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Listen to Norma’s story. Maybe God will use you to labor in the mission field and reach others.

Since Texas Baptists launched the River Ministry in 1967, tens of thousands of people along the Great River have been introduced to Jesus through the ministry of thousands of volunteers from upstate churches.

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Listen to Norma’s story. Maybe God will use you to labor in the mission field and reach others.

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  1. Since Texas Baptists launched the River Ministry in 1967, tens of thousands of people along the Great River have been introduced to Jesus through the ministry of thousands of volunteers from upstate churches. Listen to Norma’s story. Maybe God will use you to labor in the mission field and reach others.

  2. A prostitute and drug addict, Norma kept her two young daughters in an outhouse until social workers in Ojinaga, Chihuahua, Mexico, intervened and placed the girls in a new children's home opened in Ojinaga by Bethel Baptist Church.

  3. Whenever Norma came to the children's home to visit her daughters, Olivia prayed and shared Christ with her. Eventually Norma wanted to know the Jesus Olivia knew, and Olivia led her to the Lord.

  4. Soon Norma took pastor Edmundo Valenzuela to witness to her drug-addicted friends. At first their response was jeers and scoffing, but Norma cried and prayed for them and kept witnessing to them.

  5. Soon they began coming to her secretly, asking questions and seeking help. Today, 17 of her friends are active members of Bethel Church. Children of some of Norma's friends lived at the children's home before their parents' lives were changed through the power of Jesus Christ.

  6. The children's home in Ojinaga is one of seven which Texas Baptists through their Rio Grande River Ministry and Mary Hill Davis Offering for State Missions help support along the 1,254 mile stretch of the Rio Grande between Brownsville and Matamoros. Piedras Negras, across the Rio Grande from Eagle Pass, has two child-care homes, and the others are in Juarez, Nuevo Laredo and Matamoros.

  7. Norma is studying at the Theological Training Institute at Iglesia Bautista Bethel in Ojinaga, Mexico and continues to minister among drug addicts and jail inmates.

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