Mexico!!!!!!

Tonight I leave for a mission trip to central Mexico with my church and wanted to post something about this trip before I left. This is my prayer letter that I sent out recently and I would like it if you would be willing to pray for me. Please post a comment if you are willing to make this commitment.


Hi! I hope that each of you had a great Christmas and New Years and are getting back into the swing of life whether it be school or work (or even both).

This past summer, I worked at a camp for inter-city kids and witnessed two of my campers come to know the Lord!! Another thing that I witnessed that week was, although this camp doesn't usually have a baptism service, God moved and we had one. This was an awesome opportunity for me to be able to participate in. My fall was pretty good, although my grades weren't as high as I would have liked them, and we didn't do our best in our marching competitions. I have truly enjoyed doing marching band this past fall, and plan on taking band again next year along with many other fine arts classes (including choir and color guard). Although I have enjoyed marching band these last few years, I have decided to set my marching flute down, and while still playing flute, and participate in color guard. I still enjoy dancing and love serving others and worshiping God through playing flute. This past Christmas, I participated in Christmas Evangelism Boot Camp which was a lot of fun and allowed me to see God working in lives, and opposition to the gospel. I believe that this opportunity has strengthened me for the future. Lastly, as always, I still enjoy AWANA and I'm looking forward to the national competition, Summit. This year, the local quiz team I was on placed first and I was allowed to help coach Bible Quiz for some of Grace Covenant's third through sixth graders.

This coming Spring Break, March 7-14th, many of the youth at Grace Covenant Church will be taking a trip to the cities of Queretaro, Celaya, and Salamanca, which are in central Mexico. We will be working with local missionaries and churches in these cities through running VBS, mimes, sharing testimonies, and working in some of the Mexican orphanages throughout the week. Some will also be working to construct an new church in Celaya as well. I will be involved in the mimes, possibly doing something with music as well as construction. I must admit, I am a little nervous about performing the mimes, but I know that the Lord will be preparing me throughout the training sessions and even the 20-something hour bus ride. Many of the other students in my group, I don't really know yet, and so I am a little afraid of coming out of my comfort zone and really getting to know these other students but I know that I will get to know my peers even better and make many great friends as a result of this trip. One last prayer request is for the family I will be staying with throughout the week.

I know that prayer is an essential part of ministry, whether in Mexico, Asia, or Austin and know that God can do great things. It is for this reason that I am raising up a prayer team that will be praying for me both in preparation to the trip and while I am in Mexico, as well as for my specific ministry of doing mimes. I would like you to consider taking a part in this opportunity by creating that foundation of prayer for this trip. I am confident that prayer is very powerful, as I have seen it in my own life and that God will move when we pray. One specific prayer request I have at this point is that God would cause some crisis in my team during the trip, because when we're stretched the most we must rely on God all the more.

I anticipate that this trip will be a big step as I prepare for what will come in the next few years and would like to thank you for participating and investing in this mission trip through prayer. I am truly grateful for friends God has placed in my life such as you.

In Him,

Amanda
Romans 10:14 ~ "how then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher?"