Missions
BROTHER ENRIQUE CANTU AND HIS FAMILY.
MISSIONARIES TO MEXICO.
TESTIMONY
I had a personal dream, and it was to become the director of a fortune 100 company. For that I spent a lot of my personal time in education. I completed an Engineering degree, and got a promotion to a professional level in the company I used to work for. At that time I started a life of worldly pleasures. My life was empty and without a real meaningful goal, until the Lord saved my soul convicting me of my sin and showing me His way. It was in August 1998, after living a continuous and conscientious sinful life, without considering God at all, the Lord brought me to the understanding I was a sinner and needed His help, protection and forgiveness. I had never read the Bible, but heard about the Gospel probably a couple times before God brought me into sin conviction. This happened in a hotel room in the town of Georgetown, Kentucky, while I was doing business traveling. The Lord brought me to a very strong conviction that I was a sinner and needed to know Him. In that day, tears came out as I thought of my sinful life and how I was slaved to it. In my way back from Kentucky to Mexico, God took care of all the details. I met a co-worker at the airport when trying to catch a connecting flight, he was also coming back from a business trip. He sat just across the hall, next to my seat. He talked to me about the Lord, and when I asked about Bible classes for beginners, he made me an invitation to come and visit a Baptist Church where he was the new believers Sunday school teacher. I told my wife about this invitation, and next Sunday we were there at the Baptist Church looking for that man to listen to the Bible class. In that place, after the class, he questioned me and then led me to the Lord Jesus, and I received Him as the Savior of my soul. This happened in the city of Matamoros Tamaulipas, Mexico, just across the Brownsville Texas border. Until this day, I still marveled at how God has aligned everything in my life. After being save by God’s grace, in 2000, I was sent by the company to an international assignment, working in the States as Customer Support Engineer for one of its customers. Since the customer, a car builder company, was located in the town of Georgetown, Kentucky, I decided to live in that town. The Lord had His own plans for me and my family, and used our stayed in Kentucky to teach us the Doctrines of Grace and other fundamental doctrines. By the end of my international assignment, I continuously thought about serving the Lord as a proclaimer of His Gospel, but I tried to go away from those thoughts since I wanted to make sure my heart and intention was right before God. I have to confess that those thoughts about serving the Lord were so strong that several times I ended in tears. When we returned to Mexico (the Mexican border with Texas) , in 2002, the company promoted me to a mid-management level. I tried to serve the Lord in any way I could, but also continued with secular education and finished an Engineering Master Degree. I was making progress in my professional life, but emptiness in the professional field was the end of my thoughts. I found no contentment on what I was doing, the Lord kept a burden on my heart for preaching and teaching the Word of God to others. While in the States, I realized about the great need of sound teaching of the Word of God in Mexico. I wanted others to come and teach the Word of God in Mexico. It was finally in May 2007 when I fully realized the Lord was calling me to do it, and so I surrendered to preach His gospel. I was ordained to the ministry, authorized and sent to do missionary work by Bryan Station Baptist Church in November 2007. What a marvelous God! What a merciful Savior! He still brings sinners to light and uses them to proclaim His Word and the glorious gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Enrique Cantu, born on February 28th , 1971
E-mail: enriquecantu@prodigy.net.mx
enriquecantu@sembradoresdegracia.org
Cell Phone: (011 52) 1 811-701-7051 (If call does not go through, remove the 1 after parenthesis and try again)
My Wife:
Amparo Cantu, born February 18th , 1974
E-mail: amparocantu@sembradoresdegracia.org
Our Children:
Edgar Cantu, born July 29th, 1992
E-mail: edgarcantu@sembradoresdegracia.org
Ivan Cantu, born June 26th, 1996
E-mail: ivancantu@sembradoresdegracia.org
Our residence address:
Calle Teonacaztle # 2102
Esquina con Teocaltiche
Fracc. Teocaltiche
Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico C.P. 87024
CURRENT MISSIONARY WORK
We are a Mexican family, members of Bryan Station Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky, since November 2007. We are currently doing missionary work in Mexico, in the states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon. We strive to spread the good news of salvation, preaching repentance from sins and salvation through faith solely in the person and work of our Lord Jesus Christ. We strive on delivering the message of salvation using only biblical methods for that purpose. We are currently dedicated to door-to-door evangelization, and are looking forward to a radio broadcast program and literature ministry. When we first got to the mission field, it was in the City of Victoria, in the state of Tamaulipas on June 2008. There we started the “Gracia sobre Gracia” (Grace over Grace) mission on June 2008. Later on, the Lord showed us the need of starting missionary work in the state of Nuevo Leon. The “Gracia Soberana” (Sovereign Grace) Mission was started in the town of Pesqueria, just about 25 kilometers Northeast from the City of Monterrey, on May 2009.
Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas
Misión Bautista “Gracia sobre Gracia”
Calle Fidencio Trejo # 4138
Col. Álvaro Obregón
Pesquería, Nuevo León
Misión Bautista “Gracia Soberana”
Ave. Central # 1223
Entre Rio Sena y Rio Sabinas
Col. Colinas del Aeropuerto
We are currently working in our webpage on the internet. This can be found under: www.sembradoresdegracia.org
BROTHER ED AND VIRGINIA QUETUA
MISSIONARIES TO THE PHILIPPINES (AND ILLINOIS)
I always thank God that with His loving mercy and grace, He came and called me by my name on the day of His power in March 1983 in our hometown of Manila, Philippines. In eternity past, He has chosen me as His own without any foreseen merit in my part. We were His sheep even before we existed, but were lost sheep until the day when He found us. We have heard and understood the Word and believed by faith that our Faithful Lord and Great Redeemer died in our place with the shedding of His precious blood at Calvary. We believe God that being justified by His blood, He was raised up from the dead for our justification and glorification by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. “Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:” (2 Timothy 1:9-10). The abiding presence of the Holy Spirit of Truth in us, who made us alive to serve the living God, keeps us to continually look to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ—our Eternal Life. He will literally come FOR and WITH us, when He will appear the second time in Glory to worship, glorify, exalt and honor Him forever in Eternity. “Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.” (Titus 2:13).
In April 1988, I surrendered and yielded to God’s call to go and preach the glorious Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to the Philippines. In May 1988, after a time of church teaching, the Bryan Station Baptist Church Lexington, Kentucky, voted to send me to the Philippines to preach the glorious Gospel, do mission works, baptize, organize churches, to pastor and teach God’s sovereign will of purpose and will of command to those who have hearing ears for them follow. By the authority of the Bryan Station Baptist Church, Lexington, Kentucky, I was set apart to our Lord’s Gospel ministry and was ordained on January 13, 1989. With His leading and grace, our Lord has organized six churches in the Philippines under the authority of Bryan Station Baptist Church, Lexington, Kentucky. The New Testament Baptist churches which were organized under my ministry are as follows: Maybunga Baptist Church (Pasig, Metro Manila); Old-Fashioned Baptist Church (Paranaque, Metro Manila); Sovereign Grace Baptist Church (GMA, Cavite); Sovereign Grace Baptist Church (Mahinhin, Taytay); Sovereign Grace Baptist Church (Negros Occidental); and, Sovereign Grace Baptist Church (San Juan, Taytay).
With the Lord’s leadership and guidance, I’m pursuing His missionary endeavors in Illinois, where we continue to declare the glorious Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to the precious souls in Bible study, worship, visitation, witnessing; hold Bible doctrine class (using Brother C. D. Cole’s books) and distribute doctrinally sound tracts to individuals and families. Alongside with this work, we also continue to be intimately involved with guiding and taking care of the Lord’s work in the Philippines. By His grace, we keep the work up in progress—interact, connect, communicate and maintain our constant contact with the brethren through the use of computer skype for group and individual weekly preaching and teaching combined with Bible study and scriptural counseling. We also use and do e-mails, postal mailings, phone-card overseas calls connected to a speaker phone, and sending out doctrinally sound tracts to individuals and families.
BROTHER REJOY THUDIAN
MISSIONARY TO INDIA
Testimony: While I was studying in 10th grade, (1982) one of my friends and classmates, died with brain tumour. When I came back from the school, I explained to my father about it, and after listening the sad news, He asked me two questions: Why didn’t God allow you to die today? If you would have died today, where will you spend your eternity? These questions touched my heart, God’s Spirit convicted me about sin and judgement on that day, I went to my room and confessed my sins to God, and received Christ as my saviour and Lord. I took baptism in the same year.
God’s call: On my 15th birthday, my father called me in the morning and gave a verse from the Bible as a gift. It was Isaiah 43:1. But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. This verse touched my heart and I committed my life to God for HIS service.
Family: Wife: Mini Rejoy; Sons; Jeffrey Rejoy (18), Jeremy Rejoy (14);
Ministry: Bible School, Radio, Literature, Street evangelism and door to door visitation, children ministry, conferences and retreats.
Churches:
- Indrapalam
- Erumely
- Thamavaram
- Karim Nagar
- Pedapurapudi
- Ammireddi Gudem
- Swamy Nagar
- Gudivada
- Tenali
- Chokkad
- Ippolavaram
- Chikirukota
- Ayarkunnam
- Ethupalamu
- Mookkannur
New Projects: To set up an audio and video studio for weekly T.V. programme and radio programme, For presenting the gospel through the latest technology like multimedia and internet.