Rick Warren Spoke to Mexico City Christian Business Leaders

On August 7 at the Nikko Hotel in Mexico City, Rick Warren spoke to 80 Mexico City Christian Business Leaders challenging them to transform their city for Jesus Christ using all their available resources that God has given them (relationships, business and money). The event was sponsored by Agrupación de Influencia (Influence Group) which was recently formed by 4 Mexican business leaders, Craig Williams and Campus Crusade for Christ in Mexico City which operates as Enfoque Mexico. 32 business leaders responded as wanting to be involved in transforming Mexico for Jesus Christ. 6 businessmen prayed to receive Christ. Yes, even some interested unbelievers were invited and God changed their lives for all of eternity!!!

August 26: Our next organizing meeting to get ready for the big kickoff meeting on September 2 when we will invite over 20 Christian business leaders who signed a commitment card to attend a meeting and commit to being personally involved in transforming Mexico City for Jesus Christ. Pray for clarity as we communicate vision and mission of Agrupación de Influencia and how we all together can focus on reaching business people for Christ and doing projects that will benefeit Mexico City in order to bring many to Christ. THE TASK IS HUGE! THE CHALLENGE IS AWESOME!

Pray for:

Sept 2: The first big kickoff meeting to bring these business leaders onto the team and work together to transform Mexico City for Jesus Christ! A strong leadership team will form from the Sept 2 meeting. We all will have clarity of vision and mission to reach the city. We will be unified. These men will lay aside other priorities they have had in their lives to follow the priorities of Jesus Christ to make an impact for the Kingdom.

Cypress Bible in Mexico City

On July 26 – Aug 2, a 30 member youth team from Cypress Bible Church in Houston came to serve alongside us and Bethel Baptist Church (Iglesia Bautista Bethel) in Chimahualcan which is a poor area east of Mexico City airport. The church has about 650 Sunday attenders. It is a church of mostly new believers which has grown fast over this past year. From children to adults, 182 people received Christ during Cypress´s week of ministry. There were over 30 mexican workers from the church who did lots of organizing, teaching and leading. The Cypress team helped with Kid´s clubs, music classes, a youth outreach event and sports ministry in a local park. The team taught the Mexican youth how to do mimes, dramas which were performed in the park and for the closing ceremony of the kid´s club. God did some awesome things that week. We are so grateful to God for the partnership that was formed with Bethel Church.

English Camp Follow up for New Church in Atizapan

The Mitchell´s and Ruiz´s, Canadian missionaries with North American Baptist Conference (NAB) along with the mentoring of the Williams are in the process of planting a new church. Pray along with us for the following.

September:

General contacting, socializing and challenging families to consider spiritual things.

Beginning Sept 3, there will be English/Bible Study offered every Wed and Fri nights. 1 hour of English and 1 hour of Bible study. At least 5 families have shown interest in attending.

October:

October 10: Celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving Day with the Mexicans to teach them more English and use it as an English/Evangelistic Outreach to new families.

October 24-26: At least 6 couples have expressed interest in attending a Marriage Retreat. Denise and I will lead the time focusing on biblical marriage principles as well as relationship building and sharing the gospel.

October 10,

Plano Bible Team in Lomas de Cuautitlan

A super team from Plano Bible Chapel in Plano, Texas came and served alongside us and the Mexican believers in a new church plant area of Lomas de Cuautitlan. From God´s and our´s perspective, it was a success. We had 105 kids pass through the VBS July 19-26. Truthfully, the follow up has been slow. Juvenal and Francisca Morales, who are in charge of the Lomas work, have been struggling with dissapointment in their lives, financial struggles, and a general lack of enthusiasm for the work. Honestly, I am struggling also for this work and with the Morales. Pray that God would give me wisdom and find ways to encourage the Morales family to get back into the work of God in Lomas. The potential is great there. Thank you Plano Bible for your efforts. Though things are waning right now, it was not in vain. Pray to the Lord of the Harvest!!!

English Camp July 7-11, 2008

English Campers Learning Songs

A youth team from Parma Heights Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio came to help us do an English Camp at the Williams House. The Parma team of 10 did a super job of teaching English to 27 mexican students of Jr – Sr High age. Two weeks later we had 4 of the families over for a meal along with the Plano Bible Chapel Adult team of 8. The English Camp was done along with Moises and Carolyn Ruiz family, Marcel and Ingrid Mitchell family. These families are missionaries with the North American Baptist Conference. The purpose of the camp was to help them get contacts in our area to begin a new church plant. Pray for the continued follow up process.