Tom and Lidia Lumppio

Involved along the western coast...

This evening we heard from Tom and Lidia Lumppio, home from assignment in Mexico. Tom and Lidia are serving the migrant farming community along Mexico’s northwestern coast, in partnership with the Mexican Apostolic Lutheran Alliance (AALM).

This is a community comprised of rural and tribal peoples from the mountains — often hailing from Mexico’s remote southern states. They have come to work in sprawling migrant farms along the northern coast. They are far from home. They may speak Nahautl, Tzeltal, Zapoteco, Mixteco, Huichol — any of hundreds of indigenous languages native to Mexico’s interior. Some of these people groups remain truly unreached, with no church established among them. (See a list of the least reached people groups remaining in Mexico here.)

The Mexican Apostolic Lutheran Alliance is attempting to serve these communities with the Gospel of Jesus. The World Mission Prayer League has given Tom and Lidia and their young family to this cooperative effort.