We are also extremely grateful to each of you for your commitment to the ministry of the Roca Blanca Missions Base and the Corban Clinic. Through your support, we have been able to provide free medical care in fourteen underserved communities in our region through medical brigades this past year. We have also been able to offer medical, dental, psychological, and ophthalmological consultations at very low cost to low-income families at the Corban Clinic. We thank you for believing in and joining the vision of the Roca Blanca Missions Base and the Corban Clinic, and for investing in the educational preparation, the spiritual preparation, and the health and well-being of many in southern Mexico.
Over the last four months, the base has hosted six teams who came to serve in multiple ways, four of those connecting with the clinic and doing medical brigades out in the villages. First Presbyterian Church of Corinth, Mississippi was with us October 4th – 11th, and did an outreach in the mountain village of Juquila, a small town about a 2 hour drive from the Missions Base. That town is known for drawing many pilgrims to worship and petition a small image of the Virgen Mary in the cathedral there every year – tens of thousands of pilgrims come making sacrifices, like running relays carrying torches from their towns many hours away to Juquila, thinking that their sacrifice will gain favor and cause their prayers to be answered. The people’s dedication is commendable, but they are dedicated to the wrong cause. Pastora Carmelita has met much resistance over the years to preaching the Gospel in this area, with threats against she and her family´s lives, but now she and her husband, Pastor Rigoberto, have a strong church reaching out to preach the truth in this difficult region. The group from First Presbyterian served with medical, eye, and dental consults and ministry to the children and touched many lives there. A number of people made commitments to Christ – a real victory in this hard area. At the base, they also were able to finish out a cement floor for our mechanic shop in our Trade School, which is a great improvement, and to serve in our Multigrade School and the orphanage on the Missions Base. Thanks, First Pres, for a great week of service!
The Mercy and Truth team from Kansas City along with Ken and Nedena Pimentel from Tulsa, Oklahoma, served on the Missions Base from October 18th – 25th, and visited the Mixtec village of Mechoacan to offer a medical and dental brigade there. Over 100 patients were seen on the one day outreach, and 4 people gave their hearts to Christ! Many patients were also blessed at the Corban Clinic as the team ministered there during their time at the base, and also helped in the cooking class one day to teach the students to make chicken pot pies! Yum – they were delicious! The New Life Fellowship team from Maine served with us from Oct. 25th – Nov 1st, and did a medical brigade in Santa Rosa, a town where a new church was planted just this past year. One highlight of that trip was that when they went out visiting people from house to house and blessing people with bags of food, they met a lady named Lorena, just about 40 years of age, who recently suffered the amputation of her left leg below the knee. She of course is suffering greatly from the restrictions this brings on her, and trying to be a housewife taking care of her home from a wheelchair. Some of the team members from New Life Fellowship were inspired to raise funds to help Lorena to be able to get a prosthetic leg to help her be able to continue fulfilling her family responsibilities by having greater mobility. This had looked impossible to her before receiving their help because of the cost of the prosthesis. She is now being measured and fitted to receive a good quality prosthesis from a company in Oaxaca City, and she is extremely grateful for God’s making this provision through the brothers on the New Life Fellowship team. We are also very grateful for this very generous and amazing gift of mobility for Lorena!! What a life changing donation that will be!
The Life Together Fellowship of the Bronx in New York City were with us November 1st – 10th serving alongside us on the Missions Base and visiting the church in Loma Bonita in Rio Grande. Many medical patients were attended, and many children were reached through a couple of days of outreach to the children there. In the medical area, there were 90 patients, and 32 of those prayed to receive Christ! Praise the Lord for much fruit! One of a number of projects they did on the missions base was to clean out, paint, and reorganize the clinic storage room. What a blessing! Shelves were made to organize our supplies, and the change is amazing! Thanks to all who worked hard to accomplish that!
The English curriculum K-12 school and our on base Mexican high school are doing very well. Recently, twenty of the high school students, mostly borders, were baptized! We still have a goal of $145,000 to finish the much needed high school building. After waiting almost a year to ge the plans made and officially approved, the progress is finally visible, with foundation and walls going up. Since the photo here was made several more walls have been built. We anticipate continuing with the funds we have through January, and trusting the Lord for the rest, ideally in time to keep on building with our present workers.
We have also had time to fellowship with friends in town here. Recently we celebrated the approximately 100 year birthday of Saturnina Silva, the mother of a good friend of ours in Cacalote. We say approximately because no one really knows how old she is. 🙂 Also on a local level, the local church we are a part of is doing very well and growing! There are a number of new believers, and Dave will be teaching a discipleship class for the new believers in the coming months. And he continues to run the Spanish School with dozens of new students every year, many of them new missionaries to Latin American countries and peoples. Bible School classes also are taught weekly to the Bible School students, who will become church planters, and other ministries in our area. We hope for some of them to become missionaries to other countries as well in the near future as we develop a Roca Blanca missionary sending agency.
Thank you again for your amazing support with allows us to do what we are doing here. We love and appreciate each one of you! We could not do what we do without your prayers, financial support, and help. Thank you so very much! May God bless each of you richly in every area of your lives in 2026!
With love and appreciation, Dave and Laura Nelson
Roca Blanca Missions Base Oaxaca, Mexico
