Mérida Mission Trip Info & Prayer Request Update

It was truly a joy to spend our normal Friday post-service worship time to specifically pray as a congregation for the Mérida mission trip and the future of missions at Sovereign Joy Community Church. Teri Cain has posted the following update from Dennis and the team on her blog:

It’s Friday evening, February 20th, and after a pre-dawn start this morning, the mission team is in Mérida, Mexico by now. All five team members were beaming with anticipation and excitement when I left them at the airport this morning at 5 a.m. (Thanks to our neighbor and brother in Christ, Aaron, for taking along his truck full of all those bags!)

I heard from Dennis about 10 this morning; he called from their lay-over in Mexico City laughing and saying “Things are just different here!” They had made it successfully through immigration (easy) he said, and were now looking for their gate for the flight to Mérida (which was not so easy! You’d think it would be the other way around!) It seems that the departure gates displayed on the electronic signs were all over the map….15, 17, 13A, 18B, 5, 9C etc. Their connecting flight to Mérida? Gate “B”! Gate “B”? What did that mean and where in the world was it? But he was laughing as always (Dennis has taught me a lot over the years about seeing the humor in things!). They were waiting in a long line to find out exactly where “Gate B” was, just like all the other people whose phantom gate letters appeared on those “modern, useful” electronic signs!

Once in Mérida, Pastor Sam was to pick up the team at the airport and take them to the church mission house where they will stay. The church has also graciously offered use of a van and this evening, probably right now, they are watching the first parade for a taste of the fun before getting to work tomorrow, when they will hold a seminar on Biblical Evangelism. God has used Living Waters and our Trisha’s connections to provide the team with a copy of the entire seminar that has been translated into Spanish. (It’s not even on the market yet!) After tomorrow’s seminar, they will hit the streets in teams to evangelize as people gather to watch the parade. There are five parades in all over the next few days, each drawing hundreds of thousands of people…all souls headed to an eternity in either Heaven or hell.

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PRAYER REQUESTS

Pray that many will attend the seminar tomorrow and

be set afire for sharing the Gospel

with their families, friends,

neighbors and community.

Pray that there will be enough translators

to make several teams

as they evangelize at the parades

over the next few days.

Pray that the team will be safe and

the trip without incident for tonight

and for every day.

Pray for Dennis, David, Fran, Ellen and Mary by name.

Pray that the team will be able to rest well each night

and that they will have

the energy and endurance that

they will need each day.

It will be crowded, noisy and hot in the streets.

Continue to pray that the teams will not experience

any opposition from the authorities

over the massive number

of tracts that they will be distributing.

(No word yet on how it wentin Customs this afternoon in Mérida.)