Vincent Family November 2018 Missions Update

Greetings from Mexico,

 

In this update, I wanted to share with you about a missions trip my son Daniel and I got to take last month to visit two of our church plants! We were blessed to travel with my good friend and assistant Pastor, Fernando and his son Dan who is one of Daniel’s best friends! We also traveled with our good friends Jeff and Bonnie Johnson, who served on our church staff for many years. The purpose of this trip was to visit and encourage two of our church plants and build up the churches through conferences!

Our trip began in the beautiful seaside city of Todos Santos located in Southern Baja! This city, home to the original famous Hotel California (for you Eagles music fans) is located on the rough and raw Southwest tip of Baja! After a quick trip to the beach, our ministry team visited our 6-month-old church plant that is called 412 Todos Santos. This is one of our 3 2ndgeneration church plants, that was directly planted by one of our church plants! (3-year-old Calvary Chapel Rancho Libertad, located 30 minutes south of us in the community of  La Mision)

6 months ago, our friends sent out a team of 5 to begin this new venture of faith! Besides supporting them financially every month, our church has a commitment to visit and encourage each one of these next generation church plants. In a certain way, we consider these churches our GRANDAUGHTER CHURCHES that have been sent out by our daughter churches!

After receiving a tour of the property, we hosted a conference on the Bible. To our delight, around 40 church members turned out for the Thursday conference, and we even had one first time profession of faith. We finished up the conference with a delicious Carnitas taco feast that our church was blessed to provide. It was so encouraging to see how God is spreading our passion for church planters to our church plants.

The rest of our five-day trip took place in the beautiful capital city of La Paz! (Located in the South East of South Baja) Our days began early as we woke up and had our son’s lead us in morning devotions! Also in La Paz, we hosted a two-day marriage and family conference that was open to the entire community!

We had about 80 in attendance and our boys helped out and served all day in the bustling children’s ministry! In my teachings, I was able to teach the roles of marriage and raising children in the ways of the Lord!

On Sunday, I was blessed to preach to the 4-year-old congregation of CCLa Paz! They have a great ministry team, including three families that were sent out of our church in the past few years! On Sunday morning, the attendance was well over 100 adults, and we were honored to witness 3 first time professions of faith!

The Pastor (Michael McDonald) and his wife Sharlene then took us out to an amazing secluded beach where we enjoyed an afternoon of lunch, fellowship, and snorkeling! If you are the kind of person that loves warm clear water, secluded beaches, and beautiful fish, I highly encourage you to visit La Paz!

Finally, I want to thank you once again for partnering with our family and ministry in the mission field of Mexico. As the church planter, Paul wrote in the scriptures, “I planted, Apollo’s watered, but GOD gave the increase!” We feel very honored and blessed that you have chosen to partner with our family and ministry! THANK YOU!

Con mucho amor de Mexico,  (with much love from Mexico)

Mike, Sarah, Grace, and Daniel

 

Prayer Requests!

 

#1-  That God would move powerfully in the two church plants that we visited on our missions trip!

 

#2-  That God would continue to provide for the needs of our family and church in Rosarito!

 

Praise Reports!

 

#1- Praise God that my son Daniel (and Fernando’s son Dan) got to minister with us on our missions trip!

 

#2- Praise the Lord for the continued progress on our church’s new patio and sanctuary expansion!

 

 

For our personal support, checks should be made out to Saving Grace World Missions with “Vincent support” in the memo section.  For special projects, checks should also be made out to Saving Grace World Missions or SGWM, with the project name in the comments section. Use the enclosed envelope or mail directly to Saving Grace World Missions, 17451 Bastanchury Rd., Suite 203, Yorba Linda, CA 92886-1873

 

For your convenience, you may consider giving through electronic funds transfer or direct deposit.  Simply go to our mission’s website, or insert this web address into your web browser, www.sgwm.com/wp2010/ministries/calvary-chapel-rosarito/   Next, click on the “become a financial partner” button and fill out the information. If you want your gift to go to support our family, please write “Vincent” in the “purpose of gift” section.

