The SOSAS going to Mexico | Raising funds

Who are we?
We are Mexican citizens and have been married four years. Before we moved to Lubbock Texas, both of us were working in our respective professions: Abi worked as an Assistant of Research in Public Health for the Mexican Federal Government and I worked as a Business Intelligence Consultant at Axa Insurances. Both of us were born and raised in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Abi grew up in a Christian family and I was converted to the gospel of Christ five years ago. We met each other when we were pursuing our bachelors  degree in the University of Yucatan. Our love for the  Lord, our eagerness to study His word and our desire to  serve brought us to Lubbock to study for the Bachelor's degree in Biblical Studies at SIBI.

Why Mexico?
People in Mexico City are searching and the doors are wide open for the True gospel to be taught. The country of Mexico is predominantly Catholic. However, the upcoming generation tends to be less loyal to the Catholic faith and is searching. We believe this is an opportune time to reach those who are disenchanted with what they have always known. It is an opportune time to share the truth of God's word. 

What are we going to do? 

Central Library, UNAM.

The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (National Autonomous University of Mexico) is a public research university in Mexico City. It is the largest university in Latin America. This university has an enrollment of approximately 345,000 students and almost 39,000 faculty and staff. What could be the impact of evangelistic outreach on the university campus?  We want to reach as many people as we can and there are many young people in Mexico City. They are key influences in their families. Touching just 1% of this number could made a huge impact in this society. Students at this age struggle with issues: social media, bullying, and the loss of identity. 
Our vision is to create an environment on the college campus where we can share the word of God while showing the great love that He has for us, and in this way to transmit the concept of salvation through Jesus Christ and the eternal promise that we have in him.

This work is very ambitious and very large to do it alone. We are blessed by being surrounded by people who are equipped to help us to accomplish this work. We are going to join an existing team working at Mexico City.
Lalo & Jamie Rocha and Israel & Nelly Molina have been working now for several years as church planters in Mexico City. Princeton & Danny Palmer joined in May 2015 focused to work as AIM coordinators. Mike and Kim Cantrell joined in April 2015. This deaf couple is working with the deaf in Mexico City and and will start a deaf congregation with plans to meet in the same building as the hearing.

Mexico City Team

We are looking for partners who want to be part of this work. Are you interested in help us? CONTACT US!!!

Spiritual Maturity

Many of us have heard this phrase "A rotten apple rots other," sadly this could apply to our children. If we consider a bad apple one person that is influencing to our children, this saying could become to be active in our lives. In the process of maturity of our children, they can be influenced by many people, we cannot control all the people who they establish relationship, at the school, many time through internet. All this factors an this influences could affects directly to their spiritual life and drag our children to the point of they lose sight of God and become to act like the person who is influencing. Sometimes our children are not aware of the danger that conveys to establish a relationship with certain people, I can tell you and example about a young man that try to help spiritually and he did not have the maturity to do that and he was dragged to the sinful lifestyle. We should be aware of this situations to try be a good guide to our children and even to the friends who are suffering or fighting the spiritual fight.

Missing Elements!

 There are four essential elements of culture that were compromised cumulative and collectively in the described moving from the farms to the suburban and urban areas. These factors that now are missing to a significant degree in our culture are: networks, meaningful roles, on-the-job training for life, parenting resources. The networks are essential to the human social functioning, and the simplest of all networks is the friendship, sometimes the absence of a networks the   human behavior learn to create substitutes for those that originally occurred spontaneously, this mean that a laugh produced by a joke between friends, now the children looking for a video in youtube and laugh, and in this way he find a substitute to producer of a laugh. Meaningful roles, this factor is in part responsibility fro the parents, because we need to deal with our young people actively in ways that cause them to believe they are significant contributors rather than just objects or passive recipients of our activities. The on-the-job training for life includes increasingly complex lessons in patience, self-discipline, deferred gratification, personal initiative, sacrifice, and hard work.
The absence of this factors also are affecting in some degree to our youth groups, the usage in excess of social media, sexting and problems related to the behavior of the children are things that could drag away our children of the spiritual growth.

References: Glenn, Stephen H. And., and Jane Nelsen. Raising Self-reliant Children in a Self-indulgent World: Seven Building Blocks for Developing Young Capable People

Families in Transition!!!

When we are parents and we are raising to our children and we are observing that something is not going well with them, we ask to ourselves, what are we doing wrong? The struggle to raise capable children has become more difficult for families who have not learned to compensate for the things that were lost in the rapid lifestyle changes. Capabilities that were once acquired so naturally in the old circumstances have now weakened. And that lack of strength in skills and capabilities threatens the potential of our young people today. This book through each chapter try to give us tools to raise self-reliants children.
One factor that play  a important role in the parenting is to plant positive qualities in their children as their parents plants in themselves, positive qualities like: self-disicpline, responsibility, good judgment, and perseverance. The challenge today is to help children develop the self-reliance, commitment and skills that were standard thirty or fifty years ago. The families from the farms have moved to suburban areas and started to lose important values, the family work in the farm is important, even the child of three years old knows what happen if... The farm's children learned responsibilities in the same table where they ate the dinner.  It was called the urban revolution and the family structure change and the extended family has been reduced to what we call nuclear family, one or two parents plus the children and the relatives typically live far away. We can say that one of the most important factors was the moving of the farm's families.

And maybe you are wondering, how does it impact to our church, well the same effect that has in our families, is happening in our churches, the identity and the roles it has been changing and the spiritual education at home is going down and this affect directly to how our children behave in our churches and in the youth groups.

References: Glenn, Stephen H. And., and Jane Nelsen. Raising Self-reliant Children in a Self-indulgent World: Seven Building Blocks for Developing Young Capable People