Offering Help, Giving Hope.

It seems like we just started meeting yesterday to begin planning this missions trip but in fact we have been preparing for 5 months. We have been fundraising with everything from a bike marathon, BBQ to bake sales. The team raised funds to build 11 houses, we made 100 children's gift bags filled with lots of goodies and we have collected and sorted items to fill 25 hockey bags. We will also be visiting a Compassion project and having a baptism on the beach.
We feel like we are prepared but as I type this blog I know that we can never be prepared for all that God has in store for us the 8 days we are on the missions trip. We can plan and prepare but can never be prepared for what will be a life changing week. We will see families living in dirt and hear stories of everyday survival while enduring the hardships of poverty. We are open...open to all that God has planned for us. Open to be used by Him to be His hands and feet. Open to serve and offer some hope. May we be used to share God's amazing love and may we share the hope of God's grace and redemptive plan. Use us God and may we come back changed. May we be more passionate than ever to do what You have called all of us to do, to share the gospel to a lost and hurting world, to help the poor, the sick, the widows and the orphans.