Clay in the Hands

Middle of Day Three

Mission trips are always packed with wonderful experiences – long days and hard work.  This one has been no different so far.  We have caught up with old friends and made new ones.  We have begun to grow closer as a group and most importantly, we have seen God in action!  We are working with a family in west El Paso, building them a new home and it has been a real challenge so far.  Today, day 3, we began to see a little headway with relating to the family.

I covet your prayers as we strive to not only build a home for this family but also build a relationship with them as well.  We also ask for your prayers as our students minister to local children through our sports camp ministry.

It is exhausting but it is such a rush to be out of my comfort zone truly putting my faith into action.  If you have never done anything like participating in a mission trip, what are you waiting for?  You will never regret it!

Follow me on Twitter to see the progress we are making each day in real time.  Isn’t technology incredible!

Thanks for your prayers and for reading my ramblings.

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Last year's project on day 3

I am about to go out and load all the tools into the trailer that we will need on our mission trip.  I am really excited about what God is going to do through our teams as we head to El Paso to build a home and do a sports camp.  We covet your prayer as our teams go to minister.  We have an amazing team that God has assembled to do both sides of this trip.  Our sports camp team will be led by Sam Griffin.  He will do an incredible job – this will be his third sports camp so he is quickly becoming a pro.

I will be leading the construction team and I have to tell you, nothing gets me going like walking up on a slab on the first day knowing that in 4 days, we will walk away from a home!  Maybe its a man thing!  (Actually, the fact that it always happens is definitely a God thing!)  We are taking fourteen guys to begin this build.  Some of them will have to return home on Sunday leaving five of us to finish but the experience each will have in just two days will be life-changing – both for each of them and for the family to which they minister.

One of our goals for the fall is to put together a men’s ministry at our church and we want to kick it off with a men’s retreat.  I think this mission trip may just be the lead in for that ministry.  Please pray that God will use our experience to move our church in that direction.

We will be doing something new for us with this trip.  I encourage you to follow both myself – jbrianhill, and Sam – samgriffin, on Twitter.  We will be posting real time updates throughout the week.  Of course you can go to www.fbclevelland.com to check out more pics and details each day but if you want to be connected in real time – look for us on Twitter.

As always – thanks for reading!

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