| Mark Adams
Frontera De Cristo
P.O. Box 1112
Douglas, AZ 85608
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Mark Adams is a mission co-worker with the Presbyterian Border
Ministries in Agua Prieta, Mexico, where he has served since 1998.
As U.S. coordinator of the bi-national ministry, Frontera de Cristo,
Mark is responsible, in partnership with the Reverend Angel Valencia
of the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico, for the coordination
of the six ministry areas of Frontera de Cristo: church development,
health, family counseling, the New Hope Community Center, mission
education, and the Just Trade Center.
Through Frontera de Cristo, Mark brings together people from
both sides of the border, building relationships and understanding
between them. "I help them reflect biblically and theologically
about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ," writes
Mark, "in light of our spiritual, social, political, and
economic connected-ness."
Mark looks back at a mission experience in 1994 as foundational
for his present ministry. "I left South Carolina to live
in Piedras Negras, Mexico," he writes, "to be a mission
volunteer at the border ministry site there. I was excited about
developing close relationships with Mexican sisters and brothers.
The way in which God worked in our lives to bind us together in
real love amazed me. I had been proclaimed a child of the covenant
at my baptism and was baptized into a community of believers.
The reality of how grand this community is didn't become clear
to me until I lived and served with "Uno En El Espiritu,"
a church in Piedras Negras, Mexico. I experienced the power of
Jesus Christ to break down barriers that we humans erect. Language
did not define our relationships, nor did nationality, ethnicity,
or social class, for we are hermanos y hermanas en Cristo." |
