Mexico: Links to More Resources

This study gives a brief political and cultural history of Mexico and gives a portrait of Mexico's history of religion.

Background and History

• Country Profiles: Mexico.
  http://gbgm-umc.org/country_profiles/country_overview.cfm?Country=90
  This country profile is from the World Guide 2001/2002, New Internationalist Publications. While GBGM considers the World Guide to have excellent data, it bears no responsibility for the NI materials. Further, the opinions expressed therein are not necessarily those of GBGM and readers are urged to consult other sources for a more comprehensive view of the issues.
• Stories Related to Mexico on GBGM Web.
  http://gbgm-umc.org/browse_search/results/results.cfm?cat=Mexico&catid=143

Mission and Ministry

• Missionary Encourages Participation in 2002-3 Schools of Mission on Mexico by Cherie White, April 25, 2002.
  http://gbgm-umc.org/global_news/full_article.cfm?articleid=852 A reminder: The mission study theme is MEXICO. My husband, Jose Luis Velazco , has written the study book, so we hope you will study it at the local church and conference levels.
• UMCOR Coffee Project
  http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/hunger/coffee.cfm
  The UMCOR Coffee Project is a new way to help people in need while enjoying fellowship and an excellent cup of coffee. As Christians we can address a consumer dilemma by buying coffee that is fairly traded.
• United Methodist Women's Mission Outreach in Central America
  http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/umwmap/regmaps/cenam/cenam.htm A clickable map giving the location and background of women's and children's ministries in Mexico.
• United Methodist Mission Projects in Mexico.
  http://gbgm-umc.org/advproj/AdvProj_Search.cfm
  Search the Advance for Christ and His Church database. Choose "Mexico" in the COUNTRY drop down box and click on the Submit Button.
• Volunteer Team Projects in Mexico
  http://www.gbgm-umc.org/volunteers/TMMEX.HTM
  A list of opportunities and background about projects maintained by United Methodist Volunteers In Mission, South-East Jurisdiction.

News and Features

• Building Stronger Communities in Oaxaca, Mexico through Agriculture and Health Care, UMCOR Update, Summer 2000.
  http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/update/oaxaca.stm
  Through Grassroots International, UMCOR supports CEPCO, the network of coffee producers in Oaxaca. CEPCO experiments with new cash and food crops and different methods of raising livestock, trains women in food cultivation and animal husbandry, provides seedlings and livestock to women's projects throughout the countryside, and generates income through the sale of food and animals.
• Mexican Methodists Strengthen Evangelization Ministries, CIEMAL, December 1998
  http://gbgm-umc.org/latinam-caribbean/mexico/mexevan.html

• New World Outlook: Special Issue on Mexico, May-June 2002.
  http://gbgm-umc.org/nwo/02mj/index2.cfm
  The following stories from New World Outlook are in PDF format only. Click here to get the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  • Give Ye Them to Eat: An Integrated Program for Mexico by Terry and Muriel Henderson.
  • Seeds of Revolution, Seeds of Hope by Phillip Wingeier-Rayo.
  • Theological Education in Mexico Today by Cherie R. White.
  • Mexico Closes Southern Border to Immigrants by Paul Jeffrey.
  
  
• Response Magazine: Special Issue on Mexico, May 2002.
  http://gbgm-umc.org/Response/502ed.html
  • Faded Jeans, Faded Futures by Paul Jeffrey.
  • The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous Women Struggle for Dignity by Paul Jeffrey.
  • A Church Without Borders by Mary Rengel-Ortega and Yvette Moore.
  • Rio Grande United Methodist Women: Opening Doors for Mexican-American Women by Amelia Flores.
  
  
• What Good Can Youth Do on a Mission Trip?
  http://gbgm-umc.org/nwo/00ja/youth.html
  I found out this past March when I went to Rio Bravo, Mexico. There, more than 350 youth, young adults, and sponsors from Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma were spending their spring breaks on a mission project.

Other Web Sites

• Global Exchange Fair Coffee Campaign
  http://www.globalexchange.org/economy/coffee/
  Global Exchange believes that all coffee sold in the United States should be Fair Trade Certified, or if produced on a plantation, that workers' rights should be guaranteed and independently monitored. Our view includes social justice and environmental sustainability: all coffee should be certified organic and shade grown where applicable.
• The Mexican Environmental and Cultural Research Institute
  http://www.mexecri.org/
  MEXECRI is a research and educational organization that works with principally indigenous people and organizations in Mexico and works with migrants in the United States
• Mexico: Working with Indigenous Farmers to Support Cultural Survival & Autonomy (Equal Exchange)
  http://www.equalexchange.com/partners/mexico.html
  La Coordinadora Estatal de Productores de Café de Oaxaca (CEPCO, or the Oaxacan State Coffee Producers Network) was founded in 1989 in the midst of a severe crisis in Mexico's coffee industry. CEPCO was formed through the efforts of more than 20,000 small coffee producers from community and regional organizations throughout the state of Oaxaca.

This page of "Mexico Study Links" has been compiled by the Rev. Nancy A. Carter, Ph.D. Please send suggestions and corrections to her at ncarter@gbgm-umc.org. Some links jump to outside sites for further information and resources. Links do not constitute an endorsement by the Women's Division of the information on other web sites. External web sites offer us diverse perspectives; afford us an opportunity to compare them to United Methodist positions; and, encourage us to critically analyze the issues raised by these web pages.