About

La Guajira, Colombia, the northernmost territory of this country, is a desert area inhabited mainly by indigenous people of the Wayuu ethnic group. Their culture has remained almost impenetrable in its culture and worldview over the years.

Elder and Alexander, together with their families for years have sought ways to fulfill The Great Commission in multiple ways, and putting everything within their reach to fulfill it- delivering time, resources and most importantly the family to God for it. It was on one occasion during a missionary trip and after meeting CSRM's PF Meyers, who shared excellent material on how to use sport to evangelize, where together they decided that it would be a good way  to reach many for God in an effective way.

Elder and his family, who are part of the Wayuu ethnic group, along with Alexander and his family, decided to leave their hometown of Barranquilla, Colombia and serve in the indigenous communities. They began to visit the Rancherías, which are  settlements formed by one or two families with their own authority and law. To put into practice the use of this resource, they started to go from one Rancheria to another on a motorcycle, presenting themselves as trainers to give the opportunity to open the doors of that place and present the Gospel. To the glory of God it paid off since we started sports clinics with four communities, which helped us to land the vision of this ministry and the desire to prepare ourselves better to give the best.

Ministry Updates

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2019 

Fall 2019

• We are working in two communities where we focus our work, through the sports school, making use of the Ubabalo football training material, and sports camps, in addition to training other leaders of local churches with the material of "church and sports" so that they can also make use of this great tool.

2020

February-July 2020

• First thing is that we are in good health thanks to God, and we hope that each one of you who receives this message is also well.
• We were planning a trip to the states for March to receive training and at the same time work to provide financial resources as a family. Then suddenly everything changed with something that was just a passing virus, hoping everything would return to normal. But the days started passing by and the situation got worse.
• The local government started locking everybody down and we were on lock down far from our home and the field of our ministry, but still with the hope that things will get better, we kept going with the plans and move forward to accomplish them. As days went by, the government started creating strong laws that restricted everyone to only go out 1 day per week.
• But this never took our mind and heart out of the mission field, by the passing of the days we start thinking on ideas to continue with the ministry and been a support on these times, and we have been working on developing what we have named: ¨Centros de conexión AMOR¨ where AMOR (LOVE) stands for:
  • A- Aprendo (Learn)
  • M- Medito (Meditate)
  • O- Organizo (Organize)
  • R- Reciclo (Recycle)
• This will be integrated to the communities where we are developing school, sports and Christian formation program. The objective of these centers is to be able to integrate into a space, audio/visual resources, such as books, movies, Christian training and entrepreneurship material; also be able to have internet connection that allow to maintain constant communication with these communities through development of materials to growth virtually and remotely, also to run programs of literacy, considering that the schools are close.
• We both started working from home during this time, which is a great reminder of God's mercy, that even at this moment is opening doors for us, this has allowed us to base and raise our personal finances and also to empower others to carry out the work while we are not there. At the moment, we are supporting our brother Elder and his family who have been our partner in the ministry and who recently was left without any kind of help or income; he has committed himself to visit the communities to continue with the development of the sports and training school in Pactalia and Piulakat.
• We are planning to stay in Barranquilla for the rest of the year or till we have open doors to move around the national territory, taking into account that we can’t travel back with the kids. We will be also traveling twice a month to do follow up to the activities and been able to keep the engagement with communities.
• In July, we have received many blessings that we are just collecting to been able to support the incoming projects.
• Me and my wife are also excited to announce that we are expecting another baby boy that will arrive on the month of September, it was not expected but still a huge blessing for our lives and family. We thought it could be the baby girl, but seem to be that God just adding boys’ soldiers to his army here, which we consider a huge honor and a big responsibility to take them to be servants for the Lord.
•  ​We know that God is in control, and that our plans are under His will, that everything He place on the way for us is an opportunity to honor His name and for Him fulfill his divine purpose in our lives. I will be writing later this month with more updates about the new projects. Since we are still working on budgets and needs so you can share with others and pray about.​

January 2020

• God is moving miraculously this beginning of the year, and praise the Lord for he is wonderful! We started January with visits and good news.
• January 15-18 were very blessed days- about 50+ souls accepted Jesus, full of fellowship and friendship.
• Other good news is: I'm finally doing my leg treatment. With the help of two of our donors, I was able to start the process to heal my leg; so, please be praying for my recovery.
• This year, we will start a different way to outreach since we don't have all the resources needed to do most activities. We also don't have a car, which is very necessary in this area.
• With a better perspective from friends, we came to conclusion that it's better to establish in the city and from there start expanding , so this is what we will be doing during this year, establish a congregation in the city, to build a lasting and effective work, preparing disciples to go and do the Great Commission.

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• Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Matthew 28: 19

Colombia Facts

Population*: Approx 49 million
Religions**: 

• 92% Christian
• 3.5% Theistic but no religion
• 2.5% Agnostic
• 2.2% Atheist
• 1.3% Jehovah's Witnesses
• 0.5% Adventist
• 0.1% Muslim
• 2.2% no response

*2017 World Bank. **2010 Colombian Survey 

Colombia is the world's leading source of emeralds, and its coffee is world-renown
*World Fact Book (2014 est.) ​​

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