Consider Doing A Mexico Mission Trip......Steve Masters

 If you ever want to go to Mexico on a mission trip by driving, I can help.  There are four places to lodge across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas or Del Rio, Texas.  In Piedras Negras, the Five Cities or Acuna, Mexico.  Two are $5 per night.  Two are $10 per night.  There is a missionary there who can help set up the ministries You can do Bible Clubs for Kids and Teenager Worship services/Discussion groups at night.  You can also paint churches and do school presentations.  For food we did pop tarts and cereal for breakfast and sandwiches for lunch.  The Mexican Church ladies cooked for our dinners. 

 We took 101 students, staff, and parent van drivers.  We had 60 Mexican teenagers at each of our night services at two locations, Piedras Negras and the Five Cities.  So, we fed 260 people each night for four nights and the cost was $14 per student.  We spent an additional $15 per participant for breakfast and lunch. So for $50 per participant, we lodged and fed our group.  We covered the gas cost. We paid a $75 stipend to our interpreters. 

During my first year at LSU, I called three veterans/legends of SBC Collegiate Ministry, Dave Jobe at Stephen F. Austin, Mike Graham at Texas A&M and George Loutherback at Baylor.  I asked them where we should go on our Spring Break trip.  They said there is something about a third world country and ministry.  We have been going there ever since.  That is thirty (3) years this year.

Safety is an issue.  Acuna and Piedras are the two safest border crossings.  Piedras was voted one of the safest cities in Mexico last year. 

I began taking my daughters on the BCM Mexico Mission Trips after they turned seven (7).  I got permission from their principals for it to be an excused absence for a cultural experience.  It was of great benefit to them to go each year.  Four of the Mexican teenagers drove to one of my daughter's wedding

If you would like to consider it and want more information, please contact me.

Steve Masters, lsubcm@eatel.net

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