Visit the City of Eternal Spring: Let’s go to Colombia
Lord willing, I plan to visit Medellín, Colombia on November 6-16, 2026 and I’d like to take a group of Fellowship leaders with me. It’s an opportunity to expose our churches and church leaders to the possible partnership between your church and a church plant in Colombia. Please prayerfully consider coming on my next Colombia Vision Tour (CVT) on November 6-16, 2026.
Parkdale Baptist Church in Belleville, ON sent one of their mission team leaders last year and recently began a partnership with the Grace and Truth (“Gracia y Verdad”) church plant just outside Medellín. A short-term missions team went to Colombia in 2025 and Aaron Lalvani sent me the following report:
It has been an incredible journey working alongside El Redil Gracia y Verdad for the past year. In this short time, Parkdale has sent one adult team (November 2024) and recently a youth team (March 2025). The purpose of each of these teams was different. In the case of the adult team, building a close relationship with the current church members and families was an important objective. For the youth team it was leaning on the El Redil pastor’s remarkable Bible-training abilities and assisting with the building of a hydroponic garden lab.
The El Redil movement has been successfully planting churches for decades. As Parkdale Baptist Church focuses on our 2030 Vision of church planting in our communities, we believe there are opportunities to learn and grow with Gracia y Verdad.
In November 2025, I hosted another team of church leaders on a CVT and we saw the hydroponic project. Two more Fellowship churches began five-year church plant partnerships in Medellín, Colombia this past year.
Join me November 6-16, 2026 in Colombia
Fellowship International missionary Phil Webb and myself are hosting a Colombian Vision Tour (CVT) in November 2026 to expose Fellowship leaders to the possibility of partnering in the Medellín area. Our mission has worked for decades with The Federation of Baptist Churches in Colombia (Federación de Iglesias Bautistas de Colombia), within a network of 18 churches called El Redil (which means “the sheep fold”). They are planting churches and I hope some of our Fellowship churches will support them in this Gospel effort.
Please click here to get a fuller understanding of the vision and objective of this CVT.
Trip details:
What: Colombia Vision Tour
When: November 6-16, 2026
Where: Medellín, Colombia
Cost: $2,400 per person; includes flights to and from Colombia, and in-country accommodation, meals, and travel
Why: To visit church planting projects and consider a five-year partnership between your local church and an El Redil church plant. We will also visit with Fellowship International missionaries Diego and Claudia Cardona.
Hosts: Phil Webb and Steve Jones, along with in-country hosts Carlos and John-Jairo.
Registration: Contact Steve Jones (sjones@fellowship.ca). Registration and payment ($2,400) must be received by the August 1, 2026 deadline. Only ten leaders can go—first come, first served.
I hope to hear from you on or before August 1, 2026.