Location: Mexico

Our Vision: We seek to equip and empower local leaders for church planting, pastoral ministry, and missionary service, fulfilling the Acts 1:8 mandate to expand God’s Kingdom as witnesses in Latin America and beyond.

Ministry Focus: 

As part of Mission Global and GlobalEd, Toni and Erin are founding the Ebenezer Institute of Ministry Formation in Mexico. The goal of Ebenezer Institute is to meet the urgent need for non-formal contextualized theological education with a perspective of Integral Mission, equipping local pastors and leaders in Mexico and Latin America. By leveraging the Ministry Essentials Training Program (METP), Ebenezer will aim to provide practical training for those called to pastoral ministry, church planting, or missionary service, as we work together to expand God’s Kingdom throughout Latin America and the world for His glory.

Ministry History: Toni, originally from Paraná, Brazil, and Erin, originally from Saskatchewan, Canada have been serving as full-time cross-cultural missionaries in Baja California, Mexico, since 2011, alongside our four children: Bella, Lucas, Joshua, and Olivia.

For 13 years, we served as the founding Managing Directors of Casa de Luz Ministries, a ministry which (delete birthed from the heart of the local church (La Hermosa). Casa de Luz) empowers single-parent families through a children’s center, youth mentorship, small business initiatives, and community outreach in Primo Tapia, Baja California, Mexico.

Over the years, we pursued further theological education—Erin at Wheaton College and Fuller Seminary and Toni at South American Theological Seminary—and focused on empowering local leaders. In 2024, we felt the Lord calling us to transition our ministry efforts to address the urgent need for contextualized theological equipping in Mexico and Latin America. This calling led to the birth of the Ebenezer Institute of Ministry Formation.

Prayer Requests 

• For God to raise up Mexican leaders in Baja California (10% Evangelical) and Michoacan (1.1% Evangelical), Mexico to expand His Kingdom in Latin America, to unreached people groups, and around the world!
• For God to help us develop the correct partnerships with local churches in Baja and main-land Mexico so that leaders can be trained, equipped and sent!
• For God to continue to reveal Himself and His heart to us and to guide us as we seek to obey Him and to step out in faith and obedience in the birthing of Ebenezer Institute.