We have been very blessed over the years to serve our Savior here in Mexico. It is you who support us to whom much of the gratitude goes for the opportunities God has afforded us here in this great country we call our home.  As world events continue to darken the horizon, we know that our King is coming and His bride is waiting for the ultimate redemption. These things do not shake us, so we continue forward to the finish line. With these things in mind, we want to give you a quick update on ministry in Mexico and some things you can be praying for. 

Our school of ministry, “Exodus”, has been progressing slowly.  In the last year we have had 3 men complete the program. Our hope is that we would have up to 12 men living at the school and working through the discipleship program.  We offer room and board, 3 college level bible studies during the week and an opportunity to learn a trade.  We have a missionary family that is currently teaching the men how to become mechanics, through their ministry, Manos 1855. They are also leading our marriage group for Calvary Playas. Our desire is to train the men spiritually and then give them a trade that might free them up to have a better income while increasing their freedom to serve the Lord or go plant a church.  Please pray for more students!

Our fellowship at Calvary Playas continues to grow and we have been praying for a new building. Our children’s ministry has grown to the point where we have our youth outside on Sundays and need to build a divider in a classroom to accommodate the kids and their ages. The area we are living in has become expensive so we are praying for His provision as we possibly take a big step of faith in the coming year to relocate the church. Please pray for a location.

We have a youth outreach March 25th, we will have about 50-70 kids coming and we are praying for these kids to commit their lives to Christ. From April 17-21st our fellowship will be heading out to Hermosillo on a mission trip to minister to the community and to the body of believers there as well. We have a women’s retreat coming up and a youth retreat. Please also keep church plant, Calvary Esperanza in prayer, as they just celebrated their first year anniversary. We are excited to see our brothers and sisters serve the Lord faithfully and by the power of His grace. Thank you for your love and continued support.

“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times”, as the infamous quote of Charles Dickens continues to contrast situations we face, within the reality we face them. For the born-again saint, we face the darkness with light, we exercise faith in the midst of unbelievable situations. Dickens knew all too well the struggle and strife every believer faces, as he was a brother in Christ.

Although it has been a difficult year for all of us to say the least, we have all seen the work that our Savior is doing in our midst. As our family continues to be blessed to serve Jesus at Calvary Chapel Playas, Tijuana, we have seen just that, God at work in our midst. By the grace of God we only shut down having service for about 2 months, which allowed us to begin to post our Bible teachings online. In turn, God used that as an opportunity to reach people we never would have reached. When we returned to in-person services, we had families come that had been watching online, but we had never met. God is faithful!

We are blessed to have so many brothers and sisters in Christ who have obeyed the calling to faithfully serve. This past month Juanito and Rocio were called to lead the church outreach ministry and Karolina will be leading the children’s ministry.

There are many things you can be praying for as you support the ministry. Our evangelism team is going to begin having outdoor Bible fellowship in a local community. Granjas Familiares is the colony. Our hope is that we will be able to begin a home Bible study and that eventually God would raise up a group of believers that will result in us renting a building to hold service. We are hoping to purchase some folding chairs, portable tents and tables. One of our greatest desires is to start a men’s and women’s discipleship home. We have been praying for a building to begin this ministry. We are praying that God will provide our physical and spiritual needs in the areas where He is leading us, as we know He will.

It has been a blessing to watch our fellowship minister to the homeless here in Tijuana. We have a great team of about 20 people who go out every Saturday to evangelize to the homeless. As a result, we have been privileged to assist men and women to get off the street and into discipleship homes where they can seek God. Every month, Calvary Chapel Living Water has been coming down to bless our fellowship with a day in the park. In June they came and we had an outreach to the homeless. We set up at a place called “las cuevas”, where many homeless live, and we worshipped the Lord in song, prayer and the Word. We ate and fellowshipped with the homeless as a few of them surrendered their hearts to the Lord

For our family it has been especially difficult to see our kids begin to leave the home and make their own life decisions. We are praying that God will have His way in their lives and lead them according to His will. Please continue to pray for our family as we are going through some very difficult times right now. Love hopes all things, believes all things! We thank you for your continued support and may God cause His light to shine upon you as you seek Him with all your heart, mind, soul and strength.

