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ice. Like Homecoming services in Baptist churches in this country, it was followed by a fellowship meal. “They cooked on charcoal grills in the courtyard,” he said. “They prepared a fine meal there.”
Most days the local minister picked them up at their hotel and took them to breakfast, perhaps at a parishioner’s home. Then they went out in teams of two to call on people in their homes. The local minister was teamed with Mr. Sisson. The two ministers were teamed with local laymen and laywomen.
None of the American visitors spoke much Spanish. “I just smiled and said, ’si’ a lot,” Rev. Bare reported. “We invited people to come to church.” He said they had prepared a written testimony in English and Spanish to present to people.
He noted that most Mexicans are “nominal Catholics.” He said his mission was to tell people about his “personal relationship with God through Christ. We weren’t trying to convert Catholics into evangelicals,” he said. “We wTere trying to tell people with a nominal religion that a nominal faith isn’t what it’s about.” He added that in the United States there are many nominal Baptists and Methodists.
He noted that in some areas “there have been threats of persecution towards evangelical Christians. We didn’t run into any of that. The people who were strongly Catholic
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