More Carpenters and Bi-lingual Transalators still needed!

Hello Friends of BCM... Newsboys, Global Expeditions (GE), and Global Tribe are partnering with BCM to build 12- 20 houses for the poor in Baja the last two weeks of July, 6-10 houses each week. This outreach is called "Baja Blast 2010". 

We need more CARPENTERS to lead house building groups of young GE missionaries from all over the country. You would be leading and teaching them your skill as you build a house together in 4 days. 

We also need more BI-LINGUAL TRANSLATORS to serve with the GE teams going out to do the work of evangelism and various forms of outreach ministry.

These are both volunteer tasks. We have bunk facilites and catered food available. There are two trip opportunities. You can serve in one or in both. The committment is 4 and 1/2 days for each trip: The first is from Sunday, July 18th, through Thursday, July 22nd. The second is from Sunday afternoon, July 25th, through Thursday, July 29th.

If you can commit, we'll need you for all of the 41/2 days. If you live locally in Baja you can commute if you like (with a team of other Christian bi-lingual friends! ) Then this will only cost you the price of gasoline to get to the meeting site. Oh course, if you'd like, you can stay at the mission facility, Rancho Jireh. If you have a greater distance to travel, the price for food and lodging is $128, along with the price of gasoline to get there.

I have enclosed all the info and forms which you will need to fill out and get back to us. See this info about Baja Blast 2010 at the BCM web site :http://www.bajachristian.org

Please pass this info to other Christian carpenters and potential bi-lingual translators whom you would recommend and think might be interested! 

After reading the info and forms enclosed on our web site, please contact one of the following BCM staff:

David Angulo-daviangulo@aol.com

Cheryl Walker-BCMCHERYL@earthlink.net

In your email let us know that you are interested, leave a telephone number and we'll get right back to you! If you're ready, fill out the forms and send the funds for food and lodging! Thanks!

Here are 3 music videos you might want to view that are about this trip. 

BCM/ Newsboys/Global Expeditions/Global Tribe/ Baja Blast video by Mike Gray synced to Newsboys "Glorious" 

BCM/ Newsboys/ Global Expeditions/Global Tribe/ Baja Blast video by Daniel Strand synced to Newsboys "I am Free"

Thanks for your help!

Bob Sanders

Newsboys, Global Expeditions, Global Tribe, Baja Christian Ministries joining together to build houses and lives for Jesus!

Contractors, Carpenters and Bi-lingual Translators Still Needed!

See links below for more information.

Baja Blast 2010 General Information

Baja Blast 2010 Sign Up Form

Integrity Agreement

Waiver Revised

Congratulations to Debbie Pridemore and Karen Dunleavy!  Debbie Pridemore won the painted drum head and Karen Dunleavy won the painting.  

We want to thank everyone who participated in the raffle.  Thank you everyone for your support.  

A special thanks goes out to Peter Furler for his donated paintings and for his continued support of Baja Christian Ministries.  Thank you Peter!!  Please check out Peter furler's website at http://www.peterfurler.com/

"Hello Everyone! I believe in what Baja Christian Ministries (BCM) is doing in Baja! Reaching souls for Christ, they’re helping to lay a solid Biblical Foundation in people’s lives through the distribution of Spanish Bibles and Purple Books. Because they’re doing so well, they desperately need more!  Please help us reach the goal of one million Purple Books in the Baja Peninsula.  I have donated one of my oil paintings. It is being shipped now to an anonymous donor who gave $2,000 to BCM for the Purple Book Program.  I have decided to donate another  and an original hand painted drum head  to help stimulate funding for this great cause! This time we are going to do a raffle to make them accessible to all. A raffle ticket donation to Baja Christian Ministries for $20 a ticket. Of course if you donate more than one your chances of winning are better and you are also helping to put more Bibles and PB discipleship books in the hands of more people in Baja.  The drawing will take place on Thursday, May 20, when the winners will be announced. First name drawn will receive the painting. The second name drawn will receive the painted drum head.

Peter Furler

To buy raffle tickets  please fill out the information on the Find Out More Page.  In the comment section type in that your buying raffle tickets for the drawing.  A BCM staff member will be in contact with you shortly after this to process your purchase of the raffle tickets.  All proceeds go to help the Bible and Purple Discipleship program.  To check out more about our Bible and Purple Book Discipleship Program click here.  The cost of the raffle tickets are $20 each.  If you like to mail your donation for raffle tickets you send that to:

Baja Christian Ministries 4195 Chino Hills Pkwy # 390 Chino Hills, CA 91709 or call in your request for tickets @ (909) 627-4339

All mail orders for raffle tickets need to be postmarked by May 14.  If you want to call in your order for raffle tickets we will take them up till the day of the drawing on May 20 at 5:30 P.M. PST.

