Short Term Mission trip

I worked today on writing a blog about missions and so on that was going to lead up to this story, but I just couldn't get the right words to flow out-perhaps another time. I didn't blog when this happened, because I didn't want to worry anyone. Now that we are back in the States, I thought this would be a good time.

One of our missions while in Mexico this time was to take over the Children's Home for about a week, so that the Benedict's could have little mini vacation with their family. We took over on Tuesday evening and everything went pretty smoothly as you saw from my blog "Nothing to Report".

Deputation

Dep`u*ta"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. députation. See Depute.]

1. The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.

2. The person or persons deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or its behalf; delegation; as, the general sent a deputation to the enemy to propose a truce. By deputation, or In deputation, by delegated authority; as substitute; through the medium of a deputy. [Obs.]

“…..they are the messengers of the church…..” 2 Corinthians 8:23

Lord willing, Sam and I hope to be permanently in Mexico sometime early next year (2010). The first year or two in Mexico we will be working with already established missionaries, helping with their church plant and children’s home. Our goals for the first year are to learn Spanish, learn the culture, gain wisdom in church planting on a foreign field and relieve the Benedicts at the children’s home some.
We would love to turn the truck south and head to Mexico today, but before we can go we need to raise some support. We call this deputation. Part of gaining support is to visit churches and present our ministry. We have been doing this since mid-March. So far all the churches have been fairly close. We can go and come back in one weekend.
Yesterday (07.16.09) we began to venture out further. We left about 4:30 pm and made good time all the way to OKC. After dinner we headed towards Amarillo, TX and stopped about 2:00 am at a really cool rest stop. The kids were excited to wake up in TX. We had breakfast and were back on the road….