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The 2009 Family Mission Trip to Mexico
 

WHAT:
A week long mission trip for singles and families - including young children.  We will build an entire house from start to finish in five days for the poorest of the poor in a Mexican village.  We will camp under the stars together in the Mexican desert.   We will run a VBS that our children and the local children can experience together.  We will spend time in worship and God's word.  We will have a chance to make a real difference in the world as we grow in our faith.  This trip is through AMOR MINISTRIES - the largest, most experienced Mexican Mission Trip agency in the world.

WHERE:
Baja Mexico.  We fly to San Diego, get rental vans, meet up with Amor staff who escort us to our Campground in Mexico.  Each day we will travel to our construction site in a small Mexican village about 15 miles south of the border.

WHEN:
Saturday May 2nd - Saturday May 9th 2009

HOW MUCH:
The following prices are approximate and for planning purposes only as we are still finalizing pricing options.  Your total cost will be the trip cost + airfare.
Trip cost for adults: $430
Trip cost for children 10 & under: $150
Approximate total cost based on current airfare:
Adults: $720  Children: $480

WHAT NEXT ?
Sign up next Sunday on the list on the Lobby Table, or contact us at info@SouthRidgeWorship.com

 

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Tell me more about how this trip
The Amor mission trip is a short-term mission trip based on touching the lives of families in Mexico at the point of their greatest need. On an Amor mission trip, you will have the chance to understand the conditions of poverty through immersion. You will take bucket showers. You will get dirty. You will build a home for a family. You will experience community. You will discover the profound simplicity of how to "love your neighbor".

How Families Receive a Home

Families are selected to receive homes by the Mexico Ministry Planning Board (MMPB). The selection process begins with the pastors discerning the need within their own communities. Any family within a community can potentially be selected to receive a home, but the family must own their land. Amor and the MMPB have agreed that a family doesn't have to attend the church within that community to receive a home, because we believe that the house becomes a powerful evangelistic tool and opens a relationship between the community’s church and the family. The pastors present their nominations for home recipients at MMPB meetings, and those families selected receive an Amor home built by mission trip participants.

The Mexico Ministry Planning Board

Without this group of Mexican pastors, Amor would truly cease to function as well as it does. The Mexico Ministry Planning Board (MMPB) are not employees of Amor, but an integral part of the Amor team, because they provide vital support in Baja California, Juarez, and Puerto Peñasco, Mexico. The board is made up of Mexican pastors who volunteer to serve alongside the Amor staff because they share a vision of ministry to the people of Mexico.

These tireless, self-sacrificing pastors interview prospective families, create biographical sketches on each family, determine the families in the greatest need for house building priority, and return to the family again and again after the house is complete to meet the spiritual needs of the family. The MMPB sets the tone for service by their consistent involvement with outreach programs, medical clinics, and Amor Ministries staff events.

The Amor House Project

Amor Ministries typically builds an 11’x22’, two-room home with a concrete floor, stucco-finished exterior, weather sealed roof, two windows, and a door. An Amor house is a simple design, built according to the standards of the community so a group without skilled labor or power tools can still complete the project.

Amor doesn't allow the use of power tools or generators on the worksite. We want everyone to be involved in the house building process and power tools do not foster that environment. We realize that there are other methods of completing the building project more quickly, but we want everyone to experience the culture, get to know the family, and allow for a positive cultural experience while in Mexico.

For more information, go to http://www.amor.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?&pid=304&srcid=-2