Pastor Nilo visits with the children of the Martial Arts Outreach of Iglesia Luterana San Pablo

On Saturday, Pastor Nilo had an active day visiting Proyecto JOEL’s programs.  Here he is pictured in the sanctuary of Iglesia Luterana San Pablo with the children of the Maclovio Rojas community.  They have cleared out the pews in the church to make room for the Martial Arts Outreach which Legna leads.

Tere Montoya, CPTLN staff, [...]

Worship at Iglesia Evangelica Luterana de la Sola Gracia y la Sola Fe.

We worshiped with the congregation of IELSGSF and met Pastor Manuel and his wife Marta.  The Bible class was led by Dr. Victoria.   Pastor Nilo addressed the congregation and encouraged them.

We headed off to the border after church and had a bit of a wait.  We drove by the new Concordia Lutheran Church in [...]

Here Sr. Nilo meets with the staff and we talk about the many opportunities …. and challenges of ministry in Tijuana!

Sr. Nilo spends the day with Legna and  Pastor Abdiel looking at the Proyecto JOEL projects.  I was in Los Angeles meeting with women for an LWML planning meeting.  More photos of Sr. Nilo’s day [...]

A full Friday….

Pastor Figur visited one of the Lutheran churches in Tijuana. Here is saying: “This is going to end up on the blog, right?”  He knows me already!

The Pastor’s wife treated us to a delicious breakfast of “picadas” which are handmade corn tortillas with beans, salsa and mexican cheese on top.

From there we toured the CPTLN [...]

Surveying the Land and the Opportunities

Pastor Figur has enjoyed learning about the mission field in Tijuana.  There is so much going on here! We took him for a hearty lobster lunch by the ocean……then we drove to Poway, California to meet the LWML Pacific Southwest District President Linda Koch and finally give a presentation about the ministry in Tijuana to [...]

Area Director Rev. Nilo Figur

We have a new Area Director for Latin American offices of Lutheran Hour. Pastor Nilo is a native of Brasil, most recently serving as a professor in the Communications Department of Concordia University Austin, Texas.  We are delighted to have his wise counsel in ministry in Mexico.  Please pray for him as he walks alongside [...]

Proyecto JOEL magazine launched

Legna, director of Proyecto JOEL/CPTLN launched a new magazine for youth of Tijuana.  This magazine enters the world of the border youth and challenges youth to think “outside the box” and join the movement of caring for God’s world, living as God’s people, being a part of the healing that God desires for their generation [...]

Endowment established for ministry.

I am grateful for the Sunshine Zone of the Lutheran Laymen’s League. I was invited to give a ministry update yesterday and they established an endowment fund for the purpose of advancing ministry.  Among those they will support is the work in Tijuana.  A camp property was sold and now those funds will go to [...]

Layman begins mission work among indigenous people

Lay missionary, Francisco, began outreach to families of kidnapped victims in Tijuana. He also takes trips twice a year to visit the Yaqui tribe, an indigenous people in the interior of Mexico.  He takes them words of encouragement and hope from God’s word and also blesses them with providing some clothing, school supplies, basic food [...]

Love from Iowa….

It was great to visit our supporters in the great state of Iowa.  It was warm … unusually warm for Iowa for this time of year…..and harvesting time in the corn fields.  I visited a small beautiful country church in Garner at a LLL rally organized by Ronald Bratmiller (thanks Ron!) on Saturday. 
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