Community Opportunities--the Ensenada region

Laboring in God’s Ensenada Garden  

The very best gardens always seem to have a wide variety of delicious and the Ensenada region…attractive plantings. Tomatoes, corn, green beans, cucumbers, herbs and spices… the variety of choices is almost endless. The same thing is true for ministries that labor in God’s garden.
Although God has called Agua Viva Ministries to labor in His field that is the country of Mexico, he has given a particular spot in the city of Ensenada and the surrounding seventy-five miles of countryside. God has given us a heart for this garden, and He has taken our feeble efforts and used them through His Spirit to turn this area into a very fruitful and precious place for ministry.
Just as there is almost no end to the plants that can be sown in a vegetable garden, so there is almost no end to the ministries the Children we love!we are sowing in this area. In this newsletter, we want to acquaint you with a few of them. The articles will give you more detail than this map can show, but here is a broad geographical view of a few of those ministries in this "garden" we call Ensenada: (we refer to this as our Missions Partnership Experience (MPE) where we uniquely combine American & Mexican resources in the beautiful country of Mexico).
In the same way that God has many different ways of cultivating His gardens…clearing the ground, plowing, sowing, watering, weeding, fertilizing, and harvesting. He has provided us with many different types of resources to
assist in our work in His garden.

Here are a few of them: 

• Faithful prayer warriors all over North America who hold this ministry up.
• Local churches, who provide the contacts for special projects, including home building projects
• American groups, who provide the planning, funding and building of local churches.

This map shows where in Ensenada these ministries took place in 2008:  We minister in a 75 mile radius

•  28 Bible Schools where countless children heard the Gospel, maybe even for the first time!
• 22 groups served at Agua Viva through construction or camp assistance projects!
• 12 free medical clinics in poverty-stricken communities!
• 8 dental clinics where people were treated who normally wouldn’t be able to afford dental care!
• Soccer is big…8 sports ministries the local community, where soccer was played and the Good News was shared!
• 5 women’s Bible studies were held!
• 4 youth outreaches were held in public parks!
• 4 health education classes were given in poor communities!
• 1 teen girl Bible study was held
• 1 men’s Bible study and prayer!

All this took place in the midst of having groups participate in our Power Additionally there we’re 5 Power Weekends in 2008!Weekends that helped build the new Seminary facility.  We are blessed to minister in very creative and varied ways.  We uniquely combine American and Mexican resources to provide very unique ministry opportunities.