Dear friends of Mexico Ministries:
The writers of the four gospels are known as, “The Four Evangelists.” While at the dedication of the Tzabalho church on July 26, I took pictures of four modern day evangelists, four indigenous pastors, so I could show you their faces as I tell you their stories.
Pastor Victorio is the pastor of the new Tzabalho church, and has already established 22 missions in the area! Over the years we have been blessed to be able to build each congregation a place to worship. When I first met Victorio he lived in a one room house made of 1x12 boards with a dirt floor, and his family cooked overburning wood outside.
When Pastor Antonio started Bible school in Chenalho he could neither read nor write and he became discouraged and went back home. Asked to return to school, he learned to read and write and finished a two year program of pastoral training. I rode horseback over high mountains to reach his village when there were no roads to the town. Now Antonio has established 24 congregations, all for which we have built buildings!
Pastor Alex, pictured with Pastor Jose, was a very young man living with his parents when I arrived in Chenalho. He now pastors our large church in Chenalho and has also established 26 mission congregations, for which we have built buildings!
Pastor Jose perhaps tops them all. He pastors a beautiful church and has 24 missions. In addition to these, we also built an additional 10 churches. His responsibility has become so large that it was impossible for one man to carry the load, so we gave the oversight of the 10 congregations to another pastor. I have only mentioned four pastors that help oversee the works, which we call presbyters. We have a total of 12 districts with 12 presbyters. The last time we gathered in Chenalho for a two day campmeeting, we had over 5,600 people from these congregations gather to worship the Lord. Next April we will gather again to celebrate.
I just wanted you to know how great God is and how much we appreciate you for what you do for the sake of His Kingdom.
God bless you,
Larry
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