The first Mennonites settled in Chihuahua, Mexico over a century ago and founded the El Sabinal church.
Coming from Canada, they were looking for good farmland.
They isolated themselves from the outside world and found a place in Mexico to maintain their religion and way of life.
But persistent drought and rising prices are now forcing the Mennonites to rethink.
The Free Church of the Mennonites was originally founded in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland in the 16th century.
Because they were persecuted in their home countries.
many of the Mennonites emigrated to Eastern Europe and North America between 1715 and 1815.
Their everyday language is mostly still "Plautdietsch", a mixture of Low German, Prussian dialect and Dutch.
Life in the Mennonite community is simple and Jose Luis Gonzalez's photographs seem like a journey into another time.
There is hardly any electricity or internet here and the community lives from traditional agriculture: corn, chili, cotton and onions can be found in their fields.
Most of them farm with antique agricultural machines - while they live in simple, self-built brick houses, which usually consist of only one room in which the whole family lives.
But it is also becoming increasingly difficult for the Mennonites in the El Sabinal community to distance themselves from the outside world and modern technologies.
The persistent drought and increased consumption in recent years have caused the groundwater level to drop.
The land, which was once fertile due to water supplies, is becoming increasingly difficult to farm.
The community is also challenged by the rising prices for diesel, which they need for their agricultural machinery.
Some parishioners are now leaving for the same reason they left Canada over a hundred years ago: to find fertile land.