The Next Step

This week we will have our second interview with the Border Evangelism And Mercy Ministries (BEAMM) team on the US/Mexico border. This team is a partnership between Mission to the World (MTW) and Mission to North America (MNA) to reach strategic border cities through church planting movements resulting in a transformation of society for the glory of God.

Their goal is: By God’s grace and His blessing, BEAMM will promote church planting movements by establishing a network of churches in each major border city: Brownsville / Matamoros, McAllen / Reynosa, Laredo / Nuevo Laredo, El Paso / Ciudad Juarez, Nogales / Nogales, El Centro / Mexicali, and San Diego / Tijuana. Associated with each church network will be a regional Theological and Leadership Training Center for the training of future pastors and lay leaders, and a Christian Community Center which will provide English as a Second Language (ESL) and skills training, counseling services, job placement, and mercy ministries to the community. Furthermore, BEAMM will partner with MNA in establishing bilingual church movements in local Hispanic communities throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Please visit http://www.beamm.org/ for more details on their vision and work.

After pursuing recommendations on several continents, both Heather and I agree that this ministry would be a good fit for our family. It would use our gifts, our passions, and our experiences. It would use our gifts in mercy and evangelism. We have a passion to see Christ glorified through the planting of local churches. We have a vision for identifying and equipping leaders to plant churches and reach out to the poor. In Wichita, Jeff started an English as a Second Language Outreach to Hispanics, and Heather taught Bible clubs to the kids of the parents attending. We took the Heartland youth to Chihuahua on several mission trips. Jeff's parents and extended family are from Las Cruces and El Paso. We would start out doing a two year apprenticeship in El Paso and Juarez. After that we would like to go to Nogales, Sonora on the Arizona/Mexico border.

We will let you know how things develop. Please keep us in prayer this week.