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2007 College Mission Trips to Mexico
Yes, you read correctly - it is trips plural. This year there were TWO college mission trips to Mexico. Each of the trips was filled with college adults eager to serve once again as soon as they finished college final exams in May.
We continue our work through Amor Ministries (www.amor.org) to build homes in Tijuana over just 3-4 short, but exhausting days. Many have made the mission trip over their spring breaks as high school youth and continue to feel a calling to this community.
It was a great joy for Sherri and I to minister alongside these young adults knowing that they return to their schools, workplaces, and homes changed men and women dedicated to serve God wherever He might call them.
Enjoy just a few of our memories from this year's trips.
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2006 College Mission Trip to Mexico
This past May a group of 11 college students and Sherri and myself traveled to Mexico to build a home in Tijuana. Our working with Amor started about 7 years ago and is one of the most life changing trips that we take. We fly into San Diego and then travel into Mexico where we set up camp and start building the house. We are working with a very poor family who are in need of a solid roof over their heads. One of the best parts of this trip is the time around the camp fire. At night we cook our own food and then have devotion time around a sometimes large camp fire. I can tell you that there is nothing like spending time in the Mexican desert around a camp fire with others who want to help others.
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2005 College Mission Trip to Mexico
During the past seven years, a group of our college students have traveled to Mexico to build a home for a needy family. Each year, lives have been changed, both ours and the family for whom we build.
This year was no exception. During May, 14 of us went to Mexico once again. This group included Grant Bannen, Adam Floyd, Haden Wiley, Melissa Hindman, Meghan Miller, Nathan Potter, Mary Craig Parrish, Darren Mustin, David Freeman, Jake Griffin, Jay Howell, Jeremy White, Sherri Parrish, and me, Craig Parrish.
It was amazing to see God at work and the Holy Spirit revealing Himself to us as we allowed ourselves to be mere vessels. God allowed us to show His blessings to a family in great need, and the enthusiasm that came from that knowledge helped us finish the house in two-and-a-half days rather than the usual four. The children in the neighborhood even came to help.
Ask anyone who went on that trip and let them talk your ear off about it. It was wonderful!
In Christ,
Craig Parrish
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