Structural changes

Since we have returned to Mexico Andrew and Christian (our field leader) have been working on a new idea for Proyecto MEFI. It's very exciting.

Here in Mexico there are established churches called UNIFAM. La Loma, our church, is one of those. There is also a church planting organisation known as Every Community for Christ (ECC). ECC exists in all the OMS fields. Various ECC teams here work in different areas evangelising and running house churches. One such team is based in La Loma and some long-term readers may remember Zoel and his work with families living on dis-used railway lines quite near the church. The plan is to run Proyecto MEFI according to the ECC model. So what changes will take place?

Well eventually what will happen is that the Proyecto MEFI team will be based out of La Loma. Our pastor (and the current president of UNIFAM), Miguel Romero, will be the pastoral supervisor of the Proyecto MEFI team (just as he is of Zoel's team). The Proyecto MEFI team will then be like an ECC team with their focus being the new church plant in La Raza. La Raza is the name of the area where the Drop-In Centre is and so it will maintain its function but will also be the church called UNIFAM La Raza. Church services won't necessarily happen on a Sunday. We are excited about this change and Miguel is a great pastor to be supervising the team. His own testimony is an incredible story of how he was rescued from alcoholism and family breakdown and he has a real love for the ministry.

As the building work nears completion the big question is over who to invite. Please pray for wisdom in that regard. Previously we have invited whole groups and have seen some do well and others not so well. A new idea is to invite leaders from the groups. Working on influential members from a number of groups may impact even more kids. A couple of group leaders have already been asking to be discipled. How exciting!

Continue to pray for the Proyecto MEFI team as it works through the changes. Pray for unity and vision and pray that in all of this God would be glorified, His will be done and His kingdom extended.