Visitors

This week we had the blessing of having our pastor, Dr. Carl Herbster, and several other men visit us here in Monterrey. The primary purpose of the trip was to consider options for future development of property both for the church and university. Both ministries are currently in desperate need of more space. The church currently runs around 400 people on Sunday mornings, but the auditorium only seats around 250. The University already is using some of the junior high classrooms for evening classes because we don't have enough space in our own classroom building.

Walking, talking and dreaming with men of faith and vision is always exciting and humbling. Pastor Herbster brought with him a man who is VP of a major deveopment corporation out of Houston, TX. He had many great ideas that we had not thought about. Now we need to sit down, consider our options and pray for the Lord's guidance.

All of the options require special intervention from our Lord. Property prices in Monterrey are very high since it is a major metropolitan area (between 4 and 5 million people) and because it is the most expensive city in Mexico (we can thank NAFTA and the influx of American businesses for that!). Humanly speaking, none of the options are realistic possibilities. However we know that the Lord can provide and can work the impossible. We should know that better than just about anyone. Every day I get up and go to work at a University that was humanly impossible only 13 years ago. Only 13 years ago, the Mexican constitution prohibited religious institutions from participating in education. The Lord's power is so great that He could change 150 years of Mexican legal history in order to allow the beginnings of Christian education in Mexico. If He can do that, providing the minimum of 4 million dollars that is needed to purchase property and develop a campus will not be a problem for Him.