Rardins in Mexico

I am writing from Mexico City where I spent the weekend to preach our church's 18th anniversary.  It was a joy to spend Saturday with our students in our RU street mission in Tepito.  It was also great to have a classroom full of men on our regular Saturday night prayer meeting, the engine of power in our church. To continue reading the update from Clint Rardin, please click on the link below. The Rardins - November 2022

We have been at our home church at Fairhaven for a month now to begin our year of furlough.  It has been a joy to be with our two sons studying at Fairhaven Baptist College and also a joy to knock on doors here in Indiana and work to reach our fellow Americans for Christ.  Whether knocking on doors for a bus route or visiting new move-ins, it has been great to get to witness to some and even bring one of our new move'ins visits to our home church's anniversary Sunday service.  Old fashioned soulvinning still works in the States. [...]

God is our help and our shield (Psalm 33:20).  As many of you know, a van that we had rented for our trip to camp blew a tire, control was lost due to some other issues with the steering, and after hitting the burn of the edge of the highway, our van rolled over several times.  God protected us in a wonderful way and only I received the brunt of the collision.  The 14 boys with me in the van climbed out through the windows with barely a scratch.  To continue reading the update from Clint Rardin, please click on the [...]

Hope you had a Happy July Fourth!  We are so thankful for the independence of our country that created a nation that would truly be a city on a hill, not only to shine the light of freedom for the world, but more importantly the light of the glorious gospel. To continue reading the update from Clint Rardin, please click on the link below. The Rardin Family July 2022 prayer letter

Thank you for praying for our Holocaust Memorial service, organized by Mary Carmen, the IBJM missionary that attends our church.  I was seated on the platform next to the Israeli ambassador to Mexico, Zvi Tal, for two hours.  He was very cordial and open with the people who came to the event.  A good number of Jewish visitors came including the faculty of a private Jewish school. To continue reading the update from Clint Rardin, please click on the link below. The Rardins - May 2022

With Mexico City having taken all Covid restrictions off at the end of February and the count of new omicron cases falling, we have seen our attendances continually going up with a high day of 236 in church with 181 taxing our auditorium's capacity just like in the good old pre-Covid days.  Our routes have been a little lower than usual, but we have been seeing as many as over 130 drive-in as several families have returned.  To continue reading the update from Clint Rardin, please click on the link below. The Rardins - April 2022

In December, we celebrated 25 years in Mexico.  God gave us the gift of seeing several people return to church that month.  Some I hadn't seen in almost two years and others in more than eight years.  Darlene, a diplomat from Haiti, who was saved and baptized in our church, hadn't come to church in almost two years because of Covid.  To continue reading the update from Clint Rardin, please click on the link below. The Rardins - February 2022

Today I was counting our blessings and how grateful I am for even the little things that make life pleasant.  Every morning, I walk to our church to pray with our schoolteachers.  It is a pleasant five-minute walk through a nicely landscaped apartment complex with plenty of trees.  A "cold" front has come in lately and it has been nice to wake up to a temperature in the low 50's and walk to school with fallen yellow and brown leaves crunching under my feet.  To continue reading the update from Clint Rardin, please click on the link below. The Rardins - [...]

Thank you for praying for the opening of the new mission near the airport.  We have so far given out 15,000 invitations door-to-door.  We are in the rainy season where it rains almost every day.  Great time to open a mission, right?  The first day late afternoon we got rained on pretty good, so I prayed that God would hold back the rain while we went door to door.  It rained while we drove to our location and rained after getting back in the car, but not once since the first day did it rain while passing out invitations!  God is [...]

Even though the federal government said that Mexico City should be in red light again, our Mayor said they did not take into account the millions in the city that have been vaccinated; so, the city would remain in orange, but without the previous economic restrictions.  To continue reading the update from Clint Rardin, please click on the link below. The Rardins - August 2021

God blessed our church in April and May beginning with three baptisms on Sunday including Sara, a woman in our church who had seen her grown sons reached through the RU program and has brought many family members out.  Now she has finally become a member.  To continue reading the update from Clint Rardin, please click the link below. The Rardins - June 2021

The theme for this year is "He that Winneth Souls is Wise."  Much of the preaching has been towards that theme.  In Sunday school we have been studying the ministry of Christ which is full of lessons on soulwinning.   To continue reading the update from Clint Rardin, please click on the link below. The Rardins - April 2021  

We pray that you had a happy new year, and that this year will be better than the last.  Despite dozens (including a couple of dozen members) still not attending because of Covid, we had 250 in attendance our first Sunday of our fall evangelistic compaign at the end of October.  To continue reading the update from Clint Rardin, please click on the link below. The Rardins - January 2021