Vincent Family September 2018

Greetings from Mexico,
This past month, our church was blessed to host a church planting conference. In this update, I wanted to tell you about the great things that God did during this conference.
Our church planting weekend began on Friday evening as we had 12 of our church planers return from the field to share with our church congregation about the great things God has done!
 Most of our local church planters shared, along with several who flew in for this special event. Each one gave a testimony along with some prayer requests, along with thanking our church for their support.
A special highlight for me was listening to a church planting panel made up solely of our church planters. I felt like a proud papa as I sat back in the audience and heard our church planters answer question after question from our church body with wisdom and clarity!  The evening was well attended as many in our congregation personally support their friends that have been sent out to church plant.
While the Friday evening conference was open to our local church, all day Saturday we hosted a bilingual conference that was open to any and all pastors and leaders that were interested in learning about church planting.  For the first time, this conference was held not in our church facility, but at one of our church plants located in a beautiful town called La Mision about 30 minutes south of us!
This two-year-old church plant, (Liberty Ranch Calvary Chapel) has not only flourished in their community, but they have already launched out and sent out their own church plant to a community located in the Southern Baja surf town of Todos Santos.
We were blessed as two of our ministry partners traveled down from the US, to be our featured speakers at the main conference. Pastor Bruce Zackary (Nexus Calvary in Camarillo) has been a long time friend and mentor to me. Bruce wrote the Calvary Church Planting Manual which is the text we use in our church planting course, and he partners in several of our church plants. Pastor Bruce gave us a powerful word and challenged us to be faithful to our calling.
Pastor Derek Neider is the pastor of Calvary Chapel in Las Vegas! Besides being a close personal friend, he is also a partner with us in several of our church plants.  Pastor Derek shared a humorous yet Spirit-filled talk that left all of us blessed. Both of these Pastors have not only a deep love for Mexico but a passion for church planting and seeing the Kingdom of God grow through the entire world. We are honored to have them as speakers and ministry partners.
For those in attendance at the conference that felt called to plant, they left encouraged. For those not sure, they left praying for God’s perfect will for their life and family. We ended the conference by having those that felt called come forward, where our leadership laid on hands and prayed for God’s perfect will and timing.
The following week,  our church began our new semester in our church planting class. With over 30 men and women enrolled this semester, (including several new couples) we are excited to see God’s church planting plans unfold through these faithful believers!
It is my hope and prayer that you are encouraged by this update. We are co-laborers in the ministry, and it is an honor and blessing for me that you have chosen to partner with us in this amazing work! Thank you!
Con mucho amor de Mexico,  (with much love from Mexico)
Mike, Sarah, Grace, and Daniel
Prayer Requests!
  1. That God would speak to and call those in our new church planting course!
  2. That God would provide financially for our family and church in Rosarito!
Praise Reports!
  1. Praise the Lord for a blessed and fruitful church planting conference!
  2. Praise God for provision and for the progress on our church’s new patios and sanctuary expansion!

Vincent Family August 2018 Missions Update

Greetings from Mexico,

This past month, Sarah and I were able to celebrate our 21st anniversary by traveling south to the amazing city of Guadalajara! Guadalajara is not only beautiful and historic, but it is also the 2nd largest city in Mexico with over 8 million residents!

Downtown Guadalajara is also famous for their Spanish language courses.  To take advantage of that, I attended a Advanced Spanish language course, which I attended each morning from 9am to 1pm! This small international class had 5 students, 1 each from Morocco, Poland, Germany, the US, and Mexico! (Me 🙂 )  Although the class was a challenge, studying the different advanced verb tenses each day was beneficial and I learned a lot!

Another reason for visiting Guadalajara was to spend time with our good friends Pastor Lalo and Linda Fernandez and their two young children. We were blessed to send this family out to church plant nearly two years ago and they have done an amazing job planting their church, Esperanza Viva! (Living hope)

Throughout the week, we were able to spend quality time ministering and praying together all the while enjoying the delicious regional cuisine!

 

A special highlight for me was to teach their church’s midweek service in Spanish! Although I have been fluent in Spanish for a few years, because we are a bilingual church here in Rosarito, I rarely get the opportunity to teach only in Spanish! I taught on forgiveness and the 30 in attendance seemed attentive and I didn’t get to many confused looks, so I guess they could understand me fine.

