Vincent Family May 2023 Missions Update

Greetings from Mexico,

I hope that you and yours had a wonderful Resurrection Sunday! Our church had a fantastic Easter week and in this update I want to tell you all about it. The theme of our Easter week was Living Hope (Esperanza Viva) and my main Bible text was taken from Luke chapter 24 and the message from the angels at the empty tomb that Jesus has risen and He is alive!

At Calvary Rosarito, we love to make Easter a week-long celebration. We do that by having daily devotions during the week that teach about the important events in Jerusalem of Jesus’ final week alive. Of course this culminates in Good Friday where we worshipped with a concert. Our worship team (along with my son Daniel) led us into God’s presence as we remembered the cross and the love that Jesus has for us!

At the weekend services we had plenty of fun activities for the entire family. This included a delicious food court, themed photo booths, and a super fun clown show for the kids featuring an amazing professional clown family (Vida Clown) who attend our church.

The focus of the weekend were our church services, and we were blessed to host our largest (post-covid) crowd in 3 years! Nearly 1600 friends joined us live for our Easter services and 50 of them were first time visitors.  We also had about 20 first time professions of faith, and it never get’s old seeing people respond to God’s free offer of salvation through Jesus Christ.

For me personally, this Easter was a family affair. We not only had my parents in town with us, but also my daughter Grace who moved out a few months ago up to the US to get a job and lives with Sarah’s mom in Hesperia. (Our first child to fly the coup.) It was a blessing to have all of us together (including Sarah’s parents, Ted and Diane, and Mitch and his family) for a Easter family lunch after service.

The truth that Jesus is alive is a truth that changed the history of the world! And in my Easter teaching, I reminded our church of five reasons that the resurrection brings us a living hope, and I wanted to share these reasons with you as well!

#1- The resurrection reminds us that we no longer have to fear death. #2- The resurrection allowed us to receive the Holy Spirit. #3- The resurrection reminds us that there is glory and crowns on the other side of the crosses (trials) of life. #4- The resurrection reminds us that in the same way Jesus resurrected, we will too! And #5- The resurrection reminds us that Jesus is alive!

Once again I want to thank you for your partnership over these past 21 years on the mission field of Mexico. It is through your prayers that God meet’s our spiritual needs, and through your financial giving that God meets our physical needs. We love you!

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

Mike, Sarah, Grace, and Daniel

Prayer Requests!

#1-  That God would bless my May church planting trip to La Paz! (South Baja)       

#2-  That God will bless our 2 new 2nd Generation church planters being sent out through our church plant in La Paz.    

Praise Reports!

#1- Praise God for an amazing and fruitful Resurrection Celebration!

#2- Praise God for His goodness and kindness to our family and ministry!


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. Mail directly to Saving Grace World Missions, 17451 Bastanchury Rd., Suite 203, Yorba Linda, CA 92886-1873

Or, you can  go to our mission’s website, click on the “become a financial partner” button and fill out the information.

Vincent Family April 2023 Missions Update

Greetings from Mexico,

At the end of March, I had the privilege of leading a small team of 6 to join me visiting our two-year-old church plant in Loreto! Loreto is one of the main cities in the state of South Baja. (The smallest state in Mexico) Loreto is famous for its rugged desert beauty, with towering mountain ranges on one side and beautiful beaches and crystal clear water on the other. The famous Marine Diver Jacque Cousteau famously called the Sea of Cortez “the Worlds Aquarium!”                                                                      

And yes, we did enjoy the white sand beaches and we got to snorkel and see the beautiful tropical fish, the focus of this trip was ministry! Two years ago we sent out a wonderful couple from our church who had graduated from our church’s 2 year church planting program. Pastor Elmer and his wife Crystal were two of my favorite people. They came from a raw and devastating background, but God saved them right there at the church. Year after year they got more involved until they took the leap of faith to join up with our staff and church planting program.    

After assisting a friend to start a church in a nearby community, they were sent out in the middle of Covid 800 miles south to plant a church in Loreto. And in just two years, God has done amazing things. They not only have a healthy and growing church, in January they started their own much needed church planting program. Loreto and South Baja is filled with small fishing communities, with many of them not having a single Christian church.      

The purpose of our missions trip was to encourage (and spoil) our church planters and build up their local church. We traveled south to fire up their church with the great calling of being a sending hub of missions and church planting to South Baja and beyond. On Saturday evening, our team was blessed to host a church planting conference. We were pleasantly surprised when over 40 of their congregation came out to join us. A special highlight for me was doing a Question and Answer time with this Spirit-filled group, and their questions showed me that they have caught the vision to plant chuches.        

