Lake Chapala Jewish Congregation
Join us the first and third Saturday at 10 a.m., LIVE and zoom for services.
Join us LIVE the second and fourth Friday for service and potluck at 6 p.m.
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Mezcala Christian Church
Pastor Lionel Sanchez and other area Christian pastors share and teach the love of Jesus every Saturday, 10 a.m. A delicious Grace meal is provided after every service. Mezcala Christian Church provides approximately 250 early breakfast meals weekly to Mezcala children and 50 to 100 large bottles (garafones) of clean safe drinking water weekly to Mezcala area families. Food and financial donations are always needed and accepted. Transportation or carpooling at 9:15 a.m. from Walmart, Little Chapel by the Lake or Soriano parking lots available. Contactr 970 219-5983 in advance via Whatsapp FaceTime or messenger. One- to two-hour guided Mezcala island boat and hiking tours are also available following the church service and grace meal.
Calle Hidalgo 251-B Mezcala (green building with burgundy cross).
Little Chapel by the Lake
Sunday, March 19, Thomas Walker will be preaching on the Holy Spirit.
We are located on the Ajijic Chapala highway 10 in Chula Vista. Sunday service begins at 11 a.m.
Grace meal after the service. Main dish provided, accompanying dishes whatever you decide to bring.
Donations for our food mission in San Juan Tecomatlan are always gladly accepted via our big purple box in front of the Chapel. Thank you for continuing to contribute to this worthy cause.
Mondays, 4 to 5:30 p.m., “What does the Bible say about healing for today, body, soul and spirit?
Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m., a small group meets for fellowship and prayer at the Chapel. This Tuesday, the focus will be on Second Peter chapter 3.
Conversational Spanish classes are Fridays, 1 p.m. Information: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Car Wash by Mama Cleo’s Boys home is Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., a fundraiser for their needs.
Collecting water containers (garrafones) for the village of Mezcala. Please contact Don Spangler, +1-970-219-5983 (Whatsapp or message only) for more information.
Little Chapel telephone: 376-766-2538.
St. Andrew’s Anglican
Reverend James Twyman will preach and celebrate Sunday, March 19, 10 a.m.
Operation Feed: Our feeding program buys non-perishable food to donate to “Operation Feed,” which feeds about 150 families in and around San Juan Cosalá. If you opt for a cash donation, envelopes marked “Operation Feed” are available every Sunday. If you sign your name to the envelope, your offering will be recorded as a church donation.
It’s Spring Grant time at St. Andrews Anglican Church. If you are a local charity serving the health and human service needs of our lakeside community and are interested in receiving a grant in April, email us at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to request an application. The deadline for receiving your completed application is Wednesday April 12, 2023. Grants will be awarded at the St. Andrews worship service on Sunday April 30. Due to Mexican government regulations, organizations must be a registered AC to apply.
If you wish to help the many victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, you can do so through the Episcopal Relief and Development: episcopalrelief.org. Any gift will help, given the magnitude of the tragedy.
Coffee and Cookies Ministry: A wonderful time for meeting friends and greeting newcomers. Please join us. We’re always grateful for volunteers to provide cookies. Those interested can sign up via the sign-up sheet near the garden pathway.
If you’d like to donate to St. Andrew’s, checks can be made out to Andrew’s Fund U.S., or Andrew’s Fund Canada, each of which are tax-deductible.
Our “page” on Facebook is: St Andrews Anglican Lake Chapala. Please “like” and “follow” us for daily inspiration, parish news and events. We also live stream Sunday services and sermon highlights on our FB page.
Sunday services are streamed live and sermon highlights are available on Facebook/St Andrews Anglican Lake Chapala.
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Seventh-Day Adventists
Saturday service begins 10 a.m., study, 10:30 a.m., worship, 11:30 a.m. Carretera 10, San Antonio Tlayacapan. Information: www.chapalaSDA.org.
Lakeside Presbyterian
This Sunday, March 19, Pastor Wayne will talk about Supremacy.
The letter to the Colossians was written by the apostle Paul while he was in prison in Rome, around 60-62 A.D. He wrote it to address some false teachings that were threatening to undermine the faith of the believers in Colosse, a small city in present-day Turkey. Paul wanted to remind them of the true nature of Jesus Christ.
Paul did not start the church at Colosse and had never been there. They knew that Paul had been instrumental in Colossians, leading their pastor, Epaphras, to saving faith in Christ. They also knew that Epaphras had gone to Rome to consult with Paul and had not yet returned.
The church members had received Paul’s letter, brought to them by Tychicus and Onesimus. But the false teachers in Colosse had been discrediting Paul and causing doubts in the people’s minds. “Why listen to a man who is a political prisoner?” they asked. “Can you trust him?”
The main false teachers were Gnostics. They we’re trying to blend Christianity with Greek philosophy. Gnostic doctrine taught that the world was created and ruled by a lesser divinity. They believed that the flesh was evil so many of them sought to deny their flesh. For some Gnostics that led to fasting and sexual abstinence. They also claimed that Jesus did not actually come in the flesh but only appeared to have a real body.
English-language service begins at 9:30 a.m. Spanish service begins 11 a.m.
The English service also streams each Sunday at facebook.com/LPCChapala.
Everyone is welcome to the drop-in Bible study Wednesday.
If you need a ride, or more information, call 376-106-0853, Thursday, before 4 p.m.
There is coffee and refreshments after the service in the Narthex.
LPC is at Calle San Jorge 250 in Riberas del Pilar, (turn lakeside at Mom’s Restaurant).
Unitarian Universalists
Sunday, March 19, the topic is “Il Dolce Far Niente” (“The Sweetness of Doing Nothing”).
