We spent the past two weeks in Pechuca and Mexico City working alongside the YWAM Pechuca base. We had another team in Jakarta, Indonesia, while my team of 5 were back and forth between Pechuca and Mexico City. Pechuca YWAM's DTS was in the last week of their lecture phase when we arrived, so they joined us in our second week of outreach in Mexico City. It was great to have 6 new, fresh faces to add to our group dynamic. Their team consisted mostly of Lations, so that was a much needed dynamic.
Our first week, mainly, we spent in Pechuca. The Pechuca base being a relatively new base, we spent most of our morning helping them paint the outside of their base, primar the inside of their classroom building, clean, paint doors, etc. In the afternoons, we did a lot of evangelism through our dramas in parks, and also talking to people. One night, we went and handed out hot tea to people in a park, and just conversed with them. It is amazing how open and friendly the Mexican people are. I love Mexico!
Our second week, we spent in Mexico City, staying at the house of former YWAMers, our needs were most definately cared for. Sarah and Urs were a wonderful and very hospitable family, by whom we were so blessed! Our ministry consisted mostly minisering with the street kids and the prostituted men and women in Mexico City. YWAM Pechuca has built many good relationships with the street kids in several areas throughout the city. We brought them lunch, did some dramas for them about freedom in Christ, and just hung out with them, and talked and played. Almost all these street kids are addicted to sniffing paint thinner, which makes them so high that they wont get cold or hungry. I remembered several of them from my last trip a few months ago in Mexico City.
We also did ministry with the prostituted men and women in Mexico City. We split into 3 groups and went down a few very busy streets lined with these men and women, and handed out roses that we gave as a gift from God becasue He loved them and thought them as worthy. Most all of them would take the flower, but few would enter into actual conversation with us. With most all of them, however, we could tell an instant lift in their spirits. Some cried and let us pray for them, some glowed when we handed them the rose, and others looked fearful, and told us they couldn't talk to us. It was a beautiful and meaningful time, just being a messenger of giving a flower from our Father God to His child that is so lost. YWAM Pechuca has the heart and the vision to keep building upon the ministry to the prostitued and street kids there, and they are still continuing to send teams bak into these areas to minister to these people.
Once again, I so loved my time in Mexico City, however short it was. YWAM San Diego/Baja is kind of helping pioneer the Pechuca base with helping them bits financially, donating supplies, sending teams, etc. It was neat to just be leading a team to encourage and come alongside the missinaries in Pechuca and support what they are already doing, and be a part of it. God has given me such a heart for Mexico City, and I am so blessed that He brought me back there to lead a team. Hopefully, it will happen again! :-)
Our first week, mainly, we spent in Pechuca. The Pechuca base being a relatively new base, we spent most of our morning helping them paint the outside of their base, primar the inside of their classroom building, clean, paint doors, etc. In the afternoons, we did a lot of evangelism through our dramas in parks, and also talking to people. One night, we went and handed out hot tea to people in a park, and just conversed with them. It is amazing how open and friendly the Mexican people are. I love Mexico!
Our second week, we spent in Mexico City, staying at the house of former YWAMers, our needs were most definately cared for. Sarah and Urs were a wonderful and very hospitable family, by whom we were so blessed! Our ministry consisted mostly minisering with the street kids and the prostituted men and women in Mexico City. YWAM Pechuca has built many good relationships with the street kids in several areas throughout the city. We brought them lunch, did some dramas for them about freedom in Christ, and just hung out with them, and talked and played. Almost all these street kids are addicted to sniffing paint thinner, which makes them so high that they wont get cold or hungry. I remembered several of them from my last trip a few months ago in Mexico City.
We also did ministry with the prostituted men and women in Mexico City. We split into 3 groups and went down a few very busy streets lined with these men and women, and handed out roses that we gave as a gift from God becasue He loved them and thought them as worthy. Most all of them would take the flower, but few would enter into actual conversation with us. With most all of them, however, we could tell an instant lift in their spirits. Some cried and let us pray for them, some glowed when we handed them the rose, and others looked fearful, and told us they couldn't talk to us. It was a beautiful and meaningful time, just being a messenger of giving a flower from our Father God to His child that is so lost. YWAM Pechuca has the heart and the vision to keep building upon the ministry to the prostitued and street kids there, and they are still continuing to send teams bak into these areas to minister to these people.
Once again, I so loved my time in Mexico City, however short it was. YWAM San Diego/Baja is kind of helping pioneer the Pechuca base with helping them bits financially, donating supplies, sending teams, etc. It was neat to just be leading a team to encourage and come alongside the missinaries in Pechuca and support what they are already doing, and be a part of it. God has given me such a heart for Mexico City, and I am so blessed that He brought me back there to lead a team. Hopefully, it will happen again! :-)
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Jaimes, that is amazing. I'm so glad you were able to go to DF again. I'm sure you guys were a blessing to Pechucca and to those whom you worked with.
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