Our Ministries
Despite working in different organizations, both of us are actively serving in various ministry capacities. My divine invitation to Durango was to be part of what God was doing in and through the Mexican Church, and Andrea felt a calling to YWAM soon after learning about the organization.
As a staff member of YWAM Mazatlán's Durango campus, Andrea serves in the Homes of Hope ministry as the architect and on-site supervisor. In addition to the practical elements of finding suitable profiles and constructing houses, she and the HoH team also provide continuing discipleship to the families they build for, sharing the Gospel and teaching Biblical values and practical skills.
Andrea also participates in other base activities and ministries, which include training, evangelism, and mercy ministries. YWAM's main training program is the Discipleship Training School, a six-month intensive for young adults that helps them know God deeper and equip and launch them to make Him known in the nations.
Steve is part of the church leadership at Bethel Sur, one of several local churches founded by American missionaries back in the 1960s. He currently works as the director of the Bethel Bible Institute, which trains and equips aspiring pastors and studious congregants within the entire multi-church Bethel network. He is also the coordinator for the church's adult classes, and develops and teaches original content for several of those classes. Additionally, he serves as the church bookkeeper, is on the worship team, and even fills in for Sunday sermons on occasion.
Although not explicitly a ministry, Steve has been coaching tackle and flag football in Durango for over a decade. He first started as defensive coordinator at the local university, and has worked with athletes from nearly every team in the city as a personal trainer and skills coach.
Currently, most of his coaching efforts are focused on RedFox, a flag football club founded by the head coach he previously worked alongside with at the university. RedFox is also the home to the first official Flag Football Academy in Durango under NFL Flag. In addition to teaching proper technique, skills, and schemes, both Steve and the head coach strive to impart values and life-skills that will benefit athletes on and off the field.
