Mission Oaxaca - Day 2

Here was today in a nutshell. We woke up, had a great 3-hour praise and worship session, I ate a grasshopper. Whew, I’m glad I got that out of the way.

OK, so you aren’t here to ready the nutshell version so I’ll give you the entire skinny on Day 2 of Mission Oaxaca.

As an update, the entire team made it to Oaxaca and Cristo por su Mundo, the Orphanage we will call home for two more days. Rob, and part of the team from a Vineyard Church in L.A. had most of their luggage delivered today although Rob, from our team lost his bag of clothes. His meds made it through. He is in good spirits given his inaugural mission trip has been a challenge, but the two of us are roughly the same size so I’ll give him half my clothes. I knew there was a reason I packed four pairs of brand spanking new underwear!

Today we worshiped at El Roco, a church pastored by Omar, who is quite a character and the one who laid the groundwork for our medical mission in the highland later this week. The church had garage doors, which opened up and I’m sure the entire neighborhood was feeling the spirit of the worship band and the people in the church. It was simply awesome to say the least. I highly recommend that more churches open up their windows and let the spirit flow into the streets.
Page, who will never be a day over 29, had her birthday here in Oaxaca today and the church gave her a rousing Happy Birthday and a hands-on blessing, which was awesome. I have video, but will have to upload it when I have more bandwidth.

After the service we took spent some time in the center of Oaxaca City enjoying the food and people. Page, Marilee and Jessica had a great time with the Churros and we all ended up with the ingredients for the insanely good hot chocolate they make down here.

Me, I ate a grasshopper, fried I think, and apparently made a brilliantly funny face although nobody could get it in a photo. And they wonder why I like to be the one behind the lens.

Tomorrow we will drive two hours out of town and hold a medical clinic with the Vineyard group and a group of YWAM folks from Canada. I made a few Canadian jokes and they are now demanding restitution for my apparent insults. Who knew Canadians were so touchy eh?

Fun aside, we need plenty of prayer as we begin the real work of healing bodies and spirits. Please pray that we will be well rested for tomorrow and that the melding of two medical teams with different ways of doing things will be smooth.

Please pray that we will have the supplies we need to treat everyone that comes through our doors or that we will find a place to buy what we need. Pray for our health and safe travels as we move from place to place.

God is working here, that is evident. There have been some early trials, but we know all of us will have an impact for the Kingdom of God and that lives will be touched. Always remember, you are as much a part of this team as the people here on the ground. We need your prayers and encouragement and we thank you for giving up so much to help us serve.

God bless,

Sheldon