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, in Sept 2025 Toni and Erin founded the Ebenezer Institute of Ministry Formation in Mexico. Ebenezer Institute seeks to meet the urgent need for contextualized theological education with a perspective of Integral Mission, equipping local pastors and leaders in Mexico and Latin America. Ebenezer aims 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. Erin and Toni graduated 21 leaders in the inaugural cohort of their Diploma in Ministry Formation and Leadership program in July 2026.
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 a ministry which 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
1. For God to raise up Mexican leaders in Baja California (10% Evangelical) to go to the most unreached region in the western hemisphere, the Mexican Circle of Silence (1.1% Evangelical).
2. For each of the Mexican leaders that are being trained, equipped and sent to expand His Kingdom to unreached people groups in Latin America and around the world!
3. 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 growth of Ebenezer Institute.
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