Important Dates for Prayer

April 4 – Christian Professor Dinner (see Tec de Mty)

April 19 – Mexico City Church Leaders Meeting

April 21-24 Scott Vair of World Orphans in Mexico City to interview churches wanting to begin orphanages.

May 1-3 Church Planting Conference in Morelos, Mexico.

May 16-18 The Williams and Casteels ministering to Pastors and wives at a Marriage Weekend.

May 18-22 Ed Thomas and Rick B, businessmen from Houston, coming to Mexico City to meet with Mexican businessmen to plan a Businessmen´s Leadership Conference/Outreach

May 23  Intern Heath Alexander comes into town for two months.

May 30 Alicia and Joshua out of school.

June 1 The Williams leave on vacation for a few days before the onslaught of summer teams and ministry hit us.

University Ministry at Tec de Monterrey State of Mexico Campus

Five minutes from our home is the second most important campus of Tecnologico de Monterrey Campus System in the country. It is well known and prestigious amongst U.S. universities and U.S. employers. We have been wanting to begin a campus ministry so as to make disciples of the future leaders of Mexico. In the past, we tried to have a joint venture project with Campus Crusade for Christ, but it just never worked out. Recently, some new Campus Crusade staff in Mexico City have been working hard to open 400 campuses in Mexico City. Currently about 35-40 campuses have small movements started. The Lord put me in contact with these staff people and we launched a new movement on the campus that I´ve been praying about for 2 years now. Through some local contacts I´ve had at the campus along with two U.S. University Profs from the CCC Faculty Ministry in the U.S., Dr. Walter Lane, Economics Prof,  from the University of New Orleans spoke 4 times this week. Along with other CCC staff that came along, the Lord surfaced the only probable Christian Prof at Tec along with 4 others students. Two of these students are highly interested in beginning a movement. GOD IS GREAT AND GOOD!!!

Tonight, I am going to a dinner sponsored by Campus Crusade Staff in Mexico City for Christian Professors that have been identified throughout various universities. Dr Walter Lane and Dave Wiley (Dir of International Faculty Ministry for CCC) will speak to encourage these Profs in the spiritual walk as well as to share their faith on campus.

Pray for this new and exciting outreach. Pray for me, Craig, as I will be involved in coaching student leaders and reaching out to Profs at Tec de Monterrey State of Mexico Campus. DO YOU WANT TO HELP? Contact me. The cool thing is that all the students speak English. Spanish isn´t even necessary. Come on down to Mexico City and help impact lives for Jesus Christ!!! And who said Jesus isn´t alive? I beg to differ my friends.

5 Day Clubs, Movie and Construction in Lomas de Cuautitlan

Twenty-eight children showed up for the Easter Week kid´s club  Monday-Thursday. Several kids made professions of faith. The Mexican families of the church along with the Williams put on the show. We noticed this time that more kids than usual were out of town for Easter. We saw the local parade of the local Catholic Church as they did a drama of the crucifixion for Thursday and Friday. This is very common throughout Mexico during Holy Week. One man told me that Friday is the most important day for the Catholic during Holy Week. When I asked him about Sunday and the Resurrection, he told me that it wasn´t as important. Death is more important than life!

On Thursday evening, we had 75 people show up for a movie we projected on the basketball park in the local park. We arrived an hour early to paint a large portion of a wall that had graffiti on it. On that large wall, we projected an evangelistic film. Ranulfo, 31 yrs old man, could see the film from 1/2 mile away on the hill where he lived. He rode his bike to come and see what was going on. Since that day, he has been faithful each Sunday. It appears he has made a decision for Christ. He took us to his home where he is building his home little by little as he earns money. He told us that he would like to use his home for Bible studies and other events as we needed it. On Sunday mornings, there has been an average of 30 people gathering. The people are beginning to invite more people. Ask God that He will really continue to penetrate the heart of the believers to invite people to events, Sunday morning, small groups, children´s club, share Spiritual life lessons with others, share their faith and testimony. There has been another murder in the area recently. People are needy….pray for open hearts.

During the same week we were able to begin the reconditioning of some bathrooms in the local Benito Juarez Elementary School. The former bathrooms will become a computer media room. Our desire is that we will continue to have an integral part of making that happen so people in the community will see our good works and be drawn to the Lord through our work and verbal testimonies. If you are interested in coming to help do construction on the media room then contact us.