Today is the day of our annual Mexican Dinner and Silent Auction! We will be serving mexican lasagna, chicken enchiladas, taco salad, Spanish rice and ice cream sundaes for dessert!
As always, we would like to thank our catere Sheri Hebert for the amazing meal. We would also like to thank Lori Carrier and Paul Myers for the Silent Auction. Most of all, we thank our supporters for making this event a success each and every year!
To God be the glory!!!!
Today we had our first March meeting. The students are working on plans for their VBS teams, the build team is formulating a plan to approach their unconventional week, and we are counting down the days until we leave as opposed to weeks.
Next week we will host our annual Mexican Dinner and Silent Auction at Trinity Lutheran Church in Utica. Please join us!!!! We would love to show you firsthand all of the plans for our 2017 Mission team!
Please continue to pray for us as our travel dates quickly approach! As always, thank you for your love and support!
Teams are starting to form, plane tickets are being purchased, hotel reservations are made, vans are reserved…. good things are happening! We continue to pray that God will bless this trip, this team, and all of the people we will encounter throughout this journey.
As you enjoy tonight’s football game (or maybe just the commercials), please take a moment to keep us in your prayers. Our build team could use a few extra hands, our VBS teams could use a few extra students, and we are still praying about our resources to successfully construct a team Stephen.
To God be the glory – in tonight’s game and in Mexicali!!!
Our 2017 Mexicali Mission Team is starting to take shape. We are three weeks into planning and on the verge of identifying our teams. We have had two official meetings – a get to know you meeting and a paperwork meeting – followed by our annual leadership retreat in Omena, MI.
Please keep us all in your prayers as we work towards our trip dates. There is still a lot of work to be done to prepare for our journey!
Earlier today each of us were reunited with our families and shared some of the highlights from our trip. Thank you all for your love and support throughout this Mexicali season!
We are all slowly working our way home today, with the bulk of us about to leave Dallas for the last leg of our journey home. We are exhausted physically, emotionally and spiritually but our hearts are still filled with joy from the ministry we participated in this week.
We look forward to seeing all of you tomorrow!
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This week was AMAZING! We are finally back in California.
We got to have our fiestas and say our final goodbyes. We got the chance to do piñatas at both places, which they loved so much, and fed Refugio outside the bowl food. Then we headed over to the build site to do the final key ceremony.
Many tears were shed today and we were all very sad to leave everyone down in Mexicali. Although, we can not wait to see you all in back in Michigan. See you soon!
We have successfully crossed the border and delivered everything to the storage unit and gotten dinner. Now it is just the long drive back to San Diego for some much needed rest before we all fly home tomorrow. See you soon!
Our ministry in Mexicali is over for the week, but we will each leave a piece of our heart in this place. God has poured out so many blessings on all of us this week. Please pray for us as we head back to the US this afternoon to begin our journey home.
