“In a heartbeat!” were the works of Beth Smith from Brentwood United Methodist Church when I asked her if she would consider returning to Hidalgo County, Texas to serve again with Mission Discovery.
Beth was one of over 100 high school student that served in the poorest county in the U.S. with Mission Discovery over these last two weeks of Spring Break. The groups gutted and repaired homes, built ramps for the disabled, and made old homes new again.
Along with the construction projects the groups led outreaches in the neighborhoods for children and adults. Every leader of a Mission Discovery project bring with him/her groups who have spent weeks in preparation for their service week. The learn cultural appropriateness, language skills, and how to tell the story of what God is doing in their lives.
I know you may be thinking, “cultural appropriateness and language skills, isn’t this Texas?” Amazingly, we needed a translator for children’s Bible school there!
This week I join a Mission Discovery team in Port de Paix, Haiti to dedicate the Mission Discovery Hold the Children Orphanage. It is the exciting beginning of the ministry that is over 4 years in the making. Our sixty bed building will be dedicated today.
I spent a week with an incredible group of adults in Guatemala last month. The team of 42 came alongside Excuela Entegrada, a school for the poor in the heart of Antigua, Guatemala leading children’s Bible school, re-roofing houses, and delivering food to families of children enrolled at the school.
Two weeks ago in Jamaica, Jimmy Rivera, lead a team to serve at the Jamaica Christian School for the Deaf. The team continued construction work on the vocational building at the school.
All of the work of Mission Discovery is made possible because of your gifts and partnership! God bless you and thank you for your friendship.
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