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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

We have officially finished our construction projects for the 2012 year of the Power missions, and we have accomplished so much through God. Reynosa, saw our men create with just 12 hours of work a nearly finished Senior Center. We performed outreach to the community to the Border Mission in Texas, we Worked on a […]

The leader on the Project, Larry Johnson asked me: “Do you Drywall”? To which I replied. “I Dry clothes…I Dry Dishes!” He assured me that I could do this” So I began hammering nails into the drywall to secure it to the beams and frame of this new house. I couldn’t help but think of […]

Hello again my power junkie friends and welcome to another night of Spiritual renewal, brought to you by another day of spiritual grace. Today on our prayer day, we attended one service in the States presided by pastor Bill, and then to Reynosa to hear a second. While language differences made conscious understanding of the […]