To Check out other painting, music and photo's by Peter Furler please check out his official site here.

www.peterfurler.com

Dear Prayer Partner,

Our God is on the move in Baja! It is so refreshing to watch what He is doing in the lives of many there and also in the hearts of those serving them!  We have had an awesome year thus far and are off to a great start to a very busy month of groups serving with us!

Rolling Hills Christian Church of El Dorado Hills, CA, brought a team of 120 enthusiastic and eager young people last week. They left Mexico filled with joy after building 6 homes and sharing the love of Christ with many! On top of the 6 beautiful homes, many came to Christ, and 210 Bibles and Purple Books were distributed and discipleship groups started. My short report doesn't do justice to the magnitude of what took place during this mission expedition!  There are hundreds of photos and lots of joy filled thoughts circulating on facebook right now. We plan on having a video soon to share some of their joy, and our joy, with you!

Just days before Rolling Hills Church came we had a wonderful young adults team from Bel Air Presbyterian Church called the "Foundry".  They  built a house, went out in evangelism with us and served many children through ministry. One of their members, Jon Stoll, produced an amazing 1 minute and 40 second, time-lapse video of the house build I wanted to share with you. Enjoy: 

David Angulo also produced an inspiring video including some photos, video footage, and some short testimonies from the "Foundry" trip, synced to Newsboys song, "Something Beautiful". It follows. Enjoy!

One week before that King's Elementary School of Seattle, WA, funded a home, and College Park Church of Long Beach, CA, built the home. Tony Jacob produced a great video synced to Newsboys song, "God of All Nations". Enjoy:

Baja Earthquake Report: The quake shook quite a bit to bring people nervously out of their homes this Resurrection Sunday, but no significant damage was done! I spoke to BCM team members Ramon, Hector and Pablo, and we got word from others from our team in different parts of Tijuana also:  All is well! A shake up yes, but all is fine! Praise be to our God!

Paul Bagai and his youth group of 42 members from First Presbyterian Church of Hayward, CA, were being brought through the border Sunday afternoon at the time of the earthquake. They are all fine and got to the ranch where they are staying safely. They had some rain yesterday, but persevered, and are making great progress on the two houses they are building. 

Australian recording artist Lucas Parry and his wife Jody, are bringing in a team  from Spring Hill, Tenn, this Thursday to build two houses and to do evangelism and Bible/Purple Book ministry with us. They are founders of "Go Network" and "Go Concerts" purposed  to marry music and media to help stir the church into global mission. Check out more about Lucas and Jody's ministry here :

Teams coming In this weekend to serve with BCM April 8th--11th:

Beachpoint Community Church, Fountain Valley, CA, is bringing a team led by pastor Bill Stafierri and Gregg Keenen to build to  2 homes.

Newport Mesa Church, Costa Mesa, CA,  is bringing a team led Laura Sturdevent  to buid 1 home.

Loyola High School, Agoura Hills, CA, is bringing a team led by Chris & Andrew Laubach to build 1 home.

Irvine Presbyterian Church, Irvine, CA, is bringing a team led by Eric Smith to build 1 home.

Kelly and Friends, Malibu, CA, is bringing a team led by Kelly Gerhart to build 1 home.

Please cover all these teams in your prayers, asking our great God to bless them and protect them and their possessions and fill them with fullness of joy in His Presence. Pray also that all the logistics would flow smoothly. Please also pray that many lives will be brought in to the kingdom of God through our joint ministries.  Your prayers have been so powerful and effective! Thank you so very much!  

