Over 30 years ago, God laid it on my heart to establish a training center and mission base in Mexico. Every night I’d pray with our kids and they’d say, “Lord, give daddy a camp in Mexico.”
It was complicated. We needed land with access to water and electricity to build on. It needed to be in proximity to a city. We needed access by a main road. And, oh yeah, we needed the money to pay for it all. We prayed for a couple of years.
Ask Bill Britton or Rob and Lisa Finney about it – the Lord gave us so many miracles along the way. We got the property in February and by that summer had built the dorms and meeting rooms. We called it “the Gateway.” Close to a thousand short-term missionaries went through it in 1994.
Over the years, many thousands went through the Gateway. We started a training center headed by Jacques and Flor Goy that trained Latin missionaries to go to the middle east. Benito and Patty were a couple from the local village that became key workers for us.
And when more recently the drug cartels began to take over the border area, our missionaries, Richard and Gail Rogers, continued overseeing our work there in partnership with a local ministry. Recently Richard sent us the update below.
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