Mexico! :)

The reason I haven't posted in a while is because I was having one of the best weeks of my life - down in MEXICO!! :) I went through my church and a ministry called "Caravan Ministries." It was a great experience - we built houses for the poorer, like years past, but this group focused heavily on teaching about world missions and the importance of them to God. Here's a few main notes I got from the trip:

• We are blessed. I don't care if you're the poorest kid in your school, you. are. BLESSED! At least you can go to school, with a family that (hopefully) loves you and you have a decent house. Go down and just look at the houses in Tijuana.
• God's heart breaks for the unreached people of the world. Jesus's last command before dying on the cross was to "go and gather his scattered peoples." As (I forgot who) said, "Go, Send, or Disobey," meaning GO onto the missions field yourself, SEND money and prayers and love to those on the mission field, or DISOBEY God's orders by doing neither of those.
• A short-term missions trip has one purpose: get used to the idea of missions. You can't change anyone's life in a week or two. You have to spend YEARS with them, learning the language, understanding the culture, and building a relationship with the people. Only THEN can you even BEGIN to share the name and good news of Jesus.

That's three of about a billion bullet points I could write, but I'm out of time.

♥kelli