2014 Pre-Trip words

Thanksgiving is only about a week away, 'tis the season for turkey and good football.  Those two things really remind me of the last 5 trips Cornerstone has taken to Sierra Prieta.  Like turkey dinners and good football games our trips have all been enjoyable but they have all been completely unique.  No two holiday meals with family and close friends are the same, our times in Sierra Prieta have always brought us new friends and deeper relationships with old ones. And even when you have an idea of the team you are going to match up against on the football field you don't know what the results of any play will be until it is over.  We have always prepared for ministry opportunities the best we could, and sometimes ended up seeing God use that preparation to work in ways we never expected.

This trip is already unique in it's make-up compared to previous years. Due to a lot of significant scheduling conflicts for others in Cornerstone who truly have a heart for this ministry, our team is the smallest it has ever been.  This year only Holden(my 13 year-old son) and I will be going  Though we wish that others had the opportunity to  minister with us and I am really looking forward to some great father-son time. Besides the team make-up being so different from the start, we already know that a day or 2 will be spent leading some training for a number of local church pastors.  We will be ministering in Sierra Prieta also and look forward to seeing how we can encourage the churches, leaders and families there.

Please pray for us, the FH staff that we'll be partnering with, the community of Sierra Prieta and the pastors who attend the training.  Ask God to make himself known and to use us to declare his glory to the world.

You can read back on our trips up to this point on this blog, a great summary of our ministry so far is found at the post I wrote pre-trip last year .  You can read it here( if you are not familiar with what we've been a part of up to this point this is a great place to start).