Mexico & Culture

We celebrated the Sendero Bible Church Palmas 1’s third anniversary this past Sunday…hard to believe it’s been three years! Good friend Toño Muñoz came down and helped teach the hermeneutics course on Saturday, then was our guest speaker for the anniversary. He did a great job, challenging us from 1 Thessalonians 1:2-10. We praise God […]

We had our second 8-hour hermeneutics class this past Saturday, October 26. Once again, the attendance was 51 people, not exactly the same 51 people as two weeks ago, but still a great attendance! We met and ground through A LOT of technical points about form and literary analysis and genre. A big thanks to

Matheus and Silvia will be married, Lord willing, on November 1st, in Portugal. Soon after that, they plan to accept our invitation to join us in the ministry here. We’re excited about that! Here are some excerpts from both of their “stories” so you can get to know them a bit more: Silvia: After I

If you’re familiar with theological education by extension (TEE) in Spanish, chances are you’ve heard about the CCBP or CCBL course. It’s really the same course, the only difference being the last letter of the acronym. The first is Curso de Capacitación Bíblico para Pastores (CCBP, or BTCP in English), the second is Curso de

Every year the 10-12 Bible churches in the Mexico City metro area get together and have a joint Sunday service. This year, Daniel Frias, a brother in the Jesús María church here and myself are circuit coordinators, a responsibility I have avoided like the plague until this year…when I felt I didn’t have enough of

This past Sunday we celebrated Areli Abigail’s 15th birthday as a church. The quinceaños celebration here is a big deal, often rivaling and even surpassing the fanfare and expense of a wedding. Often you’ll hear that the three gift options for a 15 year old girl are either a big party, a big trip or

After a lot of agonizing weeks, Mayra and I finally made the decision that academically it would be best for our youngest son, David, to finish his High School experience in the U.S. So he is now living with my parents, and they are formally his legal guardians. A verification of the importance of this

We are pleased to announce a new partnership between Friendship Coffee and Mexico Matters! Some of you may remember that we were promoting this tasty Guatemalan coffee last autumn. I wrote a post HERE introducing you to Mario and Yessica Lemus, and talking about new ways of financing missions. On a subsequent post, Hooked on

Kirk Belmont, pastor of Hope Community Church, Mount Joy, PA, first came to Ixtapaluca last summer with a group from his church. You can check that out HERE. A group of 17 from Hope is also coming this year again, in a few weeks, to once again help out with DVBS. We are currently working

Our second week of team ministry here in Mexico was truly special, working hand in hand with some special people from my home church, Word of Life Chapel. A whole lot of drywalling and cabinet making was accomplished, thanks to the preparation and oversight of Samuel, and the dedication of Denny, Zac, Phil, Erik and