Partnership, Partnership and some more Partnerships

The last couple of days with Asrael y Adriana, our Enfoque Mexico volunteers from Oaxaca, have been amazing. They share with passion, expertise and experience the vision, mission and tactics of Enfoque Mexico. To have them here this week has catapulted us far beyond what we could do in months.

Tuesday we met with a group of pastors and missionaries that Ryan, A of G missionary, gathered at VIPS (a Walmart style Denny's restaurant). There 4 pastors of a Assemblies of God church from out east in the Neza area and a couple who are missionaries with Latin American Missions (LAM). They are the real deal. Not only are they partnering with others, churches and missionaries their vision to reach Mexico City and beyond is passionate. It was a fun time sharing our vision, mission and seeing the Oaxacan gals light it up. They are also putting on a huge conference in November 2007 to fill up Estadio Azteca. It holds 110,000 people. It will be a pastors, youth and other training time. They want us to partner and help in any way we can. Killer! This happens to be a similar vision that Craig Johring, my co-leader, had last year. God is good.

Again were praying this partnership with these groups will yield hundreds of university student leaders who will help their churches launch spiritual movements in each and every faculty on every university throughout Mexico City.

Tuesday night I took a break but Joe, Craig, Asa, and Adri took off for a follow up meeting with Capital City Baptist church. About 4 weeks ago we presented to some youth, pastors and professionals our vision of reaching each university with student leadership. Some of the same students showed and they brought more. I was told it was an off the charts time. After 3 hours presentation and questions and answers, Craig tells me there is no doubt that some will start spiritual movements immediately. He also tells me that we couldn't have done it with out the Doble A's (Asa y Adri) sharing their hearts and wisdom.

Wednesday morning we drove far out east to Los Reyes de Paz. Candido is a pastor of a 100 or so person church and gathered about 10 pastors, ministry leaders and pastor alliance leaders. They told us to not eat breakfast because they wanted to eat with us. We didn't go to VIPS, praise the Lord! They made us Chicken, Mole, rice, beans and tortillas. All home made and the mole was out of this world.

This group of pastors have a tremendous vision to plant churches in each little delegation. They send off members to pray, reach out, share the Gospel and impact the community. They too, like many of the others, see a tremendous need to reach university students and expressed they have no resources or training. This is where we come in with Enfoque Mexico and especially the Doble A's. They again knocked it out of the park.

What would happen if we could hire them to come up here at weeks at a time, meet with students and pastors and launch movements? They have been planting movements for 7 years in Oaxaca and bring so much to what we're doing. They want so badly to join staff yet at this point it hasn't worked out. They attempted to earlier to raise their support but it took 2 years. Now we're praying, seeking finances and talking with them about coming up regularly.

Categories: Leadership, Movement, MexicoCity, Coaching