Power Trip 2013 Week 2 Day 2 - Warmer Weather in Acuna

Hi ya'll, this is Larry Johnson from Georgia with tonights blog about everything that happened on the POWER mission trip today in Acuna, Mexico. This mornings speaker was Doug Husen from Corona, California and what a great message he delivered to start off our week of missions! Doug's theme was from 2nd Peter and he talked about the goal of a Christian life. God wants us to have "Christ Likeness" in our thoughts and just as importantly in our actions. He also talked about how God blessed Solomon with wisdom and then showed how to truly gain wisdom... we must seek knowledge of Christ, for true knowledge comes from Him. He then challenged us to "know God more" and try to have people seek us for our knowledge of Christ.

Doug also mentioned his friend Rick and how he modeled his life after Christ and what an inspiration he was. One thing that Rick did that really stood out was transmitted Christ to his children for it to be passed on for many, many generations, what a great blessing!!

The Power theme of the day was "Make new friends, but cherish the old ones". This was a great way to start the week since there are so many new friends on the trip that we have yet to meet. Not to mention all the old ones from the years past that we enjoy getting to see again.

Once we headed across the border and started on our projects, this was an excellent time to work on everything that was mentioned during our morning devotions. As all the men were put into their groups, there were plenty of new faces in each group and it didn't take long to meet them and making new friendships. Two of the new friends I met today were Al Crescencio from Ridgecrest and Hurley Baird from Redding. What a great set of guys I've had the fortune to work with and really get to know today. As for "old friends" I did get to work with Ben Sullivan from Oregon and several other guys from the Riverside group and let me tell ya folks, we picked up right from where we left off last year and it was like we never missed a beat! That's really one of the hidden "treasures" of the Power group, being able to surround yourself with God loving men that always seem to bring the best out of each other (except for when you are trying to sleep and everyone is snoring!)

Our project was to build a house for the Rivera family and we're almost finished with it. Good thing too, 'cause tomorrow we only have one session on the work sites and then it's a long drive down to Mcallen, Tx to get ready for the next set of opportunities God has waiting for us. 

There were three other projects going on today and I really wish I could have been at all of 'em to meet more new friends and catch up with old ones, but unfortunately you can't meet everyone in just one day. Thank goodness we have lots more projects to work on with plenty of opportunities to share with each other. 

We do want to thank everyone for all their continued prayers and blessings while we are gone from our homes and families. They're all much appreciated and we hope you know we're all praying for you too while we are away. Please keep them coming!!!

Well, it's getting late and after a long first day and then a long night of cleaning the vans and helping  Patrick Cash from Georgia load Louie's truck so it's ready tomorrow (with several thousand pounds of beans and rice), I think it's time to head out and get some shut eye, or at least I'll try. All those new and old friends I just mentioned are already asleep and there is a chorus of "snores" coming from the rooms!

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Take care and God Bless,
Larry Johnson