God's story, your life.

Unfolding short stories.

So today I want to talk about the goodness of God in my life and his faithfulness over the years in my ministry in Mexico.

My wife and I, for the past 11 years,

have been missionaries living in Mexico,

where we had our two kids who both speak Spanish,

our dual citizens, meaning they're both American and Mexican.

This was been a long journey of walking with Jesus from an early age. When I was an infant,

my parents took me forward to get, to receive prayer from a guy who was visiting, doing his

ministry in Marion, Illinois. And he prophesied over me that I was going to be someone great in the ministry, but I didn't

exactly know what that looked like.

My earlier years, as I learned more about that call and struggled with trying to define

that and understand more what that meant, I felt like God was teaching me to trust him with

every part of that.

It wasn't something that would be clear,

but not as clear as, say, my wife, who at the age of 14 had someone prophesy over her,

does the word missions mean anything to you?

And she said, it was like a lightning bolt moment.

Whereas for me, it was more of a gradual reveal.

The Lord just would show me step by step how I needed to trust him and obey. So we've been

living for 10 years in Mexico and we've planted two churches. Our vision is to raise up local

leaders where we hand the church over to them, where they're

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