Trinity Summer Casas Trip - Saturday July 9
by Mara Erhardt
Today Pastor Mark, Rudy, Kelly, and I went to Sam's Club to pick up food for the next two days while we will be in Juarez. I was suprised at how quickly the trip to Sam's went, and before I knew it, we were back in the hotel room with all the food packed in the trailer and ready to go by 10:30am with nothing to do until lunch. So I decided to take a nap. Around 12noon we went out for Mexican food and then we drove to downtown El Paso and did some shopping in the markets. All in all it was a pretty relaxing day.
Everyone else who is coming on the Mission Trip started showing up at the hotel around 4:30pm. So, instead of going out to eat at the Mexican restaurant again, we decided to go to Rudy's BBQ (by the end of dinner Rudy Deutschmann was pretty tired of all the jokes).
At 7:30pm we gathered together with the other builders joining us on the Casas Mission trip to talk about the next few days. We introduced ourselves, talked about what to expect, and had a small devotional and worship service (the devotional was from Judges 7 about Gideon and how the 300 were chosen for ministry, check it out). The one thing that stood out this meeting over other meetings I have been to before Casas trips was that many people mentioned that for the first time, they were nervous about going to Juarez with all the recent violence. Then we all headed to our rooms for a good night's sleep before we take off early on Sunday morning for Juarez.
I will not be able to post for the next few days as there is no Internet where we stay in Juarez, but I will write them up and post them Tuesday morning once I am back in the US. Please keep us in your prayers. Thanks.
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