The Mexican American Program presently has eight primary areas of service:

• MAP supports curriculum and activities at Perkins that prepare ministerial students for Hispanic ministries, including the Hispanic ministries student group (Los Seminaristas), the Hispanic Studies Program in the M.Div. program, and the Mexico Immersion interterm course.

• MAP provides short-term intensive summer training programs on campus at Perkins for local pastors, through the Spanish Language Licensing School and Course of Study School; and for pastors and laity, through the Lay Missioner Pastor-Mentor Training Program for Developing Hispanic Ministries and the Congregational Mobilization Module.

• MAP convenes and supports the “Hispanic Instructors Program,” a national leadership development group for clergy and scholars, dedicated to stimulating Hispanic protestant theology.

• MAP provides various continuing education events, symposia, consultations, lectures on specific topics of interest to church leaders in ministry with Hispanics

• MAP publishes Apuntes, a journal of theology from the Hispanic perspective.

• MAP provides consulting and continuing education services for local congregations, clergy groups, and others who are interested in developing Hispanic ministries in Texas and surrounding states.

• MAP provides a program of earlier awareness and mentoring for a group of Hispanic youth and young adults who sense a call to ordained ministry through the Hispanic Youth Leadership Academy.

• MAP advocates before The United Methodist Church with and in behalf of Hispanic congregations and ministries.  It works with several general agencies, especially in the implementation of the National Plan for Hispanic Ministries, and with MARCHA (Methodists Associated to Represent the Cause of Hispanic Americans), the United Methodist Church’s Hispanic caucus.