FBC Missions

Hola a todos ustedes en Eugene. A day of travel in buses, planes, and vans left us ready to experience God’s love across the border. After waiting for three hours for the rental company to complete our Mexico insurance, we piled into 15 minivans and drove to Calexico. With bellies full of Hometown buffet, we finished the journey to the border and by God’s grace, crossed it in record breaking time. Sunday brought us a bible study and a communion service where we all went up front and sang some of our songs from America. We all passed the cup and broke the bread together. A sassy yet delightful flight attendant landed us some plane crackers that we handed out to those working in the asparagus fields along with toothbrushes, lotion, and Camp Harlow t-shirts. In the windstorm at the field, kids in Rudy’s, Jana’s, Gayle’s, Jill’s, and Chelsea’s group sang songs of praise as Bibliano and Rudy took turns preaching the gospel, Saul shared his testimony and sang amazing grace, and Tiffany translated beautifully. We are thankful that everyone is in good health and WELL FED. The cliché of every year’s Mexico trip is the food, but you gotta be here to appreciate it. And of course there’s always mas comida. Construction projects (Juan Carlos and Isaac’s houses) are ahead of schedule, VBS was as fun as always (we enjoyed a reenactment of Jesus walking on water as the kids waved their ribbons simulating the storm), Monday’s basketball game was a great opportunity to reach out to the community (we barely won by four points thought we would have gladly sacrificed our win for the Ducks), and God continues to shower us with blessings (we all need real showers too).

Thanks for all your prayers. Some of us are running on fumes as we bake in the Mexican sun. Pray for strength for the leaders and the kids, and patience for the leaders, safety at the worksites, and open hearts ready to receive the gospel.

Thanks so much for your incessant prayer. It means so much to know that we are continuously being lifted up before the father.

Muchas gracias para todo,

The Mexico Mission Team

P.S.- Due to problems accessing the internet, we were unable to post blogs for the first several days. We will try to post everyday for the remainder of the trip.

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