by admin | Jan 14, 2015 | Yearly Trip
by Terry Hickey Have you ever felt that “christian coercion” (let’s leave it at good natured persuasion!) to do the right thing? How many excuses did you create in your own mind, as to why you shouldn’t/couldn’t comply with that great opportunity to follow the Lord’s...
by admin | Jan 28, 2014 | Yearly Trip
Before I get started on today’s story, I need to tell about something that I forgot to mention yesterday. While I was talking to one of the dinner guests last night, I discovered that not only does the POWER Ministry build things, visit prisons and orphanages and do...
by admin | Jan 27, 2014 | Yearly Trip
Our morning devotion that was shared by Pat was from Nehemiah, chapter 1. The story was about the cupbearer for the King, and the message was ‘greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world’. John from our church was chosen prayer captain for his van again....
by admin | Jan 26, 2014 | Yearly Trip
We left the hotel at 7:15 am, heading across the border to Mexico. Several men are fighting a flu bug, but didn’t want to miss this day, where we attended church and then set up and helped run a large festival at an orphanage. We came to the dome church where we had...
by admin | Jan 25, 2014 | Yearly Trip
After breakfast at the Super 8 Hotel, we traveled across the border, and stopped first at a shelter right across the border, where a guy named Hector has dedicated his life to ministering to the Mexicans who for whatever reason got stuck there, with no money and...
by admin | Jan 24, 2014 | Yearly Trip
Friday was an easier day, and the POWER group seemed like it is starting to gel into a cohesive group of men. I am impressed by the number of father/son combo’s, and the number of men who have been with the program for many years (many from the beginning in 2001. The...