On Sunday, our team hosted worship and my brother Mitch led us in a set of Spirit-filled worship. This was a special treat for their church, as they still don’t have a faithful worship leader, so please keep that in prayer. The title of my sermon was “God’s Plan for Missions” and it was taken from Acts 13 when Paul and Barnabas were sent out from their church in Antioch on their first missionary journey.  The highlight for me was after the sermon I presented the message of salvation,  gave an altar call, and we got to witness two first-time professions of faith. There is nothing better than seeing God bring new spiritual life and hope to hurting and broken souls. 

What I realized in this trip was how missions work is mutually beneficial to both the sending church and the receiving church. Our friends here in Loreto raved again and again about how blessed they were with our visit. But truly we were the ones most blessed. For me as the sending Pastor, to see my friends who I have poured into and raised up out on the mission field doing the work of the ministry and loving people brings me so much joy.        

I am so thankful for the blessing that God has given me to pastor a church that is a sending hub of missions and church planting. I am also immensely grateful to you, our precious ministry partners. The great missions work going on here is truly a team effort. And that reminds me of the Bible verse that God gave our family as the theme of our ministry when we first moved here to Mexico nearly 21 years ago. Paul the Apostle wrote this in 1st Corinthians 3:6, “I planted, Apollos watered, BUT GOD gave the increase!” Thank you ministry partners, and THANK YOU GOD!  

With much love from Mexico,

Mike, Sarah, Grace, and Daniel

Prayer Requests!

#1-  That God would bless our special Easter Resurrection services and community outreach!      

#2-  That God would bless my missions trip at the end of April to visit our church plants in La Paz!   

Praise Reports!

#1- Praise God for the fruitful missions trip to Loreto!  

#2- Praise God for His blessing and provision for our family!


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. 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 click on this link to directly support our family as your missionaries.

Vincent Family March 2023 Missions Update

Greetings from Mexico,

In February of this year, I had the privilege and blessing of leading a tour of 72 from our church to the Holy Land of Israel! Originally, this trip had been planned for 3 years ago, until Covid spoiled our plans. But when we finally got to travel on my fourth trip, we realized the wait was worth it and I want to tell you all about it!

This popular trip is called “the Footsteps of Jesus” tour because the focus of the 10 day journey is primarily to visit the spots where Jesus lived and ministered. We began the journey in the area around the modern day city of Tel Aviv. Although Jesus didn’t spend much time there, many other great Bible believers did. We spent our first day enjoying the spots where Bible heroes from Jonah to the Apostle Paul witnessed some of their greatest victories!

From there we traveled north where we spent the next three days in the small towns and villages around the Sea of Galilee. We were blessed to tour two of the most ancient synagogues that remain from the days of Jesus! (Capernaum and Magdalena)  We also enjoyed a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee, which is always a trip highlight. But probably the most exciting time was studying the Sermon on the Mount on the same mountain where Jesus gave that amazing teaching found in Matthew Chapters 5 to 7. I was able to give our group 30 minutes to read through the sermon alone, and then time meditate on the words of our Savior while gazing down at the Sea of Galilee..

When I talked to my friends on the tour, most of them mentioned that their highlights were the baptisms in the Jordan River. We had many friends get re-baptized, but the highlight for me was baptizing 4 of my friends from church for the very first time. But one testimony truly stood out above all the rest. We had a lady from our church who invited her sister on the trip who was not a Christian. While in Israel, one of our ladies shared the Gospel with her, she was born again, and then baptized the next day. To baptize a one day old believer in the Jordan River is something that I will never forget.

We were also able to visit the historic site of Cana where Jesus turned the water into wine for His first miracle.  (John Chapter 2) Cana is now an Arab Village and we were able to visit the local Christian church there and encourage the pastor who is laboring there amongst the Palestinian Muslims. Fortunately, they also have a beautiful wedding chapel there at the site, and I was able to help 8 of the couples renew their wedding vows. There were smiles and tears all around as our entire team was able to witness that.

The final four days of our tour were spent in Jerusalem. We visited the Temple Mount and the various churches that stand over the spots where our Lord spent His final days. A special blessing in Jerusalem for me was getting our group a private access to the Garden of Gethsemane. We had that Garden all to ourselves for one hour, and we not only got to study the Scriptures there, but spend some private time in prayer.

Our trip ended with a visit to the Garden Tomb. This spot stands outside of the city gates, and has a direct view of the spot where many Bible Scholars believe was Golgotha (the place of the Skull) where our Lord was crucified. But praise God the story didn’t end there. There is an ancient tomb found there carved out of the rock, which is the historic site of the empty tomb. Each of our tour members were able to enter in, and (surprise) the tomb is still empty! To worship and take communion overlooking the empty tomb is a memory that none of us will soon forget.

