Mexico Outreach Center

04/03/2023

Dear MOC Prayer Warriors,
We have an urgent prayer need at the Center in Parras and are asking you to join us in praying for God to answer the need! See below for details….


“Spring up, O well.”

Prayer is a change agent—a catalyst of dynamic proportions. Prayer really does change things. When God’s people seek His face and pray according to His will, God moves. The Scripture declares, “You have not because you do not act” (James 4:2). Prayer moves God when we pray together in faith.

We have a prayer need on and around the Mexico Outreach Center property in Parras, Mexico. A large commercial tomato farm has moved in above the property farther up toward the base of the mountains. This farm is drawing tremendous amounts of water from the underground aquifer that supplies the wells of the people living in the valley and the MOC property. We have dealt with pump issues for a couple of years, but the water level is very low and the aquifer cannot supply the water needed.

We need a miracle, and our God is a miracle-working God. Therefore, we are asking God to supernaturally supply the aquifer with an excess of water so that those who need it will have what they need. God promised in Isaiah 44:3—“For I will pour out water on the thirsty ground and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring, and My blessings on your descendants.”

A friend with whom I shared our dilemma shared this story with me. It seems that during the worst of the Civil War a large number of prisoners of war at Andersonville Prison in Georgia were dying due to contaminated water. The contamination was caused by the huge number of dead and decaying bodies leaching into their water supply. A handful of bold men began to cry out to God for fresh water. God answered, and a fresh, uncontaminated well sprung up out of the ground. If you visit that Civil War site today, that water is still springing up!

We are asking you to join us in praying very specifically these words from Numbers 21:17—“Spring up, O well.” God says we are to ask and keep on asking so we might receive. To seek and keep on seeking, so that we might find. And to knock and keep on knocking that the door might be opened.

This water and all water, belongs to God—not to “them” or “us” or “anyone else.” It’s God’s water! And His people need it. Therefore, we need to ask in faith, believing God will give us the water that we need to sustain, grow, and continue the life-changing ministry He has established in Parras. Please join us in this prayer until God answers!

01/22/2023

11/21/2022

Nelson Hannah: “the church of Parras doesn’t need to get warmed up, they come ready to worship”

11/16/2022

Last week was a good week for discipleship and prayer! The newsletter should be emailed soon with details. Click the email link at the top of this page and ask to receive newsletters.

11/13/2022

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10/24/2022

I didn’t feel called into foreign missions, so I rejected several invitations. As a favor to a friend, I went on my first trip in July 2021. I thought I was going to make a difference in the community of Parras, but I was changed instead! Other than the moment of salvation, the Holy Spirit has never moved in me like it did in Mexico. It’s like a spiritual revival each time I go. The missionaries before me have shared Christ and continue to disciple the current influencers in Parras, but the Lord has called me to start influencing the next generation. Not only the next generation of Parras residents, but also the next generation of missionaries willing to serve. God is asking “who shall I send, who will go for us” I hope you answer saying “here I am, send me”! Isaiah 6:8
P.s.
Here are 3 ways to get involved:
1) PRAY-sign up for the newsletter to stay current on prayer needs
2) PAY- financial support goes toward facility maintenence, missionary scholarships, and ministry needs like food and clothing. We have a full time family living there and ministering daily to the local needs.
3) PLAY- We encourage all ages from 8 to 80 to physically go to Mexico. No skills needed, no Spanish language, just an obedient heart.

09/22/2022

Plan to stop by the MOC booth on Saturday!

Come out this Saturday. Free admission to look around. $25 to enter a vehicle into the show. Proceeds from cars and vendor booths benefit Mercy house ministry. I’ll be in the Mexico outreach center booth selling Mexican street corn (Elotes with chili lime sauce), hand made peso jewelry, hand made vanilla ice cream and other products using vanilla imported from Parras. Funds raised in the booth will help send new missionaries to the Mexico Outreach Center. All past and present MOC partners are invited to spend any amount of time in the booth and share your experience with guests. I hope to see you there in two days!

09/22/2022

Come out this Saturday. Free admission to look around. $25 to enter a vehicle into the show. Proceeds from cars and vendor booths benefit Mercy house ministry. I’ll be in the Mexico outreach center booth selling Mexican street corn (Elotes with chili lime sauce), hand made peso jewelry, hand made vanilla ice cream and other products using vanilla imported from Parras. Funds raised in the booth will help send new missionaries to the Mexico Outreach Center. All past and present MOC partners are invited to spend any amount of time in the booth and share your experience with guests. I hope to see you there in two days!

