We are looking forward to our upcoming trip to Sells at the end of this week. This is from the 1wayministries website and describes some of what we may be doing:
In the Sonoran desert of Arizona lies the Tohono O’odham reservation (the 2nd largest in the United States), home to a forgotten people group. Working with one of the poorest people groups in America will change your perspective on poverty and daily life in the US. You can get involved in sharing the glory of Christ by playing basketball with a local teenager, leading a Bible study, helping an elder with a craft at the nursing home, repairing a roof in a village, or just listening to the heart of a weary church member. Your gifts are vital to displaying the love of God in the life of a T.O. today!
Location
In the heart of the Tohono O’odham Indian reservation, the ministry base for trips to Arizona is the city of Sells. Trips are based out of First Papago Baptist Church in Sells and extend to many surrounding villages including San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Chui-Chui, and Vamori.
In the Sonoran desert of Arizona lies the Tohono O’odham reservation (the 2nd largest in the United States), home to a forgotten people group. Working with one of the poorest people groups in America will change your perspective on poverty and daily life in the US. You can get involved in sharing the glory of Christ by playing basketball with a local teenager, leading a Bible study, helping an elder with a craft at the nursing home, repairing a roof in a village, or just listening to the heart of a weary church member. Your gifts are vital to displaying the love of God in the life of a T.O. today!
Location
In the heart of the Tohono O’odham Indian reservation, the ministry base for trips to Arizona is the city of Sells. Trips are based out of First Papago Baptist Church in Sells and extend to many surrounding villages including San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Chui-Chui, and Vamori.
You can read about our upcoming mission trip at the link above. All 4 of us will be flying out to Arizona on Saturday. This will be the first time the kids have flown on an airplane and the first time mom has flown since before W was born. It should be a great experience for us all to share of time of serving others who are not as materially blessed as we are here. We have been learning much lately about God's perspective regarding the poor and we hope to be transformed by His perspective into a family that sees the poor as He sees them and acts to help wherever we are called. We ask for the prayers of anyone reading this for our safe travel and for our effectiveness in accomplishing what we have been called here to do. (K would like to specifically be protected from the "jumping cactus" and W is really worried about what kind of food he might have to eat).
W finally lost that dangling front tooth. K has learned to read and is working on her readers to earn a trip to Chuck E. Cheese. W made straight A's on his first second grade report card. His reward was a trip to Best Buy with Dad to buy that longed for Madden '09 for the Wii with his allowance money that he has saved. Oh, and we met Jon & Kate last week from Jon & Kate plus 8. The kids love the show and when they were in town we had a chance to go and see them in person and get an autograph.
