We met pastor Isai Morales and his wife Adriana almost 2 yrs ago, our immediate connection was missions. As president of the BCBC (Baja California Baptist Convention) and pastor of FBC Tecate, he has always wanted to mobilize his church and denomination to greater engagement in missions..
For the last year and a half we have been mentoring their church and several other churches of the BCBC. On Thanksgiving we launched the Global Celebration at FBC Tecate, (this is the next to the last step in our missional process). We had 12 missionaries from different parts of Mexico and from Central Asia and North Africa come and help personalize missions to every member in the church.
The church did everything wonderfully, the inaugural service, the home meetings, the missions fair, and on Sunday when we took up their first faith promise missions offering they went way over their goal and committed over half a million pesos to missions.
FBC Tecate is not a large church, they average about 200, and they are now giving more than all of the other churches of the BCBC put together for missions! We also had 15 more surrender to go personally to the mission field as the next wave of missionaries!