About

About Josef Urban

Josef has served as a full-time missionary to Mexico for ten years in the planting and pastoring of several Reformed churches. For eight years he was pastor of Iglesia del Centro in Guadalajara, Jalisco. He has a Master of Theological Studies with an emphasis in exegetical theology from Reformed Baptist Seminary. A lover of Reformed and Puritan theology, he is currently working on his Master of Divinity degree with Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids. He is the author/editor of two books, The Way of Salvation: Simply Set Forth and Great Doctrines of the Faith: A New Catechism for Children and Families (both published in Spanish). Josef currently resides in Grand Rapids with his family and frequently travels abroad, focusing especially on missions work in Mexico.

Josef currently serves the church in Latin America and the United States as an itinerant teacher, conference speaker, and doing pulpit supply, while working on several mission projects geared toward training men for the ministry.

Missions Quotes:

“If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is concerning missions. If there be anything about which we cannot tolerate lukewarmness, it is the matter of sending the gospel to a dying world.” -Charles H. Spurgeon

“If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.” -Charles H. Spurgeon

There is a prayer I mean to continue to offer until it is answered, that God would pour out on this church a missionary spirit. I want to see our young men devoting themselves to the work, some that will not be afraid to venture and preach Jesus Christ in the regions beyond. -Charles H. Spurgeon