Agape Mission Team
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 Damian Cruz
Pastor Damian spent his early life in narcotic trafficking, but God had a different journey for this talented man after he found Christ. While in prison God sent a missionary to minister and this missionary began to see the potential and hunger for God in Damian. He commissioned him as pastor of the prison ministry. God began to use Damian in many ways. He had the privilege of baptizing many inmates that he had won to Christ within the prison.
After leaving prison God chose Pastor Damian to take over our mission work at the beach and surrounding remote villages. He still oversees the mission in the prison. He started a Bible study in La Crusacita Huatulco and has opened eighteen more missions in surrounding areas. Most of these are in un-reached areas to the Gospel. On January 24th 2014 he was commissioned as Missionary Director of our Coastal Ministry. We believe God will continue to use him to open many more areas of service to serve the needy people in this area.
 Garett (Diego) Jackson
Garett is the Director of our Agape Mission Projects Bible School Conferences in Lachiguiri, Oaxaca. As a young man he enrolled in Horizon School of Evangelism where he met his wife Stephanie. Before they moved to Mexico they didn't speak Spanish, understand the culture, or even know of indigenous people. Garett served at a Bible school in Vicente Guerrero, Baja, Mexico that had a vision to prepare Oaxacans for the ministry.
After many attempts to train mountain village pastors God gave us a vision that we feel will meet the need of equipping and training local pastors that will take in to consideration their specific needs and cultural setting.The average remote village pastor has little or no formal training. Out of the 80 plus pastors and leaders we work with in the Sierra of the Isthmus of Oaxaca Mexico, the average adult public schooling is third grade reading. This means the average pastor may be able to read words in his Bible but because he only speaks Spanish as a second language, he generally doesn't understand well the meaning of the words he is reading. Our goal is to take some of these pastors and train them. We do this with a three or four day intense study on one course topic but with relevancy to their learning experiences and remote culture. | ||||
Israel had the privilege of coming to the states twice and meeting many of our supporters. While he was here the last time with his lovely wife Virginia we discovered he is diabetic. That was in 1995. He was put on oral medication and was able to maintain his diabetes with this medication. He recently had to have a blood transfusion and was to start dialysis as of January 2014. He was not accepted into the hospital until the day before he died. He will so missed!
Our desire was to record these first two Books into sound as those really needing the Word of God here do not read or write. Please pray God will help us find someone who God wants to use to complete this task.
2 Timothy 2:2
"And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others."
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Agape Mission Board
Richard Ammon - Glendale Arizona
Rev Stephen Rajczyk - Prescott Valley, Arizona
Sheri Burk - Montrose, Colorado
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Agape Mission Network Team
Mike Hendricks
Serving as a trans-cultural ministry team coordinator, mentoring and creating opportunities for Indigenous people to share their transformation stories and the Good News of Jesus with others.
Through serving in 2 Navajo Churches as youth pastor, and teaching for 3 years at Indian Bible College, we have developed the goal of helping Indigenous young people grow and share their identity in Christ.
The Individuals' sharing of culture and personal stories create venues of modeling, mentoring, and mobilizing people to more sincere commitments to Jesus Christ.
The greatest need is for Native youth to discover how Creator God has gifted them, how they can rise to be community leaders and examples of responsibility.
The Individuals' sharing of culture and personal stories create venues of modeling, mentoring, and mobilizing people to more sincere commitments to Jesus Christ.
The greatest need is for Native youth to discover how Creator God has gifted them, how they can rise to be community leaders and examples of responsibility.
You may contact Mike at: http://mhendricks9.wix.com/nativecommission#!news-and-events/c1o4h
Mike has been serving in Mexico (Culican project and the Gran Fiesta in Oaxaca), the Philippians and New Zealand
Noe is from Oaxaca and is Mixteco. He has served with a number of tribes in Canada, the Philippians and he has served in Culican. He speaks Mixteco, Spanish, English, and has learned dialects from Canada and the Philippians. He has a passport and can travel.
He can be reached at:
He can be reached at:
Sally Weltner
Sally Weltner is a new net-working asset to Agape Mission Projects but is not new to missions. Working through her local church in San Luis Obispo, California for the past 8 years, Sally has taken numerous trips into Mexico leading short term teams. Her focus has always been to reach the most unreached indigenous people groups. At last, prayers have been answered for Sally to move to Mexico long term to do ministry with us in Culiacan and be on the receiving end of teams she invites to come and join the work of ministry.
Sally has partnered with Pastor Cesar Uribe and his family to assist Mision de Paz with their work in the indigenous village of Villa Juarez. In addition, Sally will be welcoming teams from Mexico and the US to participate in evangelism in many of the work camps around the Culiacan area. She uses the Jesus Film and distributes CDs of the gospel in indigenous languages, thanks to years of translation work done by Global Recordings Network. Please pray that God strengthens and provides for this base of operations in Culiacan and that God will use Sally and her teams to bring hope and salvation to those who don't yet know the Lord.
You may contact Sally through:
