by Power Editor | Jan 16, 2023 | Trip 2023
WORSHIP/MESSAGE Cody Gibbs and the worship team were inspiring today. Every day is good, but I had to record the sound of 50 men singing to the Lord in unison. What an experience. Once again, Pat Schmeling was spot on with his admonition from the Lord for us to act...
by Power Editor | Jan 15, 2023 | Trip 2023
Sunday – God’s day. ALIANZA CRISTIANA REYNOSA We woke up early and made our way to Alianza Cristiana Reynosa. As Doug Wible says, this is our church away from home, and for many of us, we have not been to this home for a few years. The joy at seeing Pastor...
by Power Editor | Jan 14, 2023 | Trip 2023
SENDE DE VIDA The entire group headed out from the Valley Baptist Conference Center for Senda De Vida (Path of Life). I have been to Hector’s church many times in past years. He is a wonderful, Spirit-filled man with a heart for helping people ‘stuck’ on the Mexico...
by David Coryell | Jan 13, 2023 | Trip 2020
God is good all the time, all the time, God is good. The Power team came from all across the US to converge on McAllen, TX. As things go these days, for some folks travel was delayed, but everyone eventually made it. Praise God. We kicked off our official mission trip...
by Power Editor | Jan 10, 2023 | Trip 2023
Father, bless this day as we share, take communion and travel back home. The day began with a leisurely breakfast and packing for home. We began to gather in a circle for debriefing. Clay reminded up about Abraham’s fearless sacrifice and that we need to be fearless...
by Power Editor | Jan 9, 2023 | Trip 2023
It’s the last day of work and we are raring to go. Breakfast was great but it was still dark! Overcast this morning. Following breakfast, we loaded up into the vans for a trip to Border Missions for devotions. Clay spoke to us from Hebrews 11:8-10. He spoke about...
by Power Editor | Jan 8, 2023 | Trip 2023
Good morning, Lord. Thank you for the gift of rest to set aside time to worship you, to be restored in body, mind and spirit. We began our day a little later and slower which combined with last night’s early arrival gave us some rest and recovery time before we resume...
by Power Editor | Jan 7, 2023 | Trip 2023
Our day began with breakfast, singing and devotions by Clay. Today he spoke again from Hebrews, today from 11:5-6 and taught about our need to be fearless in our pursuit of God as He rewards those who earnestly seek Him. Assignments were given and then we are off to...
by Power Editor | Jan 6, 2023 | Trip 2023
Father we praise you because you are sovereign. Nothing escapes your eye and you are working all things together for good for those who love you. So many things you do happen in the unseen world but we also thank you for seeing your visible work in our lives and in...
by Power Editor | Jan 5, 2023 | Trip 2023
Great devotions today by Clay Ramirez on Hebrews 3:1-3. He challenged us to dream big and trust God as we put our confidence in Christ for unseen things. The theme this week is to have fearless faith. Today we will put that into practice as we go out on one of three...
by Power Editor | Jan 4, 2023 | Trip 2023
Travel Day The adventure begins! For some, travel was uneventful and we praise God for that. For others, not so much. Plane troubles, plane delays but we still praise God. in the end 95% of the men arrived on time and by 4:45 we were on our way to Chopsticks, a buffet...
by Power Editor | Mar 23, 2022 | Trip 2022
Locked and Loaded After a long six hour drive from south to north and some “killer” BBQ along the way, we are at the POWER home base of sorts, Faith Mission International. Here, we bunk into two large rooms of bunk beds, military style, with our team split between...
by Power Editor | Mar 20, 2022 | Trip 2022
Travel Day to Del Rio The Joy of the Lord! We start the day, as we always do on these trips with POWER, attending “Alianza” a church established by the Christian and Missionary Alliance years ago. We wear the “POWER Tuxedo”, as I like to think of it, a polo shirt. We...
by Power Editor | Mar 19, 2022 | Trip 2022
Like a River The water is flowing today, not from the usual sources. My tears well up in my eyes and I’m not alone among my brothers, as we watch and listen to Hector and Marylou Luna of “Senda De Vida”, a refugee facility built on a former land fill in Reynosa. This...
