Mission Trips
For the last two years, a team of youth and adults has partnered the mission organization Mission Discovery for international mission trips. In 2008, the team helped build a small home for a family and conducted a daily children’s Bible school in Juarez, Mexico. Juarez and El Paso, sister cities not only geographically but historically, comprise the second largest border community along the Mexican, US boarder. With an average income of $4-5 per day poverty runs rampant in many of the colonies. As a matter of fact, 37.1 percent of the Mexican population lives in poverty while 13.5 percent of those live in extreme poverty. Juarez is the 5th largest Mexican city with a population of over 2 million, while El Paso has a city population of a little more than 700,000. By joining with Mission Discovery and the local church, our efforts impacted the physical and spiritual lives of some very needy people.
In June 2009, a team will travel to Jamaica with Mission Discovery. Unnoticed by many vacationers is the high level of poverty among the indigenous population. Our mission team will be going to Barrett Hall Jamaica working with Mission Discovery at two sights. At the first sight, we’ll be assisting in the construction of a preschool and conducting a community Bible school. At the second sight we will be serving an orphanage where we will be assisting the staff in caring for the young people and conducting a Bible school there also. Thank you for allowing us to represent you in this mission to these young people. Keep us in your prayers.