BCM Team Build Schedule from today till the end of the month:

Apr 4-9  Paul Bagai, First Presbyterian Church, Hayward, CA  2 homes + 2 latrine

Apr 7-12 Lucus and Jody Parry, The GO Network, Spring Hill, TN 2 homes

Apr 8-11 Bill Stafierri, Beachpoint Community Church, Fountain Valley, CA 2 homes

Apr 9-11 Laura Sturdevent, Newport Mesa Church, Costa Mesa, CA 1 home

Apr 10-11 Chris & Andrew Laubach, Loyola High School, Agoura Hills, CA 1 home

Apr 10-11 Eric Smith, Irvine Presbyterian Church, Irvine, CA 1 home

Apr 10-11 Kelly Gerhart, Kelly and Friends, Malibu, CA 1 home

Apr 15-18 Chad & Jon Youngquist, Home for Home Program, Ellensburg, WA 2 homes

April 16-18 Dan Kissel, Creekside Christian Fellowship, Santa Ana, CA  3 homes + 3 latrines

April 23-25 Bob Allen, Sierra Madre Congregational Church, Glendora, CA 1 home + 1 latrine

Apr 23-25 Ken Hays, Red Hill Lutheran Church, Santa Ana, CA 1 home + 1 latrine

Apr 24-25 Jordon Deitz, Oceans 11, North Coast Calvary Chapel, Carlsbad, CA 1 home

Apr 30-May 1 David Nelson, Horizon Christian Fellowship, San Diego, CA 2 homes

Apr 30-May 2 Paul Deese, Rock Harbor Church, Costa Mesa CA 1 home

Apr 30-May 2 Dean Monohan, San Clemente Presbyterian Church, San Clemente, CA 1-2 homes

Apr 30-May 2 Doug and Alexis Mills, The Crossing, Costa Mesa, CA 1 home

May Wade Family Charitable Foundation, Seal Beach, CA 1 home + 1 latrine

Entire BCM Schedule for 2010

http://www.bajachristian.org/current-schedule/

Thank you so very much for standing with us in prayer, giving, and service!  God bless you!

Harvesting Baja together for our King and His glory, 

Bob Sanders

Dear BCM Partners,

Our God has called us to the Great Commission--to make disciples of the nations!  We are committed to doing that in Baja Mexico where the harvest is ripe!  We have an excellent opportunity to share a significant part in an eternal investment!

We can all help, even from this side of the border, in the discipleship process of more than one million people in Tijuana and the Baja pennisula, laying a solid Biblical foundation in their lives. We have set this as a 20 year goal, yet we believe it can be reached much sooner if we have the funds to do so. How do we solve this shortage of financial resources? Allow me to share some possiblities...., but first I'd like to share a short video interview we did last weekend in Baja produced by David Angulo, and then a brief history of how this all got started, the beginnings to what has become an effective evangelism--discipleship ministry:

How it all got started....

Back in May of 2007 we started a plan that developed into a program we call the "BCM Bible/Purple Book Program" . We started with a single woman whom we asked to be a group leader of 25 people. We gave her a box of 25 Spanish Bibles and 25 Spanish Purple Books. We asked her to involve friends and neighbors in doing a study of the Bible using the Purple Book, a book of over 500 questions that can only be answered by looking up the given scripture verse to answer them. They then write the answer in themselves.

We set up a meeting with a precious Southern California couple. We prosposed to them our plan, which they studied and prayed about.  Later they committed to giving us $100,000 for the first year! Our first year goal was to distribute 10,000 Bibles and 10,000 Purple Books with BCM leadership follow up, encouragement and accountability to complete the books. We reached our distribution goal! The next year we again met with this couple. We reported and submitted again our proposal. This time our goal was to distribute 20,000 additional sets along with follow up through added leaders we hired.  This amazing couple commited to giving us $200,000 more!  We distributed 22,000 that year. The third year is this year. We set the goal at 30,000 sets to be distributed. The couple committed to giving $150,000 more. We are halfway through this year (started in August 2009) and already have distributed an additonal 15,000. The total thus far over the 2 1/2 years is over 45,000 distributed, and over 21,000 people have completed the Purple Book through this growing and thriving network of 1,200 groups, 600 of whom have been or are overseen by pastors in Baja who are served by our 6 fulltime BCM staff members in Baja.

The demand for Bibles and Purples books is growing leaps and bounds. This is a good kind of problem! The diffucult thing is that we have outgrown our funding from this generous couple who have underwritten more than 85-90% of the total program, which includes Bibles, books, staff salaries, gasoline, phones and other expenses.

Habakkuk 2:2 states, "Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time..."

For this vision, I believe the appointed time is now!  Through this letter and other things that have been sent, I hope that this vision to reach one million souls, and  the strategy of how to do it, is becoming plain and clear. Now at this phase we grealty need more runnners to take the torch and move this effective "ministry working net"  forward to complete its task. The ministry mechanism is securely in place,  only the funding is needed!  We need runners to secure the funding to do this battle for souls. Please read through my points of practical ways that we can together reach the million souls! It's so do-able!  The harvest is there already!

