(Some of the 250 Migrant Workers from Southern Mexicoexploring Gods word in their new Bibles)
God is at work! We are excited to be able to be involved with what He is doing here in Nothern Mexico, and in the South as well! What do I mean? Read on!
It was about a year ago that God put the plight of the unreached indiginous tribes of the world on our hearts. We prayed and did some investigating. It turns out that in this part of the world, and in Mexico specifically, many of the unreached groups live south of Mexico City. We found this info on the Joshua Project Website - to have a look yourself go to http://www.joshuaproject.net/ There is a really cool application that reads "Download KMZ file" on their website. It loads Google Earth and shows the reached and unreached people groups of the world by little different colored dots. Get the program free by clicking here http://www.joshuaproject.net/great-commision-maps.php If the link doesn't work just copy it and paste it into your internet browser.
Ok, fast forward to about a month ago. I got an invite to a local vineyard by a Christian friend from church who caters food to many different vineyards in the area. He provides food for the workers in the vineyard. These are private vineyards but since they contract him to provide the food, he knows the owners personally and therefore I was able to go in and see the operation.
It turns out that right now there are about 700 workers harvesting the grapes and the majority of them come from south of Mexico City! Many of them speak different tribal languages as well as Spanish. If you listen you can hear other languages being spoken. We didn't realize it but the "unreached tribal groups" are right here in our backyard! So we have been out to this one vineyard 3 times so far and last night we gave away 200 bibles! Some of the men and youth from our church came along with me and did a great job at handing out the bibles and explaining basic things about the bibles. As well one of the leaders in our church who is gifted in evangelism presented the gospel message and many people responded!
It is amazing to have 250 people who perhaps have never been in a Christian church and never had the gospel message explained to them sit there attentively for over 2 hours! One of the things that I am very excited about is the enthusiasm that the church people are showing for this ministry!
I mentioned that my friend caters to many different vineyards in the area. I just got off the phone with him and he wants to know how we can plan to reach the other vineyards as well! One of the vineyards has about 1200 workers!
Please pray for us! We are going to be praying and planning as we consider how to reach these people who are hungry for God's word! We will be returning from Canada in December and at that time we hope to begin at some of these different vineyards.
All of this is for God's glory, we want to get His word out into the hands of the people who need it trusting that "It will not return to me empty" Isaiah 55:11 There are 2 harvests happening. One is of grapes, and one is much more important that grapes! The human heart!
1 comment:
This is so exciting, Lane and Sheri! My sophomore year of college I lived with a Wycliffe family in Oaxaca. I still remember being awed by the number of people groups in MEXICO! I'm so curious what God used to put unreached people groups on your heart, in the midst of your passion for the urban poor :) That's so cool how God prepared both you and your congregation (not to mention the migrant workers, themselves) for this exciting ministry! Love to you all- Alyssa
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