I love going to Israel and I am sure I will travel there again, but in two years (2025) I intend to take a different Biblical tour called “The Footsteps of Paul”. This life changing trip through Turkey, Greece, and Italy traces Paul’s church planting journeys in the 1st century throughout the Roman Empire. This trip will be a Calvary Rosarito AND FRIENDS tour, and I would love for you my friend to join me.   

Finally, I want to thank you for choosing to partner with us and support our family as your missionaries. It is through your prayers that God meet’s our spiritual needs, and through your financial gifts that God meet’s our physical needs. So thanks again!  

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

Mike, Sarah, Grace, and Daniel

Prayer Requests!

#1-  That God would bless my upcoming missions trips to visit our church plants.     

#2-  That God would bless our two summer church plants targeting Peru and Colombia.  

Praise Reports!

#1- Praise God for the 60 students enrolled in our church planting classes.

#2- Praise God for a blessed trip to Mazatlan to teach at our friends church planting conference.

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. Mail 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 click on this link to directly support our family as your missionaries.

Or, you can  go to our mission’s website, click on the “become a financial partner” button.

February 2023 Vincent Family Missions Update

Greetings from Mexico,

In January of this year I had a once in a lifetime experience, and in this update I wanted to tell you all about it.  I had the great honor and blessing of teaching from the pulpit of my hero in the ministry, Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa! (The founder of the Calvary Chapel movement of churches)

For many years, our family attended the yearly Calvary Chapel Missions Conference hosted at the bible college in Murrieta. It was at those conferences that I got to meet Pastor Chuck a couple times. A few years ago, the conference was moved to the church campus of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, and this year, they invited me to teach on my favorite topic, Church planting!

The focus of this year’s conference was “An Open Door”. Each speaker was asked to share about open doors that God has opened up in their local missions area. I based my talk on the church planting sending hub found in Acts 13 where Paul and Barnabas were sent out from the church in Antioch to travel on their first church planting journey!

I began my talk by reminding the listeners of the great Church Planting Heritage that Pastor Chuck left us. There were probably close to 100 church plants that came out of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, especially in those early days. And although Pastor Chuck sent his planters out in a much different way than our ministry does today, those early church plants were wildly successful. I consider it a great honor and privilege to follow in his footsteps as we continue this great work of church planting.

During my teaching I shared the testimony of what God has been doing in our church planting movement over the past 15 years. I was also blessed to introduce Brian De La Cruz who came up to the conference with me and is our newest church planter being sent out the week before to Mexico City.

When I get the privilege to share at other churches or conferences, my goal is not to get them to support what we are doing, but to encourage them to do the work of church planting themselves. The church planting class that I developed and have used for the past 15 years at our church is designed to be easily replicated in any local church. Presently we have 13 different churches that are using our church planting curriculum in their own local church setting.

After the conference teaching, Pastor Brian Broderson (Senior Pastor of CC Costa Mesa) came up and we had a round table question and answer time focused on church planting throughout the world! It was great to hear how God is moving through church planting not only in Mexico, but all over the globe.  

Not only did they allow me to talk about church planting, but they allowed our team to host a church planting table. I traveled to the conference with my church planting assistant (and new Calvary Rosarito Assistant Pastor) Dan Valdez, along with two of our new church planters. (Brian De La Cruz and Pete Sanchez ) At that table, we were able to encourage the attenders of the conference to develop their own church planting school in their local churches.

To help churches do that, we offer them all of our church planting materials free of charge. We also invite those that want to learn more, to attend our annual church planting conference which will be held this summer in Rosarito on August 4th and 5th.

Finally, there is a little administrative change I want to let you know about. After over 20 years here in Mexico, we have a new US address! We will be saying goodbye to the old PMB W-304 address, and our new address is below! (So if you ever send us notes or letters through good old fashion snail mail, please update your records.)  


Mike Vincent

4630 Border Village Rd. N #283

San Ysidro, Ca. 92173

Finally, I want to thank you for choosing to partner with us and support our family as your missionaries. We love sharing about the great things that God is doing here,  because this is your spiritual fruit.

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

Mike, Sarah, Grace, and Daniel

Prayer Requests!

#1-  That God would bless the Israel tour I am leading at the start of February!    

#2-  That God would bless our new church planting class, starting in February!

Praise Reports!

#1- Praise God that our church planting team headed to Mexico City has arrived safely!   

#2- Praise God for the opportunity to share at the Calvary Chapel Missions Conference!


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 click on this link to directly support our family as your missionaries: Give

Greetings from Mexico,

In this update I wanted to tell you about one of the main activities of our church’s missions program. That focus is making follow up visits to visit our church plants and the church planters that we have sent out. We get this model from the Apostle Paul and his church planting journeys in the book of Acts.

