Field Report
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O sing unto the Lord a new song:
Sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Sing unto the Lord, bless his name;
Shew forth his salvation from day to day.
Declare his glory among the heathen,
His wonders among all people.
Declare his glory among the heathen,
His wonders among all people.
Declare his glory among the heathen, His wonders among all people.
Greeting:
Thank you all so much for having us here this week. We are very honored to be here with you all and to be partnered with such an amazing church in spreading the Gospel with the world!
Thank you all so much for having us here this week. We are very honored to be here with you all and to be partnered with such an amazing church in spreading the Gospel with the world!
Past:
One month after I left Grace and began my deputation trail I meet Stephanie and I know many of you all were very excited for me. Especially the Raby’s because Stephanie is from their Church in Michigan.
About a year and a half after we were married on August 15th, 2016 we moved to Monterrey Mexico. This is where we went to language school. While there we made some life long friends who have even come to visit us and help us in our church from time to time.
While we lived in Monterrey we found out we were going to have a baby. And nine months later we had our beautiful little girl Gabriella. She was born healthy and strong and after we were in Monterrey for a total of a year and a half we moved to Zacatecas.
We moved to Zacatecas on the first of February and began our church in March in our living room. After a few months in our living room holding services, we moved to my parent’s garage. As you saw in the video we were able to move from there into a building and not have to meet in a garage anymore.
For the first year and a half of our church, it was my family and one other family and that was about all that came. Now two years later we have about 15 faithful people. We have a family that has recently joined our church and he has become our assistant pastor. His name is Jorge and he is doing a great job with the church while we are here in the states.
As i mentioned yesterday In July of 2019 Gabriella has her seizures and they diagnosed her with Infant epilepsy.
It was the scariest day of my life as my Baby lay on the ground and I am giving her CPR. She had the seizure and then stopped breathing so I had to give her CPR to get her to come back around.
After the second attack and many many tests they diagnosed her with Infant epilepsy. This is a good diagnosis because with medication it is treatable. Since we have been giving her the medication she had not had any more attacks.
The doctor said that this is not something she will have the rest of her life and that she will grow out of it by the age of 9-10 years old. When we go back to Mexico in May we will get her tested again and this will tell us if she needs to continue the medication or not. They say its possible she will be on the medicine for up to 5-6 years.
But we are giving God the glory that she is still here and doing well and that she will continue to get better.
Present:
We are also so blessed to have Jorge and his family there to help us! He was saved and trained in a baptist church in Guadalajara Mexico about 4 hours south of us.
He and his family came to visit our church one service and they immediately became friends. Over the next year before they joined our church we had them over for dinner several times and I had him preach for me a few times.
They have been a great blessing to our family and we are so blessed they are watching over the church while we are gone! As Bro. Gordon mentioned last night please pray for him and his family! They are on the hit list of Satan and would love nothing more that to ruin him and cause the church to fall apart while we are gone!
Future:
We have some great things planned for the future and with the help of Jorge we will able to take some of my ideas and culteralize them! We have already had some big day such as a ladies meeting (Which we had 50 ladies participate), Children's day, Christmas services. However now that we have some folks in the church we will be able to have some other events and programs in the church and community.
I have began now to collect some information about starting a Bible Institute. We would like to see as the church grows to also start a Bible Institute To train Men to go start churches and women also to be disciple makers and help in churches.
As Gabriella grows we have also been praying about starting a Christian School. So we would appreciate your prayers for this. We already know what curriculum we would use its just a matter of God opening the door and allowing us to do this.
Challenge:
Declare his glory among the heathen,
His wonders among all people.
O sing unto the Lord a new song:
Sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Sing unto the Lord, bless his name;
Shew forth his salvation from day to day.
Declare his glory among the heathen,
His wonders among all people.
The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, Vol. XLIX The New Song and the Old Story (No. 2,850)
Psalm 96:1–3.
Psalms 96:1-3
As we began our preparation to come back to the states for our furlough I began praying for a verse that would help me to describe what we have been doing while on the mission field and this verse is the verse that God gave me.
Declare his glory among the heathen,
His wonders among all people.
O sing unto the Lord a new song:
Sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Sing unto the Lord, bless his name;
Shew forth his salvation from day to day.
Declare his glory among the heathen,
His wonders among all people.
This has been what we have been doing sharing the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ with the lost in Zacatecas. Zacatecas has about 1.5 million people and only 4 Baptist churches that I know of in this area.
The area we are in, in central Mexico, is called “El Bajio” kind of like how we have the states cut up in divisions such as the east coast, midwest, and east coast.
This area is actually considered dead by the International Mission Board. It is the same size and Mexico city if Mexico City were Cut up into 5-6 states. IBM sent four missionaries to this area and within the first three years of serving here, they all left because of how difficult it is to reach this area.
These people greatly needs Christ. They need the gospel of Jesus Christ in their lives. Humanism and Catholicism are predominant and central Mexico and where we are is called the Catholic belt of Mexico.
Because of how difficult it is to reach this area. These people greatly needs Christ. These people need the gospel of Jesus Christ in their lives. Humanism and Catholicism are predominant and central Mexico, right where we are, is the Catholic belt of Mexico.
Notice with me in out text verse 3
Declare his glory among the heathen,
His wonders among all people.
Friends, This is a command by God and we are to declare the glory of God amon all the people of our world. We are do do this by the way we live, living a God fearing life is a great way for show people the Love of God.
Also we are to use our words. the bible says
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
We cannot preach without using our words.
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
We tell the young people all the time that we are all Missionaries. A Missionary is someone who takes the gospel and shares it with someone else. So let’s all be a missionary God will be proud of!
We covet your prayers as we try to reach Mexico for Christ and we are so grateful for your faithfulness in your partnership with us! There is a great Job set before us but we are ready to attack it and take the Gospel to this lost and dying world!
Invitation:
Let’s have every head bowed and every eye closed we are going to pray.
Prayer:
Father, thank you for this time we have been able to gather together at your house. Please bless these next few minutes as we have a few moments of alter call. If there is someone here that is not salved I ask that you will work on their heart and that they will get this settled before they leave here. and help us as Christians to be a missionary you can be proud of and help us share the Gospel with the lost and dying world.
Invitation:
Friends with every head bowed and every eye closed I want to ask you a very simple question. Are you Born again? Do you know if you were to die tonight that heaven would be you eternal home? Or do you have some droughts?
If you are not 100% sure then I plead with you do not leave here without getting this settled. Just get one of us and we would be more than happy to take the bible and show you how you can know 100% sure.
Christian this alter is open if you need to do some business with God.