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Huichol Indian Project
Providing humanitarian aid & more

 

Huichol Indians in typical costumes

 

 

The Huichol Indians live high in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Western Mexico. They live much as they did 1,000 years ago, still dressing in beautifully embroidered costumes and sustained by an annual corn crop.

MPI and our sister organization Amistad International work together to meet the needs of the Huichol through a flying clinic, installing community water systems, agriculture training, health education, and evangelism.

 

Pastor/Pilot Dagoberto Cirilo helping Huichols
 

Pastor/Pilot Dagoberto Cirilo serves the Huichol Indians by mission plane in this roadless region of deep canyons.

 

 

 

Mission plane serving the Huichol people in Mexico

 

 

The plane is essential in transporting physicians, patients, food, plastic water pipe, & many other needed services.

 

 

Huichol people study literature brought by mission plane

 

This flying clinic has been serving the Huichol Indians since 1953.  Pioneer missionary aviator Pastor Bill Baxter brought the first medical care to their Huichol and built the Huichol's first primary school in 1954.

 

 

Pastor Dagoberto Cirilo baptizing a Huichol Indian in Mexico

 

 

More than 30 years passed before the first Huichol were baptized. There are now more than 100 baptized Huichol. They have one church and a few branch Sabbath schools.

 

 

 

Church construction in Huichol territory

 

 

Volunteers nearly completed a church building in 2003, but before the roof could be put on, Huichol authorities demanded construction be halted.  We are waiting for the Huichol government officers to change in the near future, hoping to find friendlier faces.

 

Huichol layman shares the love of Jesus with his people

 

 

No evangelism by outsiders is permitted among the Huichols, but Adventist Christians are allowed in most areas because of our sincere compassion and our long history of humanitarian service among their tribe.

 

 

In August, 2005 Adventist Christians were driven from their village of Agua Fria by village leaders, charged with refusing to follow native religious practices of using liquor and hallucinogenic peyote cactus.  They have been relocated to a remote undeveloped area of the Aguas Milpas reservoir, accessible only by motorboat. 

 

 

Six families struggle to survive, living under tarps, planting crops in poor soil, yet happy they can worship the true God without fear of evil spirits of their former persecutors.

 

 

Education is the greatest asset to reaching the Huichol for Christ. 

Huichol students at Colegio del Pacifico (ColPac)

These Huichol young people studied at Colegio del Pacífico, a boarding school
near Navojoa, Sonora so they can return to work among their own people.

For more information about work among the Huichol tribe,
you are invited to check out the web site of Amistad International.

Quadriplegic Fred Adams visits the Sierra Huichol

YouTube video clips of Fred's Sierra Huichol trip

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