PLAINVIEW—The Wayland Baptist University Mission Center and Baptist Student Ministries jointly sponsored a spring break mission trip to Mexico to work with the indigenous Najuatl people.
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Whytney Mask, a senior at Wayland Baptist University, worked with indigenous people in Mexico during spring break. The Wayland student mission team led Bible studies and prayer groups. (PHOTO/Wayland Baptist University)
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Mission Center Director Rick Shaw and Baptist Student Ministries Director Donnie Brown led the group, which was divided into four teams who worked with indigenous people.
Mission team members led Bible studies and prayer groups, as well as preaching, teaching, counseling and evangelizing.
The Wayland group flew into Mexico City and took a six-hour bus ride to the remote villages where they worked.
“With any indigenous people, you see a lot of oppression by government and other structures of society,” Shaw said.
But in one village of about 800 people, one-fourth of the residents were involved in the local church, he noted.
“You see a lot of what the gospel can do in a community like that,” he said. “There is very little alcohol and drug abuse, very little spousal abuse and not a lot of poverty, relative to other villages.”
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