Growing Ministry in Oaxaca

Our missionary of the month for June is the Brechtel family who serve the Lord in Mexico at Calvary Chapel Oaxaca. Here is an overview and update of their missionary work:

We serve at Calvary Chapel Oaxaca in the capitol of Oaxaca, Mexico. Jon is the senior pastor. The calling from the Lord to missions started when Jon and Allison attended the School of Discipleship at Calvary San Juan (Calvary South OC) in 2013-2014. The Lord worked on our hearts over the next few years as we served and were blessed to be part of the amazing staff at the church. We sold our house and made the move to Mexico. We first attended a Spanish school on the coast of Oaxaca in 2017, where God made it clear that we were to plant a church in the state of Oaxaca. After Spanish school we took the church planting class at Calvary Rosarito for one year where we also served as missionary staff. In January 2019 we moved back to Oaxaca and Calvary Chapel Oaxaca started in February 2019 in Oaxaca City, Mexico. It has been such a blessing to be here and be part of the work that the Lord is doing in Oaxaca. There aren’t any churches here that teach the Bible verse by verse and the people love learning this way. They desire to know Him more and more, and we have an amazing church family who love Jesus and want to serve Him.

Some of the things we do throughout the week is prayer night, men’s and women’s Bible study, church planting class, youth group, and Sunday services. We also go to a local orphanage every month and spend time with the kids and staff there. The church has been growing and ministry is amazing.

Prayer requests:

  • Spiritual Growth of the church

  • Pray for Gods guidance on trying to raise up more men to plant other churches

  • For youth group to become established, that the Lord would work in the hearts of our youth

  • For the men’s and women’s Bible studies as we plan on starting a new book of the Bible to study soon

  • Possibly a van or some sort of transportation for the church for when we have teams come and have church events outside of the church

  • Continued growth in our Spanish

  • Jonny and Noah to continue to grow in their walks with the Lord, and to continue to seek His calling on their lives