1) Remember to pray! Keep this quest in your prayers and help pray in the needed funding!  

2) Ask leadership in your church if you or one of the BCM team could take 10 minutes in a Sunday or mid-week service, men's breakfast, women's Bible study, home Bible study meeting, etc... to make a short presentation and then take an offering for our program.  Also we need runners to set up meetings with Christian business people to present this opportunity!  

3) Along with raising the money to fund and build homes, to ask the teams if they are willing to raise additonal funds to support this life changing program. 

4) Gather a team from your church, with some bi-lingual translators if possible, to go to Baja communities for a day trip and work with our BCM evangelism tag team. They would  go into unreached communities and invite the locals, through spontaneous invitation, to a gathering where we share testimonies, present the gospel, pray with the people, give out Bibles and Purple books to the new believers, and appoint a group leader. And at some point during this trip take up an offering from your team to help keep this ministry going!

5) BCM gives a Bible and Purple Book to each person and a personal diploma to each who finishes this Bible study course. We also provide BCM leadership to start up, visit once a month, and encourage the appointed group leader, helping his or her group of 25 or more finish the course. This usually takes between 3-5 months.  We have figured our total cost for BCM to keep this program going is about $10 a person. So donations can be made to support 1 person or more at this simple rate. Our 17 year goal then would be to raise 10 million dollars to reach one million people. To make a donation see info at this link:http://www.bajachristian.org/first-fruit-financial-donation Please note your gift  for "BCM Purple Book Program".

We need runners to carry this Baja ministry torch!  Will you be one of them?

Please contact me if you'd like to run with us!

Together distributing one million Bibles and Purple Books to touch millions of lives for Him,

Bob Sanders

Scroll down to part 1-3 of Purple Book Program on BCM Website for more info:

http://www.bajachristian.org/home/?currentPage=3

Dear Prayer Partner,

We are off to a great start and a very promising year of house building and evangelism/discipleship ministry in 2010 thanks to our awesome God, wonderful partners, and your vital prayers!    

Rock Harbor Church of Costa Mesa, CA, sent  a team to build two homes for needy families in Rojo Gomez a couple of weekends back. The conditions were muddy yet they turned out great blessings for these poor families. Enclosed is a photo slideshow of their expedition synced to Newsboys song devotion produced by David Angulo:

2 Corinthians 1:11--NLT states, " He will rescue us because you are helping by praying for us. As a result, many will give thanks to God because so many people's prayers for our safety have been answered."

Your prayers have been so vital and appreciated! They have been answered, keeping our teams and staff safe and blessed!  Thank you!

We have two more teams serving with us this weekend. One team has already started in:

Home for Home Program of Washington State: The Home for Home team led by Chad and Jon Youngquist are hard at it right now building two homes. The rain has held thus far. Tomorrow they will go out with our BCM evangelism tag team to lead lives into God's Kingdom and start on the path of discipleship through the Bible/ Purple Book ministry.  

San Clemente Presbyterian Church: The San Clemente team led by Chris Dollar and Dean Monahan are arriving this afternoon to start their house build. We will also go out together with them tommorrow  to bring lives to Christ and work with them in the Bible/Purple Book ministry. 

Please lift these teams, our staff, and our families in your prayers! Pray that God will bless and protect us and our possesions. Pray that God will fill us with the fullness of joy of His presence,  His unfailing springs of life and compassion, His peace that passes understanding and His love that passes knowledge. 

Thank you for your powerful and effective prayer covering! 

May God bless you abundantly!

Harvesting Baja together with our King,

Bob Sanders

Dear Prayer Partner,

God's grace has opened wide doors of opportunity and extended abundant blessing to this ministry and to the many who are carrying the Baja torch through prayer, giving and service!  Thank you for standing in the gap and running the race with us!  Exciting things are transpiring through your prayers and the grace, guidance and empowerment of our King!

Rock Harbor Church: This weekend we have another wonderful team from Rock Harbor Church of Costa Mesa led by Paul Deese, Rob Hammond and Aaron Young, building 2 houses and many lives for Jesus! Rain is threatening this weekend. Please pray that God would pave the way for their victory and completion of the homes and that He would surround them with His joy, blessing and protection. 

Home for Home Team:  This team from Washington state, after finishing their last project a few weeks ago in January, are coming back to Baja again in two weeks to join us  to build 2 more homes. Then they are coming back again in April to build another two homes for two leadership families of Nueva Creacion Rehab Center,  a very godly, effective Holy Spirit environment outside TJ. This anointed ministry is rescuing once criminal and wrecked lives and is effectively transforming them into fervent soldiers of our King!