After Paul and Barnabas planted churches on their first missionary journey, they returned to their sending home church of Antioch to give an update on all that God had done. After a short time in Antioch, Paul was ready to once again travel throughout the Roman Empire.

Paul had the urge to not only plant more churches, but to also visit the churches that he and Barnabas had already planted. We find an important verse about this in Acts 15:35, where we read… Then after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us now go back and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they are doing.”

When a church is a sending hub, they also need to take on the responsibility and care of the friends that they send out. One of the most effective ways to do that is by visiting church plants on missions trips. In October, we had four missions’ teams that were sent out and I want to tell you about each one of them!

I was blessed to lead the first small team that we sent out to visit our church plants in Mazatlan! We had a small group of church staffers that went to visit Pastor Tony Carranza and his family! While there, I was blessed to teach their Sunday service and host their church planting course that has 16 students all praying and hoping to be sent out one day.

We also brought down my friend and church staffer Chris (who leads our church’s lighting ministry) along with 700 dollars worth of lighting equipment that he installed in the church while we are there!

Later on that month, my friend (and CCR Pastor) Carlos Oliveros led a team of 18 to visit our church plant in Loreto! After just a year and a half, this church now averages 150 adults every Sunday in this town of 30,000!

This team was sent down with the finances and tools they needed to do 8 separate building projects and they did a great job upgrading the church’s  facility! They also built the church a brand new beautiful stage!

The following week we were blessed to send out a team of 16 women, for a women’s only missions trip to our 5 year old church plant in Monterrey! (A large Mexico state south of Texas) This team of gifted ladies hosted a children’s ministry workshop, evangelized door to door in the streets, and hosted a women’s conference.

The ladies told me that their trip highlight was the several local ladies that they got to lead to faith in Jesus Christ!  


            At the end of the month, our young adults pastor David Mendoza led a team of 13 on fire college age students to visit our church plants in Culiacan! This energized group hosted a young adults conference where all six of our Culiacan church plants came together for worship, encouragement, and fellowship! The leaders were also blessed to teach at several of our 2nd generation church plants on Sunday!

Each one of our 40+ congregants on these trips chipped in with their trip costs to raise money for their ministry projects and our church was also honored to give a large financial gift to support each event and work project on these trips. I love to brag about the Lord’s generosity and how our church sends out 18% of our total budget to support missions and church planting. A chunk of those funds are sent out every time we send out a short term missions teams!


      By the end of the calendar year, our church will have taken 15 of these church planting trips visiting our church plants and encouraging our church planters. If you have never been on a church planting trip I highly recommend it. And by the way, our church’s mission’s trips are open to everyone! (And yes, that includes you!)

Finally, I want to thank you for choosing to partner with us and support our family as your missionaries! We love sharing about the great things that God is doing here, and we share it with you because this is your spiritual fruit. We thank God for you and love you!  

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

Mike, Sarah, Grace, and Daniel

Prayer Requests!

#1-  That God would bless our 2 remaining missions trips to Mexico City and Loreto!  

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

Praise Reports!

#1- Praise God for four blessed church planting missions trips in the month of October.

#2- Praise God for the 13 baptisms we had in October!


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 click on this link to directly support our family as your missionaries.https://www.egsnetwork.com/gift2/?giftid=DFA990CC09D942B

Or, you can  go to our mission’s website, click on the “become a financial partner” button and fill out the information. Please remember to type in  “Vincent” in the “purpose of gift” section.

Vincent Family October 2022 Missions Update

Greetings from Mexico,

In this update I wanted to tell you an amazing story (or three) about some Godly young friends of mine and the amazing calling that God has placed on their lives! This young couple is going to be our next church planters and in this update I wanted to tell you all about their stories!

Brian De La Cruz and his family joined our church when Brian was only 9 years old when they arrived from Puebla Mexico! Brian grew up at our church, and began serving at a young age! Eventually, when his family decided to move back to South Mexico for economic reasons, we asked the family if our staff could adopt and raise Brian at the church! After the parents said yes, we moved Bryan into our church’s intern apartment (at our old building) and we happily received the youngest church intern in church history at only 16 years old.

We paid for Brian’s next three years of high school, while he served at the church in the evenings. During that time, Brian was trained up in the ministry, completed the early version of our church planting school, and became one of our church’s worship leaders.


            During those same years we had a new missionary family move into Rosarito from Wisconsin named the Struska’s. While they were serving full time at another ministry, this family quickly found a home at our church and they were great servants. This family of four joined us with a 10 year old daughter (Brittany) and a 7 year old son (Will). Their children became friends with our children and the other missionary kids on staff, while the parents quickly became some of our most trusted servants. They eventually joined our full time staff as well.

