Lone Tree Mexico Missions Founded 1989 Short-Term Opportunities View 3 current opportunities.

Contact Information
Mailing Address: Lone Tree Mexico Missions PO Box 713 Capitan, NM 88316 Main Website: http://www.lonetree.org	Phone Numbers: Toll-free: 888-854-4801 Phone: 575-354-3322 Fax: — Email Address for General Inquiries: mexico@lonetree.org

Mission/Vision Statement:

OUR PURPOSE: TO REACH OUT AND REACH IN

REACHING OUT: Our heart is to serve the Mexican people in tangible ways that will open the door for the gospel to be spread. There is so much physical need in Juarez for shelter, food, and clothing. Groups on our mission trips build a complete house for a needy Mexican family (one that is living in cramped housing, usually made of pallets and cardboard with a dirt floor). The groups will also have the chance to spend time with children at an orphanage or bless a whole community by having a cookout with games, crafts, and a gospel message.

Lasting Impact: The work of building the house has implications far beyond what you can see. First, the family who receives the house can no longer doubt the existence of true Christian love. Second, people in the community can witness Christian love in action. Third, your ministry will not end when you leave. A local pastor will follow up with the family and water the seed that you have planted. Through Amor ministries, we have a board of pastors that select the candidates who will receive a house based on family size and financial need. The pastor who selects the family will meet with the family both before and after your group builds the house, so that your group’s ministry is an extension of local ministry already being done by the local pastors. We believe this is the essential for missions, to cooperate with local pastors.

REACHING IN: We believe in the development of youth through service and understand that the spiritual development of your youth is of vital importance when on a mission trip. When challenged to serve out of their comfort zone with spiritual guidance, youth can grow in huge leaps and bounds. Through our 3 phases, we make the mission trip a learning and growing experience, not just an event. We first prepare your students with 2 days of team building, then enable them to do ministry for 5 days in Mexico, and finally help them process the trip and what God is teaching them and calling them to do with their life back home. Through the 3 phases, unified teams are formed, leaders are drawn out, and life-long changes are made.

Lasting Impact: Youth pastors continually share incredible stories with us how their students have made decisions on the trip that have changed their lives forever. Every week we see students that realize how blessed they are, commit to spend more time in the Word, form relationships of genuine Christian fellowship and accountability, or even feel called to missions. This trip is also often a catalyst for youth groups to grow in exciting, genuine ways. Often youth pastors tell us how certain students had never opened up to them until after this trip, when trust and close relationships were formed.

Doctrinal Statement:

LONE TREE STATEMENT OF FAITH


We believe in:

1. The Divine Inspiration and consequent authority of the whole canonical Scriptures; the fulfillment of its prophecies and the reliability of its promises. (II Peter 1:20-21; II Timothy 3:16-17)

2. The Doctrine of the Trinity: One God, able to reveal Himself as Father, Son or Holy Spirit. (John 14:16-17; Matthew 28:19)

3. The Fall of man through the working of Satan (who is a created being and the enemy of God); his consequent moral depravity; his need of regeneration; the resurrection of the body both the just and the unjust; the eternal life of the saved in Heaven and eternal punishment of the lost. (Romans 5:12, 6:23; Genesis 1:16)

4. The Atonement through the substitutionary death, shed blood, and physical resurrection of the virgin born, True-God, True-Man, Jesus the Christ. (Romans 5:8-9)

5. The Doctrine of Justification by Faith through God’s grace. (Romans 3: 21-26; John 1:12)

6. The personal, “At any moment” return of Jesus Christ to catch up the redeemed to be with Himself. (Acts 1:11, I Thessalonians 4:16-17)

7. The indewelling of the Holy Spirit the moment a person accepts Jesus Christ as personal savior. (Romans 8:9,11,13,14)

8. The bestowing of Spiritual gifts on the members of the body (the church) as God sovereignly deems it best. Such gifts are for the edification of the whole body, not merely for the enjoyment or enrichment of the individual members possessing them. (I Peter 4:10-11; Ephesians 4:11-13; Romans 12:3-8; I Corinthians 12,14)

9. No particular gift, including speaking in tongues (which were unlearned languages; Acts 2:4-12) is a necessary sign of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit nor a sign of spirituality. We are not directed to seek any certain gift, but we are to desire the greater gifts (I Corinthians 12:27-31)

The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest fields.
~ Mathew 9:37-38