Calpulalpan

Espanol abajo We were so blessed to have brother Kevin Smith come to teach an evangelism course at our church in July. It was a weeklong course filled with exercises, Bible verses, and videos which helped explain the reason behind our call to evangelize and disciple others. We are very grateful for this course. It is exactly what I (Brian) had been praying for. We don’t want our church to just grow in numbers, but in strength, spiritual maturity and discipleship. We believe that every Christian is called to disciple another Christian so that we can fulfill our calling from God to spread the Gospel to the end of the earth. ...

(Español abajo) Praise God we were able to have our first Quinseñera at our church in April! One of our youth kids, Andrea, had her 15th birthday party and ceremony at the church. It was a beautiful party and we were blessed to be a part of it! We are also very proud of her because she is taking our pillars class on Sundays because she wants to serve in a ministry, possibly the children’s ministry. ...

(Español abajo) We are so grateful with God for everything that we have been able to do so far this year! Big shoutout and thank you to my (Brittany’s) Uncle Phil & Aunt Melinda for the backpacks that we got for our kids. The kids were very excited and grateful for their Christmas presents! (click here for more information about their backpack ministry) Here is a picture of some of the kids who received backpacks this year! ...

God has been moving and doing great things here in Calpulalpan. Praise God we had our second baptisms, and there were 4 youth/young adults who were baptized! It is so sweet to see our church family grow and take steps in their faith. (Click here for more pictures) Alexandra, Andrea, Bianca, and David stepped out in faith and got baptized! Also thank you Calvary Rosarito for providing our first 20 baptism t-shirts! ...

Since we arrived in January, the our family and the church has been growing and moving in great ways. God has completely blown our expectations out of the box. Right now at Calvary Conexion Mexico, we have switched to doing 2 services on Sundays because the service was starting to get really crowded. There is about 35-40 people coming to our Sunday services, and there has been a new person, couple or family almost every week recently. ...

As we started our journey to Calpulalpan we scheduled multiple stops with various Pastors, friends and church plants from Calvary Rosarito along the way. As we crossed into the first state, Sonora, we stopped in San Luis Colorado where we got to have lunch with Pastor Asuncion (Pastor of Capilla Calvario San Luis Colorado) and his family. We also got to visit with our friends Lalo & Linda and their kiddos. ...

(Español Abajo) Praise God we had a wonderful Christmas and New Year’s together with our families! It was sweet for all of us to be together, especially because we don’t know when or if we will all be together next Christmas. The cherry on top was that Brittany’s brother, William, drove down from Glendale, AZ to celebrate with us. We were so blessed during our sending weekend at Calvary Rosarito! At all three of the services Brian was given the opportunity to share about a few verses (John 12:24-26) that God used to confirm our calling to plant a church in Calpulalpan. Praise God we were able to sell t-shirts with our church’s name, and sell food to raise funds for our trip to move down and start the church. We are so grateful for the people who came up to us and encouraged us, supported us financially, and prayed for us. Talk about feeling loved! It was definitely hard and sad to say goodbye to our friends, family, comfort, security, stability, and more. On the other hand we have had so many people encouraging us that God will do great things through His work in Calpulalpan. God has continued to confirm our family’s calling through so many things and we are confidant that we are doing God’s Will for our lives. ...

(Español abajo) We are so grateful for your partnership with us and for helping us to send Brian on the mission’s trip to Peru! Brian was able to go for basically a whole week, including travel. It was such a blessing and an encouragement for Brian to be able to see the church and the Bible college and how they are working together to raise up Christians to be future missionaries and church planters. At the missions conference Brian was so encouraged by all the people he met there from many other different countries. He realized that he has the same desire as them for church planting. They are people who are going through “normal” life struggles just like us, but they are on fire for reaching South America. There were 12 countries represented by the 270 people who attended the conference. The teachings were amazing, but what Brian enjoyed and was encouraged by the most was creating relationships with those people from all different countries. Being able to pray for them and also to have them pray for us. Brian was inspired by Calvary Trujillo and also their CBI for the work that we will be doing in Calpulalpan. We would like to especially thank Pastor Cory Kilgus & his family for their support and encouragement; and also to Arlin and his wife Rosemary who let Brian stay in their house while he was there. ...

Trials, Opportunities, and Steps of Faith Hello friends and family! We want to share with you that we are so grateful for the great opportunities that the Lord has opened for us to prepare and train us before we go out to the mission field. As many of you know, the Lord has called us to plant a church in one of the unreached areas in the south of Mexico - in a small city called Calpulalpan, in the state of Tlaxcala. ...

(Español abajo) This time has come to a close and looking back we are so grateful for everything that God allowed us to do and experience throughout this summer. Even though we are not very busy with teams at Connections House, we have been keeping busy with ministry and preparations to move down south. The Lord has continued to bless us in many different ways, and we want to share a little bit about that with you. One thing we have begun to do is serve more at our church Calvary Rosarito. Mainly we have started serving in the worship ministry along with Brian’s brothers Kevin and Aldrin. Brian has also come on staff with Calvary Rosarito to get a better feel for things and learn more as we are preparing to move down south in December to plant a church. ...