by Power Editor | Jan 16, 2024 | Trip 2024
Another cold morning warmed up with hot food for breakfast. Worship and devotions were held at the Valley Baptist Retreat. Our devotion theme continued from Romans 1:16, “I am not ashamed “. We then hit the road going southeast to the border crossing in...
by Power Editor | Jan 15, 2024 | Trip 2024
A cold morning greeted us, 33 degrees F (only occurs two to three times a year!). Breakfast and hot coffee got us going though. We held our worship and devotions at the Casa de Fe (house of faith) church in Mexico. The pastor and some of the congregation greeted us...
by Power Editor | Jan 14, 2024 | Trip 2024
We started the Sabbath bright and early with a hearty breakfast. We had another stress-free border crossing and headed to the Senda De Vida facility run by Hector and his wife. The facility is an exceptionally well run camp for 1200 people from about ten countries all...
by Power Editor | Jan 13, 2024 | Trip 2024
Another bright and early start to the day with breakfast served at 6:30. Waffles shaped like the state if Texas alone with chorizo and eggs were the specials. We hit the road for worship and devotion at the Border Mission facility. This mission started back in the...
by Power Editor | Jan 12, 2024 | Trip 2024
Our day started similar to yesterday, a hearty breakfast at 6:30 followed by stirring worship and then the daily devotion. Our devotion theme for the week is from Romans 1:16, “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel”. We then headed across the border into...
by Power Editor | Jan 11, 2024 | Trip 2024
Most of the men arrived without problems, getting to the Faith Mission in Del Rio, Texas around 9 pm after enjoying a tasty meal at a Chinese buffet. Unfortunately, the last eight men didn’t make it to the Mission until 1 in the morning due to canceled flights...
by Power Editor | Mar 7, 2023 | Trip 2023
Today was our last work day in Mexico. After some great worship songs, Pat came up for his last message on Hebrews, chapter 11. Before starting, he informed us that our group of men doubled the previous record of purchases at the POWER store last night! He then read...
by Power Editor | Mar 6, 2023 | Trip 2023
It was up at 7 am today for me. The breakfast crew got up a lot earlier- around 5 am, to have breakfast ready by 6. I could have used more sleep, but as the day progressed, I felt better. You can’t help but get motivated with the work that POWER does on the border!...
by Power Editor | Mar 5, 2023 | Trip 2023
We got to sleep in a little today. We didn’t leave the Valley Retreat Center until 8:45 am. I also fixed my computer to reset to time zones automatically. I had been fooled into thinking that it wasn’t so late when I start typing these musings. We drove across the...
by Power Editor | Mar 4, 2023 | Trip 2023
Third day using the Valley Baptist Retreat Center as our lodging place. We started our day with another well prepared breakfast in the Retreat Center cafeteria, but today jumped in the vans, heading across the border to the Rio Bravo facility in Reynosa for devotions....
by Power Editor | Mar 3, 2023 | Trip 2023
I am freelancing today, as I took only a few notes. It was a busy day! We are still calling Valley Baptist Retreat Center home, for a couple more days. We had our morning devotion in one of the conference rooms at a little after 7 am. Pat spoke again about fearless...
by Power Editor | Mar 2, 2023 | Trip 2023
Today was our first full day down on the border. The bunk bed sleeping arrangements were great, except a group of our guys had been delayed on their flights, and came stumbling in at around 2 am. At first I thought someone was getting up early to go to breakfast. I...
by Power Editor | Mar 1, 2023 | Trip 2023
We are down on the border again! I haven’t seen the list of guys yet, but recognize a lot of men from past years. We do have more than a couple first timers, which is exciting to see. The airline trip went mostly uneventful from Burbank, California for me. My loving...
by Power Editor | Jan 17, 2023 | Trip 2023
Our groups participated in the same activities as mentioned in day 5 (Joy tour, building projects and Track assembly). We also had the unique honor of briefly hearing from Allen Ehlers. Allen is in his 80s and recently had his lovely and godly wife of 65 years,...
