Durango Mission Project

[Daniel White Family]

Thank you for your prayers for this trip. God protected us and
allowed us safe travel without any problems. I am already planning
several return trips and hope that others will become involved with
this ministry.

Mexico has experienced great flooding during the past several weeks.
Mosquito and fly populations were already higher than normal this
year, and now they are projected to increase three fold.

Local pastors in Durango requested help, via an International Mission
Board missionary, with this situation. Illness and disease are
spreading among poor villages that do not have the resources to combat
the situation.

I was asked to lead a disaster relief team tasked to train several
local communities how to deal with the mosquitoes and flies. We
donated fogging machines, pump sprayers, and poison to the villages
and trained them how to use the equipment and proper application of
the poison. We also donated screen material and bed netting and
trained them to properly install the materials. We also trained them
to eliminate standing water sources and harbors for the insects. This
was an excellent social opportunity that afforded us an open door to
preach the gospel.

We sang hymns, gave testimonies, and preached the gospel of Jesus
Christ in each of the villages. We did not have any immediate
decisions of salvation, however we planted the seed and generated
goodwill for the local churches in those communities. In one of the
villages, a wealthy land owner was led to donate a tract of land for
the church to build a temple.

We are already making plans to return and be involved in other
projects. Some of the projects include carpentry workshops, rabbitry
workshops, sewing workshops, and other agricultural/vocational
workshops. The purpose of these workshops is to train the people with
a vocation that will allow them to sustain a living. These workshops
will afford us an open door to preach the gospel and generate goodwill
for the local Baptist churches in these communities.

Please contact me if you or your church might be interested in one of
these projects. We will need mission teams and materials to
facilitate these workshops. Please pray for these projects that God
will send for laborers into his harvest.

Daniel White Family
Misiones 5 Manantiales
www.m5m.org