How we plan to reach “The Circle of Silence”

What is the “Circle of Silence”?

The Circle of Silence is an area of about 99,460 square miles in Central Mexico, with a total population of more than 23 million people and almost no gospel witness. The primarily rural mountainous area contains 115 towns and villages of 2,500 to 90,000 people each, which have few or no single evangelical Christian church. This comprises the highest concentration of unreached people in Spanish-speaking Latin America. Locals tend to syncretize animistic practices with the rituals of Roman Catholicism and have no experience or understanding of salvation. Fewer than one in 100 people knows Jesus.

Prédica Vida – Online and Bible Workshops 

In 2021, we established a six months training course called Prédica Vida (Preach Life) and run Bible workships throughout Mexico. We expect to recruit eager trainees froedm the existing evangelical churches in the area.

Some may also come from Buenas Neuvas, a missions society in Mexico. Some of their workers have already expressed interest. We also communicate with many churches throughout Mexico, a theological college, and a mission school. So some may come from these. We plan to promote the program in conferences and when we are invited to speak in churches. Although we should have plenty of candidates, our focus will be to train the few, who will in turn be able to train many more.

We believe the training we give will strengthen existing pastors in faithful Bible teaching and prepare others to be church planters in this vastly unreached area.

In the six months, we focus on Biblical exegesis, exposition and application by teaching through whole Bible books. At the same time emphasize the need to make disciples who make disciples. 

Our goals and expectations

In addition to the Prédica Vida training online, we conduct three-day workshops in various states of Mexico to upgrade the quality of ministry of local leaders. Like the online course, these sessions will include biblical exegetical and expository training in the mornings and preaching practice and application in the afternoons.

Through these efforts, we expect to see our local preachers become more effective in preaching the word and in training others in their midst to become effective Bible teachers and church-planters.

We have the vision of training church leaders and Bible teachers on how to faithfully teach the Scriptures. We hope this will enable them to teach others the same skills. (2 Tim. 2:2.)

Through this biblical teaching, preaching and training, we hope to see the Circle of Silence transformed into a Circle of Proclamation.