2019 Group 2 Day 6

It was another full day in Del Rio/Acuna. After rolling out of our dorm beds, we had breakfast, devotion, and took communion. Heading across the border, we split up to finish up the projects at yesterday’s sites. My van went to finish a house for the Silva family. The...

2019 Group 2 Day 5

We all did surprisingly well today, considering we were operating on only 4 hours of sleep. Our food crew cooked up a good breakfast offering of eggs, oatmeal, cereal, donuts, juice, several kinds of fruit & of course coffee. We had our morning devotion at the...

2019 Group 2 Day 4

We got to sleep in a little today, to 7 am. After a quick breakfast at the hotel in McCallen, we drove back across the border to have worship and devotion at the colonial Nopalera (Bruce & Paula’s place). They have been there 12 years now, building houses and...

2019 Group 2 Day 3

Today was an early departure day, as we drove across the border to Reynosa, specifically to Sende De Vida (Hector’s homeless outreach), where we had morning devotions. I had hopes of pounding some nails or some type of construction work, and loaded my backpack with...

2019 Group 2 Day 2

We got an early start, meeting for breakfast downstairs at the hotel at 6 am. Devotion was at 7 in a meeting room at the hotel. Our worship team led us in singing praises to the Lord, then Pastor Bob Biber spoke on our theme for the week- Perseverance, with the key...

2019 Group 2 Day 1

It was a very rainy day in Los Angeles, and my wife and I started getting a little worried that we would not make it to LAX in time for the flight to San Antonio. Traffic was terrible, especially coming on to the 405 and heading up Sepulveda Pass towards the airport....