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Mission Trip Report to Veracruz, Mexico
January 20th – January 26th, 2011
Due to the fact that it is harvest season for the unsaved, we didn’t want to miss any
opportunity to minister anywhere God opened for us. This is our second mission trip we
had in Mexico.
Last year my daughter Anna had to put her studying
on hold for a year and decided to with ‘Youth With a
Mission’ (YWM) in Australia. After her theoretical
study with YWM, her team was appointed to a practical
experience in Gospel ministry in Mexico City. When I
heard of the news, I visited her on the mission field in Mexico City. In order
to work for the Lord while being in Mexico, I contacted Sam and Sera Qarau, a
missionary couple in Mexico from Fiji. To accomplish the work in an efficient
way, I would require a Spanish translator and so after calling a few mission members, but they all had other priorities.
As I was praying and asking the Lord for guidance, the Lord inspired me to call Dinu Rodila from Gethsemane
Romanian Church and Cornel Ianchici from Philadelphia Church. Both of them responded and felt compelled by the
Lord to take part in this mission trip.
When we arrived in Mexico City, Pastor Sam and a pastor from Restoration Church in Mexico City waited for us and
brought us to his church. As we departed the airport, he spoke of a church that he had a vision of a night before which
had white pillars in front and he also described the entire perimeter of the church and the Lord said that this is a church
that is mission oriented. Afterward, Cornel showed him a picture of Philadelphia Romanian Church, he was amazed
that it matched the one in his vision. That night, we ministered to the Restoration Church where people were delivered
and set free of addictions; others were blessed by the word of God. Dinu Rodila, translated very accurately from
Romanian to Spanish. There was a great blessed night in which people rejoiced and were so happy. This church was
located in a bad neighborhood of violence and cartel. The
pastor had been attacked a few times but the Lord had
miraculously saved him. He gave us testimonies of how the
Lord intervened and saved him from the hands of the cartels.
His father, a former police officer, was killed by the cartels
years ago. His mother is now leading the church. The next
day, we went through heavy traffic to visit my daughter
Anna. She and her team were staying in the church
apartment and during the day they had a schedule to minister
to children, nursing homes and other churches. I was a little concerned about her safety, being in Mexico City, but
after I met her and saw what she was doing, I gained
confidence that she was under the Lord’s protection. She
was very happy to see us and my team prayed for them.
That evening, we left Mexico City together with Pastor Sam
Qarau and the three of us drove by bus to Veracruz. A pastor
from the area came with his truck early in the morning and
drove us to the mountains of Chicontepec region in Veracruz.
That Saturday morning, we ministered to a Church of God
Bible School where Pastor Vicente Baez Torres is a director. At night, we ministered to
the church in Ahuimol in Veracruz pastored by Vicente. This church was so open to the
gospel that night and many of them repented their sin and rededicated their lives to Jesus
Christ. Despite the critical situation involving crime and the cartels in Mexico, we found
that the town Ahuimol doesn’t have a police station since the gospel changed 80% of the
town’s people. There used to be a prison there years ago but since lots of people converted
to Jesus Christ, the delinquency percentage was so low that the community transformed the
All biblical references were taken from the New King James Version Holy Bible
prison into a grocery and material store. A Christian brother later purchased and is operating the site. Isn’t it amazing
what the gospel can do when people obey and fear the Lord instead of the authorities?
“Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains,
and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. Many people shall come and say, “ Come, and let us go up to the
mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.” For out of Zion shall go
forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and rebuke many people; They shall beat their
swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war
anymore.” Isaiah 2:2-4

Early Sunday morning, a group of youth was praying and

interceding for almost two hours. This is the secret action
when you want to have a revival within a church and
challenge the community. Intercession for the unsaved
brings God’s presence to the hardened human heart and
causes them to surrender all to Christ. On the same day, we
ministered to the people of Ahuimol. There was also a
funeral in the afternoon and we
encouraged the family of the deceased with words of
life.
Monday morning, Dinu and I went to a church named
La Puerta in Cristo in Tlanempa Comon pastored by
Antonio Hernandez Tolentino. We arrived there a
couple hours after passing through the mountain.
This was a very poor area but people had a great faith
in God.
“Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and
heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?” James 2:5

When we arrived to Pastor Antonio’s house, we felt compelled to pray and intercede for
the evening service. We prayed for an hour and I knew in my spirit that the Lord had a
surprise for us that night. Even though it was not a regular
church service that Monday evening; we were impressed to
see a great multitude of people that could not fit inside the
church and the service was held outside. The surprise from
the Lord was His deep presence that touched the hearts of people and lots of them came
with tears in their eyes and confessed their sins out loud without shame. Dinu was
unusually impressed to hear them confess in their language. This is really the work of the
Holy Spirit at which people did not consider the public of their shameful sins because of
the deeper desire to be right with God. If you confess your sin, he is just and merciful to
forgive you.
“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He
is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we
have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.” 1 John 1:8-10

“My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an
Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the
whole world.” 1 John 2:1-2

“Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your loving-kindness; according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my
transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is
always before me. Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done this evil in Your sight that You may be found just when You speak, and
blameless when You judge. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.” Psalm 51:1-5

“He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.” Proverbs 28:13
At the same time, Cornel ministered to the Palma Sola Church in Tlaquextla both located
on the mountain. Pastor Eugenio Cruz is pastoring Palma Sola Church. Roberto Bautista
Martinez has translated for Cornel. Dinu and I drove almost four hours Monday night
through the mountains to find the village of Palma Sola Church.

Tuesday Morning, we drove back to Veracruz and headed to

Mexico City and attended the service at Restoration Church
where a few people were
miraculously delivered of unclean spirits. While
I was preaching from Acts 16, I heard a noise all of a
sudden caused by a woman falling down. I was a
bit concerned since I didn’t know what happened
but the pastor told me that she fainted after hearing
that a possessed woman was delivered from a spirit
of fortune-telling.
“Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us,
who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out,
saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.” And
this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the
name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out that very hour.” Acts 16:16-18

The possessed woman came to church the previous Sunday with her husband for the first time. Towards the end, we
prayed for the sick and other people seeking the freedom from our Lord Jesus
Christ. Our mission is to fulfill the Great commission. God has opened for us
connections with individuals, churches, families and prison ministry. Our main
areas of focus are evangelism, teaching, preaching, healing and deliverance, prison
ministry and rehabilitation centers, feeding the needy and hungry and restoring
hope in the lives that lost it.
“I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will
judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: Preach the word! Be ready in season and
out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.” 2 Timothy 4:1-2

“The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the
poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the
prison to those who are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of
our God; To comfort all who mourn, to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the
oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of
righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.” Isaiah 61:1-3

Rev. Constantin Lupancu