Last week before traveling to Brandon, I was in Cd. Valles, Mexico with Luis Marti (our Central American Director for Global Focus). Iglesia Evangelica de los Peregrinos of Cd. Valles had their 3rd Global Celebration. The church was packed as they welcomed their 25 missionaries and missional projects into the auditorium.
What has God done in this local church since they have implemented Global Focus? God has taken this nearly 100 year old Wesleyan church that had never sent out a missionary and now they are sending 2 missionaries; one family to Macedonia, and the other to Southeast Asia, both working as church planters among mslms. Their own people have have owned local/global missions, they are personally participating by starting local missions projects, by participating in missions trips. They have also quadrupled their missions giving!
God is doing so much in this church that this year we decided to host our first ever Missional Church Conference in Mexico. The host church invited 50 pastors and leaders of their own Peregrinos (Wesleyan) denomination. Luis and I were able to teach for 2 days these leaders and show them how the incredible transformation that has taken place in the host church can take place in their churches also. Then we were able to have a facilitators conference where we both taught several of our new facilitators in Mexico how to help churches with the Global Focus missional process.
