Mission Trip To Mexico Research Paper

First Mission Trip To Mexico

How would you react if you did not have a passport the week before you were supposed to leave for a mission trip? I experienced many different emotions in this time. I learned that getting your passport is a much longer process than I imagined. I learned that procrastination is something to be avoided. I learned how much I meant to my family and the Lord in this time of stress and happiness. I learned how the Lord can make things that seem impossible, possible. It was a Sunday afternoon and I was out to lunch with my family at McAllister’s. My family and I had just began attending the church, Brookville Road Community Church, and I had just started getting involved with the youth group at the church. Every year the youth group does an out of the country mission trip and since I had just started at the youth group I did not mention anything about the trip to my parents. When we were out to lunch that afternoon my mom looks at me and asks, “Caleb, would you have wanted to go on that mission trip to …show more content…
My parents come into the room and tell me that my dad had received a bonus that week and that they were going to use the money to pay for the trip. That night I pack up for the trip and I go over to my friends house to spend the night with all of the other guys going on the trip. The next morning at around three in the morning I am in the car on my way to the airport to go on my first mission trip of many. Through this week of many ups and downs I finally realized just how faithful our God is. I realized how much my parents truly cared for me. I saw God make something that seemed impossible, possible. I had seen a miracle worked out by God’s own hands. This mission trip was the turning point for my life and it was what put my on the path of following Christ for the rest of my