Workers are needed…Are you willing?

1. Tec University Ministry – we need students from U.S. and Canadian Universities who will come to study abroad with the view of sharing their faith and discipling students. Contact Craig Williams at www.caminternational.org

2.  Church Planting Support Ministry – teach English in Mexican schools. Develop relationships with the Mexican people, share Christ with them and connect them to a local church.

3. Teachers for two Christian Schools whose students are primarily missionary kids. One school is Puebla Christian School. Contact them at pueblachristianschool@caminternational.org. The other school is Mexico City Christian Academy. Contact them through www.mcca-mexico.org

4. University Internship in Mexico. This is a hands-on incredible internship where you will interact with a Mexican families, attend language school, teach English, do sports ministry, use your skills that God has given you, eat tacos on the street and experience Mexico and its people while living in their homes. The internship works through local churches. You can earn college credit too if your university approves the internship. Most universities do.   Contact CAM International through www.caminternational.org

5. Want to make a little longer term commitment to ministry in Mexico? Contact CAM International at www.caminternational.org. You can also contact me in Mexico also!

6. Short Term Teams: Bring a team to Mexico and let’s make an impact!!! We can find something for you…5 day clubs for kids, soccer or other sports ministry, extreme sports ministry, outreach to business persons, university ministry. Hey, the sky is the limit. Be creative. Let’s reach Mexico!  Contact Craig at cwilliams@caminternational.org.

Church Plant Consulting to Churches

This is different from mentoring in that I am not working with an individual church planter but with churches who want to reproduce.

Iglesia Cristiana de Lomas – an upper middle to upper class church. Pray for a Businessmen’s Leadership Event in September 2008 where we would bring in a Business Leadership speaker. This would be a bridging event to other similar events so as to develop evangelistic contacts reaching the wealthy of Mexico City.  On a side note, the church had an evangelistic breakfast at a luxury hotel in the financial district of Mexico City in December 2007. Between church members and guests, there were 200 in attendance. 80 people raised their hands indicating that they received Christ. My friends, this is unheard of among the wealthy to acknowledge a need like this. I believe God is moving….Are we willing to move along with Him?

Pray for Oscar, Daniel and Tomas (the pastor) and others who will handling all the logistics. Pray for businessmen from Austin and Houston who may want to participate through building relationships with key business leaders in Mexico City’s financial district so they can share the life changing reality of Jesus Christ with them.

Some may ask, “Why reach the wealthy of Mexico City?” “Aren’t there enough poor people to reach with the gospel?” There are many churches and missionaries that work arduously with the middle class on down. I sincerely commend them for their work. They are doing a super job. There are not many people reaching the wealthy. The Lomas church may be one of only two churches that are actively trying to reach wealthy persons. The expansion of the gospel in other Hispanic countries has exploded when the wealthy were reached. Almost across the board, most countries reach the poor first. This is not bad and it is needed. Yet, countries like Guatemala, that boast a high percentage of Christians and you see Christian churches all over the place when you pass through small towns and large cities. The explosion really hit when finally the upper class were reached with the gospel. The upper class of Mexico need to be reached. It’s not an option. These people can easily reach down to the lower classes and could provoke some great changes for Mexico. They are lost…and they need Christ…will you help?

University Outreach to Technological of Monterrey

The University is known as Tec de Monterrey or referred to many as “Tec”. It is a private university with campuses in all the major cities of Mexico. It is one of a half dozen schools which graduate some of the top Mexican students in their fields.  You can see the university site at www.itesm.com.mx  One of the two main campuses in all of Mexico is five minutes from our home.

Pray for Mark and Donna Whiffen, missionaries with an Baptist agency, that have a heart for this ministry. Denise and I will be partnering with them to see a campus ministry to the 10,000 students.

Pray for Roberto, an ex-alumni, that is a key person in making contacts on campus.

Pray for Austin area University students that would come to study spanish and other english language courses for a semester to one year and minister alongside the Whiffen’s and us in reaching the campus.

Church Planter Mentoring in Mexico City

Multiplying our lives and our efforts is a worthy cause. Craig realizes that he may have little time left on this earth (just like all of us do!!!), therefore multiplying our lives is a good thing to advance the Kingdom. Besides, the best book in the world, the Bible, tells us to go and make disciples of all the nations. So, if the Bible tells us that, “What else would we do?” Makes sense to me.

Currently, Craig is pouring his life into the following Church Planters.

Juvenal and Francisca Morales in Lomas de Cuautitlan, northwest metropolitian area of Mexico City. He has a small group of 18 persons.

Gerardo  and Norma Velazquez in Valle de Aragon, east of the Mexico City airport. He has a group of 22 persons. He also has a small group of 7 persons in a northern suburb of Mexico City.

Misael Pascual has a group of 18 persons in a northern suburb of Mexico City. Misael and I do not have a formal partnership yet. Pray for Misael to accept a formal partnership so we can work with him. Misael has a great vision and a heart for people.

Pray for two other opportunities to begin church plants. Gerardo and I will be interviewing two other CPer prospects.

Web-Based Biblical/Church Planter Training

Due to the bigness of Mexico City, Craig has wanted for some time to have  Web-based for Church Planters and local churches. Craig needed a Mexican counterpart who could do all the technical work. The Lord brought along  Antonio Vazquez (a systems analyst) as Craig’s partner in crime (or better stated…Web-based streaming). The idea is to provide excellent courses through Live Internet Streaming.  We have already recruited some great teachers here in Mexico, and we hope to recruit more teachers to provide courses, seminars, conferences on topics that will contribute to the growth of Mexican Church Planters as well as local church leadership. Just think, together we will be able to provide invaluable training over the internet to all of Spanish speaking Latin America where ever  high-speed internet is available. The beautiful thing is that almost in every major city and even smaller ones, high speed internet is available. Therefore, we need to go for it!!! Antonio and I thought it would come together in February, but…the server space we counted on didn’t come through…therefore…

Pray for $4000 dollars to be raised which would buy our own server (will be located in Dallas) and the software necessary. We may need additional dollars for two high tech microphones, 1 video projector and a laptop.

Pray for our synergy with www.obrerofiel.com who has told me that they would like to be able to manage the programming in the future. We have some super contacts for great professors and classes.

Pray for my March 6-12 trip to Dallas where part of my time will be spent at Dallas Seminary World Evangelization Conference where I hope to interest some DTS Spanish Doctorate students to be part of the Web-based training.