Last Sunday night half of the team, leaders coming from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico City, and the United States arrived in Guadalajara and the next day we drove four hours to gather with the other half of the team.
The team started the next day by having the first conversation with EFM’s Director of Mobilization, Matt Macy, who shared a devotional based on Luke 10 and about EFM’s framework, vision, and mission. The purpose was to get acquainted with each other as we head towards the future where we intend to partner, form, and send multinational teams. After our first formal meeting, we all departed for the first part of the trip where we explored three different towns in the State of San Luis Potosi.
Having completed the first part of this trip, during our first debriefing time as a team, our mutual sense about these towns was that most people in these places are not very open to having a conversation with strangers. In fact, some of us experienced rejection, hardness of hearts, mistrust, and hopelessness in the lives of the local people because of the many cultural conflicts that they have suffered, for which we know that the reality is the need for Jesus’ love in their lives, in their families and their towns. Since the first town we visited, God directed us to talk to some 
key local people who informed us that before there had been other denominations of evangelical Christians that had tried to initiate ministries around this area and they all failed and left, the one pastor that lasted the longest had a ministry for one year without much fruit. Even having experienced these hard spiritual soil towns, our team still agrees that it is precisely to these hard places where workers are most needed to come in the name of Jesus to bring the gospel of truth, grace, and love of God.
Please continue praying for our team of 12 as we continue with the second part of this trip traveling through towns in the state Durango.
Please pray…
- For safety and health.
- For continued conversations about the partnership between Mexico Friends and EFM.
- To be able to have encounters with the people of peace in each town.
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