What an awesome opportunity to have Joshua join me on a VBS mission trip to Parras de la Fuente, Mexico. This was his first time out of the country and his first mission trip. I think he had a pretty awesome time and some hot food- watch him eat his first Mexican pepper. As the trip was coming together, it seemed like it was going to be quite a mixed group – a grandmother and her grandchild, two older men, a twenty-three year old, two teenagers, and a kid. I was excited to see how this dynamic would play out on a week-long cross-country journey as it was quite different than many of the other mission trips I’d been apart of (most of which I served with a group of my peers or with middle-schoolers).
When June 5th arrived, we discovered that the grandmother and her grandchild had canceled and two more teenagers would replace them on the trip. Wow! And I thought I wasn’t going on the middle-school mission trip this summer…haha! Apparently, I’m still called to young people. Can’t seem to get away from them (not that I was necessarily attempting).
I love introducing young people to missions. I guess it's something of a passion. It’s so amazing to watch them embark across the miles to change others for the Kingdom, and realize that God wants to do a work in them as well. Actually, I think it happens to every “missionary”. There’s hardly a better way to learn something than to teach it to others and when we go to preach Jesus, we start to become even more like Him, we seek His counsel on issues of confusion, we dig into His word for guidance, we cling to His heart, we long to be everything He is so a broken world can be reconciled. It’s beautiful. It's gospel.
As each member of this group prayed, worked, and served the people of Parras, God was faithful to “send out laborers into his harvest.” (Luke 10:1-3) and 16 people prayed to receive Christ! Praise the Lord for his faithful work to complete what He began in us and to use His people to accomplish His purposes.
Peace Out! =)
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