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Spearhead Mission
To facilitate and model incarnational living, focused relationships and practical ministry experience alongside local churches and ministries through cross-cultural immersion.
About Spearhead
Over 20 million people in Mexico City have no personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Can you help?
Mexico City is not that far away. With its street children washing windshields for a peso. With its countless green VW bugs. With its blaring music and crackling energy.
Mexico City needs people like you.
The largest city in the Western Hemisphere, this megalopolis is a great place to explore if God is calling you to go places you never thought you’d go, to say things you never knew you could say, to do things for Him you never dreamed you would.
Mop off your sweaty face after playing basketball with some gang members as you prepare to share about Christ. Split a bean taco with a ragged street urchin. Swallow your fear as you tap on the neighbor's door that proclaims, "Protestants and other sects not welcome." Use newly-learned Spanish choruses to lead worship on Sunday mornings.
Witness firsthand the painful effects of a severe recession, joblessness, corruption and alcoholism. Feel your legs strain as you climb ancient pyramids. Furiously take notes as your Mexican instructor teaches you multiple verb tenses. Take a bucket bath. Try grilled cactus, rice water and chicken's feet. Share a common cup of fears, failures and dreams with your questioning teenage host brother.
Feel God use your roommate, as iron sharpens iron, to hone away some of your jagged edges. Scurry to escape a downpour before your team clown show gets drenched. Plan an evangelism workshop over a bowl of steaming avocado and tortilla soup. Pray together. Lots.
My time in Mexico was challenging, life-changing, and affirming. I had the opportunity to work with Compassion International, an organization I support already and have dreamed of working with first-hand. God gave my roommate and me purpose in putting our art skills to use as we re-organized and decorated the Compassion site and blessed us both with a new amazing friendship. Being pushed out of my comfort zone forced me to trust God in deeper ways that re-centered my faith and relationship with Him. Overall, I've learned to be more grateful for what I have, more understanding of other cultures, and have developed a deeper trust and desire for my relationship with God and living according to His will.
-Rachel Campbell, ‘11
