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Posted by Bryanbiery on 3/2/2008, 5:14 pm, in reply to "Re: mission trip to Mexico"
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WE DID IT! Mexico mission trip was awesome. Met all of our goals in donations of materials and clothing, and hard work painting, sealing, digging, removing rocks and rubble, laying topsoil, and planting sod, pruning the fruit trees and, of course the vacation Bible School and English as a Second Language programs every night.
It was hard and hot, and hampered by a bad bacterial bug that we either caught on the plane or brought over from the states. High fevers competed with the high temps of 8 of the 14 of us for many days, but this crew just kept going until they literally dropped.
The seminary and retreat center were actually more developed than we expected. The students were wonderful and widespread in ages in both the seminary and the Bible School and English classes.
Each of the missionaries tried to carry two full largest sized suitcases full of clothing and supplies for leaving in Mexico and also tried to leave as many of the clothes that we wore and tools with which we worked as well. Last time Tom came back with the clothes on his back and his tennis shoes, but due to our five day lay-over for a much needed r&r in Cancun we had to bring out a little more than that for the resort area.
It was good not only in the sense of what was done while we were there but a very much more realistic view of what that area of the Yucatan and that community can need in the future. Another group is going out from our Presbytery later this week into the more dangerous areas of Southern Yucatan where missionaries are still being killed today. Our prayers and hearts go with them all.
Tom and I are so blessed by knowing and getting to know a bit better just a few of the missionaries who are in our church and in this world all around us.
It makes it easier when contemplating family members and anyone else who has chosen hatred, greed, and so much visciousness and selfishness in this large and needy world, to know that goodness does reign.
Here and everywhere if you just look, there are people who are struggling to just have a meal every now and then, without drinkable water or a home or anything else to their name. Amazingly, many of these same people still minister to others, thinking of family as their brothers and sisters on earth, and in heaven. They would no more intentionally hurt another than they would their own precious children. They go on trying to not only follow Christ's light but to hold it up to others and shine a way in their very own darkness.
In every single human there is the capacity for love and the capacity to hate. Always choose love, I do.
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