This past weekend I took my family to Puerto Penasco, Mexico for the church’s annual Rocky Point mission trip. It was the first time that I have gone and what an awesome experience! If you have never gone, you need to seriously consider going next year. The church sent over 300 people and built 7 homes for Mexican families. Additionally, separate teams put on a children’s program for the barrio kids and there was an entire team responsible for feeding all of us! There were quite a few students who went, and I can’t even begin to express how impressed I was by the students who were there and worked their tails off for God.

It was a pretty challenging weekend for me personally - mainly because I don’t really have any handyman skills. Don’t get me wrong, I know how to drive a nail and how to use a saw, but I didn’t have a clue about a lot of the stuff we were doing. But that was the really cool part - there were other people there who could teach and train me to do the stuff I didn’t know how to do (or they just did it instead of me). It was amazing to see how 20+ people who had never built a home together could work as a team to built a two-bedroom home in only two and a half days! But with everyone doing their part and working together, the house was built so quickly.

It is actually a pretty cool analogy to what the body of Christ should be - each one of us doing our part for the kingdom of God. When we can all work together, it is amazing how God can use us to change the world. But when only a few people are working while others watch, things never seem to go as they should. So what is it that you would like to start doing as part of the body of Christ?