MEXICO 2011 - Mexican Independence Day

Pesqueira, Mexico
Friday, September 16, 2011
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Mexican Independence Day

Revival is breaking forth here at our first stop in Pesqueira, Mexico. After a few hang-ups at the border in Nogales, our Iris Latin America team finally arrived late in the evening on Wednesday. We were greeted by Dany and the beautiful Christ-followers at “Centro de Fe, Esperanza y Amor” with an awesome dinner of local-style tacos.

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We hit the ground running the following morning, which we were informed was Mexican Independence Day. The inhabitants of Pesqueira come from all over Mexico and are mostly indigenous speakers of Triqui, Zapoteca and other languages. The church here goes house to house using large mp3 players with the New Testament in the over 300 languages of Mexico to determine what language each family in this area speaks. After gathering this information from each family, Dany then duplicates CDs with the gospel in their indigenous language and brings it to them so that they can hear the story of Jesus and respond. Our team collected money to purchase 1,000 blank CDs for the ministry here. After a time of worship together as a team, we accompanied the local Christ-followers in going house to house to help with the survey in five separate groups. It was an amazing time! We also prayed for many people. We led one woman to Christ right there in her courtyard. We also prayed for the sick and saw them recover. One boy we prayed for had some form of conjunctivitis and his eyes were red and watering really badly. He was one of the cutest kids I have ever seen, with an amazing smile even in the midst of his eye irritation. Only five hours later we saw him at the revival meeting we held and his eyes were completely normal and had totally cleared up!

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We planned a revival meeting for 6pm at the church that we were going to invite all of the people who we visited house to house. We were told not to expect many to attend because it was Mexican Independence Day and they would be attending the fiestas instead. Six o’clock rolled around and against all odds the church building began to fill with hundreds of the people that we had invited from the surrounding area. Some of our team gathered all of the children that came with their families to play games outside. At the revival meeting there was a time of worship. Then Jesse and Ted gave some testimonies of God’s love and power. Then Jesse and I spoke words of knowledge about people who were feeling suicidal that very week and who had pain in their bodies. People responded to these words and we ministered the love and power of Jesus to them. After this Dany gave the gospel message. In response to the message 45 people came forward to pray and receive Jesus for the first time! The Holy Spirit party continued as they continued to bring the sick and diseased to us. Many people from our team prayed for those who came forward. I personally witnessed everyone that I prayed for receive a healing; from back and stomach pain to eyes being opened to see clearly! C’mon Jesus! Others wept profusely as we spoke Papa’s heart over them. It was truly Mexican Independence Day as the indigenous people of Pesqueira were set free body, soul and spirit!!!

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We had planned some other activities for today, but because of the amazing revival that God is bringing to our first stop here in Mexico, we are going to do the same thing today; going house to house in other surrounding areas that we didn’t get to yesterday and hold another revival meeting tonight. I can’t imagine a better start to our Iris Latin America outreach.

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Christian Young