Reynosa June 20-17th 2009

I realize that blogging and putting pictures up is going to be a real challenge as to I don't have a camera and don't take pictures either, I will have to work on that. :-) anyways this post is summarizing my trip that Brad and I lead to Reynosa Mexico. Reynosa is a border town of MX and about an hour and a half(ish) to the Gulf. Brad and I had always wanted to lead a mission trip sometime and this became that opportunity. So we split the workload, since I was a very social guy and know just about everyone I did all the inviting. He did all the finances, and travel planning. We had 24 people on the trip representing 10 different churches from across the nation. So If I tried to describe the whole week this post would be pages and pages long. The mission trip in Reynosa was absolutely phenomenal. Words can't describe how god worked in my heart so I'm not going to try. Now for the really important part. I am going to attempt to explain what Mision Isaias 55 is and what they do from my perspective. Their slogan is esperanza para los sordos, which translates "hope for the deaf". the deaf in Mexico is an unreached and often neglected people group. They have built and maintain a deaf school to teach deaf children and even their parents MSL (Mexican Sign Language). The current school currently can accommodate 30 - 40 students. They also have 2 orphanages that they support. One is government ran, the other is not. The volunteer teams that go down there get to see either of these and play with the kids for an afternoon. The project that I thought was the coolest down that Mision Isaias 55 supports and helps is called,"24-7 Prayer". I would much rather you go to Kelly's blog and see for yourself what it is. but i will give a small preview. So there is this red-light district named "BoysTown". It is basically a walled in city that is homes to drug-lords, pimps, prostitutes, and other people rougher than you could ever imagine. A uniformed police official sits at the only entrance and you have to pay them just to get into the walled-in city. Once you are in, you are on your own and your life could be a risk. Kelly Greene (now Tietsort) started her ministry by waling around BoysTown and praying for the people inside because the guards wouldn't let her in. after 15 months, she got her opportunity to go in. She takes every opportunity she can to go in and shares the love of Christ with these souls that need Jesus. for more info check out kelly's blog titled Burning Furnace of Charity.