From La Cruz to the Nayarit Mountains

September 17th- September 24th

We went to La Cruz and Nayarit Mountains in Mexico. La Cruz is about two hours south of Maztlan. We went to some day labor camps to preach the Gospel, pray for people, and play with the kids. On my team, we split the team so we could go to more then one camp, four youth gave their lives to Christ. These camps are not pretty. They have very small rooms for a family to sleep in. The work is very hard, long, and low pay. Some of the guys leave their families for eight months at a time.

Christian Jung leading worship at one of the camps in La Cruz

Children at the camp in La Cruz

This is the place we stayed in La Cruz. We spent two days here. This was a time of rest, team bonding, playing, pampering oneself and laundry. We needed the rest from all the driving. We swam in the ocean, body surfed, played in the pool, and the girls got pedicures and massages.

The Cora people were an unreached people group in the Nayarit Mountains. We were given a history lesson by a Fransican Priest named Pascual who would hike up the canyon, which is a advanced hike, once a week to befriend them and help them. He did introduce Jesus to them but they believed Jesus was the same as the sun which is one of the many things they worshiped. As a people, there faith was animism. The catholic church here is a lot different then in other areas of the world. The story that I was given by one of the missionaries that was hosting us, Jay, is that there was a rift between the catholic church and the indigenous people group of Mexico. It has to do with the person, whose name escapes me, who told the story about Guadalupe. The indigenous people were offended that the church didnt recognize it. The Pope eventually came over to mend the relations and they venerated, not sure if that is the right term, Guadalupe. The Pope gave gifts to a Cora family. We were hosted by the son of this family, Magdaleno. I believe this is pretty accurate from what we were told by the missionary. Please forgive me if I got some things wrong in the story,

Drive to the Cora village of El Congrejo in the Nayarit Mountains. The village is 5000 ft in elevation

Aurrelo singing an original song before our Jesus film outreach.

These mighty men were awesome to minister with in El Congrejo, the Cora village. I don't remember but two of there names. Raul "Rio" and Aurrelo. I miss there laughter and teasing.

These four women are the first in the Cora village of El Congrejo to give their lives to Christ.

A Cora woman we prayed with.

A Cora Child



Raul "Rio", one of our Mexican teammates who joined us to reach the Cora people, teaching the children a game to play



A Cora woman working on a handbag all day, everyday for two weeks.

Finished handbag

Cora family in the Nayarit Mountains

Christian, Maria, and Tanya making corn tortillas in a Cora families house that hosted us.

Our team going house to house inviting the Cora people to the Jesus film outreach in their own Cora language

Cora house

Volleyball is very popular in the Cora village

We provided clothes for the Cora women and their families.

We provided food and household items for each of the 40 families.

We purchase 1000 blank cd's to put the Gospel on for the indigenous people in Mexico



Breck jumping off a tree branch into the river we hiked down to from the El Congrejo village

 Forty families live in the Cora village in the Nayarit Mountains. They are related to the Aztecs. When the Spanish went to war with Mexico the Cora and many othe tribes of people headed to the mountains.