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Tarahumara Ministries

Tarahumaras Ministries is a non-profit organization founded by Tomas Bencomo. The purpose of the organization is to bring much needed assistance to the impoverished Tarahumaras Indians who live in Chihuahua, Mexico.

Here is the story of Pastor Tomas’ vision.

“The vision was born several years ago when the media
showed the scenes of Tarahumara Indians dying of hunger and
hypothermia. They were saying that the Tarahumaras were a
tribe that in a few years would only be history.

It was then and there that the Lord spoke to my heart saying that
he loved the Tarahumaras but his church was doing little for them
and some churches nothing. We were leaving the solution to the
government and to non-Christians people. That is when I headed towards the mountains to see the reality of the problem.

I found out that the Tarahumara was fractioned into communities that were different from each other even in the way they spoke. A missionary of Wycliffe said that the language spoken between the high and low Tarahumara changes more than Spanish and Portuguese.

I went out looking for the most remote places thus finding several communities that seemed to me as the same Indians that the Spaniards found in the fifteen hundreds. They had not changed and they did not know a thing about Christ.

I also found out that there are two more tribes that have not been reached by the gospel and they are the Pimas and the Guarajios. Two nations that have never heard about Christ and we stand before this challenge.

These three tribes are found in very difficult areas in the mountains, in deep rocky canyons, I thought, ‘If Christ goes, I want to go also.’”

“Now I am only seeing how His work is coming to pass and the different tribes of the world are demanding it from us. We cannot retain what belongs to them, even when there is a high price that we must pay in order to be carriers of the message of Everlasting Life.

“We have become invaded by this desire and we have put our eyes on the mountains of Chihuahua where we have three different tribes: The Tarahumara, Pima and Guarajio Indians.”