On Saturday, March 8, we were invited by Pastor Ramon, the youth pastor from Cabo English Church, his wife Vanesia, and the Cabo English Church youth group, to visit an orphanage in Todos Santos. The youth group had gone on a mission trip to the orphanage last year and had fallen in love with the children.
The orphanage is ran by Pastors Joel and Alicia Hernandez. They have had a church in the Todos Santos area for over 12 years. The church had previously been located within the town of Todos Santos, but the Lord worked it out for them to be able to purchase the present acreage outside of town and move the church there, as well as start the orphanage.
It is a peaceful place, full of mature fruit trees, many different kinds of animals, and the presence of the Lord. They have many gifted volunteers working at the orphanage. These volunteers provide vocational training and do vocational work themselves for the profit of the orphanage.
If anyone would like to help support the orphanage or find out more about it, you may learn more at http://hogardelnino-baja.org/.
On Friday and Saturday, March 28-29, one of our ministry friends, Pastor Julian Maciel of Centro Familiar Cristiano Asamblea de Dios, hosted outdoor evangelistic meetings in the street in front of his church. Evangelist Marisela Varrian gave a powerful message and many went forward for salvation, as well as other ministry.
Centro Familiar is the mother church of Pastor Carlos' Cristo es el Camino church, including his three church plants—Pastor Miguel in Cabo Canyon, a new plant in Las Palmas, and a just about-to-begin plant in El Caribe. Just last Sunday night, Richard was asked to speak at Pastor Carlos' church. While there, they prayed over and sent out the couple starting the new church plant in El Caribe. This couple has a building and is ready to start with little to no start-up costs. Pastor Carlos is sending out families from his church to give vibrant starts to all three of the new church plants. His vision is to light fires all over the Cabo San Lucas barrios until they explode into a mighty fire from God.