Dear Pastors, Friends and Family,
August 1, 2025 (Jun. – Jul. ’25)

Greetings in Jesus’ Name from the United States of America! Thanks for your prayers, support, help and encouragement. Allow me to recap our last month in Mexico and a brief report of our first month in the U.S on furlough. In June we were able to visit a new, large girls orphanage for the first time. The girls there have been abused and a few of them have their babies/young children with them, though they are only teenagers. We mainly spent time to get to know them, though we were able to share some things about God and His Word. We played games, gave them gifts and had pizza & cake. They really enjoyed our visit and asked us to return. They want our church to visit on a regular basis. Please pray for the salvation of these girls. Though we are on furlough, they want Mary to teach them music by internet. We are continuing our “visits” weekly with the other orphanages by internet while on furlough. During our last month knocking doors and witnessing in the open-air markets, we saw a couple elderly people saved (Serefino, 73-years old, and Adelaida, 85-years old). Adelaida came to church Wednesday night after getting saved. She shared her salvation testimony and asked prayer for her family to also be saved. Our church intern, David, was arrested for passing out gospel tracts without a “permit.” I wasn’t close to him when they put him in the police car, but our Assistant Pastor, Álvaro, was, and followed them to the police station. As they were putting David in jail, they were able to pool their money (about the equivalent of $50 U.S. dollars) to pay the bribe to the police officer. The good news is that same day in the open-air markets, we got to witness to another elderly man, 85-year-old Mauro. With tears in his eyes, Mauro trusted Christ as his Savior. Erica came to church for the first time on a Sunday, being invited by one of our church members. I preached the gospel, and with tears in her eyes, she accepted Christ as Savior. On a Wednesday night, Uriel came to church for the first time, and he heard the gospel as part of my sermon. He trusted Christ as Savior and as is my custom for new believers, was presented a Bible. While out knocking doors, I gave a young man named Ivan a gospel tract and began to witness to him. He was very attentive & interested. He then asked if we could sit down as I explained the Scripture. We did, and after hearing the gospel, Ivan received Christ as his Savior. He was very happy afterwards. While out with our church witnessing our last week in Mexico, I was able to witness to a young man named Leonel who trusted Christ as Savior after hearing the gospel. I now know one reason why I was put in jail and had such problems with our van. I had to find a new mechanic to get our van road-ready to drive the U.S. The mechanic’s name is Mario. After church our last Wednesday night, Mario heard the gospel and trusted Christ as Savior. My last official act in Mexico, Sunday, June 29th was a wedding. We drove to the Texas border the following day. We did get our van back and it was in decent condition, though most all of the valuables inside were stolen. The U.S. Department of State sent out a “Do Not Travel Warning” which is the highest alert for U.S. citizens abroad. Since we had so much legal and van problems recently, I called the U.S. Embassy for advice and they advised us not to drive, but we really didn’t have a choice. We were stopped four times along the way during the long drive, one stop lasting a long time with many questions. Fortunately, we were not stopped by the cartel nor corrupt officials trying to extort us. Since we’ve been gone, things are going good at our church in Mexico with many first-time visitors, people saved in and out of church and even baptisms.

We spent our first week in the U.S. in Texas and were able to find a furlough vehicle. We spent our second week in Colorado visiting my daughter & her family. I was able to preach in two churches there. There was a Mexican lady named Margarita in one of the churches there. She spoke very little English, so after church Mary called her aside and sat with her for a long while, witnessing to her in Spanish. Then Margarita trusted Christ as her Savior after hearing the gospel.  She then gave Mary a big hug. Our third week we were in Mississippi visiting our oldest son and his family.  I was able to preach at a church there. This fourth week we have been in Alabama visiting our parents. We have passed out lots of Spanish tracts here and witnessed to many Latinos (and Americans). Today we leave for Missouri for 1 ½ weeks for several meetings, then passing by Ohio for a day to see our youngest son who just got engaged. We then head to New York later this month for several meetings, then return to Alabama. We miss Mexico but at the moment there are lots of riots in Mexico City against Americans so it good timing that we are here in the U.S. now. Thanks for everything. We are “…your servants for Jesus’ sake.” 2 Corinthians 4:5.

Mike and Mary Wallace