Passion Follow-Up

This past Saturday, we had our follow-up meeting for students who attended Passion, learned about Enfoque Mexico, and were interested in starting spiritual movements on their campuses. And as we had printed 18,000 fliers about the meeting and ended up handing out a good number of them the second afternoon of Passion, we honestly had no clue how many people would show up. It was cool because there was no way that we could have any expectations. We could only pray and wait. Thanks to God's provision, we now have 55 new student leaders who are ready to take the Gospel to their universities!

Enfoque's job is now just to support and encourage them to do it! We want them to capture Enfoque's vision of reaching every university in the city with the Gospel for themselves. We want them to trust the Holy Spirit to work through them to do it. What we don't want is for them to rely too heavily on us. That's been a problem in the past. Students leaning too much on the visiting missional teams for the growth of their ministries. There have been instances where stinters continued to lead Bible studies week after week, when it would have been far better to let the Mexican students step up and take ownership of their own ministry. For, when the year is over and the stinters head back home, the Gospel goes with them.

We don't want that, and God certainly doesn't either. Please pray that the Spirit would give us wisdom to know how to help our students best take ownership where and when necessary, so that their ministries would be sustainable, that authentic disciples of Jesus would be made and that God would be glorified in the highest.

Thanks again to all of you who have kept our ministry and this city in your prayers. Please continue to pray that the light of the Gospel would shine out in the darkness and that the many beautiful, but lost people here would be liberated from their chains and would come to know Him who is their Creator and Redeemer. And please pray for us, that we would proclaim the Gospel clearly and boldly, as we ought to, but so often don't. He must increase and we must decrease!

And lastly, thank you for your patience in reading my well-intentioned, but often rambling thoughts. You are so kind.

Virginia on my mind,

Tim