December progress

This past week was a great week on the project! Classes are going well, plants are coming up, and compost work is keeping us busy. We are helping to build a home for the pastor of the community at the agriculture training center. We were excited to see one wall completed this week!

Over the last week and a half we've gathered several thousand pounds of horse manure, two thousand pounds of organic cucumbers, and a truck load of other compost materials. We gather compost materials at 4:00 to 5:00 in the morning. Every other day the compost needs to be turned by hand. It's dirty, heavy, smells and gets all over your clothes and shoes. And, it takes time to see results! But without it, the hard dry clay-like soil will not yield any fruit. It's similar to our hearts. They are hard. Some take years of preparation before they are soft enough to yield the wonderful fruit the Lord can bring. The preparation is not easy. It's poco a poco (little by little), day by day.

Last week's cucumbers + a truckload of veggies = this week's compost

Agriculture Project at Orphanage

James 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Agriculture Training Center

Isaiah 61:11 For as the soil makes the sprout come up
and a garden causes seeds to grow,
so the Sovereign LORD will make righteousness and praise
spring up before all nations.

First class

Our first agriculture class has 21 students! We are very excited at the enthusiasm and welcome we have received. There is land with an adjoining building that is equipped with a large room for lectures, fans, and a kitchen. God has provided!


" May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations". - Psalm 67: 1-2

Sinaloa: Agriculture Training Center

Our focus on the agriculture training center in Sinaloa is to train national pastors, missionaries and community leaders in sustainable agriculture practices. They come to learn how to reach their communities for Christ through agriculture. A session with only 15 to 20 students could result in several community gardens and potentially affect hundreds of families.

God has blessed us with land, involvement from a local Mexican church, and an incredible team. Lord willing, we will “break ground” this fall and begin training immediately.

“I am sorry, but we only have tortillas today.”

“I am sorry, but we only have tortillas today.” Quoted from the director of a Matamoros feeding program that provides assistance to 300 elderly people. At a recent visit to the feeding center, they had nothing to eat other than tortillas!



25 acres of land has been donated to the project, and volunteers are ready to work the land to provide a harvest for these people. We are preparing the soil for a fall planting and a winter harvest. To get started, we need some hand tools and basic supplies.