Mexico Mission Trip January 12-20 2001
We helped build a church in Mioqui a small town 40 miles south of Chihuahua. Aaron and I traveled 750 miles to Las Cruces New Mexico and met 15 from Mountain View Bible Church of La Verkin Utah at the Super 8 Motel. We then traveled to Anthony where we left our Jeep Cherokee at the home of Gary and Alice, missionaries to Mexico. Alice went with us to Chihuahua and then spent the week helping Donna another missionary. Saturday was our first night in Mexico, we ate in a cafe in Mioqui, we practiced singing two songs for Sunday morning, and then returned to our hotel. Ron Thompson the pastor in La Verkin, gave the morning message interpreted by Dick Loody the missionary pastor. Our group sang Amazing Grace and Majesty in English, then I led the congregation in singing Majesty a second time in Spanish. Work began on the building at 8:00 a.m. Monday morning, we worked until 7:00 p.m. that night. We had the same schedule Tuesday. Wednesday we stopped about 5:30 to clean up and prepare for the midweek service. I gave the message in English with Dick interpreting. The message was "The Gospel is for All" from Acts 11. I gave the congregation some Gospel tracts to use.  Thursday some of our crew went to Donna's home in Chihuahua to help with some repairs in her home. Some went shopping and three of us continued with the wiring and clean up. Our work projects during the

week included digging a trench around the perimeter of the new sanctuary, laying wire and conduit for the wall electrical outlets, pulling all the wiring through the conduit in the ceiling, installing an electric panel, leveling off the front of the new sanctuary, powering two sidewalks, painting and wall papering the nursery and two bathrooms, copper plumbing for the new sanctuary, and building 18 partitions to put in the existing sanctuary for Sunday School Classes. I donated six colored flannel backgrounds, a spider ball target game, and four children's songs in Spanish to the church, Iglesia Biblica Principia de Paz. Dorothy and several other of the women worked during the drive down to make dolls for the children with yarn, Life Savers, and foam balls. The church was also presented crayons, work gloves, and other gifts. Thursday evening we had a great time of fellowship at the home of Dick and Angie, the missionaries.  Early Friday morning we began our return trip to Anthony, New Mexico about 400 miles, it took quite awhile to pass through the customs and immigration inspections, we also had to pay at two toll stations.  We first had to pick up Alice and we had brunch in Chihuahua at Denny's.  We picked up my car and the drove about another 300 miles to Benson Arizona where we stayed in the Days Inn.  Saturday morning the rest of the group returned to Utah and Aaron and I to California.
 

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