Spring Break in Chilton, TX starts tomorrow (Mar. 15) and with it comes our first mission trip since being at Chilton. We have six people going and we will meet up with another church from Abilene, TX when we get to Del Rio. There will be 55 from that group and our 6 makes 61 people headed to Mexico to do construction projects around the city, a VBS for the kids (run by your church's youth), and a women's ministry which is great for some of the more mature ladies of the church who can't quite keep up with the kids at VBS and aren't really interested in doing construction for 3 straight days.
Anyway, we leave on Tuesday (Mar. 16) and return Saturday (Mar. 20). I am excited to see what God is going to teach us as we make the journey down there. I find that God teaches the most to the missionaries going when it comes to short term mission trips like the one we are taking.
The hope and the prayer is that as we are transformed by this short term mission trip, we will bring back what we have learned and use it to reach our community. The neighborhood we will be in when in Mexico, and the neighborhood here in Chilton known as "Little Mexico" are virtually the same. So the mission trip is not just so we can call ourselves an "Acts 1:8" church or any other ridiculous label, the purpose of this trip is to learn from God what we can be doing in Chilton. Sometimes, it takes getting away from the comfortable surroundings to be able to see things anew when you return.
So that is our hope and our prayer as we go to Mexico. I hope you will remember to pray for us as we are gone. This also means that there will not be another post on here for about a week. Sorry to disappoint both of my readers! :)
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