Report Mission Trip to Colombia-Nicaragua

June 6, 2025

I am very grateful to God for giving me the opportunity to travel to two new countries for the first time: Colombia and Nicaragua. It was an intense eight days, from May 22nd to the 30th, very busy but very blessed.

Cali, Colombia (May 22-26)

Four pastors from Honduras and I from the United States were in Cali. Pastor Juan Carlos Tablada from Honduras was invited to give conferences on God's move in Honduras, as the Church of God in Honduras has grown powerfully and now has more than 1,700 churches. In Colombia, they are interested in learning and applying the strategies used in Honduras. On Friday, we ministered to the leaders of the churches participating in the conference, and on Saturday, many pastors came with their wives. We taught them and invited them to a delicious meal. We also provided them with food supplies. On Sunday, we divided into two teams and ministered in two churches. The glory of God fell, and fifteen people were filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues for the first time. Glory to God!!!

We used the Uber app a lot to get around, and we preached the Word of God to the drivers, and three of them accepted Christ. One of them did so on Friday night, and on Sunday, he and his entire family came to church, and they too accepted Jesus Christ—seven in total. Glory to God!!!

On Saturday, we visited a rehabilitation center located outside the city, in the mountains, part of a foundation. We shared the Word of God and our testimonies with more than twenty interns. At the end, we prayed for them, and the Lord led us to hug them and speak words of faith, hope, and encouragement to them. It was beautiful to see how the Holy Spirit ministered to their hearts and made them feel that He was amongst them.

Somoto, Nicaragua (May 26-30)

At the end of the four glorious days in Colombia, the rest of the pastors returned to Honduras, and I flew to Managua, Nicaragua. The plan to go to Nicaragua was because when I went to Senegal, Africa, in October 2023, I met several missionaries who had been sent from a missionary school in Somoto, Nicaragua. After seeing these young missionaries who had been sent for five years and their consecration to the Lord, I felt led to visit the place where they had been trained and sent from, and also to explore the possibility of connecting the ministry training schools in Mexico and exchanging teachers, students, and missionaries. Upon arriving in Managua, the school director came to pick me up at the airport. We traveled four hours to get to the institute. Every day I attended classes and watched their program, and I saw many similarities with the schools in Mexico, and more than anything, that they have the same vision of reaching the nations for Christ.
While I was there, the Lord reminded me of the vision we had as an evangelistic association since 2000: to prepare ministers, pastors, and missionaries and support them in their projects so they could fulfill their calling. I saw that the Church of Jesus Christ truly must become more involved in supporting missions and missionaries. An example I can give is that there are two young adults ready to leave for Senegal, but for two years they have not been able to find sponsors to support them monthly when they arrive, nor have they been able to buy plane tickets. This is just one example of the difficulties that exist in the missionary field. “How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how will they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher? And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring peace, of those who bring good news!" Romans 10:14,15

At the missionary school, they are taught that before going out to serve God, they must receive the baptism in the Spirit in order to move in power and anointing. Some students came from remote areas, and one of them was sad because no one in his church had received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. While at the school, the Lord ministered to the students, and there wa s a visitation of the Holy Spirit, baptizing eight of them, and they spoke in new tongues. (Mark 16:15) There were testimonies of how some of them had longed for this experience for a long time and were now rejoicing at having received it.

I ask for your prayers, I know more mission trips are coming soon. May the Lord of the harvest guide me and teach me His will at all times. If any of you would like to go with me and be part of a team, please contact me. To participate, collaborate, or sponsor some of these missionary projects, click DONATE here.


In His Work,



Ildefonso Arguelles

COLOMBIA

NICARAGUA