History Week Summary
Here’s a summary of the posts from last week, which add some context and personal connections to this year’s special anniversaries of Camino Global, Camino Global Canada, and Camino’s ministry in Mexico.
Here’s a summary of the posts from last week, which add some context and personal connections to this year’s special anniversaries of Camino Global, Camino Global Canada, and Camino’s ministry in Mexico.
Thanks for taking this walk through some history with me. Today is Camino Global’s 125th anniversary (Happy Anniversary to us!). And tomorrow is our arrival-in-Mexico anniversary! Let’s party!
Seriously, though, we do give thanks to the Lord for all He has done, both in our lives and in the lives of so many others. It’s amazing!
And thanks to so many of you, who have prayed for us and supported us and encouraged us for so many years. Do you realize, some of you have received all 72 editions of our newsletter that we’ve sent out since 1997?! Some of you even knew us before we were married.
Even though we don’t say it as often as we should, we appreciate you all, and we thank God with you for what He has done here in Mexico.
I hope someday we’ll see the eternal fruit of our labour (and I’m talking about all of us). I know we see glimpses today, but they’re just glimpses.
Someday we will see – but we’ll see something else as well. We’ll see the hidden hand of the Lord doing it all. We were here to enjoy His work and give Him glory!
So to end off, we don’t give glory to an organization, or any one person or group of people. We give glory to the only One who changes hearts, who heals lives, who saves the lost – our Great God!
Today, day 5 of our look at history, we’ll watch the last of three videos from Camino Global.
This video takes us from the 1970s to the present. It even includes some glimpses of Ixtapaluca, including the one you see below!
Clicking the image below will take you to Vimeo, where you can watch the video in full!
Today, day 4 of our look at history, we’ll watch another of Camino’s videos, made especially for the mission’s 125th anniversary.
By the way, this video has a picture of Clarence Wilbur (right). You’ll see why he’s important to the history of the mission when you get our newsletter.
By the way, this video takes us all the way from the pioneers of the mission to the early 1970s. During this time, a new student movement started, which would help motivate another generation of missionaries.
It all started in 1946, at the University of Toronto. One of the speakers at the conference was Leslie Earl Maxwell, who had founded the Prairie Bible Institute in 1922.
The missions conference, welcoming students from over 150 places of learning, would be repeated over and over. And it will be repeated again this December – in St. Louis, Missouri. The conference is popularly known as Urbana.
If you go to Urbana this year, say hi to our friends at the Camino Global booth!
Clicking the image below will take you to Vimeo, where you can watch the video. Have fun!
It’s day 3 of our look at history, and today (and for the next two days) I’ll be featuring videos from Camino Global. Here’s the first, featuring McConnell’s Marvellous Moustache and much more!
Clicking the image below will take you to Vimeo, where you can watch the video full screen if you like. Enjoy!
If you receive our newsletter by snail mail, you’ll see the face of someone on the envelope – someone with a simply marvellous moustache. Yes, it’s McConnell’s Marvellous Moustache.
It was 1891. Canada was only 24 years old. A new student movement, with its roots in the Haystack Prayer Meeting, was just taking off, with 6200 new volunteers for missions in just that year. Dr. David Livingstone had died in Africa only 18 years earlier, and James Hudson Taylor (who actually influenced the founding of Camino Global) was expanding the China Inland Mission.
A new mission had been formed just the year before, with a goal to reach Central America with the Gospel – the Central America Mission (now known as Camino Global).
The man with the moustache was William McConnell. He was from – and of course, it starts with an M too – Minnesota!
William travelled ahead to Costa Rica, with his wife Minnie and three young boys arriving later. The McConnells were Camino Global’s very first missionaries.
You can actually read a report from William online. It’s from the very next year, when the McConnells were still exploring a new mission field. Check out: My Visit to Talamanca and the Indians