Mexico

Our ministry partner and friend, Adam Sanders, is a true missionary to the immigrant Oaxacans, from Mexico, who live throughout California.  His impact among these people is far-reaching as he ministers to them spiritually while providing many needed services to their families.

This was NOT Adam's plan for his life!

I want to share his story with you--as he recently told it to me--because it so powerfully illustrates how a missionary heart--a heart for God's global purposes--can find fulfillment whether or not we ever leave our home town!

As I was a teenager I prepared myself to be a missionary with much zeal.  I would sleep on the floor often, and go on long hikes through the wilderness outside my father's ranch in Weed, CA. 

Then I spent a lot of time doing street ministry to learn to share the gospel, and wrote letters to missionaries around the world, keeping copies of correspondence.  I called this my "letter ministry."  I learned Spanish and some passable Laos and heard every missionary speak that I could.

This is the question that motivates the missionary team we were just with in Southern Mexico. 

They talk of one thousand unreached villages around them where people are steeped in superstitions and fears.  When a family member dies, relatives will spend months at the gravesite repeating rote prayers believing that this is the way the deceased will pass into heaven.

Through medical clinics, work programs, and church planting, this team is working to see hundreds of these villages impacted with the same message that changed your life and mine.