Beatriz - She could be an angel

This past week, Craig, Joe (our new team member) went down into the heart of the city to meet with a wonderful woman. She was surfaced supernaturally this past summer when our summer project was sent down to find a few awesome contacts. She is just that. She has heard a call to reach college students. She graduated from UNAM a few years back and is a graphic designer. She has a 5 year old daughter and currently her husband is on a contract in Canada.

About a month ago I contacted her and asked her to brand our Ministry Enfoque Mexico with a cool logo and design and she killed it. Here is just a portion of what she did. Then she helped us work through the wording and design of an all time brochure that we'll use throughout the city and now the country. She is a talented woman with a passion for prayer, God and reaching college students.

This week we met with her to talk about opening up new networks of spiritual movements in her area and with her church. She is so eager to learn, talk to her pastor (who is in charge of 300 churches and 12 countries with in the F.I.C.U. denomination), and go on campuses to see what God can surface in student leaders.

We're praying she is just one of hundreds of networks that will open up, adopt universities and be part of bringing massive spiritual revival in Mexico City.
Categories: Leadership, MexicoCity, SimpleChurch, Movements

Ryan and Christy - Going for it with Assemblies of God

This past Monday night Craig, Christine and I met with Ryan and Christy Thomas. They showed up 3 months ago in Mexico City to plant churches in the south of the city with the Assemblies of God. Ryan grew up here as a missionary kid and they have been working with a church in the Northwest U.S. for the past 6 years. They are coming to Mexico City with a passion and plan to plant simple church planting movements.

It was a great night of steaks, grilled veggies, tortillas, dessert and sharing about what God has placed on our hearts. The history that Ryan has with churches, mission organizations and leaders here in the city is extremely strategic. We're praying that in our partnership, thousands if not millions will be trained to lead spiritual movements throughout the city and the world.

Now we are just trusting God to have about another 200 of these types of conversations with other leaders in the city. The city and scope is too big for one group, church, pastor to control it all. We need to labor together to bring a spiritual community to each and every student in the city.

Categories: SimpleChurch, Leadership, MexicoCity

Great Photos from Week One

My good friend Craig Johring posted a great photo run down from the past week. Sorry no pictures here in this post but follow Craig's Pictures

Categories: MexicoCity, Photos

New Phone Number

This past week I gave up on Vonage actually transferring (porting) my Sprint cell phone number of 12 years. I was told back in July it would take 10 days and it just hit 60 days. I gave up. I have no perseverance.

So if you're wanting to call us here in Mexico we have a new U.S. phone number. Drop us an email and we'll share it with you. All of this is dependent on how many Christmas gifts you'll send us.

Categories: Family, MexicoCity

National WSN Team Planting Movements

This past week was an adventuresome week. Craig Johring, my co-leader showed up last Thurs with his feet already running. He has been the Nebraska state director in charge of reaching all the campuses in Nebraska. God has used him in a profound way. He has had teams of 1-5 and they have led over 20 campuses.


Right away we met in a staff meeting with a short team we have serving here with us. This team of 7-9 will do much of the surfacing of leaders on the over 350 campuses. We met with their team leader Jason Sorge on Friday and his whole team on Saturday at our house. I was encouraged by our time as we prayed for each university by name. We're trusting God to provide a leader for a Christ Centered spiritual movement on each campus and in each faculty (department).

Sunday was a day of rest. Hmm the Sabbath. We also got ready for over 40 of our national and regional WSN (Worldwide Student Network) directors for one of their annual conferences. They are taking seriously what we're doing down here in City Focus Mexico City so they wanted to be part of the early stages. On Monday Layo, our Director of Affairs for Central American and Mexico spoke about transforming our cities, not just with Campus Crusade movements but with city wide partnership with those who have the DNA of Kingdom work. Ken Miller, my direct boss and friend spoke on movements of God (from Households to the Kingdom).

Then Craig and I made a presentation on what is Enfoque Mexico or City focus to the English speakers and how to plant simple spiritual movements in one day. The day was perfect. We could tell the Holy Spirit was all over the alignment, vision, mission and tactics.

The next morning 40 or so staff went to about 20 campuses to trust God to surface spiritual leaders to start, lead and develop these movements. The reality is that with over 350 universities and with over 4,000 departments, we may never be able to go back to these campuses. We're trusting God to raise up leaders to lead them and we'll coach these students from a distance.

What a day. The stories were awesome. I'll write more as they continue to surface. We ended that night at our house with a Taco and Churro ice cream Extravaganza. It was fun to pray, see what God did and get anxious about the future movements that will take over this city and country.


I was so encouraged by our National Leader Keith Bubbulo and local director here in Mexico, Steve Morgan. They challenged us, encourage us and got behind the vision of reaching every student with multiple spiritual movements. We ended our time with them on the canals of Xochimilco. The original Mexico City. Great music, great food and killer friends.

Now, the next step: Recruit more laborers, get on more campuses, create an infrastructure and pray, pray, and pray.
Categories: MexicoCity, Leadership