Hello All,

We are only a few days away from starting our trip to Lake Arthur, New Mexico.  Preparation is coming to an end and some of our group have headed that way already and will arrive on Saturday August 2, 2008.  Many of us will be leaving on Saturday and Sunday.  We currently have 14 people going on this trip 8 adults, 1 six year old, 1 10 year old, 4 from our youth group with ages ranging from 12 to 17.  This is great as we will have a wide range of diversity on this trip.  God knows me very well as he has made me to understand the importance of diversity, and that is what we will have.  We also will have roughly 4 to 5 people from Cavern Baptist Church, Carlsbad NM helping with this work as well.

Our current schedule will be to teach VBS Monday to Friday in the morning, and in the afternoon we will perform mission projects.  On Monday after dinner we will go shopping for the school supplies needed for the Operation Backpack, this should be a fun outing for our team.  Wednesday evening we will have Family Night, and we will have a chance to provide encouragement to the church in Lake Arthur about perfoming Missions work themselves and partnering with other churches to perform these acts.  That will also be a night to show the families of the children what we have been learning for the week, and then we will have a feast and some fellowship with a block party.  Lunch will be served by Lake Arthur Baptist each day.  Friday will be dedicated to a day of missions projects.

We will be posting to this blog daily of our events and happenings for each day.  I know God has great things in store for us in New Mexico.

Thanks

Eric Dumatrait