NOTE: This article was originally published by Calvary Chapel Magazine – December 1, 2023
Equipped with a Spanish vocabulary of just three words—burrito, baño, and taco—Mike Vincent arrived on Mexico’s Baja California coast to plant a Calvary Chapel in Rosarito, just south of the U.S. border. Sent out in 2002 with his wife, Sarah, and two young children, Senior Pastor Mike laughingly warned, “I do not recommend you plant a church with two babies under 2 years old!”
During a Sunday morning service at Calvary Chapel Rosarito, Mexico, congregants join in corporate prayer over newly baptized believers in the faith. In 2002, Pastor Mike Vincent started Calvary Rosarito as an in-home Bible study. It quickly outgrew three buildings prior to this current facility, which seats over 800 people.
