About the trip
For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is GOD. Hebrews 3.4
The Mexico Mission 2009 trip is a week-long project for high school students that provides homes for underprivileged Mexican families. The project is designed to bring students into a deeper understanding of, and commitment to, the Christian faith, as well as give them opportunity to develop the confidence and ability to make a lasting and positive impact in the world.
Mexico is still one of the poorest countries in the world. In the area where we will be working, most families live in small huts made of cardboard, wood, and scrap metal they have collected from garbage dumps. This trip will introduce the high school youth to the incredible needs of others and will allow them to participate in the solution of one little piece of the larger problem of global poverty. In Mexico, our youth are given the full responsibility for building a home for a homeless family. They lay the concrete, build the walls, raise the roof, and apply the stucco. Each student will experience living in a different country and will learn what it means to be a servant to people who can only repay such service with gratitude. Often, students return from this trip feeling that they have received much more than they have given through the contact with the Mexican people. Mexico Mission 2009 will be a life changing experience not only in the living standards of the Mexican people but in the spiritual life of the students who participate.
Sponsored By:
AMOR Ministries, San Diego, California
First Presbyterian Church, McMinnville, Oregon
Trinity Lutheran Church, McMinnville, Oregon
First Baptist Church, McMinnville, Oregon
St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, McMinnville, Oregon
McMinnville Covenant Church, McMinnville, Oregon
United Methodist Church, McMinnville, Oregon
First Presbyterian Church, Newberg, Oregon
photo credit: andy_wallis
