Partnership with Puebla, Mexico

Recently two of our staff members attended a missions meeting to hear a presentation on future missions partnerships in the state of Puebla, Mexico. We heard testimony from director of missions for the Baptist state convention and his desire to lead his congregations in partnering in the task of church planting for the coming year 2013.

According to Wikipedia, the following information describes part of the states demographic:


In 2005, the state had a population of 5,383,133 according to the INEGI census, ranking fifth in the country. Over 93% of the state’s population identifies as Roman Catholic with 4.4% identifying as Protestant or Evangelical.

In 1921, Puebla had the second largest population, after Oaxaca, of purely indigenous people according to the national census. Since then, the official census has eliminated categories for race, counting only those who speak an indigenous language. In 2000, an attempt was made to count indigenous ethnicities, regardless of language spoken. This count ranked Puebla as fifth with a total population of 957,650. However, according to the 2005 census, there were 548,723 people who spoke an indigenous language.

Would you be willing to pray with us concerning a few of our staff members attending a vision trip? We specifically need to know right away if this is something in which the Lord would have us participate as the vision trips are scheduled for the first few months of 2013.


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