09/16/2022

IBFI MONTE HOREB
PARRAS DE LA FUENTE COAHUILA Fam. Garcia Flores
Carta
Dios les bendiga hermanos, dando gracias a Dios por
el apoyo en oración y que en el año 2020 antes de la pandemia y depues de la pandemia y en el año 2021 nos apoyaron con el transporte los domingos en la mañana para ir a traer a los hermanos y niños que algunos no pueden venir por su propio pie, o que viven retirados del lugar donde nos congregamos actualmente.
Gracias por la ropa y también las sillas y mesas que nos prestaban para hacer algunas campañas que fue de bendición para las familias de colonias que necesitaban a su vez el propósito mas grande era de que ellos escucharan el plan de salvación y que recibieran a Cristo como su salvador. Glora a Dios que pone medios para evangelizar y atraerlos a los pies de Cristo y gracias a ustedes por el amor de dar ropa y prestarnos su camioneta para trasladar a los hermanos e invitados. Estamos muy agradecidos con ustedes en estos dos años que nos apoyaron.
Nuestro plan de trabajo es ganar almas casa por casa como lo hacían en el libro de hechos cada dia por las casas, traerlos a la iglesia , bautizándolos y discipularlos y que crezcan espiritualmente.
Hacer campañas en colonias cada mes, tener días especiales, actualmente estamos orando para que alguien enseñe música como violín , piano, trombón , flauta transversal etc , pero no desaprovechamos el tiempo y les estamos enseñando guitarra a los hermanos los sábados en la tarde y después ganamos almas casa por casa, tenemos culto de oración los martes en una colonia llamada saltillo 400, los miércoles tenemos servicio en la iglesia donde nos congregamos los domingos, y los jueves tenemos culto de oración en la colonia antorcha, esto cada semana y los viernes tenemos club biblico para niños en la colonia barrios 1, y los sábados en la tarde están aprendiendo guitarra y después les enseñamos yendo casa por casa a ganar almas y hablarles de Cristo, proverbios 11:30.
Los domingos tenemos reunión en la mañana a las 11:30 am y también en la tarde a las 7:00 pm Peticiones de oración.
Almas salvas en parras y familias fieles

09/09/2022

In May 2011, Pastor David Jett invited me to accompany him on a “prayer trip” to Parras, Mexico. His description of what we would be doing spiritually was right up my alley. Little did I know that God (i.e., “Jehovah Sneaky”) was up to something much bigger in my own life, ministry, and personal relationship with Him. We spent the week, praying over the city of Parras with the Mexico Outreach Team, listening to God’s voice, and making declarations and decrees. It was a week that changed my life and the whole trajectory and direction of my ministry.
​I returned home to Cathy and we planted and launched Eagle’s Wing Church on Sunday, September 11, 2021. Two months later, I led a team from Eagle’s Wing Church on our very first mission trip to Parras, Mexico in a partnership with the Mexico Outreach Center. We helped with a Vacation Bible School in the morning and did odd repair jobs around the city in the afternoons. In my other life, I was a plumber. So, when Armand asked if we could hook up a shower, I said, “Sure!”—not knowing exactly what he had in mind.
We soon arrived at a little house where 5 teenagers (3 brothers and 2 sisters) lived. Due to family issues, they had fled their rural village, where a local church in Parras put them up in a small, rented house across the street from several industrial factories. Their bathroom was an outdoor privy located in the back yard with a commode and a green hosepipe for a shower. The frame around the door had a 1-4 inch crack all the way around it—leaving little or no privacy for the two sisters. That afternoon, we built a shower valve, hooked up a propane water heater (the one and only water heater I have ever installed outside), ran water lines, and provided some well-placed foam in the crack around the door for some much-needed privacy. I will never forget as long as I live the look on the oldest girl’s face when she turned on the water and realized there would be no more ice-cold showers. In fact, her first shower was the first hot one she had ever taken. Little things (like hot water) we take for granted often have the potential to change a person’s life and those small changes are what often alter a person’s destiny. That young lady is now married. One of her brothers has a great job at the local winery, and another is studying mechanical engineering, while working at an automobile factory. Those 5 kids are now adults, and all of them belong to Jesus!
In November, I will be making my 30th trip to Parras to serve with the Mexico Outreach Center. I have witnessed God do amazing, miraculous things on these trips. I have seen many, many people meet Jesus as their Savior, the sick healed, the demonized set free, the miraculous multiplication of materials and food, and the local believers embrace a miraculous lifestyle and ministry in their own neighborhoods and churches. God has given me friends through this ministry who have become family. In fact, I no longer go on “mission trips”—I go to visit and serve my family in Parras!
​God has plenty of miracles He still wants to do in Parras and in the numerous villages scattered around it. For those miracles to become realities—He is searching for partners like you. Special talents or gifts are not required by God to be His partner. All He desires are people who will love Him, love people, serve people, and say, “Yes!” And when God finds such a person—everything else is up to Him.
​Will you be the next person to say, “Yes?” If so, get ready another miracle is on its way from heaven to earth