Sarah was also able to host the ladies in the fellowship for a ladies tea! During her teaching, Sarah shared her testimony here in Mexico, and using the Psalms, encouraged the ladies to believe in and follow God’s good plan for their lives! The ladies had a special prayer time afterwards and the ladies left encouraged and many of their hearts were touched by the Lord!

We consider it a huge privilege to travel to our church plants and when we do, we not only represent our church, but you as our ministry partners. We want to once again thank you for partnering with us as your missionaries here in Mexico! It is through your prayers that God meets our spiritual needs, and through your financial giving that God provides our physical needs. We love you and appreciate your partnership!

Con mucho amor de Mexico,  (with much love from Mexico)

Mike, Sarah, Grace, and Daniel

Prayer Requests!

 

#1-  That God would continue to bless the church plant in Guadalajara!

#2-  That God would provide financially for our family and church in Rosarito!

Praise Reports!

#1- Praise the Lord for a blessed and fruitful anniversary trip to Guadalajara!

#2- Praise God for provision and for the progress on our church’s new patios and sanctuary expansion!

 

For our personal support, checks should be made out to Saving Grace World Missions with “Vincent support” in the memo section.  For special projects, checks should also be made out to Saving Grace World Missions or SGWM, with the project name in the comments section. Use the enclosed envelope or mail directly to Saving Grace World Missions, 17451 Bastanchury Rd., Suite 203, Yorba Linda, CA 92886-1873

 

For your convenience, you may consider giving through electronic funds transfer or direct deposit.  Simply go to our mission’s website, or insert this web address into your web browser, https://sgwm.com/blog/ministries/calvary-chapel-rosarito/  Next, click on the “become a financial partner” button and fill out the information. If you want your gift to go to support our family, please write “Vincent” in the “purpose of gift” section.

 

Vincent Family June 2018 Missions Update

Greetings from Mexico,

We have some exciting news to share with you. As God has continued to bless our church, we have undertaken a new building project. In this update, we want to tell you all about it! Over the years, God has continually brought first time guests and local visitors to our church. Unfortunately, we have not done a great job of keeping them, which was a focus for us last year as we began our New Believers class to plug them in and disciple them.

This program has been affective in retaining our guests and at present, we find ourselves in need of a sanctuary expansion and new fellowship areas. To meet this need, we are adding a sanctuary expansion and two new patios to our church facility!

First off, in phase 1 we are redesigning and improving our patio fellowship area. This project has begun and we have already graded and enclosed our new Patio out in front of the church and it measures 50% larger than our previous one. This expanded space, will be used for fellowshipping, eating (of course) and also house our upcoming connections center which will be designed to help our congregation get connected to the right ministries and leaders at the church. Later on, in stage three of this project, we will be building a smaller 2nd patio that will be located on the roof of our sanctuary expansion. (In the space located above our present patio)

Stage 2 is our sanctuary expansion. If you have visited our church here in Mexico, the old patio inside of the gates and fence is going to be transformed into our sanctuary expansion. Eventually the back walls of our sanctuary will be blown out, and a 250+  seating area will be added.

 

This sanctuary addition, will not only provide  more space for our main services in the sanctuary, but will also have the capability of being closed off and have a self-enclosed audio and video system. This extra room will provide for us a much needed medium size meeting room that is able to host large meetings and bible studies, and mid-sized banquets.

Finally, I want to once again thank you for supporting our family as your missionaries. We are honored and thankful that you have chosen to partner with us and we love and appreciate you very much!

Con mucho amor de Mexico,  (with much love from Mexico)

Mike, Sarah, Grace, and Daniel

Prayer Requests!

#1-  That God would reveal to us His wisdom and plans for this sanctuary expansion and patio additions!

#2-  That God would provide financially all that is needed for these projects!

Praise Reports!

#1- Praise the Lord that in May we were able to complete our Spring Church Planting class with 25 students completing the semester!

