More than just a change of scenery

Bethany El Salvador Mission Team - March 2019

Bags are packed (almost), months of prep and fundraising are done and our team is excited to get going.  An unlikely group of 36 people who are together with the common goal of building houses in El Salvador.   This is the “before” picture of our team – we hit the road this Saturday.

This week in church we were challenged with the questions “What if your life could actually change?”  and “How do we find freedom and life?”  Our hope is that in going to El Salvador we find some insights into these questions and possibly find some answers.  Our hope is that we use the opportunity of getting out of our familiar setting where busyness and distraction can keep us locked into a way of life that becomes status quo.  This trip gives us the chance to see a different way of life and has the potential to give us a new perspective for living back home.

And the cool thing is that as we go to El Salvador and build homes for families in need and work alongside them and get to know them; this is exactly what we desire for them – that their lives would be changed and that they would find freedom and life.   It is clear that the family’s lives will be changed by receiving a home – it means they will be dry in rain season and out of the mud, it means that they can lock their house for safety and security of their family.  But even more so we pray that they would be touched by God’s love and be changed by the message of hope in Jesus Christ, and find freedom and life in Him.

Thank you to all who supported this mission team in fundraising, in prayer, and in many other ways!  We continue to be blown away by all that God does through these trips.  Our team will be building 36 homes with 36 people going on the trip, joining the families and a team of Salvadorans (the Shelter Team) on the job-site.  Crazy and exciting at the same time! 

Stay tuned for more updates on this blog for the week we are in El Salvador.  And stay tuned for the “after” picture of our team where we may look a little weary, probably not as clean, and hopefully with hearts full of what God has done.  We appreciate your prayers for the week we are in El Salvador!