Carnaval + Leaving for Outreach

A move of God at Carnaval...

The third largest party in the world happens right here in the streets Mazatlan, and this year we went all out with a team of 300 people going into the action to share the Gospel. I helped with the training/overseeing of all of our evangelism teams as well as some content creation for the week. Whether the strategy was through worship, evangelism, art, serving coffee, dance, or using a stage, we saw over a thousand decisions for Christ + baptisms, healings, and outpourings of His presence.

For the next two months...

I will be helping lead this team of people across several major cities of Mexico on tour. The vision behind tours has two major components: 1. going after the hot-spots of where the next generation is in a city and 2. serving the local ministries through trainings and gatherings. We will be focusing on partnership with existing ministries, churches, and missionary friends and serve almost as a catalytic agent to what God is already doing in that location. There are two primary messages: salvation (into Jesus) and activation (into the great commission). The days of waiting for the next generation to just show up are over - it's time we go to them! How are they to join what God is doing if nobody invites them?

So the follow up question: where are they? Universities, cafes, High-schools, clubs. So, at every tour stop we have several days of build-up including heavy evangelism, university outreach, activation and training for local leaders... all leading up to some larger scale event (think mini-crusade, conference, or at one point a 3-day youth camp for 200 students). It's going to be incredibly high-intensity, big energy, and crazy fun. Our first Mexico tour team just returned with some of the wildest testimonies I've heard, and the idea is that every three months a tour team would return to the same locations to stoke that momentum.