Tomorrow morning, I’ll be heading down to Matamoros, Mexico with seventeen other men from Lake Arlington Baptist and Mansfield Bible Church. We’ll be meeting Steve Basden, from AIM and LABC fame, and Bill Britton, AIM project leader extraordinaire.
I’ve already got at least one good story from the trip; Jonathan Owens, a guy I know from PE Club (a homeschool group), was able to sign up for the trip on Monday of this week! On Sunday night, I asked him if he wanted to go with us to Matamoros. I told him that we didn’t have the money required for him to go, but I would try and find it if he wanted. He said he would like to go, so we prayed and asked God to provide the money. The first test was checking with Jonathan’s parents (he’s seventeen). They OK’d the trip, so now we needed AIM’s permission to add someone to the trip at this late date (we got it) and we needed to find some way to pay for the trip. I was going through the list of people I know who have offered to help in this kind of situation, when I received an email from James Reycek, the group leader from MBC. Someone had dropped out and left a paid spot and James said Jonathan could have it. Praise God!
Many thanks to the FIT class at LABC. They are paying for our meals and gas while we travel to and from Matamoros (Morton’s Steakhouse, here we come!!) LABC Missions also contributed $900 to help defray the cost of the trip.
Here’s a list of the guys that are going from LABC:
- Paul McGinnis
- David Brooks
- Mike Fairchild
- Matt Milliorn
- Ted Richardson
- David Adjei
- Michael Bowles
- Mark Lindberg
- Steve Pierce
- Jonathan Owens (OK, he’s WITH us)
From MBC (The names I remember):
- James Reycek
- Scott Owens (no relation)
- Rick McGuinness
- Joe Santana
- There are three to four more that I’ll list when I find them
Please pray for us this week. You can pray for:
- Our families
- Our health
- The leadership of AIM, Bill Britton
- The people of Matamoros
- Pray that we would submit ourselves to be used by God
- That we would stand against the enemy in all we do
- Pray that God would be glorified.
