Mexico
Our program and mission base in Mexicali operates under the organization called Healing Hands Ministries. Alliance Pastor Bruce Lacey is the Director of the base, and Pastor Jose Mendoza is director of training and leadership development in this area for the Alliance National Church.
Our goal is to push back the darkness in this area of Mexico by raising up and training pastors and church leaders, and by bringing the Gospel to various age groups through a variety of ministries.
EVANGELISM MINISTRY
We seek to present the Gospel to the lost by working with local churches to present vacation bible schools, distributing tracts and bibles, bible studies and the showing of Christian films.
MEAL MINISTRY
Often when showing films or leading bible studies, a team will take the opportunity to have a hot dog or hamburger feed for the local people. Each Christmas, food baskets are given out to the many of the most needy in the local communities.
SPORTS MINSTRY
This ministry is designed to attract teenage people through sports activities such as basketball, volleyball and soccer. This gives teams a way to get to know the local young people and establish a friendship that will last forever.
MEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRY
Often a team will bring individuals skilled in a medical field and they will sponsor a free clinic. Teams of Simpson University nursing students come to participate in these medical outreach programs as part of their training.
We have been blessed with teams from many different churches. We have had students from Simpson and Azusa Pacific Universities. Teams have worked alongside of people from the communities and local Mexican contractors. We have even been given extra help by the people at the border in helping to get supplies across. In April, outreach teams were able to give various medical and eye care to more than 750 people.
This past Spring, a team from Paradise Alliance Church came down and accomplished a great amount of construction work on the base, completing much of the director’s new home and doing some remodeling on the clinic building to allow for a therapy center to minister to special needs children. Along with the help from Technical Outreach, Students from Simpson University and some local help, the Vida en Movemiento Therapy Center was opened on site.
This April the Paradise team will be going there again. This time to build a new dorm facility to house our short term teams. This new dorm will enable our churches to send more teams to move ahead with expanding the Kingdom in NW Mexico.
God has worked many miracles here and we believe He is only getting started! We still have projects to complete on the site, as well as building a church and training facilities for Pastor Jose. We want to train and raise up church planters and pastors to push back the darkness and bring In the light of Jesus Christ.
Ensenada Mexico Mission Opportunities
Often overlooked when it comes to overseas missions trips, Ensenada is almost three times the size of Texas, with a population of 111 million people. Despite bordering the United States, crossing the border into Mexico brings one to a different world filled with people trying to survive. Nearly half of the population lives below the poverty line.
If Mexico is a site of interest, you could find yourself working in Ensenada with C&MA missionaries to build homes and churches, build relationships between the community and the church, and help with VBS and other street evangelism ministries. If you come for an extended period of time, you could lead short-term teams.
