Orphanages
May 18, 2007
Greetings from your Brothers and Sisters in Mexico,
Again we want to thank you for your prayers and support on behalf of the Children’s Home and the Pastors, Evangelists and workers you help by being faithful in many ways.
Brother Chalo’s evangelistic trip walking through the mountains was a great blessing to the people he met. Kind of like the
Apostle Paul walking sometimes 10-15 miles a day up and down the mountains talking to everyone he met about Jesus, staying with them in their houses and eating with them. All of them made him promise to come back with more of the gospel. Some of them heard the gospel for the first time. One incident on Brother Chalo’s trip. After dark on the little bus before reaching his destination of Cieneguita they came across a pickup that had went over the mountain and trapped several drunk drug dealers. The people on the little bus including the driver were scared and didn’t want to stop but Brother Chalo went down and told the guys he would go get help but they didn’t believe him. Two hours later they arrived at the village very late, nobody was up to talk to except a mining office was open. They gave him a truck and a driver and he went back and rescued four trapped slightly sober men very anxious and happy to see him who they called their angel because he was unknown to them. The next two hours going back to town by now daylight he preached his first sunrise Easter sermon explaining the gospel to them . Christ is alive! He then walked ten more miles to his sister’s house on Easter Sunday and preached his second Easter service. Christ is alive! Heard by many for the first time in the village of Basogota on Easter 2007. He didn’t have words to describe the joy he felt except to say he may never come back
home to Cochibampo again. Brother Jorge told him “Brother Chalo you are a very brave man”. Pray for Brother Chalo he is ready to return to this same area to cover a larger area with someone to help him.
In regard to the Children’s Home we completed the chain link fence on three sides and barbed wire on the entrance roads, about 2400’ and five gates total. It ran over our estimate several thousand dollars. We also put the master coat sand finish on the outside of the Children’s Home as well as completing almost 2 more rooms of wood laminate flooring on the upstairs
rooms. The kids are doing great at the children’s Home, Sister Josefina said some of the kids are ready for evangelism work two or three at a time with her in the most remote villages. The last night we were there little Alvaro and his sister Rosalia were in charge of the evening devotions. Alvaro did the preaching and Rosalia led the song service. Alvaro is seven this year and Rosalia is six. Everyone around there is so proud of those kids. Alvaro is also the official bike mechanic. He asked me to bring him more tire patches before we left there in the early morning.
The high Sierra of Mexico is about 150 miles wide by 1500 miles long, is pretty inaccessible for the most part, very dangerous in every way; assaults are common. There has been very little gospel in this remote area of Mexico. We have felt the Lord wanted us to do something toward bringing the gospel to this area. But we have always felt it was not possible to build churches in these areas. It has to be native evangelists from other areas of Mexico such as Brothers Chalo, Jorge and Sister Josefina, Yovey, Fito and others who are from these areas and are at home there and can deal one on one with these ancient
people with 4 languages . It is past time to get started with this evangelistic effort with your help!
On Easter Week we were invited by a good friend who lives near the children’s home to a village called Guadalupe Victoria on the Rio Oteros about twelve hours further into the mountains from Alamos. His family and the whole village were very good to us and were very interested in the gospel. The next day the Mayor wanted to show us the new road which had been ten years in the making to the village of Guazisaco, a village three hours further. The first family we talked to after arriving at Guazisaco was our friend Lalo’s uncle. After visiting a while they asked if we were Christians. They said about 6 years ago a young man brought bibles in on burros and they all read them regularly but no one had come to explain the Bible to them. We didn’t tell them we were the ones who sent the Bibles in to them. One young woman insisted we send someone in right away before the road washes out. There are about seventy families, European looking very husky men living in this village. So, we left by way of Chinipas to Navojoa and talked with Brother Jorge, Brother Chalo and Brother Yovey to make a major expedition in there.
They returned from there last Saturday. This is what they said. After a long day’s trip they arrived late in the evening at Guadalupe Victoria no electricity in the village but they insisted on a service. Many people showed up in the dark by the fire and Jorge explained the gospel to them till about midnight. In the morning the Mayor named Israel went with Jorge and the others to Guazisaco three more hours. They arrived about 10:am. The whole village was gathered. They took
turns explaining the gospel until midnight. Brothers Jorge, Chalo and Yovey were too exhausted to go any longer. They rose early and visited and exhorted till about 10:am then drove to Santa Ana where Jorge’s dad lives and had another service till dark. The next day they came on home for their Sunday service. Brother Jorge also had a hard time finding words to describe the joy and contentment he felt about the journey beyond where they thought possible to go. Brother Jorge had to borrow a jeep to take this trip as neither of his Jeeps were running and were undependable. We are looking for at least two small 4 X 4’s in excellent condition and economical to operate.
There are hundreds of Guazisacos in the mountains and willing Evangelists to make the journey in spite of the extreme difficulties.
Jim and Jean
If you would like to contribute to the gospel in Mexico you can donate to Sierra Missions Assistance Corporation, an Idaho Corporation by sending a donation to Sierra Missions, P.O. Box 15128, Boise, Idaho 83715 or deposit to Sierra Missions Bank of America account #17547001. Be sure to let us know you deposited so that we can send you a receipt. You can also e-mail us at jwpjhunt@yahoo.com
God Bless
