I am so excited to let you know about a mission trip that God has given me the opportunity to co‐lead. The Baptist Student Ministries at the University of North Texas (Denton) and at Texas State University (San Marcos) will be partnering with Vida Nueva Baptist Church in Mexico City to do evangelism on the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) campus. We will be going to Mexico City as a Special Impact Team through Go Now Missions (www.gonowmissions.com).
Vida Nueva is located on the university campus and their main focus is to evangelize and disciple students. Our goal is to help strengthen the ministry that Vida Nueva has on the college campus as well as working with churches partnered with the Baptist Convention of Mexico City as they reach out to students. We will be providing conversation partners for students who want to practice English, helping teach ESL (English as a second language) classes, as well as participating in campus outreach events. UNAM is a public university that has over 286,500 students, many of which are studying internationally. The opportunity to serve on such a large and unique campus allows us to literally minister to the entire world from
one location.
one location.
I am writing you to ask you to pray for us as we prepare and while we are there. Also, to keep the cost of the trip low for the UNT students going (pictured above), we want them to only have to cover the cost of their flight. Which means that collectively we need to raise the $2500 needed to cover the remainder of the trip costs (lodging, food, transportation and insurance). Some local churches have provided service opportunities for donations, and we are hoping to find 100 people who can give $20 each. If you feel God is leading you to give, please make checks payable to UNT BSM and mail to PO Box 310890, Denton, TX 76203 by May 1st. Donations are tax deducible and we will mail you a receipt.
I am so excited to see how God provides as we prepare, and how He moves through the trip as we serve. We will update a blog (http://missionmexicocity.tumblr.com/) daily so that you can see what God is doing and know how to pray for us while we are there.
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if you, my blog family, would like to contribute that would be wonderful. we trust that God will provide all that we need as we prepare and go.
