Our week one team has arrived safe and sound to Colima. After a road construction delay or two on the drive, the team had a hearty dinner at a local restaurant that was new to all of us. Now we've dragged the bags into our rooms, turned up the air conditioners, and are falling off to sleep to rest up for a busy day tomorrow.
Arrived at the airport, waiting for the van
Fifteen passenger vans fit six people very comfortably
Sitting down to a good meal
What does God have in store for the week 1 trip? When we started planning for this first week there were eleven people in total. Now, we have a group size of six. Illness and bureaucracy failings have changed the group dramatically with one couple needing to bow out just one day before our departure.
Francisco and I have talked a lot about what God is doing in this place and where he wants us to participate. What things we are here to do and what things we are here to learn. While I can't say right now what the answers to these questions are, I do know that God has planned for us to change or transform. To become a new creation in the same way that he created us brand new at the time of our salvation. I am not a planning wizard or an organizational guru. Francisco admits that talking in front of larger groups isn't his favorite thing. But its from where we are today that God will use us and allow us to do the work that he prepared in advance for us to do. And we pray that through that process we find ourselves functioning above and beyond our expectations. That would surely be a God thing.
Some prayer requests:
That our team would quickly form into a cohesive group that is able to have each member stretch in new directions to fill in the jobs where our original members left at home would have occupied.
Good health for each member for the duration of the trip.
For safety in all of our travels for this upcoming week.
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