Eventually Brian and Brittany met in the youth group at church, and struck up a friendship that eventually blossomed into love! Shortly after that, these two faithful young believers were married and began serving the Lord together.


            When the opportunity arrived to be an assistant Pastor at one of our new local church plants, Brian and Brittany stepped out in faith and served there on full time staff for a number of years. During that time, they also had two children. But it was during that time, that God began to stir Brian and Brittany’s heart for church planting.

They also heard an opportunity from our church planter in Culiacan (Hugo Limon), that someone had donated a large piece of land for a church plant in a city called Calculalpan.  (Located about an hour from Mexico City in the state of Tlaxcala) Last year, Brian and Brittany went on a church planting vision tour of this city with Hugo, where God confirmed that He was calling them to church plant there!


      It was at that time, that Brian and Brittany resigned from their ministries at the church plant to come back home to Calvary Rosarito to spend a year training up with us, serving on staff, and re-taking the church planting course! Just last week, I was able to sit and have lunch with them and hear about the great calling that God has placed on their lives.

Mexico City (and its surrounding areas) is the 2nd largest city in the world, and this is the first church plant we will have planted in that area! I am planning to visit this area with them in the next few months for my own church planting vision tour, and then we are planning on having their sending service at our church in December. Shortly after that, the DeLaCruz family will leave everything behind and move to begin this venture of faith.  

            Seeing Brian and Brittany talk excitedly about their church planting vision with their two young children in tow, reminded me of Sarah and I and our church planting move here to Mexico over 20 years ago! I believe that God has a great calling on this couple, and I can’t wait to see what God is going to do through this, our 35th church plant! Please keep them in your prayers.

Finally, I want to thank you for choosing to partner with us and support our family as your missionaries! It is through your prayers that God meet’s our spiritual needs, and through your financial partnership, that God meet’s our physical needs. We thank God for you and love you!  

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

Mike, Sarah, Grace, and Daniel

Prayer Requests!

#1-  That God would bless Brian and Brittany as they prepare to move and church plant in December.   

#2-  That God would help Sarah and I as we recently moved her father Ted down to live with us here in Mexico.   

Praise Reports!

#1- Praise God for the 50+ students we have enrolled in this semester’s church planting classes.  

#2- Praise God for a blessed visit in September to our church plant in the state of Chihuahua!  


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 click on this link to directly support our family as your missionaries.https://www.egsnetwork.com/gift2/?giftid=DFA990CC09D942B

Or, you can  go to our mission’s website, click on the “become a financial partner” button and fill out the information. Please remember to type in  “Vincent” in the “purpose of gift” section.

Vincent family September 2022 Missions Update

Greetings from Mexico,

This past month our church was blessed to host our 7th international church planting conference, and I am excited to tell you all about it! The title of this year’s conference was GO, and it was based on the great commission our Lord Jesus left us in Matthew 28! And the GOAL of this conference was to encourage and empower leaders to GO out and reach the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ through church planting.

This year we had an amazing lineup of main speakers that I believe was our best yet! Our main teachers included seasoned veterans like Wes Bentley (Director of Far Reaching Ministries),  Don McClure (one of the founders of the Calvary Chapel Movement), and David Zamora, who Pastors one of our church planting partners, Living Way Christian fellowship in Fontana! And our conference wouldn’t be complete without some of the church planters we have sent out sharing the word. This year we heard from Hugo Limon (Culiacan), Tony Carranza (Mazatlan) , and Donny Aldana (Surprise Arizona) !

Each of these men gave spirit-filled teaching that uplifted and encouraged those in attendance. Speaking of attendance, this year, we had over 600 people show up for this free conference! I always leave these conferences feeling like I have attended a much-needed family reunion. So many of the church planters we have sent out fly in and join us, and it brings tears to my eyes to see them all grown up spiritually and doing an amazing job leading their local churches!

I was blessed to kick off the conference by giving teaching based on the church of Antioch in Acts 13. When you talk about church planting, the Antioch church is the gold standard as they sent out Paul and Barnabas on their church planting journeys. One of the main reasons God has prospered our ministry so much in this area is the church planting school that He has given us. Each year, more and more of our friends commit to using our materials to teach their servant leaders how their church can be a sending hub of church planting!

The entire philosophy of our church planting ministry is to freely share what God has freely given us. I am blessed that through our church’s generosity, we are able to not only make this large conference free of charge, along with all of the meals and materials, but we also make all of our church planting materials free of charge to anyone interested!

Getting back to the conference, besides the main teachings, we had 18 workshops that were informative and well attended! The most popular workshops are always our ladies’ workshops, and I am so thankful for my wife, Sarah, that always does a great job leading her workshop!

