Mexico Mission Trip
Each summer for the past 20 years, Eastminster has sent an intergenerational team of volunteers to Piedras Negras, Mexico, where they work with "Constructores Para Cristo" to build a house, from foundation to roof, for an impoverished family. The trip is a spiritual, physical, and emotional retreat from your average week. The highlight of this one week's effort is the presentation of the keys of a finished house to a family that has waited anxiously, and worked shoulder to shoulder with us to build. Often, in addition to house-building, Eastminster sends a team of medical and dental professionals as a parallel mission to the CPC Juanita Browsher Clinic in Piedras Negras.
This week is a life-changing experience for all that go. Many have found the experience so spiritually challenging and inspiring that they have returned at least once in subsequent years. The costs of transportation (airfare), lodging and meals are covered by fees paid by participants (for 2010: $700 each). The cost of materials and other incidental expenses for construction are generously contributed by Eastminster members and alumnae/alumni of past years' trips.
It is truly a glimpse of God's grace to see a team of a dozen or so people complete a house and move-in its first occupants in only a week. All the more is God's grace visible in the faces of children, sometimes adults, receiving the first dental or other medical care of their lives. No one, Mexican or American, ends the week as the same person, for the experience of God's abundant grace is truly transforming.
This mission trip fills quickly every year, but priority for registration is given to first-timers. For information about dates and the costs of Mexico Mission 2010, follow postings on this page, or contact Pam Hohenstreet via: p.hohenstreet@att.net or by phone: 404 660 9622. Mexico Mission Trip 2010 Sit back and let us take care of all the arrangements for your next trip out of the country. Better yet, be a missionary for a week! Forget your troubles and get happy helping a precious family have a home. Our 21st mission trip to Piedras Negras, Mexico will be July 10-17, 2010. We are building a house and supplying dental and medical teams. We will need a $100 deposit by January 31, $300 by February 28 and $300 by March 31. Sixteen year olds may go without parents, fourteen or fifteen year olds will need a parent. Contact Pam Hohenstreet for more information.