MEXICO 2011 - Ministry in Oaxaca

Teposcolula, Mexico
Friday, October 14, 2011
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Ministry in Oaxaca

Our stay in Mexico has ended up being extended by over one week due to the fact that we decided not to split our team as much. We are ending our ministry time in Mexico in Oaxaca state. One team went to Nochixtlan while the other team stayed in Teposcolula. I was on the team that stayed in Teposcolula.

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Our team spent it’s time on the first day serving the local church by cutting grass with machetes, as well as visiting a church member who is a widow caring for her granddaughter. Her granddaughter is a deaf-mute who our team prayed for. Through questions we found that the girl had been given traditional medicine from the witchdoctor and the grandmother still had it in a bowl. We encouraged her to destroy the witchcraft, so she took it out to a field near her home and set it on fire, while praying and breaking off all demonic powers associated with it. We continued to pray for the granddaughter, but it didn’t seem that she received a healing. As we pray for the sick, often we see a complete or partial healing. Other times we don’t see evidence of healing. Determined to continue to see God’s healing hand, we don’t let times like deter us from pressing in even more to the Father’s heart. In fact, it gives me a holy discontentment and causes me to cry out for more. We finished the day leading a church service at a local church in the next town over where the local people danced enthusiastically. We prayed for those present and the Holy Spirit fell.

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The following day we drove over an hour to a Mixteco village where we had to ask the local government official for permission to enter the village an go house to house praying for the sick. We were denied this request, but still prayer-walked through the village, greeting the Mixteco people who we were told were opposed to Christianity. On the contrary, the people that I greeted seemed open and friendly. We don’t come to villages wagging our finger at people telling them to repent or perish. Instead we carry the love and glory of God into these villages, heal the sick and then hopefully see open doors to lead people into a personal, hand-holding relationship with Jesus Christ. That night a few of us led a youth service at the pastor’s house where I shared my testimony and called their generation to seek and save the lost.

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Tomorrow morning we begin a two-day drive to the border of Belize. We hope to enter Belize by Monday morning. I thank God for all of the fruitfulness and miracles we have seen in Mexico.

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Christian Young