[About the pictures: Nabor came into our lives when he was only four years old and suffered from a severe cleft palate. Volunteer surgeons, doctors, and nurses were able to invest their time, talent, and treasure and forever change his life. Now Nabor is a grown man, committed to the Lord, faithful in church, and married with a child of his own!]
Dear friends of Mexico Ministries:
When the disciples tried to keep a bunch of children away from Jesus, he rebuked them and said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven,” then he laid his hands on them and blessed them. (Mt. 19.14)
Every life is precious. And God uses the aged and the young alike. The elderly Simeon and Anna were among the first to adore the infant Jesus. To reach an older person with the Gospel of Jesus is of great importance. But to reach a young person with the Good News is to help save a life that has yet to be lived.
Think about it. God works with, for, and in the young. All great women and men began their stories as children. Joseph and David were teenagers when we first read of them; the prophet Samuel was just a boy. Mary was a teenage virgin when she said, “Be it unto me according to your word,” and gave the tiny space of her womb as a place for Jesus to come into our world. And the Gospels don’t begin with the ministry of Jesus, but with his infancy and childhood.
Over the years so many of you have come to Mexico to minister to the children and youth through children’s crusades, youth gatherings, helping with the orphanage, and so many other ways. Now a great many of these children are grown, married, have children of their own, and are well established in the churches. Thank you to all who came to minister. Thank you to the pastors and youth leaders who had the confidence to send teams. Thank you to the people who helped with finances so they could come.
I want to especially thank all of those friends and supporters from the older generation who, like John the Baptist, were forerunners for the generation that God is raising up now. Proverbs 31 describes a woman of virtue and tells us, “Her children shall rise up and call her blessed.” May the children of this generation rise up and call blessed all of you who have come before them and invested your time, finances, prayer and energy into helping establish them in the faith of our fathers and mothers.
“Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts.” (Psalm 145.3,4)
God bless you,
Larry