Preparing our Hearts for Mexico

Below is a description of what the team is doing in preparation for our time in Mexico... entry by Rachel Williams

The Mexico team has been very busy lately getting ready for the trip! The whole team is reading a devotional book called A Call to Die. It is a daily devotional with a section to read, questions, Bible passages to read, memory verses, and a journal. Every day for 40 days the students and staff have completed one devotional. We also have another plain journal to fill out and write down verses, notes, highlights of our day, prayers, and observations of what God is teaching us. Every student is assigned a staff member and must call their leader everyday to talk about the reading. Every 10 days the leader switches students. As part of the book, every person is fasting from something that is getting in the way of their relationship with God for these 40 days.  Every student also has a prayer partner each week, another student, who they are responsible for contacting a couple times each week and pray for them. The students have chosen a scripture verse that they will be memorizing. Every person on the team also has a prayer partner outside of the team that they email and ask for prayer. The team has weekly meetings to connect with each other and prepare. The team helped out with the Missions Conference and recently held a bake sale to raise money for the trip. Prayer cards with pictures of each member of the team and as a whole were passed out on Sunday to encourage the congregation to pray for the team as well.  
-Rachel Williams; junior, Armijo HS


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You might be thinking that this is a lot of preparation; and you're right.  It is. The exciting thing is to see the students step up to the challenge and fulfill all of their commitments for the trip on top of their regular responsibilities to family, sports teams, jobs and school.  Please pray with us that God uses this preparation of fasting from the world and feasting on the Word to work in each of their lives to grow them in the Lord and equip them to serve others now, in Mexico and in the future.