Mexico Mission - Family Conference - Thursday

Hola from Union de San Antonio,

Things are going well here in Mexico. We went to the Casa de la Cultura Tuesday morning and talked the director, Isias, and confirmed the date and time of the conference. I'm pretty sure we not on the schedule but we worked it out. PTL. We received our posters and flyers from Dennis Johnson Tuesday evening and attended a prayer meeting in Lagos de Moreno that evening also. The prayer meetings down here are pretty cool...... They are mostly all prayer...... What a concept! We put posters up and handed out flyers most of the day yesterday and will continue today. We have had great reception to the conference and all have been willing to let us put up the posters in thier tiendas (stores). A lot of people say they will atttend, and remember the previous conference in January. We gave about 1/4 of the posters/flyers to our friends Daniel & Laurie and they put them up in their area of town where they live. Please pray for them as Daniel is having some trouble getting his religious visa or FM3. We had prayer with them yesterday about this in thier home, it was a sweet time of prayer for the work down here also. Last night I got the opportunity to preach in a house church in Lagos de Moreno, I was nervous but prepared, and enjoyed sharing Gods word. Thanks for all of your prayers this week and please continue to lift up the conference on Friday at 7pm. The name of the conference is "Six Secrets to a Successfull Marriage". Please pray that the people will hear and be open to the Biblical and Spiritual aspects of the conference. We will continue to promote the conference today.

Te Hablo Pronto,
Tu Hermanos in Cristo,
Jeff & Cliff

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Mexico Mission - Family Conference - Tuesday

Hola Lynwood,
Greetings from Union de San Antonio, Jalisco, Mexico! Yesterday was Cinco de Mayo here in Mexico, so all of the government agencies were closed and we did not get to talk to the Director of the Casa de la Cultura to confirm our date and time of the Family Conference. We will do that today, so pray that everything is still good for the use of the center. We made these plans 2 months ago with the director, but you never know what can happen.

We had lunch yesterday with a missionary couple from the states that moved here a couple of months ago, Daniel & Laurie. We are not sure of their denomination but we believe that they have the same beliefs that we do. So we are going to try and work together on a couple of projects to see how it goes. We have been praying for help, so maybe God is providing. Please pray that this will go well and we will comfortable working together.

We will get our posters and flyers for the Family Conference today from Dennis Johnson. So we will start to hand out flyers and put the poster in stores, schools and on telephone poles. We will also make personal contact with previous conference attendees to invite them personally. Please be praying that the people will be as receptive to this conference as the one in January. Hopefully they will invite thier friends and we have more people attend this time. Remember we had about 100 attend in January.

Well enough for today. Pray that Cliff and I get everything done that the Lord want us to accomplish today!

Hasta Luego,
Senor Jeff and Cliff

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Mexico Mission Trip - FAQ

While Jeff & Clif are in Mexico right now, I wanted to include some information to refresh in everyone's mind our goals & mission in Mexico.

Where is Union de San Antonio?
Union de San Antonio is the County Seat of the county of Union de San Antonio in the State of Jalisco, Mexico. Union is located in the Highlands of Jalisco, which has been called the ‘Dark Heart of Mexico’. In this region, less than 1% of the population is Christian. See maps below.










Why do we keep going back to Union de San Antonio?
The Missions Committee accepted the role of Strategy Coordinator Church for Union de San Antonio with the International Mission Board (IMB) at our 2006 Lynwood on Mission Celebration.

What is a Strategy Coordinator Church?
A Strategy Coordinator Church (SC Church) assumes the role of the field missionary or field coordinator for an area or people group. Since Lynwood has accepted this role, the IMB is not going to devote any personnel or resources to this area. If the Gospel message is going to be shared in this area, it is a result of Lynwood’s trips and efforts. For more information about an SC Church, go to the IMB MAC Region website (http://www.macregion.org/) & click on the SC Church button at the top of the webpage.

What is our goal as the SC Church?
Our goal is the share the Gospel and plant an indigenous, self-supporting, reproducing church in Union de San Antonio!

What can I do? PRAY – GIVE – GO!

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Mexico Mission - Family Conference - Union de San Antonio

Hello Church,
Deceos des de Union de San Antonio! Cliff Crosnoe and I arrived in Union on Saturday and visited with our amigo Pedro and his family in Lagos de Moreno. On Sunday we went to church in Leon at the Emmanuel Baptist Church, our partner church here in Mexico. We got some really exciting news from Pastor Joel and Solomon. They have been out to Caliche twice to have Bible study with Clemintina and her family. By the way her husband´s name is Faustino and he is on board also! This is the family I have asked for prayer for, that they might be interested in having Bible study in their home, and IT IS HAPPENING! Praise the Lord!!! They are very receptive to the word and the church in Leon is very excited to be working with us, with this family. Please continue to pray now that the Holy Spirit will speak to thier hearts through His Word, and they will come to know Him as Lord and Savior. Pray also that they will comfortable with asking friends and neighbors to thier home to participate in the Bible studies. Also please pray that the priest in this community will allow this to continue when he finds out what´s going on. We need to keep Satan away from this place as long as possible. We will go out to Caliche this afternoon to visit with Clemintina and children. If you can´t tell....... I am very excited about this family and what God has in store for them. Again please pray for this family, it´s the only way this will work,if we continue to bath it in prayer.

Thanks for remembering Cliff and I in your prayers also,
Dios te bendiga,
Tu hermanos en Cristo, Jeff & Cliff

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Pray for Mexico Mission Team - Family Conference

Please pray this coming week for Jeff Smith & Clif Crosnoe as they prepare to hold the second family conference in Union de San Antonio, Mexico. The conference topic will be on Marriage and is a follow-up conference to the Parenting conference we held in January. Dennis Johnson, IMB field personnel, will be teaching at the conference. This week Jeff & Clif will be hanging up posters and passing out flyers each day, as well as going door-to-door inviting those who came in January to attend this conference too. It is an exciting time in our Mexico outreach.

Please put Friday, May 9 on your Prayer Calendar because this is the day of the conference and your prayers are vital to the success of the outreach.

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