| YTD Total Saved |
257 |
| YTD Total Baptized |
0 |
| AVG Sunday AM attendance in September |
8 |
Please pray for the Tapias as they start a soulwinning ministry, the Fisher's Club.
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Conversion Experience
We used to live in the State of Yucatán where I attended school up to the second grade. My mother was a Mormon and my father a Catholic. We later moved to the State of Guerrero where my entire family got saved. I got saved between the age of nine and eleven. When I was 18, God called me to the ministry while attending a Bible conference in Celaya, Guanajuato in the year 2000.
I received my Bible training at the Monte Sion Fundamental Baptist College for three years, graduating with the degree of Pastoral Theology. There I learned the most important job of all –winning souls.
Calling and Preparation
My wife is from the State of Guerrero, out of the same suburb where I am from. She represented the young people of the town for the Catholic Church. She organized a movement called the Guadalupana Race. This was about running from the local town to the Basilica de Guadalupe in Mexico City. I had met her before when we were in High School; I witnessed to her and prayed for her salvation. After a while, when she was 17, she finally got saved. To my surprise she ended up going to Mount Sion Fundamental Baptist College six months before I could go. Two years later I married her. The Lord has blessed us with a precious baby girl named Ana Raquel.
The Field
I thank the Lord Jesus Christ for his goodness He gives us, because he has allowed us to be in the ministry. We are praying for the city of Veracruz to start a church there and be able to take the gospel to all the people of Veracruz. The most important fact about this city is her population of approximately 1,260,000. I personally believe that less than 15 percent are saved.
Future Goals
By God’s grace, my goals are to start a church, have bus routes, youth ministries, soulwinning programs and other ministries. We would also like to send young people to be trained at the Bible college so that they can prepare to serve the Lord and spread the gospel throughout Veracruz, the whole country, and the entire world.
Veracruz, Mexico
Mexico consists of 31 states and one federal district. Spanish is the official language, but one million Mexicans speak other indigenous languages. The population is approximately 105 million and grows by 1.8 million yearly. Mexico’s climate varies from dry desert wasteland conditions in the north to rainy, tropical conditions in the southeast and a mild climate in the central plateau.
While agricultural states such as Veracruz help make Mexico financially prosperous, the spiritual condition of the Mexican people is poor. The Roman Catholic Church has been deeply etched into all areas of Mexican life. Ninety percent of all Mexicans profess Roman Catholicism. It was present in Mexico from the first days of the Spanish Conquest. Throughout the country’s history, the Catholic Church has been the main unifying force of society. Many facets of Mexico’s Catholic Church come from native forms of worship as old gods were identified with saints and included in the Catholic religion. The most potent symbol of Mexican Catholicism is the Virgin of Guadalupe, a manifestation of the Virgin Mary who reportedly appeared on a hill near Mexico City in 1531.
Mexican people are searching for the truth and are open to the Gospel, but groups of American cults such as Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, and Seventh-Day Adventists have gained millions of converts in the spiritually dry hearts of the people.
Thousands are saved each year as Bible-believing preachers tell them of the love of Christ. Pilot American missionaries, with established works, are training nationals in the ministry of the Gospel. National missionaries are sent out by the hundreds each year to win souls in cities, towns, and villages.
Global Church Planters desires to financially help these national missionaries (we call them Pioneers) start thousands of churches in Mexico.
