It’s the last day in Mexico for this week’s POWER team! First, a quick breakfast at the hotel — for those who didn’t sleep in too late. Then it’s boarding the vans for our trip to Reynosa and the Dome Church: Alianza Cristiana.It’s also one last opportunity for Craig Gilbert to share his message to […]
Monthly Archives: January 2013
2013 Week 1, Day 6: Festival at the Dome Church
Today and tomorrow, we’re back in Reynosa at the Dome Church: Alianza Cristiana. While there were work projects in the morning, this afternoon’s work sites were cleaned up, and the POWER teams prepped for the festival, which drew hundreds of local children and their parents to the church.You might notice I said POWER teams in that […]
2013 Week 1, Day 5: Magdiel Bible School
GRADUATING CLASS OF 2013 Today is a day a lot of the POWER guys look forward to every year, and that’s visiting Magdiel Bible School (find it on Google Maps by clicking here: Instituto Biblico Magdiel). It’s in Matamoros, directly across the border from Brownsville. This is a relationship building day! Magdiel has graduated more than 1,500 […]
2013 Week 1, Day 4: Reynosa and Hidalgo — then Traveling to Brownsville
After a very short night, the POWER men were up again early this morning. If they had the time, they ate a fast breakfast at the hotel — and along with their luggage were on the vans by 7 AM. Next stop, devotion time at Ezequiel Aljandro’s POWER church in Hidalgo, TX (just across the border from […]
2013 Week 1, Day 3 – The Work Continues!
In case you dropped by to see the Day 3 blog posting, and saw the great photos, but nothing else — well, like everything during POWER week, there’s a story behind this. And this story involves a dead battery in the POWER truck. If you noticed the “Getaway Day!” posting from the road, we had […]
Getaway Day!
Week 1 projects are where they need to be in Acuna. We had lunch back at Faith Mission, and are loading up the vans right now for our first leg heading southeast for McAllen — with a stop in Laredo for dinner. Pray for a safe caravan. More on today after we get in to […]
2013 Week 1, Day 2: POWER Week Begins in Earnest
Building. That’s what everyone expects to do when they come on the annual POWER trip. Swinging hammers. Pounding nails. Chop saws and sawdust; there was plenty of that today. Walls were framed and roof trusses built with amazing speed.In Ciudad Acuña, across the Rio Grande from Del Rio, TX, two homes were started — along with Sunday school classrooms, […]
2013 Week 1, Day 1: Arrive in Del Rio
We’ve arrived! Faith Mission in Del Rio, Texas. Dave Barnes of Corona, CA calls the group of more than 80 men (with a large contingent of first timers) to the dining room for the late night orientation. He jokingly scolds one of the bunk rooms. “We’re here less than an hour, and it already looks […]
US Highway 90
We’re about 45 minutes out of Del Rio on Hwy 90 in a caravan of 12 POWER vans, having stopped for dinner in San Antonio. Richard Chabolla in our van was the facilitator, introducing guys to one another, learning how they ended up on the trip this year. Joel Ontiveros is our driver. More on […]
I'm writing this from a US Airways flight, heading into Austin, Texas
This year, rather than flying in with the POWER guys from Southern California, I used frequent flyer miles to save some green, staying with friends in Austin Sunday night. Traveling as a single for a trip like this offers its own opportunities. From Ontario to Phoenix, I sat next to Ryan, a signalman for the […]