Report on Mexico Mission

Psalm 149 says, “Let them praise his name with dancing, and make music to him with tambourine and harp.” This past mission trip was all about that. We traveled over the mountains to help build Pastor Patricio a new house and boy was it fun. After the first day of work, we went to a home church meeting to worship and praise God. This was a village which was suffering from pain because of a thirteen-year-old boy who committed suicide, and they were struggling on how to deal with it. As I was preaching, the Holy Spirit came upon us all and performed a remarkable miracle of healing. Psalm 31:11 says, “You turned my wailing into dancing,” and that is just what happened. We thought we were going down to build a house, but we left knowing that the Lord used us to rebuild a village. That evening we sat around and listened to Benito play the accordion, Portofino play the guitar, and a young boy sing praise songs to God. We all joined in and danced in the mountains.
They fed us and treated us like kings, or should I say sons and daughters of the King. The made-from-scratch tamales, the nopales (cactus), the Cabrito (goat meat), and all of the other fine local food was appreciated and devoured. The laughter, hugs, prayer time, and work time was all God centered. We traveled many miles to be among a village of people we did not know, did not speak their language well, or with whom we did not have much in common, but the one thing we did have was the Lord, and we all danced together. You see, if we go about God’s work with a song in our hearts, the Lord will put a dance in our feet.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.

Michael