For many years, the church here in La Mision has taken a group to serve a church in Sinaloa. Sinaloa is a state located in the west central part of the mainland of Mexico. (as shown in red in the map)
They pack up their cars and take the 20+ hour trip to serve a very poor part of their country. Erin and I really wanted to go on this trip, but we weren't sure if this was something that God wanted us to do.
A couple of Sundays ago, we attended the planning meeting for the trip and saw all of the wonderful people that were going to serve, and we felt God telling us to go. Not only would this be a good chance to serve a poor community, but a tremendous opportunity to get to know the people of our community better, and for them to get to know us.
We will be leaving on November 5th and driving in a caravan down to Guasave, Sinaloa. (in the northwest of Sinaloa) We will work for 7 or 8 days doing hard labor and then putting on a church service for the community every night. We will sleep in tents and work really hard. We return on November 14th. (yep, my birthday will be spent in Sinaloa!!!!)
Even though I am fully convinced that this is the will of God, I am nervous. It is very unknown and not comfortable. I am also not the group leader, so I don't feel in control. (which sadly is what I am most nervous about) Please join us in prayer as we try to serve and be a blessing to the community of Sinaloa and our own as well. Pray that we would grow and experience God in a new and fresh way.
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