We're back from Mexico - it was a great trip. We found the best taco stand in the known universe - Taco's Arana..the holy Nirvana of taco stands (I am addicted to Mexican street food and have tested more than a few stands). They had a pepper at this place called a Chili Bomba, it is the hottest pepper I have come across - it nearly melted one of my students to his base elements. His strong reaction to the nuclear pepper provided great evening entertainment for the customers and restaurant staff.
One group of our students led a vacation bible school , women's bible study and sports ministry in a sprawling, graffiti-ed, trash-strewn condo complex in Tijuana - it was a blast and God was at work in and through the students. The Gospel was preached and incarnated. If you were to show up you would have found skits, music, crafts, testimonies, bible stories, sweat and the occasional used hypodermic needle in the play area we lovingly call the "dustbowl". 2709 piggyback rides were given and 642 games of Futbol were played in the blazing heat, the American's lost most all of the games I think!
Some of our other kids built a brand new home for a family that had been living in an aging aluminum trailer. Giving house keys to people who didn't have a house 5 days before is....powerful. Jesus was on hand, sitting at the corner of the hot new roof, He was smiling.
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The final group of our students ministered to and loved on kids at an AMAZING orphanage, run by our friends the Palau's they were blessed and a blessing. One day we took about 20 of the children to the beach to play in the sand and the waves it was wonderful. If you don't know about the Palau's work in Mexico check it out at the link in the last sentence, it is Christ-soaked - plug in with these people!
Well I'm home for about a week then off for a few days in Alabama with my dear friend Andy Wulff!
On the iPod: Audioslave - Out of Exile
