Recruitment

"Recruitment is the name of game!" so says our P.O. Curtis Smith. One morning at the field service meeting he asked, "What are you doing to fully accomplish your ministry in Oaxaca?" People responded with return visits, studies, working the territory, etc. Then he gave us the example of a farmer who had more fields than he alone could harvest. So what would he do? Focus just on his most productive field and abandon the rest? Or hope that soon the productive field would slowly spread and grow into the other fields? No, he would solicite more workers!

Congregation Arbol del Tule has 43 publishers. A third of the congregation are pioneers. Arbol del Tule has the highest publisher field service average any than other congregation in the whole country of Mexico including Spanish. Our 43 publishers preach in English an average of 22 hours each month! And yet our field ratio is 1 publisher to 20,000 in the state of Oaxaca. Currently we have 6 native English speakers (including Brandon and I) in the hall. The PO wants to double our publishers by recruiting 20 more Mexican brothers who speak English and 20 Americans and Canadians who can move to Mexico. The goal is to have a strong congregation in Oaxaca so we can start branching off into more bookstudy groups. In order to do that we need more brothers and sisters!

In January, Brandon and I are returning home. Two Mexican ministerial servants who speak perfect english are moving from our congregation to the coast of Huatulco to start up an English book study there. In Feburary, two pioneer sisters are following to go support the book study in Huatulco. While this is good news, it leaves little Oaxaca with even less publishers. But Jehovah does provide. Next month an older pioneer couple is coming to buy a house and will be moving down in March. Two single brothers from North Carolina will be coming down in Janurary for 3 months. Next Novemeber another couple will be moving down to retire here. So that makes 6 American brothers coming which leaves 14 more that need to be recruited.

The Master is begging YOU, our harvest is great but the workers are few!!!

In Oaxaca, you'll find fantastic mountains, a cool mild climate all year round, the Pacific ocean, white sand beaches, cheap accomdations, all the tortillas you can eat, beans and cheese out your ears, and above all the most warm, loving and welcoming brothers! All right here in Oaxaca, Mexico Arbol del Tule congregation!!!

If you can make any arrangements to come down and help work the territory the need is here. If the circumstances aren't at your disposal, please pass the word about the need in Oaxaca! It's exciting to personally be at the brink of the expansion of English. Brandon and I can fondly look back when Huatulco and Puerto Escondido are a congregation and know that we attended the very first bookstudy in those cities.