Bob Koches will explore the Southern Italian concept and how it lead to the Slow Movement. As UUs we all need to take a break, slow down, take care of ourselves and enjoy being in the moment. Kathy Koches will be the service associate.
Sunday, March 26, Ron Avalon will discuss “Teaching English: A New Experience.”
Lake Chapala Unitarian Universalist Fellowship services are Sundays, 10:30 a.m. In-person services are now available at Hidalgo 261, Riberas del Pilar.
Heart of Awareness
The Heart of Awareness (HoA) Buddhist Community offers opportunities to meditate together at the Practice Center (Guadalupe Victoria 101, Ajijic) on Sundays and Wednesdays. We also offer dharma talks, study groups, and films.
Sunday, March 19, the Center is open from 9 am-noon for sitting and walking meditation (Note: No Sunday practice period on Sunday, March 26, due to the retreat in progress.)
Wednesday, March 22, the meditation period is from 4 to 5 p.m. From 5 to 6 p.m. there will be a video dharma talk followed by . The theme for March is “Compassionate Awareness: Working with What Arises”. At 6 pm there will be an opportunity to have dinner and socialize at a nearby restaurant.
The Wednesday program is also offered via Zoom. You’ll find the link on the website, heartofawareness.org.
Thursdays, a weekly practice and book study group meets from 1 to 2:30 p.m. It begins with a twenty-minute meditation period and then reading and discussion of the current book selection: “In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying” by Tibetan master teacher Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. You do not need to own the book to attend. Afterward, our library is open for browsing from 2:30-3:30 p.m.
March 24-26, Marty Janowitz will offer a non-residential retreat, “Equanimity Amidst Uncertainty,” at the Heart of Awareness. The registration fee is 500 pesos and pre-registration is required. Find details at heartofawareness.org.
Activities at the Heart of Awareness are open to all. Chairs and cushions are provided and there are written meditation instructions for beginners. For more information, visit the website heartofawareness.org.
Christ Church Lakeside
Christ Church Lakeside will celebrate the fourth Sunday in Lent, Laetare Sunday, by celebrating the Holy Eucharist together, and via Zoom, Sunday, March 19, 10:30 a.m., at our location with the red door and windows next to The Smokehouse Restaurant. Rev. Linda Ramos will be the celebrant and give the message. Those wishing to gather for brunch after the service will meet in the Min Wah Restaurant, Calle al Tepalo #96, Ajijic, 376-766-0686.
The Loaves and Fishes Food Distribution will not be held Tuesday, March 21. If you wish to give a much-needed monetary donation, or need more information, contact Al Ramos, 332-384-2343, or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Wednesday, March 22, the fifth session of a six-week Lenten series “Surprised by Hope,” led by the Rev. Michael Schirmacher, with the help of Rev. Danny Borkowski, will be held at 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the home of Dave and Carol Van Gorp’s house, Calle Durango #12, Chula Vista Norte, San Antonio, 331-276-8659. To save a seat for this series or to participate via Zoom, email Fr. Michael at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
For those who don’t have the Zoom sign-in information for joining the Holy Eucharist Service, and/or the Lenten series, please contact Rev. Danny Borkowski at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., and 376-766-2495, or Rev. Jim Powers at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., and 334-301-2800.
Lake Chapala Baptists
What does it mean to “know Christ?”
We can find the answer in Paul’s epistles, which have been the source of inspiration for our Pastor’s sermons over the course of many weeks this year.
“Knowing Christ is not some mystical knowledge,” he said, during last Sunday’s message to the church, “It’s an intimate understanding of His character and a gradual polishing of our own in His direction.
“The apostle Paul was willing to experience the same suffering as Christ,” Pastor Linton told his congregation, “so that he might enter into the fellowship of His suffering and the power of His resurrection.
“Even through extreme and constant persecution, Paul never stopped praising and glorifying the Lord. Christ left an example for all Christians, and today we can draw from it and receive the joy thereof.
“Are you, like Paul, crucified in Christ? This is evidence of surrender to the word of God. And that is, after all, where the knowledge of Christ resides.”
Share memorable weekly sermons, uplifting music, and an ongoing thirst for true wisdom Sundays, 10:45 a.m. at the Lake Chapala Baptist Church. Sta. Margarita 147, Riberas del Pilar.
Contact us by email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; visit our website or Facebook page for more info or call: 333-016-3743, office 376-765-2925.
Abundant Life Church
When all seems hopeless, where can hope spring from? This Sunday, March 19, we will look to our source of hope in all circumstances. There are times when we feel all is lost and that there is no way out. It is at that time we know that our plans will never work for us. It is a good things someone else has a plan! Come discover what God’s plan is for your life.
Abundant Life Church is affiliated with the Assemblies of God of Mexico. English-language services are Sunday, 10:30 a.m., Spanish-Language services are Sunday, 9 a.m. and noon. Bible study in English is held at 11 a.m. each Wednesday with Spanish language Bible studies on Friday at 6:45 p.m.
Carretera 140 in San Antonio Tlayacapan, just a block from SuperLake.
Grace Church Chapala
Join us for worship at the Bravo Theater, 441 Hidalgo, in Riberas, every Sunday, 10 a.m.
Grace Church is a group of believers with a more contemporary style of worship with a mix of praise songs and hymns.
St. Mark’s Anglican Episcopal, Guadalajara
Regular Sunday Services under Rev. Dr. Pamela Hosey Long take place at 10:30 a.m. in English and 12:30 p.m. in Spanish.
Chichimecas 836, corner of Aztecas diagonally across the street from the UAG ICB Campus, Colonia Monraz, 44670 Guadalajara.