“I want to get
closer to God through this trip. I know that by going I will grow in my
relationship with God too. I want to help people find Jesus and get closer to
him as I have. I also want to spend some more time in Mexico. I love everything
about it. I love Spanish too. I will get the chance to improve my Spanish by
talking to some Mexican youths that will be joining us.” –Anna
“I want to go to
Oaxaca to grow in my personal walk with the Lord and to help others grow in
theirs. I also look forward to seeing more of the Mexican culture, and helping
out in the outreach that the group I'm going down with are doing.” –John
Our children, John and Anna, feel like God is leading them
to go on a short-term mission trip to Mexico. They’ll be going with a friend of
ours, Mike Hendricks, who regularly leads teams of youth to Mexico, the
Philippines, and New Zealand and also some friends we’ve met more recently,
Dave and Merrie Neely who have a puppet ministry in Mexico. You can check out
their ministry here: http://www.weeonesforjesus.org/.
The kids will be traveling with them in the Neely’s van
first to Culiacan where they’ll pick up some Mexican youth Mike is working
with, and then down to Oaxaca. It will
be an opportunity to help disciple the Mexican youth, as well as minister to
children through the puppet ministry, and adults and youth through other
outreaches Mike has planned. They will
be leaving the third week in October and returning right before Thanksgiving.
John and Anna need to raise $600 each in order to pay their
share of the expenses for the trip. They’ll mainly be staying in people’s
houses, or in tents, but will have some lodging they have to pay for, as well
as their own food, and helping out with the gas.
In addition to praying, there are a number of ways you could
help them in this endeavor:
- · You can help them raise funds. They plan on doing bake sales, rent a kid fund raisers, and more. If you can help out with these events, or even give us more ideas for raising funds, we’d love to hear from you.
- · You can “rent-a-kid.” If you need some manual labor done, babysitting, housecleaning, or more, John and Anna would love to do it and any money you’d donate for their time would go toward the trip.
- · You can give a direct donation to the kids to help meet their expenses as the Lord directs you.
- · You can give a donation to Western Indian Ministries which would go toward Steve and I as income above and beyond our regular monthly support. Simply write your check to Western Indian Ministries and include a separate note saying that it’s for the kids trip. (This option is tax-deductible.)
- · If you’re local we could really use some help brushing up on our Spanish.
Lastly, we’d like to say thanks for helping the kids out
this way. It’s exciting to see them growing up, and it’s even more exciting to
see God working in them and through them, as He plans their steps into their
futures.
Steve and Katrina Marti
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