Mexico

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) We were so grateful to welcome our beautiful baby girl into the world on January 13! We decided to name her Cristina Lizbeth, named after our moms (Kristy & Elizabeth). Thank you to our sending church Calvary Rosarito for allowing us to have her baby dedication there. Praise God we have her American passport now and now we just need to get her Mexico paperwork done (as well as Brittany’s & Kimmy’s). Also while we were in Rosarito God took our good friend Chuck home to Heaven. It was a sad time, but also beautiful to remember all of the sweet memories we had together. We returned to Calpulalpan the first week of February along with Kristy (Brittany’s mom) to help us get situated in our new house. ...

(Español abajo) I (Brittany) was able to go with about 9 other ladies to a women’s conference at Calvary Chapel Texcoco. It was a time of refreshing encouragement. The teachings were about healing our hearts and how we can help others through that healing process as well. I also got to pray for the ladies at the conference alongside the other Pastor’s wives who were there. It’s always such a blessing to have a time of fellowship, worship, teaching, and prayer together with other ladies. ...

(Español abajo) We had an amazing Youth camp praise God! We had teachings, worship, campfires, movie night, prayer, outing to the pool, a rally, food, prizes, crafts, and more! It was such a blessing to receive over 50 youth from about 7 different churches. We thank God for everyone who made this 3 day event possible; all of you who are reading this letter, our servants from our church, all of the youth leaders, and also the team from Connections House! All of you played such a big role in making this possible and we thank God for your lives! (Click here to see a post with pictures from the youth camp) ...

(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. ...

Praise God for our second team that came from Calvary Rosarito! It was an all ladies team who did a ladies conference here at Calvary Conexion Mexico. They did a two day conference called “Women in War”. It was an amazing conference with multiple speakers, activities, games, food, and an awesome program for the kids learning about the amour of God. It was also such a blessing to have ladies come from 3 other local churches and 2 ladies accept Jesus as their Savior at the end of the conference! After the conference the ladies helped us paint our new church building and did an amazing detailed painting on the children’s classroom wall! ...

(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. ...