One of the highlights of the conference each year is we invite our guests to join us as we send out a new church plant together. At this year’s conference, we were blessed to send out my good friends Jose Luis and Sarah to the church plant in Ensenada. For two years, this young gifted couple and their three boys have made the one-hour drive north to our church to serve and complete our church planting program!

It was a great honor to send them and their 12-person core team out to plant their church in the key city of Ensenada! Located just 40 miles south of us, Ensenada is one of the largest cities in our state of North Baja (Population 600,000), and I believe that this church plant will soon be a sending hub of church planting to the surrounding areas.

Finally, I want to thank you for choosing to partner with us and support our family as your missionaries! We love to share about all that God is doing here because that is your spiritual fruit. We know that in these difficult times, it’s not easy to support missionaries. Yet you have stayed faithful in your partnership with us, and we thank God for you!

Con mucho Amor de Mexico (with much love from Mexico)

Mike, Sarah, Grace, and Daniel

Prayer Requests!

#1- That God would bless the preparation of our upcoming Israel trip in January of 2023! 

#2- That God would lead our newest group of church planters that began classes in August! (15 new students enrolled this semester!) 

Praise Reports!

#1- Praise God for a successful and blessed church planting conference!

#2- Praise God for our 34th church plant! (Calvary Chapel Familia, Ensenada Baja)

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 it 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 click on this link to directly support our family as your missionaries.

https://www.egsnetwork.com/gift2/?giftid=DFA990CC09D942B

Or, you can go to our mission’s website, click on the “become a financial partner” button and fill out the information. Please remember to type in “Vincent” in the “purpose of gift” section.

Vincent Family August 2022 Missions Update

Our church celebrated our 20-year reunion in July! To celebrate that, our staff asked me to write a history of me and our ministry over the past 20 years they put in a video available on my Facebook page! In this month’s update, I wanted to share with you our precious ministry partners the 20-year history of our church!

Pastor Mike Vincent was born in Germany to a US army father and mother! He grew up in Orange County, where his parents were faithful members of a denominational Christian church! Mike was a good boy that was raised in the church, and when Mike became a teenager, he and his brother Mitch started a New Wave Christian band that toured churches around Orange County, giving concerts!

After high school, Mike entered a Christian college to play College Basketball! It was halfway through his Bible college experience when God grabbed Mike’s heart and opened up His spiritual eyes. And it was on a Sunday morning when Mike walked forward during an altar call, gave his life to Jesus, and was born again!

Upon graduating, Mike started leading worship with his friend Trent Douglas at an outside backyard Bible study in Trent’s parent’s home. That Bible study eventually grew from 10 to 200 young people, and we saw God make an amazing move.

That backyard Bible study eventually became the church Calvary Chapel Saving Grace, located in Yorba Linda, California! It was at that church that Mike met his future wife, Sarah Lancaster! It was also during those days that Mike began to feel the call to the ministry!

Mike and Sarah both had the conviction, not to date, yet God did miracle after miracle to bring them together. Eventually, Sarah talked to Mike about the great desire God had placed in her heart to be a missionary to Mexico! Mike replied, “I LOVE Mexican food and am open to anything the Lord has, but I don’t believe I’m called to Mexico!” Sarah was hurt by that but she married Mike anyway, believing that if this was God’s will, He would change Mike’s heart!

After 3 years of marriage, that’s exactly what God did! Mike woke up one Sunday morning and told Sarah, “God is calling me to Mexico!” Sarah thought Mike was kidding, but Mike was deadly serious! They eventually shared this calling with the church leadership and then began to train up to be sent out! After two long years of ministry training, this young family of four was sent out by Calvary Chapel Saving Grace in July 2002 to a church plant in Rosarito Beach, Mexico!

I remember talking to a Pastor before we moved that told me, “Don’t church plant in Rosarito; it’s the hardest place in all of Mexico to church plant.” Yet Mike and Sarah and their two babies, Grace and Daniel, took the leap of faith and moved anyway. When they were sent out, Mike only knew three words of Spanish! (Burrito, Baño, and Taco) Thankfully, they were sent out with a small team of 5 adults, and they began the church meeting in the living room of a local house!

After 6 months, the church had grown up to 12 adults, and it was time to move to their first rented room! We found two cheap small rooms on Blvd. Guerrero and rented them for 400 dollars a month at the start of 2003! That little yellow strip mall was the home of Calvary Chapel Rosarito for the next 3 years! It was in those early days that God brought Pastor Jesus and Pastor Sabino and Laura, and many other faithful saints that remain at the church to this day! In those early days, the ministry was full of outreaches and crusades, and we saw God move powerfully!

By 2005, the small church had grown to 60 adults, and it was time to move again! We found a large strip mall around the corner up the street that was way beyond our budget! Yet God once again did a miracle, and He provided the finances for us to move in there!

