Mexico Travel Advisory

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U.S. issues Mexico Travel Advisory

U.S. issues Mexico Travel Advisory

Review by David Cox.

Truthfully, Mexico is a very dangerous place to be. The whole country is about to explode into violence and lots of problems that will result in causalties both in Mexicans and anybody else that happens to be there.

The Mexican government is not in control here, only the drug lords and cartels, and even their control shifts with the passing days as one gets knocked down and another one takes its place.

What can the USA do?

Perhaps many Americans wonder, what can we do? One of the things is to demand stability in the Mexican government. Pressure from the US is what Mexico listens to. This pressure needs to be on a lot of issues. I will name a few here that I see. Transparency in government needs to be a major issue in Mexico. The corrupt government needs to be aired publically, and they need to be condemned or the US stops helping Mexico. While the corrupt government officials is one thing, the corrupt police really are the worse problem.

Another thing is that wages need to become comparable to the USA. When that happens, and the benefits of living in Mexico become comparable to the US, a lot of things will change. Here read, rich people need to loosen up and give more to their laborers.

Law needs to be upheld instead being ignored. America is following in Mexico’s footsteps as Obama completely does whatever he wants ignoring the US constitution. Donald Trump likewise does the same as he postures for the next presidency, and Hillary Clinton simply has no reason to even be in a president since she has broken so many laws and justice ignored this completely.

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Mexicos Corruption Crisis

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Mexicos Corruption Crisis

Mexicos Corruption Crisis
By TheWorldPost (partner with Huffington Post)

Read this article Three Causes behind Mexico’s Crisis of Corruption.

mexican-police-briberyAccording to this article, the blame for Mexicos Corruption Crisis lies at the feet of the state. Living in Mexico 30 years, I would agree. To be exact, the Mexican government just does not “work”. It does not function as a government is supposed to do. For all the criticism of Felipe Calderón, his government brought in a lot of young preppy kind of workers that were very smart, and gave power to the government in “fixing” its inability. Of course a lot of this power was abused and wasted, and mostly it was set aside under Pina Nieto.

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Nerves Presenting Missionary Presentation

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Nerves Presenting Missionary Presentation

Nerves Presenting Missionary Presentation
By David Cox

Nerves Presenting Missionary PresentationIn this installment we think about being nervous in giving a missionary presentation.

When you think about it, first of all, you have contacts countless pastors and tried to talk your way past numberless secretaries to get to a pastor, and you have sent enough letters, emails, text messages to fill a computer, and after all that, you get very few if any meetings. When you actually get to a meeting, everything goes wrong. You leave your suit and tie back home, your slide presentation messes up or worse, the projector won’t work or there isn’t an extension cord that will reach, etc.

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Missionary Presentations Openings and Closings

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Missionary Presentations Openings and Closings

Missionary Presentations Openings and Closings
By David Cox

Missionary Presentations Openings and ClosingsIn this video by a professional presentation trainer, we hear how to begin and end a presentation. The opening and closing of a missionary presentation are extremely important in making a good impression on people. The opening is the first impression you give to people. The closing should wrap up things and bring the focus to what you want them to remember about you and your ministry.

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10/40 Window

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What is the 10/40 Window of Missions?

10/40AThe 10/40 Window is a term coined by Christian missionary strategist Luis Bush in 1990 to refer to those regions of the eastern hemisphere, plus the European and African part of the western hemisphere, located between 10 and 40 degrees north of the equator, a general area that in 1990 was purported to have the highest level of socioeconomic challenges[3][4] and least access to the Christian message and Christian resources on the planet.

Though popularized by Luis Bush, the term 10/40 window was in use by missiologists at the U.S. Center for World Missions as early as 1981, a term that was used by Doctor Ralph Winter, and subsequently, John Dawson of Youth With A Mission and Reconciliation Ministries, and many other YWAMers long before 1990. The rest of the article may be correct for it was talked about at Lausanne II.

The 10/40 Window concept highlights these three elements: an area of the world with great poverty and low quality of life, combined with lack of access to Christian resources. The Window forms a band encompassing Saharan and Northern Africa, as well as almost all of Asia (West Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia and much of Southeast Asia). Roughly two-thirds of the world population lives in the 10/40 Window. The 10/40 Window is populated by people who are predominantly Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, animist, Jewish or atheist. Many governments in the 10/40 Window are formally or informally opposed to Christian work of any kind within their borders.

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