In June 1993, the Baptist Church of Monterrey had 35 members and a lack of a meeting place. The owner of the former building they rented took everything they had. He closed the doors with a lock and there was nothing to do but to trust that God had a better plan in His mind.

In a couple of days, God guided a missioner of the Baptist Bible Fellowship International and leader pastor of the church, Philip Brown, to a new mall (in bankruptcy) which is located throughout the entrance to Monterrey by the state highway.

One by one, the church started to rent the premises, starting with a double-spaced two story premise, to be used as an auditorium. A year later, one of the members bought the premise beside the auditorium and gave it as a gift to the church.

In March 1996, the church was forced to buy the auditorium. Pastor Brown asked the church members to trust God and they made a sacrifice like they never did before. In one week, the congregation raised half of the amount they needed to buy the premise, tear down the wall between the auditorium and the other premise and remodel both, turning them into a new bigger auditorium. It took two pneumatics and a whole month to knock down the second floor of premises as well as the walls and baths. Then came the remodeling that lasted another 4 months.

Two months after the church made the sacrifice of giving, the office of missions of the BBFI lended the other half to pay for the auditorium. The Baptist Church of Monterrey and has faithfully made the payments to BBFI each month.

Nowadays the Baptist Church of Monterrey owns six of the premises and rents another two. The church also has an underground parking lot with a 50 space capacity, plus public areas with benches and a lighting system in most of the commercial areas.

The church is buying a property near this mall where they’ve remodeled 2 buildings that are being used as the church’s offices.

In front of the 8 track freeway there are 2 enormous lighted announcements that promote our church to thousands of people that drive by every day.

 Monterrey’s official Tourism Magazine names “The Baptist Church of Monterrey” as one of the Top 5 Churches that the City recommends.
The Baptist Church of Monterrey is a church of goals and a world-wide vision. The church is planting new churches in the surrounding area of Monterrey plus other cities in the south, east and west of the country.

In 1994, the Baptist Church of Monterrey was requested to take a falling and discouraged church from Guadalupe City, a big city in the surroundings of Monterrey. A group of disciples and pastors of IBM have been working there and nowadays the Baptist Church of Manahaim has an average of 140 people in attendance each Sunday and it is strongly involved in raising money for missions – as well as projects for Mexican missionaries and foreign missionaries.

The Baptist Church of Monterrey has planted other key churches in Mexico:

The Baptist Church of Acapulco started by Philip and Lori Brown in April 1992.
The Baptist Church of Chalco stated in August 2002.
The Baptist Church of Guadalajara started in 1997.
The Baptist Church of San Nicolas started in 2002.

In January of 1997, the Baptist Church of Monterrey had its first Promise of Faith Missionary Conference. Dr. Bob Baird, Director of Missions for the BBFI, was the featuring preacher. Today, this conference is called CIMA (Spanish acronym for Celebration of Missionary Impulse of America) and it’s celebrated each year. In July – August of 2002 the promise for the missionary work between all the RIBBI Churches was a total of $1,362,400 pesos.

The Baptist Church of Monterrey started sending in 1998, a group of their very best church members to the Dominican Republic in a missionary trip. The goal was to teach 4 churches the ministry of the Bible Discipleship and Personal Evangelism. In May, a group of six leaders spent 10 days in Cuba teaching 21 pastors and leaders of 3 different churches in a 30 hour course called “Introduction to the Bible Discipleship”. Each year the number of trips grew as well as the different countries that the Mexicans visited and where they ministered God’s word.

If you wish to know more about the Baptist Church of Monterrey, we advice you to enroll in the Discovery class, where you will learn about the beginning of our church, its objectives and how it can help you in your spiritual growth.