Fe y Duda: Sunday - The Lord's Day and He Makes It a Good One

No other mission team to the City of Children brings 5 elders...maybe they trust their youth minister.... Seriously, we have great leadership.

The 2013 NBYG Mexico Mission Team - We thought wearing the 3-D glasses would give us some depth.

[Note: Plenty of Pics at the End of this Post.]

The Lord’s Day is always a great day at the City of Children. It’s our first full day with the children, church services in two different languages and an authentic Mexican meal prepared by the staff of the City.

As a special treat, Alexis (the young man that the youth group sponsors) lead singing. Skid taught the lesson and revealed why there are 3-D glasses on our mission team t-shirts. We played a game where the children tried to answer a question. Skid even gave them the answers to the questions. However, the answers were undecipherable because of visual noise in the picture. One child was wearing 3-D glasses that allowed him to see through the noise to the correct answer. The children began to see that he was getting the all the answers right so they began to chose the same answer as the child with the 3-D glasses. Skid compared the 3-D glasses to faith. Faith allows Christians to see things that the world cannot see. And seeing we know things it is impossible to know without faith those searching for the answers will follow those with faith. Our theme for the week is Faith and Doubt…Fe y Duda.

After church the whole City of Children gathered for the Mexican feast – homemade tortilla, salsa, rice and refried beans, burritos and freshly made guacamole. It was amazing.

Then it was off to play with the children and prepare for that night’s skit. In this year’s story, the City of Children has been visited by a rich man Orguloso Dinero (Greedy Money), his three brothers Rico, Arrogante and Nada Dinero and his wife Senora Irritante (Irritating). They make a deal to good to be true with Ricardo (the Mexican director of the City) to offer art, music and dancing lessons at the Creative Arts and Learning Center and they will pay the City for the opportunity to do this. Ricardo signs the contract…without reading the fine print! What he doesn’t know is he’s signed over ownership to the City and the evil Senor Orguloso plans to bulldoze it and replace it with the world’s largest taco stand: TACO VASTO! One of the children overhears his evil plan. Because he’s a practical joker no one will believe him so he writes a letter to his favorite movie super heroes: the Masked Zero (Cero in Spanish), the Credible Hulk and Aguaman. Unfortunately he drops the second page of the letter as it is sent. What will happen next? Will our heroes arrive and save the City? Will the evil Dinero family win the day and replace the children’s home with a Taco stand? Only time will tell…

The team wrapped up the day with a time of singing with the Mexican teens and then a circle of prayer that fills the entire plaza with our team bowed to God. It was a good day. We serve a good God. And our team is coming together and your teens are jumping in to serve the children and their fellow teammates. Our prayer is that all of their hard work encourages the staff and children here and translates to a servant heart at home. Again, thanks for entrusting your children to this team. They are making you proud.

God is good.

P.S. Please pray for our building crew today. The building material has not been delivered to the site yet and much of the equipment we typically use is not available because it’s being used by Baja Missions. Thank you.

Greeting the children as they come to worship

Like a cup of water our faith splashes out for all to see when we are bumped and jostled by the world.

The answer to the question is plainly there for all to see...

...if you have the correct vision to see. (Shout out to Dr. J. McClain)

Alexis leads us in singing.

Here he is NBYG: the young man you sponsor at the City of Children, Alexis!

American Director Tom Begin conducts a tour with our team.

Sharon, Jackson and Alexandria Arnette present a check for $1,500 to the Creative Arts & Learning Center. The money was raised during the mission teams garage sale coordinated by the Arnette family. Thanks to all who participated.