Is it wise to risk travel to Mexico?

While the nature of crime is random, no groups traveling with HoM have experienced crimes against their persons. If you have traveled to Mexico in the past, recent events have not changed what you can expect on your trip.

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3:16-18 (English Standard Version)

“If our single, all-embracing passion is to make much of Christ in life and death, and if the life that magnifies him most is the life of costly love, then life is risk, and risk is right. To run from it is to waste your life.” John Piper

Please take advantage of a free download of John Piper’s book “Don’t Waste Your Life”. Chapter 5 “Risk Is Right – Better to Lose Your Life Than to Waste It” is especially worth your time.

It would be foolish of me to try to assure anyone of their personal safety. My experience in Mexico has not caused me to fear for my personal safety nor has anyone coming down on HoM trips been a victim of crime against their own person. I do however always say that if you want to love people in Mexico, your stuff is going to get dirty, broken, and lost. I honestly believe that “safety and security” have become the false gods of our culture, they don’t exist, anyone who puts their hope in them will soon find that they are a mirage. “The tragic hypocrisy is that the enchantment of security lets us take risks every day for ourselves but paralyzes us from taking risks for others on the Calvary road of love.” Piper

Brian McCoy