Drug-Related Violence in Mexico Fails to Deter the Peace of Jesus

By Erik Tryggestad

When asked to describe her recent trip to Torreon, Mexico, Cheri Reese said, “We have never felt so welcome.” That’s despite facing men with machine guns—twice.

Reese and four other members of Aiken (S.C.) Church of Christ, just east of Augusta, Ga., traveled to Torreon, about 300 miles south of Eagle Pass, Tex., to work with the El Cambio (“change”) and El Sacrificio (“sacrifice”) churches of Christ there.

During an evening worship service in Mexico, a man asked to be baptized. Soon after performing the baptism in a nearby pond, mission team members found themselves surrounded by police.