{"id":489,"date":"2006-11-10T21:25:42","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T03:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2006\/historic-event-in-mexico.html"},"modified":"2008-05-11T16:49:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T21:49:12","slug":"historic-event-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2006\/historic-event-in-mexico.html","title":{"rendered":"Historic event in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s hard for many of us in Canada and the USA to understand how and why so many in Mexico have not had a chance to hear the Gospel in a clear way.  After all, many of us know other Christians, we hear Christian radio, see Christian TV, see many Bible believing churches even in small towns.  It seems like the Gospel is everywhere.  Even in many restricted countries, there’s access to Christian programming.  I understand that in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, the Jesus film<\/a> was shown on national TV more than once.<\/p>\n

There are many reasons why Mexico, particularly central Mexico, has had less access to the Gospel than you may think.  But one reason is that religious media has been highly restricted.  I’m talking about TV and radio.  Never has an evangelistic program been shown on national TV.  Never, that is, until last night.<\/p>\n\n\n
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The project is called Mi Esperanza<\/b> (my hope<\/i>).  Churches throughout Mexico got together to plan an evangelistic event.  For three nights (November 9-11) on national TV<\/b>, in prime time<\/i>, a show is scheduled with testimonies, video presentations and a message by Dr Billy Graham.  It starts at 9pm (actually, those expecting it to start at 9pm actually saw The Simpsons<\/a><\/i> in Spanish – last night it was at 9:10pm).<\/p>\n

Many Mexican believers are making a point to invite friends into their homes so that they can talk about the Gospel with them.  So please pray that the Lord would work through this interaction and the conversations that follow in the weeks ahead.  Our coworkers the Frys are “on the ground” – here’s what they had to say about the historic event<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s hard for many of us in Canada and the USA to understand how and why so many in Mexico have not had a chance to hear the Gospel in a clear way.  After all, many of us know other Christians, we hear Christian radio, see Christian TV, see many Bible believing churches even in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexico","category-ministry-glimpses","category-news-and-current-issues","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"yoast_head":"\nHistoric event in Mexico - Finding direction<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2006\/historic-event-in-mexico.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Historic event in Mexico - 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