Here is everyone in front of our fabulous San Diego hosts, Fletcher Hills Pres. This year we took 90+ high school students and adults! Crazy but fun! They were fantastic!
Our group was split into 5 teams... here's mine! They're rad students! The students spend months planning and preparing to put on 4 days of vacation bible school for local church's and their communities. They did a great job preparing a themed vbs called "en sus brazos" and were totally flexible when we arrived at our church for Sunday service and learned they didn't want us to put on a vbs!
We spent two days mixing and pouring concrete where we were standing in the last picture... here's the finished product!
Our Mexican host church, Iglesia de Cristo has AMAZING ministries in place that we got to help support! They have a group of neighborhood kids of about 25 that we hosted a one day of vbs for but in addition Anna runs a program in another neighborhood for 70+ kids! They also have a rad elderly ministry. A group of 100+ seniors meet down at the harbor once a week to pray and fellowship. Anna and her congregation care for these amazing people calling them their adopted abuelitos. We got to spend a beautiful afternoon with them right by the water. The students and adults adopted 4-5 "abuelitos". They learned eachothers names, prayed and sang together in English and Spanish. They will (hopefully) send a card or two throughout the year and lift them up in prayer. It was so exciting to get to forge new territory for FPC and Azusa Pacific as well moving from children's ministries to elderly!
The week was really encouraging for me personally! I was surrounded by people who know me and love me well. As much as I adore San Diego there's something to be said for having history with people. I loved getting to spend time with Mary Sob, Marie, Sarah and some of the other girls/women on the trip but I was especially blessed by my time with Godly men. Scott Battenfield and Senior "Curt" Hobbs are two men I've known for years and years who love well. They, among other men on the trip, exemplify Godly men and fathers. They love their children well, but put their wives before them and most importantly, God first. Thank you guys for your encouragement, character and love. You're the best!
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