The Canote Family Mexico Missions

So WHAT does that mean? It means the
Canotes are early in the application process of
joining YUGO Ministries as full-time missionaries
as of November, 2005. This process will take
several months to complete. We feel we are
following God's lead on our lives and are
answering His call to follow Him in full-time
ministry. Our plan is be "regional coordinators"
recruiting people to join us in Mexico in ministry
working with the YUGO Ministry outreach
program. We will be staying in Missouri and
continuing our gospel bluegrass music ministry
and also making multiple trips per year to Mexico.

Matthew 9:37

So HOW did this get started? We had a
"chance" (isn't God cool?!?) meeting with Cindy
Birney, while on a camping trip in Lawrence, KS in

And WHEN did we get to go back? Chris took
Samantha, Adam, and Chewy along with family
friend, Kishia Jackson back to Reynosa, Mexico
on a summer outreach with YUGO Ministries in
the summer of 2004. This time, some of the
Canote kids got a chance to experience, first
hand, what Dad had been talking about for the last
year.

They understood why Dad had been talking about
selling everything and moving to Mexico!
Suddenly, they knew what it meant to honor the
Great Commission...full-time. They understood
that serving God and sharing the Good News of
Jesus was the purpose for which God created us.
They couldn't wait to come back with the whole
family.

Matthew 28:18-20

So WHEN did the rest of the family
get to go back? All 9 of the Canotes
travelled 5,557 miles on a 3-week
mission trip to Ciudad Acuña, Mexico
and Tijuana, Mexico in the summer of
2005. This time we took on a new role
and worked as volunteers at the base
camp for the ministry teams. There
were over 200 participating on 9
different teams. We helped cook,
supervised clean up crews, helped
with the daily grocery run, and made
over 1,500 sandwiches! This trip was
an "exploratory" trip to search our
hearts and God's call for our lives. We
were prepared to move to Del Rio, TX
and become the Eastern Mexico
representatives for YUGO Ministries
if that was God's call.

May of 2003. She was the leader of a youth group with plans to take the group to Reynosa,
Mexico at the end of June, 2003. They had purchased a bus but had no bus driver.

The next thing ya know, Chris is driving their team to Mexico! He was "hooked" right away
and ready to move to Mexico before he ever got back home to Missouri. Chris got to
preach with an interpreter on the trip. It was obvious to anyone who knows Chris that he
came back a changed man. He knew, as did anyone he could get to listen to him, that he
and his family would be going back to Mexico in some ministry capacity SOON!

Matthew 24:14