#2- Praise God that our daughter Grace graduated from high school this month and our son Daniel completed his sophomore year and both excelled academically!

For our personal support, checks should be made out to Saving Grace World Missions with “Vincent support” in the memo section.  For special projects, checks should also be made out to Saving Grace World Missions or SGWM, with the project name in the comments section. Use the enclosed envelope or mail directly to Saving Grace World Missions, 17451 Bastanchury Rd., Suite 203, Yorba Linda, CA 92886-1873

 

For your convenience, you may consider giving through electronic funds transfer or direct deposit.  Simply go to our mission’s website, or insert this web address into your web browser, www.sgwm.com/wp2010/ministries/calvary-chapel-rosarito/   Next, click on the “become a financial partner” button and fill out the information. If you want your gift to go to support our family, please write “Vincent” in the “purpose of gift” section.

 

 

 

Vincent Family April 2018 Missions Update

Greetings from Mexico,

Paul wrote to his young assistant Timothy in 2nd Timothy 2:2 ,  “ And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.”  Paul was reminding Timothy that different generations of men and women, should be trained up to disciple and instruct new generations of men and women in a spiritual chain!  A long time dream of mine that relates to this process is being fulfilled for the first time this year in 2018, and I wanted to share about it with you in this family update!

When we started our church planting program over 10 years ago,  my dream was that those that we sent out would have a heart to also eventually send out their own church planters. Now I know this takes time (We didn’t send out our first planter until 7 years) but this year, 3 of our church plants have plans to plant their own churches!

I got to visit two of these new church plants last month as I took a church planting trip to visit the Mexican state of Sinaloa! (The home and headquarters of the captured notorious drug lord “El Chapo”) We presently have 3 church plants in the state of Sinaloa.

My first stop was to visit my good friend Pastor Hugo Limon and his church plant located in the capital city of  Culiacan.  Hugo was sent out back in 2015, and he gave me the privilege to preach and we saw 9 professions of faith during their two Sunday services. A special highlight was ordaining  2 of Hugo’s assistant pastors. One of those assistants is planning on being SENT OUT later this year, to plant a church about 30 minutes away there in Culiacan.

Our next destination was a three hour drive away to the beachside city of Mazatlan to visit our church planters Tony and Angela Carranza and their church Maranatha. We had a wonderful time hosting a “basics of the faith” conference at their church, but our focus was traveling to a town called Escuinapa (population 100,000 about an hour away from Mazatlan) to visit Tony’s recent church plant!

Just three months ago, Tony sent out his assistant pastor (Martin Moreno) and family to plant a church in their hometown of Escuinapa. The church is presently meeting in Martin’s home and once again our ministry team taught a “basics of the faith” conference. Of the 18 adults in attendance, we got to baptize 5 of them during their churches very first baptism.

Meanwhile, back at Rosarito I had some friends from our church plant in La Mision (Liberty Ranch, 1 hour south of us, planted back in 2016!) come and visit and speak at our church.

We had one of their assistant pastors share about their plans to plant a church later this summer in the famous Big Wave surfing town of Todos Santos located in South Baja!

By God’s grace our ministry in Rosarito is supporting all three of these next level church plants that are scheduled to begin in 2018!  In the language of church planting, these new church plants are not our daughter churches (those we sent out directly) but our GRANDAUGHTER CHURCHES being sent out by our church plants. I feel like a proud old grandpa seeing our church planters grab the vision to plant their own churches!

Seeing this come to pass has been a long time dream of mine, and I am so thankful to the Lord that He has allowed me to see this begin to happen before my own eyes. Ultimately, these church plants and the souls harvested there are your spiritual fruit! I feel very privileged and honored to partner with you in this great work! Thank you for your love, prayers, and financial support!

Con mucho amor de Mexico,  (with much love from Mexico)

Mike, Sarah, Grace, and Daniel

Prayer Requests!

#1-  That all three of these church plants would be planted and supported in 2018!

#2-  That God would provide for the financial needs of our family and church here in Rosarito!

Praise Reports!

#1- Praise the Lord for our first granddaughter church plant in Escuinapa and for the 5 new believers baptized there in March!