The Lord has been so faithful to provide!  

It is such a blessing to be serving the Lord in Mexico as a family.  We have been in Playas de Tijuana for 3 years now, wow how time flies!  We have almost finished the first phase of remodeling on the Church building and after adding more seats, more people keep coming to hear the gospel. It is definitely a work of the Holy Spirit. We have tiled, built a sound room, run electrical, drywall, and painted but, we are slowing down for a bit until we have the finances to finish. 

Things have been going great at church. As we have expanded the sanctuary, the Lord continues to add to the church. We have had many professions of faith and are excited to see people grow in their faith as they come to discipleship studies at the church. We are organizing a women’s discipleship group which should start in November. We have a great group of Godly women who are excited to minister, encourage, and train the younger sisters in the Lord.

As a church family, we had a fun night of celebrating Mexican Independence day with God’s word, delicious food, music, and fun games. We were also blessed to have some dear friends visit us and we are so grateful for their loving support and friendship.

We have been reaching out to a local community, Laureles, every other month and are preparing to do a Thanksgiving outreach. Calvary Chapel Joshua Springs came down this past month and we were blessed to see a family come to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Their family has been faithfully attending church and are growing in their faith. Would you pray with us, as we believe God is leading us to start a bible study in Laureles. It is a very poor area, with lots of drugs, suicides, and corruption. We know that Jesus wants to shine the light of His Gospel on this place, we just need His wisdom to lead us!The church body was blessed to hear a special message from Pastor Raul Cervera from Peru, about not getting distracted when God has called you to serve Him. It was a great reminder to stay focused on the calling God has on your life.

The kids are doing well. Homeschooling has begun, so the kids are very busy. Mackenzie and Jamie love to help out in the nursery at church. RJ and Mackenzie are both playing soccer with Calvary Chapel Rosarito’s  Youth Group team. Brian continues to practice his guitar skills. After graduating, Jamie is still praying about what her next step will be. We believe God will give her direction in His time. The other kids are working hard and already looking forward to Christmas vacation. We are so thankful for our children, they serve the Lord, they are growing into adults, and although it is a bit scary as parents, we know the Lord is in control.

It has been a busy and exciting couple of months.

The church is doing great as we have been blessed to see many people come to the Lord over the last few months and have had about 15 people baptized.

We had a men’s conference that went well as we had Pastor Gil Garcia from CC Rosedale, Bakersfield, CA and also Pastor Martin Garcia from CC Las Delicias, Tijuana, BC, Mexico come and share powerful messages from the Word.

We have begun a construction project at the church. The plan is to knock out a wall, expand the sanctuary and create a bigger space for fellowship.  Calvary Chapel Hagerman came down with their youth group and helped us with some of the construction. The air conditioning is finished and working well, praise the Lord.

July has been busy as we have had a family night every Friday, watching movies and playing games.  Our Vacation Bible School went well as we were able to minister to 30 kids over the course of 5 days.  We are looking forward to having a women’s conference in October, please keep that in prayer.

Our oldest daughter Jamie had the opportunity to help Baja Christian Ministries with building homes for people in Tijuana.  We are so proud of her as she has excelled in her studies and is deciding what her next step might be.

Brian and RJ have been doing well in basketball and enjoying their summer. RJ’s basketball team won the championship in a church league we were involved with at Calvary Chapel Rosarito.  It was a great time playing with the boys in basketball. The boys also had friends from Idaho come to stay for a few weeks, during summer break.

Mackenzie has been hanging out with her friends, she always stays busy with little craft projects and loves worshiping the Lord as she listens to her favorite worship songs. Jamie and Mackenzie attended a girl’s retreat with Calvary Chapel Rosarito.

Many of you know my grandma, Barbara, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.  Karen has been taking care of her for the past three months. We have just moved her up to San Jose where she will be well taken care of by my uncle.  It will be great to have Karen back at home full time, we have definitely missed her much. Keep Barbara in prayer, she seems to be doing well in her battle with cancer, the Lord is in control.