That strip mall was our church home for the next 7 years! It was during that time that we started to see God saving people weekly and started our monthly baptisms. We also started our church planting school and sent out our first church plants in our time there. By God’s grace, our church grew from 60 to 600 adults during that time, and once again, we found our church bursting at the seams!

We asked our church to begin to pray, search, and give in a quest to find a large building that would fit our growing church’s needs! At the exact same time, our facility search began, and one of the largest factories in the city closed down! God opened the door, and in 2012 we began to renovate this 15,000-square feet facility, and little by little, it began to look like a church!

We have now been in our beautiful church facility for 10 years, and we are celebrating our 20-year anniversary together. The work God has done in and through Calvary Rosarito is a trophy of His grace! Not only has God allowed us to be a sending hub of church planting, but one of the largest and most fruitful churches in all of Mexico! This is way more than Mike and Sarah ever dreamed about in those early days of small things.

    The Bible teaches us in Ephesians 3:20, “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us” Calvary Rosarito is an example of how God can use normal people that are willing to take steps of faith, and accomplish amazing things!

These past 20 years have been incredible and beyond my greatest dreams, but I am sure of one thing! The best is still yet to come! I love each one of you and am thankful that you are part of our church family at Calvary Rosarito!

Vincent Family June 2022 Update

Greetings from Mexico,

This month we finished our 14th year of our local church planting school and in this update, want to share with you the good news of what God is doing through this program! This year we had 43 students enrolled in our two weekly classes! (Both afternoon and evening courses)

Each one of these students are committed to serve at our local church weekly, complete a load of homework, and prepare and present a Bible teaching every Monday to their fellow students and their pastor/mentor. They are also open to and praying about being sent out to church plant or to be part of a church planting team!

Over the years, every one of our 34 church planters that have been sent out completed this program, and I believe that this year’s crop was our best group ever! One of the special blessings of this years class was numerous married couples taking the course together that are praying about being sent out!

I know that the idea of a church planting school based out of a local church is a strange thing, so I wanted to let you know what we do in these classes! The students begin each 2 ½ hour class by breaking into teaching groups, where they spread out across our church campus to teach a short Bible study in a small group setting. Upon finishing their teaching, the students get critiqued and receive constructive criticism from the rest of their group. The best part of this weekly teaching practicum, is we get to literally see these students improve before our very eyes!

During the final hour of the church planting class, we all gather together to be taught a topical sermon designed to equip and train them up to be sent out! These classes are taught by our staff pastors, as well as guest speakers. The classes I taught this semester included finances for the church planter, developing your CORE team, using humor and illustrations to capture your audience, and the blessings of women’s ministry! (And I was very careful on that one!)

After our students graduate, our Pastors gather to talk and pray about which ones we believe are ready to be sent out. It was a great blessing to see my good friends Jose Luis and Sarah graduate from our church planting program this semester. This gifted couple, along with their three young boys, have driven north from Ensenada every week for the last few years to serve at our church and attend our church planting class! Now God is preparing them to plant a church in Ensenada, a large city of over 600,000 that is located 50 miles south of us! Please keep them and their summer church plant (Calvary Family Ensenada) in your prayers!

One of the most exciting aspects of our church planting program, is now we have 9 of our church plants hosting their own church planting classes! To give them a helping hand,  this past year we began to professionally record all of our classes and teachings, and we have made them available to our church planters so they can use them as a resource for their own local classes!

In May, I was also blessed to travel up to Pomona with my good friend (and church planting assistant) Super Mario Medrano! We were part of the first ever Spanish church planting conference in Southern California! I was blessed to teach in Spanish about how any local church can start up a church planting school! The conference was fantastic, and the conference host Pastor Marvin Marroquin has agreed to start up his own church planting school in August! Please keep this new class based up in Southern California in your prayers!

 As I drove back to Mexico, I chuckled at the irony of what God allowed me to do! He called an American with no Spanish to move to Mexico, to then go back up to America to teach in Spanish! Only God could do something as crazy as that! 

A final blessing in May was to witness many Haitian Refugee’s begin to attend our church and profess faith in Christ for the first time! We have started two Haitian life groups (home groups) and we have a couple of these gentlemen praying about joining up with our church planting program next semester! I have a dream to plant a Haitian church (speaking Creole) in Tijuana to reach the 5,000 plus Haitians that live there! Will you please keep a future Haitian church plant in your prayers?

Finally, I want to thank you for choosing to partner with us and support our family as your missionaries! God has been so good to us, and we have been blessed to see so much spiritual fruit recently! And as we thank the Lord for that fruit, we also want to thank you our precious ministry partners. All of this spiritual fruit is yours! We love you, are praying for you, and thank God for you! 

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

Mike, Sarah, Grace, and Daniel

Prayer Requests!

