National “Operation Christmas Child” Conferences

Another season finishes, a new season starts… the Operation Christmas Child (OCC) ministry gathers their state coordinators throughout the country for 3 days of conferences every summer to both celebrate the Lord’s work completed the previous season and renew the vision for the new year of ministry.

Paco joined the 4 others from our Tlaxcala team in Mexico City for the

event this year (I stayed home to care for our babies- but Paco updated me about the sessions I had to miss).  This past year, 250,000 children in Mexico graduated from the discipleship program! Imagine: thousands of children learned to live following Jesus through Bible teaching!

As we praise the Lord for this harvest, we also pray for even more this following year.  Still much less than half of all the children who receive a shoebox gift and hear the Gospel at a Christmas event actually return for discipleship classes.  This year, we want to better train the churches to present the Gospel, to teach the children, to pray for the children and to love the children, so that more would

follow Jesus for eternity. 

Every time we gather with the OCC team, we marvel at the privilege of being part of this amazing evangelism and discipleship ministry around the world.