by Power Editor | Mar 28, 2019 | Trip 2019
POWER Journal Day 1 Everyone has a first day like this. Call it a theme with variations. But here is my day… Up early, 3:30 to make it to San Diego in time for our flight. Feeling tired but excited as well. So looking forward to this trip. Drive down to San...
by Power Editor | Jan 22, 2019 | Trip 2019
It was another full day in Del Rio/Acuna. After rolling out of our dorm beds, we had breakfast, devotion, and took communion. Heading across the border, we split up to finish up the projects at yesterday’s sites. My van went to finish a house for the Silva family. The...
by Power Editor | Jan 21, 2019 | Trip 2019
We all did surprisingly well today, considering we were operating on only 4 hours of sleep. Our food crew cooked up a good breakfast offering of eggs, oatmeal, cereal, donuts, juice, several kinds of fruit & of course coffee. We had our morning devotion at the...
by Power Editor | Jan 20, 2019 | Trip 2019
We got to sleep in a little today, to 7 am. After a quick breakfast at the hotel in McCallen, we drove back across the border to have worship and devotion at the colonial Nopalera (Bruce & Paula’s place). They have been there 12 years now, building houses and...
by Power Editor | Jan 19, 2019 | Trip 2019
Today was an early departure day, as we drove across the border to Reynosa, specifically to Sende De Vida (Hector’s homeless outreach), where we had morning devotions. I had hopes of pounding some nails or some type of construction work, and loaded my backpack with...
by Power Editor | Jan 18, 2019 | Trip 2019
We got an early start, meeting for breakfast downstairs at the hotel at 6 am. Devotion was at 7 in a meeting room at the hotel. Our worship team led us in singing praises to the Lord, then Pastor Bob Biber spoke on our theme for the week- Perseverance, with the key...
by Power Editor | Jan 17, 2019 | Trip 2019
It was a very rainy day in Los Angeles, and my wife and I started getting a little worried that we would not make it to LAX in time for the flight to San Antonio. Traffic was terrible, especially coming on to the 405 and heading up Sepulveda Pass towards the airport....
by Power Editor | Jan 16, 2019 | Trip 2019
Today is the final day of an amazing week for the Power Ministry team serving the Lord. We have seen projects unfold like the construction of a church long hoped for on a vacant lot in Acuna. Great progress was made on a small house that will make it no longer...
by Power Editor | Jan 15, 2019 | Trip 2019
We spent most of the day in the vans traveling from McAllen, TX to Brownsville, TX then into Matamores, Mexico for a visit to the Magdiel Bible School then back across the border to finish our 8hour drive to San Antonio. The drivers and their navigators riding in...
by Power Editor | Jan 14, 2019 | Trip 2019
Today everyone is aware of the spiritual high we experienced on Sunday. So we are more deliberately encouraging one another and praying that we will win the spiritual warfare with God’s help in the day ahead. This is our last day of work projects and we know that...
by Power Editor | Jan 13, 2019 | Trip 2019
Spoiler alert! Today we experienced an awesome outpouring of God’s love and presence of the Holy Spirit in our midst. The itinerary was a day of worship and play in Reynosa, Mexico. The morning devotion took place in a small ‘colonia ‘ in Nopalera. The devotional...
by Power Editor | Jan 12, 2019 | Trip 2019
We begin after breakfast as we do each day with the group declaring Christ’s word from Acts 1:8 “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, all of Judea and Sumaria, and to the ends of the earth.” The songs...
by Power Editor | Jan 11, 2019 | Trip 2019
The day started early at 7:00 am following a good breakfast with a time of praise through singing. What a wonderful way to start the morning with a crowded room of men’s voices led by acoustic guitars acknowledging God’s holiness and saving grace. Perseverance and its...
by Power Editor | Jan 10, 2019 | Trip 2019
Today was a big day of travel for 79 men from around the country. We convened in San Antonio where many men renewed old friendships with warm open arms and others quickly found that we were all drawn to a common purpose to serve and glorify God in the week ahead. ...
