While Phil and Karen were in Aldama they wanted to take a scouting trip (to look for possible areas of need for groups/evangelism & and areas of need for bible school training). We headed into some villages in the mountains by Aldama (about 2-3 hours away). It was quite the trek.
It started with us having to pile rocks into the back of the van to give it more weight to get up the mountain. We then proceeded to bump up the mountain. It took us over 3 hours to go 24 miles!! The "roads" were absolutely nuts, winding along the edge of the mountain.
Victor has been taking regular trips into these mountains because there is a big need!
The first village we stopped at we visited a church - a very nice/big size church (for mexico of course!) building, but there was only 5 people there, including the pastor and his wife!
The next village was exactly the same, except the guy who was preaching was not the pastor, he just did it because there was noone. We spent the night in the mountains with a family from this church.
There is a great need in these areas. They are able to sustain themselves better because they can farm/ranch, etc. but spiritually there is great need. None of the pastors have any training whatsoever, and their congregations are not growing (in numbers or spiritually) because of this.
We past a number of villages where there is absolutely nothing happening at all.
The people seemed very discouraged. They face a lot of persecution. There is alot of witchcraft in these areas. It is mixed with the catholic church, which is very different. They sacrifice to idols, etc. Please pray for these areas - they need to be reached! Also pray for direction for Phil & Karen as they decide how to help these areas of need.
It was a very big adventure. We can´t even describe or take pictures that do justice to how beautiful it was. We got to stay in a tiny house and eat...you guessed it beans with the family! It was pretty awesome!
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