As part of Michael Grimm’s work in Mexico City, he has the great opportunity to share the Gospel and lead a bible study at a local rehab facility, known in Spanish as the Anexo. Here he shares how local church members are trying to provide hope in a challenging place.
Los Pepes is one of the poorest neighborhoods in Mexico City and is run by a Mexican mafia. It and other neighborhoods like it, are where all the garbage of Mexico City is brought and sorted, daily.
Isabel Miller is currently raising support to join our Marketplace Ministries team in Mexico City, a team that teaches business owners to live out their faith in the workplace with the goal of making disciples and alleviating poverty through entrepreneurship. Here she shares the story of one graduate of the program who is making a lasting difference in the communities he serves.
From our beginning in 1949, CMF has seen mission work holistically. Because the Good News of Jesus transforms all areas of life, we intentionally address the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of a person and their community. While we look forward to heaven, we recognize that God’s Kingdom reign should begin transformation in our lives and communities today.
Isabel Miller entered university at Georgia Tech as a business major, never thinking that she would be a missionary or work abroad. But when she got involved with a campus ministry on Georgia Tech’s campus called CCF, she says that “Little by little, through different ways, just step by step, God changed my heart and sort of shifted my eyes toward this kind of work.”
Parker Habermehl is a senior at Ozark Christian College getting a degree in Biblical Communications with a minor in Organizational Leadership. He is from Roanoke, Texas, and feels called to serve in full-time ministry after graduation.
Yola and Misael Cruz Trejo are both originally from Mexico City, Mexico, where they now form an integral part of a CMF team in Mexico City that ministers to hundreds of people. Through this ministry, they’ve seen transformation happen in the lives of individuals, families, and specifically the communities of Fuego Nuevo in Iztapalapa and Xalatlaco on the west side of the city.
Michael Grimm is preparing to go to Mexico City to serve with the Church Catalyst team to support the ministries that are already taking place there.
In summer of 2021, CMF launched a Marketplace Ministry in Mexico City in partnership with an organization called Sinapis, that empowers “entrepreneurs professionally and spiritually using training and a global support network so they can grow to the next level and transform the world around them”. Sinapis focuses on small and growing businesses, creating new job growth in communities.
Nine Mexican Christian business leaders gathered in Mexico City in early August to participate in a two-day overview and mock training of the Aspire business development program.