We are so excited to share with you what has been happening in our lives as we serve the Lord in Mexico.  Thank you for your spiritual support as you pray for us and also your physical support as you provide for us financially in the mission field of Mexico.

April and May have been great months! It was wonderful to celebrate our Risen Lord during our Easter service. As well as celebrate new life with Baby Dedications, Beach Baptisms and we had a special day to celebrate kids for “El día de los niños”, “Day of the kids”.

We are so blessed at Calvary Playas to have a great team of servants and leaders. The midweek studies are going well. It is great to see the body of Christ growing in their relationship with the Lord. We have begun teaching a midweek series on the “Pillars of Our Faith”. Thursday nights we have started providing “pan dulce”, or Mexican sweet bread, for the congregation.  We want to make Thursday nights a little more intimate for the church as we learn about the foundational doctrines of the faith. Food and fellowship unite the body of Christ (Acts 2:42).

Jamie graduated from High School and we are so proud of her diligence as well as her love for the Lord. We are praying for her as she is deciding what her next step. Brian has started serving more on the worship team at church, he has worked very hard playing the guitar and is a talented young man. Our prayer is that he will continue to serve Jesus with his musical abilities. We have a traitor in the family! We are going to be involved with Calvary Rosarito Basketball League, and Brian and I will be on the same team, but R.J is jumping ship and teaming up with friends from CCR. Mackenzie recently had a birthday and we have been encouraging her to practice with the worship team, she can sing really well.

So proud of these kids. It is not easy to be missionary kids as well as pastor’s kids, but they are faithful servants.

Some of you may know that my Grandmother, Barbara, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.  The doctors will begin radiation treatment shortly, but we ask that you would continue to pray for her.

Thank you for your prayers and faithful support!

It has been a great month of February. We are so grateful to be serving the Lord here in Playas De Tijuana, México. We were blessed to have our good friends Richard and Kim White come down with a group of bible college students and put on a women’s conference. It was an incredible time, over 40 women came out for the two day event. The women came away grateful as they learned about the importance of following Jesus wholeheartedly.

    Our weekly studies are going well. There are about 20 people showing up to each of the weekly discipleship studies. The church is hungry for the word of God and it is exciting to see the growth the Lord is bringing through these times of fellowship and study. Our sanctuary is filling up on Sundays, we have a very diverse group of people. Mexican nationals, Deportees, African Americans, and Gringos. It is wonderful to see people from all walks of life enjoying fellowship through the Spirit of the living God.  One Lord, one faith and one baptism! Thank you Jesus for this wonderful fellowship.

    We were encouraged this last month to begin a bible study at a nearby cancer treatment center, Hope for Cancer. These are people who have come to Mexico from all over the world seeking alternative treatment for late stages of cancer. Oh man, this has been the most encouraging thing I’ve ever done in ministry. I thought I was going to be an encouragement to the patients, but it turned out to be quite the opposite. There are about 10 beautiful born again believers with their companions, spouses and relatives, that come to the study. They shared 2 testimonies last night and they were mind blowing. These brothers and sisters share about their trial, they rejoice in knowing Jesus is on the throne and in control. We weep, we pray, we study God’s word, we praise him in song, oh man it is powerful.

    Please pray for our upcoming marriage conference on March 24th. We also have an opportunity to do biblical counseling at a local call center. What an opportunity to see people come to Christ and see lives changed by the power of God’s Word. We will have access to over 120 deported men and women, to counsel and encourage. Only Jesus can open a door for Christians to go into local businesses and preach the gospel, we are blown away.

    Please pray for our ministry house, we have placed our first man in the home. He was deported 5 days ago, he spent 42 years in prison. He is a sweet brother in the Lord, his name is Edgar. Our goal for the home is to continue helping deported men transition into life in Mexico as we disciple them in the word of God. What an adventure!

Thank you for your prayerful support my brothers and sisters,

Gause Family