When civil engineer Heidi Wallace learned about Globalscope’s exchange semester program at a board meeting of her college campus ministry, her initial reaction was disappointment that she didn’t know about it when she was a student.
Olivia Shank grew up on stories from her great-aunt, who was a nurse-missionary in Thailand. By age 4, she had decided that missions is her life path. After a few twists and turns along the way, she’ll be serving with a Marketplace Ministries team in Mexico City, helping to create a business academy that integrates Kingdom principles with business training for Mexican entrepreneurs.
Although they are spread out over three different countries, the CMF Globalscope campus ministers in Uruguay, Chile and Mexico share a common language and similar context and mission. The idea of getting together to share dreams and ideas that has been on the back burner for a couple of years finally gelled into the first-ever Latinscope in Lima, Peru, in early February.
Seventy-two campus ministers gathered in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, in July for Globalscope’s annual Celebration. Members of the Globalscope steering committee, CMF staffers, invited guests, and children brought the total to 121 CMF-related people who were together in Cholula for the entire week.
Discovery Bible Studies are having a big impact in the ministry of the La Zona Community Center led by CMF team members Misael and Yola Cruz in Mexico City.
What did you do on your spring break?
Five Globalscope campus ministers and six students from the El Pozo ministry in Puebla, Mexico, used their break to build a house for a young family in need.
Alexandra was a student who went to university and didn’t want anything to do with church or Jesus.
Did Manuel and Kollette Gutierrez always plan to be missionaries?
For Manuel, it’s an emphatic “no!” But for Kollette, the daughter of missionaries, it’s a big “yes!”