Vincent Family November
2026 Missions Blog
Greetings from Mexico, WOW, October is done and with it, 2026 is quickly coming to an end. Where did the time go? Well as the old saying goes, “Time flies when you’re having fun” and October was a fantastic and fruitful month here in Mexico and in this update I want to tell you all about it.
One of the biggest blessings of October was we started a new building project now that the LEGACY PROJECT is done and we are official owners of the property. (Although we do have 6 large once-a-year payments still to be made!) And to celebrate that, we decided to make some major facility upgrades.
Our first major building project consists of three projects in one. #1- We are building an inviting new front with signage to the church. We are also building a new and improved game room addition to our upstairs patio. This will be used to attract more families with children and youth to the church. Finally, we are building a new two story outward facing coffee shop. This will allow our coffee shop to be open during the week and provide a safe and comfortable place for conversation, fellowship, and outreach during the week. Please keep this new building project in your prayers!
Another highlight in October was taking my annual missions trip to visit our church plant (The Rock Calvary Chapel) in Florida. My good friend and church planter Aaron Smith loves to tell the story of how he met me for the very first time. Aaron was a youth pastor in a small church up in Washington state that took a missions trip and visited our church on a Sunday morning. After the church service Aaron came up to just introduce me to him and his youth team. Aaron didn’t know it but that brief meeting would change his life forever.
When Aaron shook my hand, God gave me a prophetic word for him in that very moment. I told him,“God is calling you to be a church planter, and God is calling you to leave everything, move to Mexico and I will train you up and send you out!”(Keep in mind that this is the first time I had met him and I had never talked with him before). When I uttered those words, Aaron’s face looked shocked as he had been praying about church planting for the past year but had no idea how to get started!
Fast forward to a year later, Aaron quit his job as a firefighter, packed up with his wife and daughter and moved to Rosarito to join our church staff and church planting program. Aaron and his wife Robyn were great blessings and Aaron eventually became one of my assistant pastors. After finishing up our training program, we sent Aaron and his family to church plant in Punta Gorda Southwest Florida!
When Aaron arrived, God opened up door after door, and Aaron stepped through each one in faith. God provided them a building (nearly free of charge) and Aaron immediately started his own church planting program. Their church also generously supported other Mexico church planters from the very beginning.
Fast forward another 10 years, and God has now given their ministry a beautiful new church facility in the next door city of Port Charlotte. Their church is averaging over 1000 people weekly, and they have already sent out four church plants! They also now host their own yearly church planting conference, which was the purpose of my trip this year.
I traveled with a mission’s team of three good friends. My church planting assistant, Super Mario Medrano, and two of our future church planting students, Absadi Kidani (planning to church plant in New York) and Shawn Marsac (planning on church planting in Massachusetts!) We had a fantastic time with Aaron and the church planting conference was extremely encouraging. It is wonderful to see the mission’s fire for church planting spread to the Southwestern Coast of the United States!
My teaching was titled, “A Healthy Church Plants Other Churches” and it was well received as the many pastors and leaders were encouraged to take steps of faith in church planting. Our ministry was also blessed to donate a copy of my church planting book (The Sending Hub) to each pastor in attendance! I am so blessed to see not only our Mexico church planters planting other churches, but also now our US church plants are starting to plant their own churches too. It brings me joy to share this with you because this is your spiritual fruit.
So THANK YOU for your love, prayers, and financial partnership with our family and ministry here in Mexico. God is bringing a wonderful harvest, and I am honored and blessed that you have joined us in this great spiritual work!
Con mucho amor de Mexico (with much love from Mexico),
Mike, Sarah, Grace, and Daniel
Prayer Requests!
#1- Pray for God to bless my two young friends, Absadi and Shawn as they prepare to plant their churches in the Northeastern US in 2027!
#2- Pray for our church as we continue to work on and refine our follow-up program to do a better job of plugging in and discipling our many new visitors.
Praise Reports!
#1- Praise God for a blessed and fruitful mission’s trip to Florida.
#2- Praise God for the new construction project that God has allowed us to begin to improve our church facility!
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