“On the Road Again … We just can’t wait to get on the road again!” (Apologies to Willie Nelson)
In spite of a long travel day for Power Teams arriving from Georgia, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, and California, the Week Two Power Team is eager to embark on its five hour van ride from San Antonio to Brownsville, Texas! We will set out early Saturday morning for our first work assignments in Matamoros, Mexico and lunch with the bible college students at Magdiel Bible Institute.
For many of the men the draining impact of a 3:00 am wake-up to catch 5:00am to 6:00am flights to San Antonio, gave way to a second wind, a fresh spirit, as we gathered at the staging location … And friendships from prior Power Trips were rekindled, and new friendships were initiated.
After a dinner of Subway sandwiches, cookies and chips and an organizational meeting our seventy man team set off for Brownsville. Our 1:00am arrival at the Comfort Suites leaves little time for sleep before our 6:30am departure for Matamoros!
The organizational meeting was a great reminder of what goes on behind the scenes over a year of planning to arrive at a point at which we were ready to set out on this amazing ministry adventure. The 2016 Trip is the sixteenth annual Power Trip; and our group is the second of three groups for this year. There have been a total of 823 men who have participated in Power over the years. The 2016 Teams hail from seventeen states, three countries, and represent seventy churches.
It is exhilarating to be part of an organization that has demonstrated the love of Jesus through the construction of over 107 building projects, including houses, apartments, an egg production facility, and a warehouse … And have distributed 7,000,000 pounds of rice and beans over the past sixteen years … And most importantly have met all of these physical needs in the context of sharing the Gospel!
Terry Hickey, Week Two Team