Marketing the Gospel

Our time in Mexico has found us caught between extremes: spending time with the comfortable and the destitute, the loved and accepted and the abandoned. The final day of work for the team served as a fair representation of this bittersweet experience. John shares his thoughts on the day's events:

Today (Thursday) the team went out for the last day working with OMS in Mexico. We had three tasks- the first two were with the Santa Monica church and the third was the weekly OMS staff meeting.

The Santa Monica church is in a wealthy area of the city, but this does not lessen the need. After a time of prayer we went onto the street door-to-door to give out invitations to an Alpha course starting on August 3rd in the church.

The above photo shows a mural from the Santa Monica church which portrays the mission statement of the fellowship. Roughly translated from Spanish the five purposes are: (1) To glorify the name of God (2) To love one another (3) To share the love of Christ with others (4) To be a united family in Christ and (5) To grow spiritually.

When we had finished lunch we had our second task, which was to hand out invitations in the market behind the church, as well as talking to the locals about God's love and giving them copies of John's Gospel. This was a hard time as there seemed to be a feeling of Satan's presence in this area, such a contrast from the street children and the poorer areas where people wanted to hear about God.

Then it was back to base for the OMS meeting and a time of praise and prayer, before saying good-bye to some of the missionaries who would not be here when we leave tomorrow (Friday).

Please remember to pray for the young churches, that the Holy Spirit would work to see souls won for Christ and that the Lord would raise up men of God to preach and teach, filled with the Holy Spirit.