The ministry of BEAMM was begun in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in 1989, utilizing the efforts of short-term teams from PCA churches in the United States. Since then, churches and missions have been established in Ciudad Juárez as well as in El Paso. In fact, the largest concentration of workers and churches, along with the only seminary that BEAMM has established on the border so far, is located in the Central Region. However, already there are workers who are being sent from these churches to labors in other parts of Northern Mexico and the border. In the fall of 2008, BEAMM began a new church-planting effort in Nogales, Sonora, our first presence in that city!

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Josué is from Campeche, Mexico and went to live in Mexico City when he was sixteen. After receiving Christ at the age of eighteen, he felt called to be a pastor and studied at the Presbyterian Seminary in Mexico City. Martha grew up in Mexico City and has been a Christian since she was fifteen. She then studied to be a bilingual secretary and met Josué at the San Pablo Church, where they were married in 1979. One month after they were married, Josué and Martha began working as missionaries in Acapulco with the Mission to the World team there, helping to establish five churches in six years. After working two years in Queretaro, Mexico, they returned to Acapulco to pastor the Maranatha church plant for five more years. In 1993, Josué and Martha were asked to come to the border to work with BEAMM in Ciudad Juárez. There they planted the Vida Nueva (New Life) church. In 2000, they handed over the supervision of the Vida Nueva church to Wilbert Frias, and became pastor of the Gracia y Paz church that had been started by Dan and Becky Young. Josué now serves as the BEAMM Regional Director for the Central Region. He and Martha moved to Nogales, Sonora, Mexico in October, 2008, to oversee a new church plant there called Pueblo de Esperanza. They are mentoring both Obed Uc and Jacinto Ordoñez as planters of this work