Today, Teri received a few photos with brief descriptions from Dennis. Here are a couple from her blog: Dennis and a translator, from Calvary Chapel, open air preach. Way of the Master training session at Calvary Chapel Mérida last Saturday. A girl reads over her Million Dollar Gospel tract. Dennis and a translator, from Calvary Chapel, open air preach. Eduardo uses the “red and green” ice breaker tracts to introduce...

Teri has posted some more updates on the trip, on her blog. Still no new pictures, but here are some of the highlights from the most recent update: Yesterday morning, the team went to the village of Hocába… where God brought together a large crowd to hear the open air preaching. It was also reported that there were many good one-on-one witnessing encounters. Dennis is excited that the church evangelism team members are seeing so many...

Just got a email from Dennis giving me a quick update and telling me of one particular witnessing encounter they had: It is a great joy in the Lord to see God moving in these people at CC Merida. Their excitment to evangelize is tremendous. This night, I did a pseudo open air along the parade route to a group of people and gave away money for trivia. These people were sitting and waiting for the parade to pass their location (a captive...

Teri Cain was able to talk to some of the Mérida Missions team last night and the following are some highlights that she posted on her blog: All is going well and the team remains excited and energized by all that God is doing. Dennis reported that they have had many good witnessing encounters throughout the parades. One man stood out in particular…he told his wife, who was anxious to leave, that he was staying to listen! The team was...

It was truly a joy to spend our normal Friday post-service worship time to specifically pray as a congregation for the Mérida mission trip and the future of missions at Sovereign Joy Community Church. Teri Cain has posted the following update from Dennis and the team on her blog: It’s Friday evening, February 20th, and after a pre-dawn start this morning, the mission team is in Mérida, Mexico by now. All five team members were beaming...

Dennis is taking along a team of four others to evangelize the city of Mérida during their annual “Carnival”. The Carnival is much like our Mardi Gras, only much more family-friendly. The biggest events of the celebration are the parades that take place over five days. (Dennis went to Carnival last year at this time to scope out the possibilities of evangelizing during this time and found the parades to be reaping with possibilities...

Pastor Jay Jesuroga writes: “I think that this is a great sermon for those who feel called to the ministry.” You can listen, read, or download  John MacArthur’s “12 Marks of Excellent Pastoral Ministry” (1 Tim 4:6-16) by clicking on the links below: Listen | Download: High Quality |  Low Quality | ...