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ORIGINS

A revival in Los Angeles, California, in 1917 sparked the movement for Free Methodists to focus ministry in Mexico. As Mexican churches were raised up in California, workers became burdened for the unevangelized in Mexico. Mexican law forbade foreign missionaries to serve as pastors in Mexico, so Gonzalo Cisneros, a Mexican-American, was authorized by Free Methodist World Missions to return to his home town in Sonora to serve as missionary-pastor. In 1931 the Mexican Provisional Conference, embracing churches in both California and Mexico, was organized in Chino, California.

PRESENT MINISTRIES

Churches in Baja California make up the Northwest Mexico Provisional Annual Conference. Churches of the Mexican Annual Conference extend south from the borders of Texas and Arizona to the central states of the country. The Central Mexico Mission District is in central and southern Mexico. Ministry in Mexico City, the largest city in the Americas, became a thrust of that mission district in 1995. The North Mexico Provisional Annual Conference was created in 2013 out of the Mexico Annual Conference. Guatemalan districts of the Mid-America Annual Conference have planted Free Methodist churches along the border with Mexico.

OUTREACH TO THE WORLD

A revival in Los Angeles, California, in 1917 sparked the movement for Free Methodists to focus ministry in Mexico. As Mexican churches were raised up in California, workers became burdened for the unevangelized in Mexico. Mexican law forbade foreign missionaries to serve as pastors in Mexico, so Gonzalo Cisneros, a Mexican-American, was authorized by Free Methodist World Missions to return to his home town in Sonora to serve as missionary-pastor. In 1931 the Mexican Provisional Conference, embracing churches in both California and Mexico, was organized in Chino, California.