different folders that shows ministry outreaches that we have been doing the last few weeks and in a couple days we will have about four more to share. I hope you enjoy the things that you see in here. I have less than 10 days before I have to go back  to Ohio. Coming here was basically a test to see if physically I could do it and I said it before. I am so blessed because I am doing perfectly well and I’m actually doing more than I’ve been able to do for three years. We still have the other outreaches and finances are needed. Tomorrow evening we are going to a hospital where a lot of the homeless people live under the bridge and people that are visiting family members and don’t have money to travel back-and-forth Sleep outside of the hospital and we are taking food to them and we will pray for those who want prayer. If anyone wants to help financially you can send money through Zelle (fastest and no fees)or PayPal. My Email is [email protected]. All gifts or tax deductible.

Friends, Family (sons, daughters, grandchildren )

12/02/2011

November 2011 Newsletter is available on website equipsaintsint.org. Check it out.

11/12/2011

It's as if I am in the "eye of the storm", where there is peace, yet all around there are violent acts everyday. Pray for the people of Mexico who are fearful to even go to the store. Without God's peace and knowing that He's with me, I would be just like them. My being here, and my trust in Him is a witness to many that we do serve a loving God who is watching over us.

10/28/2011

Word of caution: When you get hopeless, you get wreckless.

Word of exhortation: Hebrews 6: 17 - 20 "Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for reguge to lay hold of the HOPE set before us. This HOPE we have an an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek."

So, re-focus and expect for the things He has promised, to come to pass in your life!