Jerry Garcia and his wife,  Ernestina (Ernie) have been missionaries in Mexico since 1989.  Their heart for missions began since they were young children growing up in South Texas in Brownsville, a city which borders with Mexico. At the age of seventeen, Jerry began making missionary trips to Mexico not knowing he would one day be pastoring and living in Mexico alongside his wife and four children.  Jerry attended Rhema Bible Training Center in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma and soon after began pastoring in Matamoros, Mexico where he and his family began their ministry.