A Call to Prayer in Southern Mexico

Join Our Partners in Prayer - March 20th 6am-9am CDT

The Outreach Foundation recently received a request from one of our key partners in Mexico, the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico, to join them in prayer on March 20th (6 am to 9 am CDT). The request for prayer stems from the growing violence in the southern state of Chiapas, which borders Guatemala. Large numbers of immigrants from Central and South America as well as Asia and Africa funnel through the mountainous terrain between these two countries. The Outreach Foundation partners with a church plant in the capital city of Tapachula which ministers to the large volume of immigrants that are passing through the state on their way north. A high volume of drugs also transit through this area.

Over the past several years, two of the most powerful drug cartels in Mexico, the Sinaloa and New Generation Jalisco cartels, have been fighting for control of this lucrative drug and immigrant trafficking trade. Extortion of small businesses, kidnappings, forced displacements, and violent confrontations between the cartels and Mexican authorities have been escalating in recent months. There are a large number of Presbyterian congregations in Chiapas, particularly in the rural areas, that are impacted by this increased level of violence.

Please consider joining our Mexican brothers and sisters on March 20th to pray for peace, security, and a decreased level of fear and less violence in Chiapas. To learn more about the work of these church planters, click here to read a previously written article which does a great job summarizing their work.