A few weeks back the Home for Home team built a home and storefront connected to this family's home to replace the home and store that was burnt down by a fire. After their last trip one of the team leaders and co-founders, Chad Youngquist,  writes,  "Bob, I had to start keeping a journal of all the financial miracles happening to us and those around us since starting our program. I can't wait to tell you about the recent ones. I'm watching people, flat broke, getting their socks blessed off them for joining our teams and committing to the Lord's work when the world says they should be out looking for a job. And to add to that, those people are getting their lives lit up for God. Incredible..."

Check out this video recap of Home For Home's last trip produced by Tony Jacobs:

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo--Campus Crusade for Christ:  An enthusiastic team of college students from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo joyfully worked through the rainy and muddy conditions to build two homes for poor families over Christmas break. Enjoy the video of their trip, "This Is Your Life",  produced  by David Angulo:

Loyola High School of Los Angeles:  An inspiring team of high schoolers led by Andrew Laubach and his dad, Chris Laubach, raised the funds and built a house for a needy grandma and family over the Christmas break. See video produced by Chris Laubach:

Teenmania/Global Expeditions: Over the Christmas break Teenmania/Global Expedtions (GE) led by Brian Chinn and leadership team, brought 180 missionaries to serve with us from all over the country to build houses and lives for Jesus. If you are on facebook enjoy this video by one of the GE leaders, Garrett Coble:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=719275409322&oid=206518461732

Christmas Cheer from the Collins family:  Over the Christmas holiday Kevin and Cindy Collins and friends brought Christmas cheer and blessings to a number of poor families in upper El Nino. Check this video, "Let Your Light Shine", produced by David Angulo:

Chris Wade Foundation: Chris and his foundation have started a unique partnership with BCM. They are funding the houses and also paying the wages of local people in Tijuana to build the houses for poor families. So far two homes have been built and wages paid since the 1st of this year, with a number more planned.  Check out video by Tony Jacobs:

Building Lives for Jesus Christ: Pushing the plow of house to house spontaneous invitation, group testimonies, sharing the gospel, invitations to receive Jesus, individual and group prayer, and Bible and Purple Book ministry coupled with your prayer covering and the prayers of many others, has led thousands from the ripe Baja fields to Jesus and to the pathway of discipleship in many Baja communities. Check out this inspiring video produced by David Angulo, "Lead Me to the Cross"

Thanks again for standing with us! We believe the best is yet to come, because of HIM!

Harvesting Baja together through Him!

Bob Sanders

BAJA CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES

DISCIPLESHIP REPORT 

The stats below reveal the amounts of Spanish

Bibles and Purple Books distributed and completed since

May of 2007.  Our goal is to distribute one million sets

in the next 17 years. More than 42,000 have been

distributed thus far.  Our short term goal is to distribute another

20,000 sets by August 2010, bringing the total to 62,000.

Our BCM team  is working with over 600 pastors and

leaders, all committed to getting the Word of God out!

With adequate financial resourses we believe we

can definitely reach these goals.

There is such hunger for God's Word amongst the

"Living Stones"  in Baja,  Mexico, at this time!

 Presently, though, we are facing a road block--

 due to lack of funds.                

 We are seeking God for the avenues He will use

 to bring in the necessary finances to meet this vital need. 

 Will you please pray with us that God would

 move people to financially give,

 and still others who would even help us raise the funds

 to buy the Bibles and Purple Books

 and support the BCM team in the trenches

 that are moving forward through the grace and power of God?

Below are the present stats and also links to info and videos that will help make the

the BCM Discipleship Program and Ministry more understandable to you.

Thanks and God bless you!   

Bob Sanders 

42,042 BIBLES AND PURPLE BOOKS DISTRIBUTED

19,331 people HAVE COMPLETED THE PURPLE BOOK

 1,169 GROUPS HAVE STARTED THE PURPLE BOOK

 694 GROUPS HAVE FINISHED

Links to info on  BCM  Webpage including Testimonies and Purple Book Blogs: 

http://www.bajachristian.org/home/?currentPage=3

http://www.bajachristian.org/bible-purple-book-discipleshi/

http://bcmpurplebook.blogspot.com/

http://plandediscipuladomorado.blogspot.com/

Videos to help make BCM PB Program and Ministry more clear