#1-  That God would raise up some Haitian men to join our church planting program and plant a church in Tijuana!  

#2-  That God would bless Jose Luis and Sarah as they plant their bilingual church in Ensenada this summer!

Praise Reports!

#1- Praise God for our 14th graduating class from our church planting program!

#2- Praise God for the new church planting schools that we are blessed to be partnering with!

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 click on this link to directly support our family as your missionaries.https://www.egsnetwork.com/gift2/?giftid=DFA990CC09D942B

Or, you can  go to our mission’s website, click on the “become a financial partner” button and fill out the information. Please remember to type in  “Vincent” in the “purpose of gift” section

Vincent Family May 2022 Missions Update

Greetings from Mexico,

What a blessing it was to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ once again in April! There is nothing better than to be a part of a global movement of believers representing every tongue and tribe and nation celebrating our Savior conquering the power of Satan, Sin and death through His death, burial, and resurrection!

I love the message brought by the angels on that very first Easter morning found in Luke 24:5,  Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen!” It is my prayer that you and your loved ones had a blessed time remembering that the tomb is empty, and that Jesus is alive! Our church had an amazing time celebrating this history changing event, and in this missions update I want to tell you all about it!

Our weekend began with a Good Friday shadow play focusing on the arrest and death of Jesus! A shadow play is a drama performed behind a backlit 50 foot wide sheet and performed with actors in shadows! This wonderful evening included a live choir, the old Apostle John as the narrator, and concluded with the saving message of the Gospel. On Good Friday we were blessed to witness several first time professions of faith!

With the pandemic seemingly behind us, our church staff made a great effort to make Easter Sunday our largest celebration yet! That included inviting our church’s many amazing cooks to bring their best dishes to church where we had a large food court for fellowship. We had at least 20 delicious Mexico themed culinary options to choose from! (I should know, I tried nearly all of them!)

My brother Mitch, his wife Joy, and their kids worked hard to cook kettle corn that we offered free to each and every person in attendance! We also had a famous clown named Evangelion (who just happens to be part of our church family) to provide a fun faith-based show to the children that reminded them of the true reason for Easter.


            The focus of the weekend was Jesus and the truth of His resurrection! I was blessed to teach the Easter story found in Luke Chapter 24! The title of my sermon was, “The Blessings of the Resurrection”, and I wanted to remind you of three blessings of Jesus’ resurrection for you! #1- The resurrection reminds us that there is victory on the other side of the trials of life.  #2- The resurrection reminds us that in the same way Jesus resurrected from the dead, we will too! And #3- The resurrection reminds us that JESUS IS ALIVE!

Personally for me as a pastor, it has been a battle to try and get our congregants to return to church after the difficulties of covid 19! I was pleasantly surprised that we had a (post-covid) record crowd of nearly 1500 in attendance at our three weekend services. The best part of that is that many of those were first time guests that responded to the invitation to accept Christ during the altar call at the end of the service!

On the family side of things, our family was blessed to celebrate our precious daughter Grace’s birthday at her favorite Korean BBQ place in Tijuana! We also held our annual Church Basketball Tournament and for the first time, Daniel knocked off his old man and won the tournament! The basketball torch has now been officially passed on and Daniel is the best hoopster in the Vincent family!

We ended the month of April by sending out our newest church planters! Victor and Griselda Parra were born again and then baptized in our church 7 years ago! They began serving, and then 3 years ago entered into our church planting school! After graduation, Victor became one of our assistant pastors, and he and his wife have led our important welcome center ministry with excellence over the past 2 years!

We were blessed to send them out to plant a church we call “Calvary Los Pampanos.” (The Branches) They are literally planting this local church in their backyard, as their neighborhood in West Tijuana has over 20,000 people living there with only one small Christian church! Please keep this newest church plant in your prayers!

Finally, I want to thank you once again for choosing to partner with us and support our family as your missionaries! It is through your financial support that God meets our physical needs, and through your prayers, that God meets our spiritual needs.  We love you, are praying for you,  and thank God for you! 

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

Mike, Sarah, Grace, and Daniel

Prayer Requests!

#1-  That those many that professed faith during Easter will continue at our church so we can disciple them!

#2-  That God would bless our newest church plant in Tijuana, Calvary Los Pámpanos!

Praise Reports!

#1- Praise God for a fruitful Resurrection celebration during Easter!

#2- Praise God for allowing us to send out our 33rd church plant in April!


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 click on this link to directly support our family as your missionaries.https://www.egsnetwork.com/gift2/?giftid=DFA990CC09D942B

Or, you can  go to our mission’s website, click on the “become a financial partner” button and fill out the information. Please remember to type in  “Vincent” in the “purpose of gift” section.