2023 Group 3 Day 7

Today was our last work day in Mexico. After some great worship songs, Pat came up for his last message on Hebrews, chapter 11. Before starting, he informed us that our group of men doubled the previous record of purchases at the POWER store last night! He then read...

2023 Group 3 Day 6

It was up at 7 am today for me. The breakfast crew got up a lot earlier- around 5 am, to have breakfast ready by 6. I could have used more sleep, but as the day progressed, I felt better. You can’t help but get motivated with the work that POWER does on the border!...

2023 Group 3 Day 5

We got to sleep in a little today. We didn’t leave the Valley Retreat Center until 8:45 am. I also fixed my computer to reset to time zones automatically. I had been fooled into thinking that it wasn’t so late when I start typing these musings. We drove across the...

2023 Group 3 Day 4

Third day using the Valley Baptist Retreat Center as our lodging place. We started our day with another well prepared breakfast in the Retreat Center cafeteria, but today jumped in the vans, heading across the border to the Rio Bravo facility in Reynosa for devotions....

2023 Group 3 Day 3

I am freelancing today, as I took only a few notes. It was a busy day! We are still calling Valley Baptist Retreat Center home, for a couple more days. We had our morning devotion in one of the conference rooms at a little after 7 am. Pat spoke again about fearless...

2023 Group 3 Day 2

Today was our first full day down on the border. The bunk bed sleeping arrangements were great, except a group of our guys had been delayed on their flights, and came stumbling in at around 2 am. At first I thought someone was getting up early to go to breakfast. I...