I went to San Luis Rio Colorado south of the border from Yuma, AZ with Zion Hill Baptist Church. I was the "Camp Pastor" for the trip. I had a blast getting to know some of the students from ZH.
We left last Saturday morning at 7 am and arrived in Yuma about 10 am the following morning. We met our host missionary and then drove across the border arriving at our host church before noon and just in time for morning worship.
We spent the rest of the day overcoming the "van lag" and acclimating to our new environment which included another worship service that evening and a late dinner.
On each of the next three days we spent the mornings in team devotionals and free time followed by afternoons of preparing give-away bags of Rice and Beans. Later in the afternoon we canvassed neiqhborhoods, prayer-walking and passing out invitations door-to-door to invite everyone to a free movie that evening.
The movie was a very effective film version of Heaven's Gates and Hell's Flames. The neighborhoods were very poor, one of them a simple squatter village on the outskirts of a town whose infrastructure was struggling to keep up with growth.
Our host Pastor and his church members were very effective at gathering information for follow-up purposes. It was a joy to work with them.
Following our third (and biggest night) we packed our trailer and crossed the border knowing that it would take 4 hours or more if we waited until the morning. We finally crossed the border just after midnight that night and decided to begin our drive back to Mississippi arriving back in Wesson at 8 am Friday morning.
Now that's a crazy trip!
And the best part of it was that there were more than 250 decisions made and seeds sown among hundreds and hundreds of people.
1 comment:
Wow Clinton... that trip sounds so rewarding... Bootcamp was good, but Mexico and God's Work sounds awesome!
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