The Guadalajara Team (Video)

On Sunday I flew to Guadalajara to join a team for a couple of days.  It was a joint team from two churches in Hamilton – Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana and Garside Bible Church.

The team was involved (actually, as I write, they’re still involved – they leave tomorrow) in an outreach in the north of the city.  It’s a poorer area where some people from a local Baptist church have been serving for quite some time in hopes that a church can be planted there.

So it was a great opportunity, and the team was doing a great job.  They presented the Gospel clearly, they had lots of fun with the kids, they worked hard, and they were very organized (even when unexpected things happened, which they always do!).  I’m guessing on the first couple of days there were 80-90 children.

On the first day, the police stopped by in the middle of the club.  Were they going to shut us down?  Were we missing some permit or doing something they didn’t like?

No, actually they came to congratulate us for what we were doing to help the kids in this neighbourhood!

It’s exciting to think that this team is a part of a work that may lead to a new church plant – which will be a witness in that community for many years to come – maybe until the Lord returns!

I made up the video below to give you a bit of a picture of what they were doing.  It also shows the faithful Mexicans who are working here each week.  Here it is…