The Lane Family - Mexico

We were married in May of 2012, and although we wanted to pursue missions immediately, we sensed the Lord saying "not yet".  We are so glad we listened!  God led us to become Associate Pastors/Youth Pastors at Life Chapel in Point Pleasant, NJ.  God taught us abundantly about ministry and we loved being youth pastors to some of the world's greatest students!  We also became foster parents and had the privilege of investing into and caring for some extremely special little ones.
Our missions call was confirmed during those years, as well as refined to be specifically for Mexico.  With the blessing and encouragement of our {amazing} senior pastor, we began the application process in 2016 and became Career Appointed Missionaries to Mexico!

Hey everyone! I, Noah, am currently on a plane headed back to Oaxaca for a week of ministry and visiting friends and ministry partners and taking care of car registration.

Would you pray for a safe and effective trip? And also for God's special hand on Mel and the kids as they are still in Jersey.

Thank you so much!

Noah

Join our Prayer Team!

students studying in Teponaxtla

This invitation is a long time coming! but, better late than never!

We are continuing to travel to churches and visit individuals to share the mission and heart God has put in us for the indigenous groups of Oaxaca, Mexico. God has been faithful in touching hearts of many to join our team in financial support. Praise God!!

As we prepare to return to Oaxaca, Lord-willin, in January 2026, we know it is absolutely essential to have a team of prayer warriors interceding for the ministry and mission in Oaxaca.

We are grateful for the continued prayers of many who pray and support financially, and have for many years, and we know that will continue!

We want to form a specific BEZALEL PRAYER TEAM - OAXACA and invite you to commit to praying for us in a more systematic way, and we will commit to consistent updates and prayer requests.

If you sense God is leading you to join our BEZALEL PRAYER TEAM - OAXACA, this is what you are committing to:

1. Praying at least twice a week for the indigenous groups in Oaxaca and for Bezalel Ministries.
2. receiving our bi-weekly prayer requests email, and bi-weekly praise report updates

To join this team, simply email us at Noah.lane@lacagwm.org saying : I'd like to join the BEZALEL PRAYER TEAM - OAXACA!

We are anticipating excitedly how God will work in miraculous ways as you partner together with us in this focused way of prayer.

Thank you and God bless you richly in Christ!!

Luisa's Story




Luisa’s village has always called itself Catholic. By that, they mean that they usually don’t have a priest or any systematic teaching of doctrine. They have a church building, a few ceremonies and a lot of traditions-the most important of which is the annual festival to their patron saint, whom they pray to and hoist a statue of on their shoulders as they parade around town. 

In the 1970s, God sent a Mexican missionary to preach to Luisa’s village that Jesus Christ paid the penalty for our sin on the cross and through faith in Him and what He did, we can have eternal life - not by anything we can earn. Luisa’s husband and a handful of others were the first believers in this village!

As a result, they were thrown in jail by the villagers, and eventually kicked out of the village and they fled to the city of Oaxaca as religious refugees. 

As time passed, the village leadership allowed Luisa’s husband and other believers to return to the village and they allowed them to preach and hold services. The church grew! Many families came to faith in Jesus. They were able to build a church building. 

This leads us to present day, where we, upon arriving in Oaxaca, were directed by local leadership to this region where Luisa lives. 

God’s hand was with us as my first truck broke down and had to be left on the side of the mountain road, and my second vehicle popped 3 tires on its way to Luisa’s village! God was not going to deny the desire of Luisa and others in her village to study in a Bible institute to prepare to teach and preach the word of God!

Luisa is one of our Bible school students in San Juan Teponaxtla, a Cuicatec village. She is now leading Bible studies and even has opportunities to preach in her village church that currently is without a pastor. 

Thank you for partnering with us in prayer and finances, sending us to walk alongside believers like Luisa who don’t have access to Bible education like many of us do, who live in remote villages, and yet whom God is calling to “teach them to obey everything I have commanded” (Matt. 28:20).

Ministry Update:
We have had the privilege of coordinating the opening of 2 Bible school extensions, in 2 different people groups of Oaxaca (the Cuicatecos and the Mazatecos). This is a 4 year, accredited Bible school and we have students as young as 15 years old studying, as well as people in their 50s. 
Most of them are walking hours to get to the site where we hold the classes. It is an honor and privilege to walk alongside them and open to them the Scriptures. 
We also were blessed to do an outreach to migrants coming through Oaxaca last December, called Bibles and Blankets, and we found families in the center of town, in tents around town, and walking on the side of the highway. We were able to give them blankets for the cold weather, offer them Bibles and to pray with them. They were so hungry for God’s Word! 

Upcoming Projects:
We are currently in the states raising funds to return to Oaxaca, Lord-willing in the summer of 2025.   God has given us a new project called Bezalel Ministries, which exists to promote and develop the use of music and the arts in reaching the lost and establishing the kingdom of God.      
We will be starting with a school of worship, and then moving into a music and art school in the villages to give kids an opportunity to learn an instrument and express themselves in a way they never have been able to. Through this, we hope to build strong relationships to share Christ’s truth and love and see lives transformed forever! Please pray with us as we start this ministry in 2025.