Mexico News Update
Upcoming events:
~ General Assembly – Oct. 18-19
~ Fall Bible Institute Classes – October
18 – 24. Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas, Mexico
To Our Share Supporters:
Thank you to each one who is
continuing to faithfully support our
family. Your monthly contributions are
so important to our family. We realize of the
that difficult economic times are upon sounds
us and are grateful for your continued missionaries….shouldn’t
commitment to your faith promise.
Cameron playing the guitar along with
Pastor in Soledad, Hno. Homero Luna at
the culto unido in Santa Polonia.
A sweet little girl I fell in love
during our VBS in Saltillo this year.
September 2010
Marc & Melodie Sankey
Jordan, Cameron and Logan
Bible Methodist Missionaries
in Mexico
Behold the Harvest!
In recent days, Marc and I have been
touched and challenged anew with the urgency
soul harvest around us. Maybe that
odd to you, given that fact that we are
we constantly have
that at the forefront of our minds? Please let me
remind you that even on the mission field, the
busyness of life and ministry, duties and
“everyday” tasks that we must complete can, at
times, cause our focus to shift. Through a series
of things that God has allowed to come into our
lives, we feel that our hearts have been stirred to
even
what greater
is trulyfocus on the for
important soulour
harvest and We
family. on special thank you to Abby Stetler and her
desire most of all, to please Him and walk infriends for the awesome Back to School
His ways…in the path He has chosen for ourpackages they made and sent to our Mexican
family. “His approval will be our reward.” children.
With donations from Pell City Christian
School, I was able to purchase and send with
Marc some wonderful children’s Spanish
Sunday School material: Bible stories,
children’s tracts, etc.
Bro. Juan (current Bible Inst. Student) is in
charge of the children’s ministry in Cuchicuato
and was happy to receive these special items to
use in their Sunday School.
Visit to Oaxaca
On Wednesday, Sept 1, Marc and Pastor
Dolores Hernandez left Saltillo heading for
Oaxaca to visit the Bible Methodist pastors and
church throughout central and southern Mexico.
Wednesday and Thursday were spent in the
villages of Pedregales with Pastor Manuel and
people and Cuchicuato/Pastor Refugio Sanchez
and his people. Pictured above are the children
in Cuchicuato receiving their backpacks and
school Pastor Dolores and Marc attended and
ministered in the Church Anniversary and
Revival in Oaxaca City that weekend, then
Marc headed south across the mountains to
supplies donated by so many of you. Thank you
for helping meet these childrens’ needs and a
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spend most of the next week with Pastor
Desiderio in the village of San Gabriel and the Fall Bible Institute Classes
surrounding villages, visiting the Bible October 28 – 14, 2010
Methodist missions in the mountains. Bible Methodist Church in Rio Bravo,
Dedicating babies and children, baptizing new Tamaulipas, Mexico
believers, preaching, mentoring pastors…..all
activities that took place during that week.
• Special Guest Professors:
Our Address: Missions Director Timothy Keep
and Glen and Helen Reiff
2112 W University Dr. #1122
Edinburg, TX 78539 • Other Professors: Pres. Eli Balderas,
Marc and Melodie Sankey, Steve and
Beth Stetler
Phone:
(956) 566.3929 • Classes to be Offered:
~ Discipleship
~ Missions
Our Website:
~ Church Administration
sankeyfamily.blogspot.com
~ Pastoral Theology
E-Mail: ~ Basic Biblical Doctrines
melodiesankey@yahoo.com
~ The Role of the Woman in the Local
marcsankey@yahoo.com
Church
Mexico Blog: ~ Sunday School Workshops
mexicobiblemethodistmissio
~ Ladies Scrapbook/Prayer Sessions
ns.blogspot.com
Please help us pray for God’s presence in each
session as we train and equip our Mexican
brothers and sisters to fulfill their own Great
Commission and take the Gospel to their own
people.

We thank you for your love, support and

prayers for our family and for the love gifts
and contributions you are so faithful to send
to our wonderful people here in Mexico!
Sweet kids in Bugambilias that God bless you!
stole Marc’s heart! 
Marc and Melodie Sankey
Sankey Family Highlights: Jordan, Cameron and Logan
~ The boys are back in home school
for another year; Jordan – 10th
grade, Cameron – 8th grade, and ~ Prayer Requests
Logan – 6th grade. You couldn’t say
school is their “favorite” thing in ~ Bible Institute President Eli
the world to do, but I am proud of Balderas and family
how hard they work and how much ~ Conference President Dolores
they’re learning. Hernandez and family
~ Marc’s parents, Leonard and ~All of our national pastors and
Janet Sankey, are celebrating their their families
50th Wedding Anniversary today, ~ God’s protection on our family
Sept. 17. We congratulate them on as we travel and labor in
this amazing milestone and are dangerous circumstances here in
Mexico.
looking forward to their visit with
~ New pioneer church plants in
us here in Mexico in just a few
different areas in Mexico
days!
~ The Mexican BM General
Assembly and Bible Institute
Marc with Pastor Desi, a wonderful man
Classes in October.
of God, a church planter for many years
~ God’s wisdom for ministry decisions on
and a great friend. May God continue to
the field and for our family.
bless his ministry in Oaxaca!