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David and Tule Cox Family

David and Tule Cox Family

First, who am I? I am an independent Baptist missionary serving in Mexico City since 1986. I graduated from Bob Jones University in 1979 with a B.A. in Christian Missions, in 1981 with a M.A. in Bible, and in 1982 with a M.S. in Administration and Supervision of Schools. I am independent (no affiliation or association with any denomination, fellowship, nor group). I am separated in that I believe in separating from those claiming to be Christians but who fellowship and particate with false prophets, bad doctrine, ungodly conduct, etc. I am Fundamental in that I believe in the Fundamentals of the Faith, and I put serious effort in defending and promoting them.

I invite you to view my site which explains our ministry, pray for us, and if God so leads, to donate financially to help us maintain ourselves economically.

Deputation Schedule

We are back from our mini-furlough and will probably be planning on taking another furlough in the spring of 2013. If your church is interested in having us present our ministry in your church, please email me at davidcoxmex@gmail.com.

Explosion in Pemex in Mexico City, Mexico

pemex Explosion

Pemex Explosion

Some of you may have heard of the recent explosion in the Pemex main offices in the Pemex offices complex in Mexico City. Pemex is the official Mexican Petroleum company, which is state owned.

As best as I remember, there are about 36 deaths from this explosion (up to now).

The news media as well as the official government sources are all repeating the same thing, it was methane gas build up that caused the explosion. I live in Mexico City, and we know people that work/worked in that building. Continue reading …

How to Kill Missions

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Missions

When I was young back in “the dinosaur age”, I felt the call to missions. A large part of that call or divine pull in my soul came from reading books by missionaries about missions. In these books, the dedication of these men and women who went to the foreign mission field “BY FAITH”, an expression which simply means that there were no visible means for doing what they did, just a divine call, and a strong conviction that God would provide the means for every mission he sends a servant to do.

We read about missionaries in those olden days going for 4-7 years without any support checks arriving, and in those days, and many of these missionaries lived lives that did not see much fruit by way of multitudes of people, buildings, cash flow, and such. But they were faithful workers, that stayed on the field of service, and worked even when there was no money.

My observation is that there was a calling, a dediction, and willingness to work the work of God without much financial income to speak of. Their reward was in heaven, and really they didn’t expect much on earth. Basically, the idea was to hold body and soul together, i.e. pay for rent, clothes, and food, and hopefully medicine if and when needed. Continue reading …

Churches in the US: Missionary Support

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Ministry

Dear Friends and Supporters,

Our personal support continues in decline in general over the past 5-7 years now. We are trying to write more churches, but things are still generally closed. It is my observation that the United States is following the same trends as England did, and even with the economic problems, when things get “back to normal”, these economic drops simply help Satan to attack missions. Eventually, there will be other countries sending missionaries into the US because the churches will either be closed or they will dwarf (as many denominations are experiencing this now) because as an organism, (1) they do not reproduce more churches, and (2) they do not replace their own bodies as these people die off.

In line with this trend, I would take a look at this article on the subject:

New Research: Attendance and offerings up for most churches in 2012 from Todd Rhoades.

How to keep you with the Cox’s

This entry is part 2 of 13 in the series Prayer Updates

 

Summary: An explanation of how to use a feed reader to keep up-to-date with our activities and minister.

If you regularly pray for missionaries, sometimes it is hard to keep you with their needs and activities. You want to make that easier. Many missionaries (myself included) have sent out emails to update their prayer supporters with news of their ministries and fields. Many times these emails “get lost”, either en route or simply they get lost once they enter your email program because it is identified as SPAM.

Let me suggest that you should use a RSS Feed reader. I have Chrome as my Internet browser, and when I type a feed URL (typically a regular URL with “/feed/” added on the end), I get a prompt for an automatic installation of a feed reader to use with Chrome. I chose RSS Feed Reader. I clicked on that option and it installed. (read whole article to see rest of how to install and use it) Continue reading …

Mexican Electoral Fraud

General Overview

First, an introduction of who I am for those coming to this page from a search. I am a missionary living in Mexico City for the last 25 years. I am not a political analyst, but I am observing what anybody here in Mexico can see. There is a tremendous controversy brewing here in Mexico over the results of this election, and truly, there is a dark cloud over the country of Mexico as Mexico tried to discern (and believe what one side or the other tells them) what is the truth of this election. Continue reading …

Flawed Modern Missionary Methods

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Missions

Summary: This article is my view of why some of the way we do things in missions today is just wrong.

Topics are:
1) Missionaries are distanced from church people.
2) We expect missionaries to put on a song and dance show for the church people, but the churches never let them actually do what is their ministry.
3) We are locked into a Madison Avenue mentality that says, only with spending a lot of money can you do anything serious.
4) We have distorted and destroyed biblical spirituality.
5) We are experts at missions, all the while never “producing” or “reproducing” ourselves. Continue reading …

Missionary Attrition (Dropouts)

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Missions

This blog article is my thoughts on missionary dropouts. I saw an interesting article here, Dropouts-Burnouts-Forceouts-Never-Should-Have-Goneouts, which I will use as an introduction to my thoughts on the subject.

Introduction

Let me begin by saying that it is extremely expensive to get a missionary on the foreign mission field working. Besides the years of personal and educational preparation that the missionary himself has to shoulder, once he “officially begins deputation” the costs are shared or shouldered mainly by local churches and the people of God. This “business of missions” should first of all be understood to “NOT BE A SECULAR BUSINESS”. Although many aspects of missions is like a business (money funds the activity on the foreign field, there are workers, there are acquisition of funds, fund raising, promotion, etc), the basic thrust of missions is spiritual, and cannot be reduced to simple business economics. Continue reading …