OAXACA
Janet Hernandez, Mandy Riley and I recently traveled to Oaxaca. We traveled by overnight bus to Mexico City, took a taxi across the city, and then took another long but beautiful bus ride to the city of Oaxaca.We held a training seminar, or TOT I (Training of Trainers I) with a group of people from the mountains of Oaxaca, the valley area near the city of Oaxaca, Puebla, the state of Mexico, and Zihuatanejo. The seminar was to give them training for Community Health Evangelism (or CHE) ministries, as they work to see their communities transformed by Christ.
One of their challenges was to draw their community as it is now and their vision for the community changes they would like to see take place within 5 years.
We also visited the valley community of Lomas de San Juan, where they are doing CHE ministries with both children and adults.
Before leaving Oaxaca, we stopped to see one of the biggest (and oldest) trees in the world. El arbol de Tule has a circumference of 178 feet and weighs more than 500 tons. It is thought to be 2000 years old.
