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| “That is ridiculous, I am a farmer. I don’t have the ability to be a missionary and anyway I don’t want to.” Those were my thoughts when a missionary couple asked me if I had ever consdered becoming a missionary. However, to my amazement in August of 1970 , Angie I and our children began our missionary service in Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico. I was raised on a farm in central Michigan. Angie was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. She had the opportunity to speak both English and Spanish in her home. We were married in 1959. By 1966, although we were active in our local church we realized that we were still living primarily for ourselves. Then one evening we knelt in our living room and presented our bodies as a living sacrifice as Romans 12:1 asks us to do. Almost immediately we sensed God calling us to be missionaries. We graduated from In the 1970's we were involved in church planting and Bible Institute ministry in Northeastern Mexico. Then for 18 years we were involved in planting and developing churches in the northern border state of Chihuahua, Mexico. In 2002 the Lord has moved 700 miles south to plant churches in Guadalajara and the surrounding area. When we first came to Mexico the population was 40 million. Today there are over 100 million and only a small percentage of them have a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. How about you?
Have you ever considered becoming a missionary? P.S.
We thank the Lord for the four children and twelve grandchildren God has given us! |
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