Over spring break I had the opportunity to go to Mexicali, Mexico.
Mexicali is a border city only a few minutes outside of California.
I went on this trip with The Awakening, which is a college-aged mission organization.
This trip was a ministry trip. This means that we spent more time helping within the church, than necessarily doing manual labor. We led a workshop for church interns on prayer and then took the interns out to a neighborhood to practice door-to-door evangelism and prayer. The Awakening also led worship, spoke on multiple occasions and developed skits to perform at an orphanage.
Personally, I was able to visit and speak at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation home in Mexico. This experience was so surreal for me.
This home housed over 30 women. It had one bathroom and no shower. The women were not allowed to leave and were on programs from anywhere from 3 months to 6 months. The women were not allowed to be in the house during the day and had to stay in the garage or driveway, which was surrounded by a huge wall and was guarded. All in all, the conditions were not great.
But something was so painfully obvious to me in that moment.
God doesn’t love me any more than He loves all of those women.
And the burden He had seeing them in bondage to substances, sin and illness was heavy in that place.
But so was His love.
He adores those women, just like He adores you.
And I think we all need that reminder sometimes.
God is not angry with you; He’s not waiting for the perfect time to strike you down.
He is pursuing you and He loves you.
He wants you to turn to Him and talk to Him, because He cares.
And this is what I want to share with people when I leave on the World Race. I want them to know there is a God who adores them and created them perfectly. There’s a God who speaks every language and created the universe, yet still pursues our hearts. There’s a God who holy and mighty, but desires a real relationship with each individual.
So will you help me go?
I am still about $2,000 short of my first goal, which is due in May.
I covet your prayers and your support as I continue on this journey.
