Mexico STM continues...

Why and how I joined the trip?

I've always wanted to go on a short mission. When I heard that the church is organizing a team to go down to Mexico and build houses, I was excited. In the past short term missions the church offered, usually they require a little more bible knowledge, gospel training, or even musician or drama skills. I didn't think I qualify or its just a lack of faith in me. But for this Mexico mission trip, its more hands on and not spreading gospel from door to door kind of thing. So I prayed about the trip and God just leaded me into it.

Expectation of trip?

I was expecting to build some houses for the poor to meet their physical needs, showing Gods love through the build. I was told that we were going to communicate or play with the local people as well. Building the house is just a tool for us to reach me. The focus is not the house, because anybody can pay the money and build a house and leave. We want to show them God love them and care about them, and help them build a relationship with God. I didn't really know what to expect other than that, I just wanted to carry and open mind and go experience God, and also see what it is like in the third world country.

Partnering with Mexico Caravan Ministries...
Quote from their website. "Mexico Caravan Ministries is a missions mobilization ministry. Our primary objective is the revelation of God's heart for the world, the presentation of His plan for worldwide missions and the motivation of His people to take part in His global plan." MCM helped us find the families to build for, get the building material, offered us the expertise to finish the job, but most importantly challenged us to feel God's heart. Each morning before we went out and built the houses, we were given a message from the MCM staff or guest speaker. They made us aware of the unreached people in the world, especially the 10/40 window, as well as prepared us spiritually to submit to God. On the shirts they designed for the ministries, there are three logos. 1. Eyes lifted - get our eyes off ourselves, and feel Gods passion and compassion. 2. Open hand - let go of things in our life (relationship, money, dream, etc), so we can receive things from God. 3. Bend knees - to be obedience to God and follow him. I think their ministries is very powerful and really triggered us to think about where we take part in God's plan.

I'm going to walk you guys through our trip in the future posts.