Jesus said: “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature”. Mark 16.15

The Universal Church in Mexico visited an indigenous village in the state of Chiapas (one of the poorest states in Mexico, located on the border with Guatemala), a community called Romerillo, where most of the residents do not speak Spanish, they only speak the native language, Tzotzil.

They suffer with many needs, such as extreme poverty, malnutrition, lack of resources in general and discrimination for being indigenous.

This community has 1,320 inhabitants and the practice of witchcraft is very common in this area, since it comes from the tradition of pre-Hispanic Mayan people in Mexico.

The residents of Romerillo received the visit of the Universal Church with joy, music and traditional attires, which are part of their culture.

The Universal Church brought more than two tons of food and several computers were donated to the local school. Until then, this school only had one computer for 300 children.

Above all, we prayed for them, taking the Gospel to these people who have been forgotten by society and suffer for not knowing God and live based on the traditions they have inherited.

One of the most serious cases we found was of a two-year-old boy named Armando Jimenez, who was almost dead in his mother’s arms, weighing only 16 pounds.

However, the family did not take the child to the hospital because of their customs and traditions, and kept him in a room surrounded by candles and many dead roosters.

Desperate, the family allowed us to make a strong prayer of faith for the boy, but besides having a spiritual problem, he also presented a severe case of malnutrition and dehydration. Since he had been suffering from diarrhea for 3 weeks, the child was skin and bones.

With great difficulty, the family allowed the child to be taken to hospital because their tradition stated that he could only leave the house five days after the shaman’s rituals were made, but because of the boy’s condition, he would not have survived one more day, so when we entered the hospital, the doctor himself said that the boy was in grave condition and at high risk of death.

By faith, the boy did not die and started to recover. The whole family was evangelized and saw that through faith in the Lord Jesus nothing is impossible.

As a thank you for the kind help and the word of faith they received, the community dressed us in typical Tzotzils attires, which are garments they consider to be a spontaneous expression of honor that only a few visitors have worn.

But the biggest help that the Universal Church has given this community (as in many others in Mexico) was not food or material things, but getting people to know that there is a living God and He has nothing to do with the suffering of those who are attached to their traditions and customs. Instead, He, as a Father, wants the best for His children, but respects the decisions each one of them makes.