#2- Thank you Lord for the privilege and honor of serving Him here with you in the mission field of Mexico!

For our personal support, checks should be made out to Saving Grace World Missions with “Vincent support” in the memo section.  For special projects, checks should also be made out to Saving Grace World Missions or SGWM, with the project name in the comments section. Use the enclosed envelope or mail directly to Saving Grace World Missions, 17451 Bastanchury Rd., Suite 203, Yorba Linda, CA 92886-1873

 

For your convenience, you may consider giving through electronic funds transfer or direct deposit.  Simply go to our mission’s website, or insert this web address into your web browser, www.sgwm.com/wp2010/ministries/calvary-chapel-rosarito/   Next, click on the “become a financial partner” button and fill out the information. If you want your gift to go to support our family, please write “Vincent” in the “purpose of gift” section.

 

 

 

Vincent Family March 2018 Missions Update

Greetings from Mexico,

The bible says in 2nd Corinthians 5:17,  “if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”  Jesus said that He  “came to seek and save the lost”. (Luke 19:10) One of the great blessings we have seen in our ministry is lost and hurting people finding faith and hope in Jesus Christ!

So far this year we are averaging over 10 first time professions of faith in our church each week. Now that is very exciting, but to be honest with you, one of the problems we have had in the past is connecting those people that profess faith to our church family. In an effort to meet that need, last year we created a New Believers class. This 4 week course that covers the basics of the faith meet during each one of our four main weekly church services. The four topics that are covered are: #1- Jesus, #2- The Bible, #3- The church, and #4- How to grow spiritually!

These courses are taught by four gifted husband and wife teaching teams, and this past week we had 29 new believers of all ages enrolled in these courses. To graduate, these new believers need to not only attend all four classes, but finish up by getting baptized at one of our church’s monthly baptisms.

In our two baptisms so far this year, we have had the honor of witnessing 28 baptisms. But the most encouraging part of this is that most of those baptized are new believers that have only a month or two in the faith! In the rest of this missions update, I wanted to share the testimony of one of these new believers with you.

Juan was invited to church by a friend of mine a broken man. Juan’s marriage was on the rocks, he was unemployed and was losing hope. That very first Sunday,  Juan responded to the Gospel presentation and made a public profession of faith in Christ. The following Sunday, Juan brought his wife and children with him to church, and his wife professed faith that 2nd week! (They had never stepped foot in a protestant church up until this time.)

Over the next month, Juan and his wife completed our new believers course and then were baptized together at our most recent baptism. It was such a joyous time to see God restoring what the enemy had stolen. Juan and his family continue faithfully at the church and are also  attending our weekly marriage builders study to strengthen their marriage.

Juan and his family are just one of many that God has allowed us to reach with His love and offer of salvation here in the mission field of Mexico. Thank you so much for partnering with us, we love you!

Con mucho amor de Mexico,  (with much love from Mexico)

Mike, Sarah, Grace, and Daniel

Prayer Requests!

#1-  That God would continue to help us plug in and disciple these new believers!

#2-  That God would provide for the financial needs of our family and church!

 

Praise Reports!

#1- Praise the Lord for our new believers completing the New believers class and getting  baptized!

#2- Thank you Lord for the three new church plants we have scheduled for later on in 2018! (In Western Tijuana, and Campeche and Oaxaca (States in southern Mexico)

 

For our personal support, checks should be made out to Saving Grace World Missions with “Vincent support” in the memo section.  For special projects, checks should also be made out to Saving Grace World Missions or SGWM, with the project name in the comments section. Use the enclosed envelope or mail directly to Saving Grace World Missions, 17451 Bastanchury Rd., Suite 203, Yorba Linda, CA 92886-1873

 

For your convenience, you may consider giving through electronic funds transfer or direct deposit.  Simply go to our mission’s website, or insert this web address into your web browser, www.sgwm.com/wp2010/ministries/calvary-chapel-rosarito/   Next, click on the “become a financial partner” button and fill out the information. If you want your gift to go to support our family, please write “Vincent” in the “purpose of gift” section.

