The Mexico South Border District recently completed the fourth year of Project Paul, a mission development and church planting strategy inspired by the Apostle Paul.

As part of Project Paul, a group of volunteer missionaries restarts organized churches, consolidates mission-type churches, or responds to specific challenges encountered in an area where the gospel or the Church of the Nazarene has not yet arrived — all in a 21-day period. 

This year five volunteer missionaries worked alongside leaders and youth from four missions to hold Maximum Mission events, free medical consultations, haircuts, and other outreach activities from July 18 to August 7. The volunteers also completed a health center after construction was suspended for several years due to lack of resources. The team also rebuilt the roof of a house where a man lives with his sick children, and the man reconciled with the Lord. Throughout the project, 130 people were visited, and 30 of them made decisions to follow Jesus. Several young adults who assisted with the project received a confirmation of their call to ministry.

Project Paul is led by Miriam Olivera, project coordinator, and Juan Carlos Estrada, evangelism coordinator. The volunteers missionaries, David Velasco from the Mexico South District, Edgar Santiago from the Mexico Gulf District, and Alison Cardona, Guadalupe Lopez, and Elia Mendoza from the South Border District, worked with Pastor A. Quiroga from the Cinco de May mission, Miriam Zepeda from the Canada mission, Andrea Lopez from the Gate of Heaven mission, and Ari Tercero from the Metapa mission.

Through the volunteers' work, it is expected that the missions can be organized into mission-type churches. 

"We thank God for the people who were part of this project," Andrea Lopez said. "It has been a great blessing to the communities of the Mexico South Border District."

--Church of the Nazarene Mesoamerica Region