Allied for a New Generation

This year the national APEN (Child Evangelism Fellowship) project was in Baja California (Lila is the director for APEN Baja California). The goal was to train as many teachers as possible to open as many Good News Clubs as possible to reach as many children as possible with the gospel.

Probably everything that you hear about the violence, drug trafficking etc. in Mexico is true. Children as young as 8 and 9 are commonly recruited as “burros” to move small quantities of narcotics. Mexico has recently passed the U.S. as the number one country in the world for producing and trafficking child pornography. Girls as young as seven are involved in prostitution in Tijuana. This is the world in which we live; a world full of children that desperately need to know that there is a God that loves them.

After years of anticipation and months of planning, promotion, and preparation, in April the project, “Allied for a New Generation” became a reality. Around 50 CEF workers from all over Mexico joined forces for two weeks. Over 350 teachers were trained, over 200 clubs were started, and thousands of children were reached with the gospel. The clubs continue to grow and children continue hear about Jesus.