From Mexico to Florida, Visiting Church Planters

Grace Vincent, Mike Vincent, Aaron Smith and Robbyn Smith.

 

I had a fantastic time this week in Florida visiting our church planters, (Aaron and Robbyn Smith and their daughter Eliana.) It was amazing to teach at their church and lead worship for their growing congregation!  And not only is their church on fire, they are also partnering with our church on four of our Mexico church plants.

The hi-light of the week was spending time with my daughter Grace as she joined me on this church planting trip! (She served on the media during my sermons, just like she does at our church)

Pase un tiempo fantastico esta semana en Flordia visitando nuestros plantadores de iglesia (Aaron y Robbyn Smith y su hija Eliana) fue increible enseñar en su iglesia y dirigir la alabanza para su congregación que está creciendo! Y no solo esta su iglesia encendida, tambien se estan sumando con nuestra iglesia para apoyar a cuatro de nuestras plantaciones de iglesia en México.

Lo mas especial de la semana fue pasar tiempo con mi hija Grace que me acompaño en este viaje!

Con mucho amor de Mexico, (with much love from Mexico)
Pastor Mike Vincent
Missionary Blog: https://sgwm.com/Vincent/ 

 

Vincent Family February 2018 Missions Update

 

Greetings from Mexico,

We hope that you and yours are being blessed as the New Year is upon us with all of it’s opportunity and challenges. In this update, I wanted to share with you about a very special ministry that we have here in Mexico.  The CCRosarito dump ministry was founded 6 years ago as a group of us began traveling periodically to the Tijuana dump!

Unlike American dumps, there are many people that live full time in the dump. These precious people live in homemade shacks and scavenge through the trash trying to collect enough to survive. Needless to say, drug and alcohol and sexual abuse is rampant. But it is in this dark place, where God has sent us with food and clothing and (most importantly) the hope and salvation that can be found in Jesus Christ!

Just this past Saturday,  a group of 30 of our church members traveled to the Tijuana dump for an outreach. We brought meals for 250, along with plenty of clothing, hygiene items, and some friends to offer free haircuts.

As always, the focus of our time there is loving those that live there unconditionally. We also provide a church service with the message of salvation. We partner with several local rehabilitation homes that allow us to rescue those that are tired of living in the dump, and bring them out to grow and heal in a safe environment.

Starting early last year, we began a weekly ministry to the (closer but smaller) Rosarito dump. Once again, many people live in this dump in impoverished and unsanitary conditions! Each week we bring an energetic team of faithful believers that are ready to pray and minister and feed those living there.

Because we travel to this dump regularly, we are able to provide them with a weekly Bible study and we have monthly baptisms for those that profess faith! I would like to tell you about the testimony of one of our friends that lives in the dump!

Sofia (pictured here with our director of outreach Carlos) is an 82-year-old Christian who has lived with her family for many generations in the dump. Every time we arrive, Sofia greets us with a smile. Because of her age, she is unable to stoop over to pick through the trash so she spends her days sitting in the trash while picking through searching for little  pieces of copper and other metal that she can sell to the recycler. Over the years, our church has helped Sofia with tarps to mend her leaky roof and gloves to sift through the trash! We have also been blessed to help meet some of her medical needs.  Through our many visits with her, Sofia  always encourages us with her sincere love for Jesus and faith that one day she will live not in a dump, but in glory with her Savior in heaven!

 

Please pray with us as it is my heart to plant a church right there in the dump in the near future. Wouldn’t that be amazing? Could you imagine God allowing our church to plant a permanent church right there at the dump!  Well the owner of the dump has already given us permission to do this great work. Presently, we are waiting on the finances to build a basic structure there in the dump while also training the servant leaders that are preparing to lead this new church plant.

Finally, thank you so much for partnering and supporting us as your missionaries. Together God has brought us together as a team to labor together in the ripe fields of the Lord. This fruitful work to the least of these in the Mexico dump is your fruit, as we are simply an extension of you and your support and partnership.  We love you!  

Con mucho amor de Mexico,  (with much love from Mexico)

Mike, Sarah, Grace, and Daniel

 

Prayer Requests!

 

#1-  That God would help us plant a church in the dump this coming year!

 

#2-  That God would provide for the financial needs of our family!

 

#3- That God would bless our new batch of church planters that started church planting class in January!
For our personal support, checks should be made out to Saving Grace World Missions with “Vincent support” in the memo section.  For special projects, checks should also be made out to Saving Grace World Missions or SGWM, with the project name in the comments section. Use the enclosed envelope or mail directly to Saving Grace World Missions, 17451 Bastanchury Rd., Suite 203, Yorba Linda, CA 92886-1873

 

For your convenience, you may consider giving through electronic funds transfer or direct deposit.  Simply go to our mission’s website, or insert this web address into your web browser, www.sgwm.com/wp2010/ministries/calvary-chapel-rosarito/   Next, click on the “become a financial partner” button and fill out the information. If you want your gift to go to support our family, please write “Vincent” in the “purpose of gift” section.

 

 

Visiting Our Church Planters, Michael and Melissa Hanson – Pastor Mike Vincent

I had a fantastic time up in Santa Cruz visiting our church planters, Michael and Melissa Hanson. They planted Santa Cruz Bilingual Church last year, and continue to work hard in this church plant! Keep them in your prayers and plan a trip to visit them and their church up in beautiful Santa Cruz California!

Pase un tiempo fantastico en Santa Cruz visitando a nuestros plantadores de iglesia, Michael y Melissa Hanson. Ellos plantaron Santa Cruz Iglesia Bilingüe el año pasado y continuan trabajando duro en esta plantación de iglesia! Mantenlos en tus oraciones y planea un viaje para visitarles a ellos y su iglesia en el bello Santa Cruz California!

Thank you for your faithful prayers

God bless you,
Pastor Mike Vincent
Missionary Blog:  sgwm.com/vincent 

November 2017 Vincent Family Missions Update

Dear ministry partners!

October was a busy month full of ministry and new life! We ended the month last weekend with our monthly baptisms.  It was such a blessing as we were able to witness 22 believers make their decision to follow Jesus Christ public through the waters of baptism!

A few months ago our church started a new believer’s class to better disciple those that profess faith at our church. This 4 week class focuses on the basics of the Christian faith; Jesus, the Bible, spiritual growth and the church. These new believers graduate from this class when they are baptized at one of our weekend services. It was very encouraging to see so many of these new converts who have just recently professed faith take this step and be willing to be baptized in October!

A major focus for me this month was our negotiations to finally purchase our church facility. We are so thankful for your prayers and financial support to help us get to this point, this was truly a team effort. Our church body gave sacrificially and generously and so did so many of our stateside friends and supporters. After 6 months of prayer and fundraising, together we were able to raise raised a great majority of the asking price for the building, and we are now in active negotiations to finalize the deal!

 

 

An extra blessing also popped open to us as we began negotiations on our church building. At this same time the large (empty) parking lot located directly next to our church (North side, different owner) went on the market as well.  Presently, we are averaging over 1200 attending our church each weekend,  and we cannot have a church facility without adequate parking.  So as this lot went on the market, we viewed this as another open door from  God. After praying together we realized that there are no coincidences in the Lord, so we decided to take a bigger step of faith and attempt to purchase both our church campus and the adjacent parking area at the same time!

At writing time, neither of these deals have been finalized yet and we covet your prayers as this process moves forward. Although much money was raised, we do not have the funds to make both of these deals with the resources in hand right now, so we need God’s favor and direction as we move forward!

15 years ago we would have never imagined that God would have us in a position to purchase our spacious church facility and large parking lot in the most desirable area of our city in Rosarito!  But once again, God has done much more than we could ever ask or think. We are so honored and blessed that you have chosen to partner with us on this amazing journey. We love you and appreciate you!

Con mucho amor de Mexico, (with much love from Mexico)

 

Mike,  Sarah, Grace, and Daniel

 

Prayer Requests:

#1-   Pray for our new believers class and that the students will be baptized!

#2- Pray for favor as we negotiate the land (parking) and building purchases!

#3- Pray that God will continue to provide for the financial needs of our family!