Outreach Blog
Nogales, Mexico
Victor and Kay Hoehn of Faith Outreach for Christ live in Rio Rico, AZ where they are semi-retired teachers. However, there hearts lies in the streets of Nogales, Sonora just minutes a way and yet a world apart. They teach classes in Mexico three nights a week and are involved with seven different churches where they describe there work as the “helps ministry.” This drastically under-estimates the impact these two kind souls have on the people of Nogales, Sonora.
Victor spent many years working in a salvage yard in Phoenix, AZ. He now uses those skills to help the churches in the Faith Outreach for Christ network. On some days he and his wife cross the border multiple times to bring things from the U.S. that the different churches need. He owns a century-card which allows him to cross quickly without having to wait in lines for up to three hours to get back into the states. Victor and Kay have been ministering in Northern Mexico for 25 years and are bilingual.
During the day I spent with them they took me to 3 different churches and a new site forone of the churches. Victor who calls himself”a Gideon”, witnessed to between 5 and 10 people during the time we spent together, handing out bibles and proclaiming the good news in spanish and english. His affable nature disarmed people, and his outgoing personality made him a born evangelist. Still he claims he is not a minister but merely in the “helps ministry.”
During my day in Nogales I also met Tony Gonzalez (not the football player) who is the president of Faith Outreach for Christ. He is a minister at one of the churches and supports all seven through their organization. Pastor Gonzalez encouraged me that if we wanted to come to Nogales and set up medical and dental clinics they could easily put out the word to all seven churches and to the communities of each church. He related to me that when a church came before with several doctors, so many people showed up for medical care that they had to hand out numbers and bring many back on different days. If you are interested in getting involved in medical outreach trips to Nogales, Sonora just email us or call and we’ll get you more information.