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| Faith and Works Mexico Mission 2002 |
| The real reason we were in Mexico was the people. Seeing the way some of them lived was heartbreaking, but the people were still proud of what they had. The people we were able to talk to really had a zeal for God. They were excited about learning more about Jesus. We could each take a lesson from the Mexican people, in that no matter what you lack in material wealth, with Jesus you are rich indeed! |
| These people live in one of the villages we worked in. An entire family will live in a make shift shack, made of whatever they could get their hands on (cardboard, pieces of tin, tar paper, etc.) until they could save up enough to buy some concrete block. They will build up what they can with the money they have, until they can save up enough to buy some more block. The entire village is full of half built buildings that may have been there for a couple of years because the family hadn't saved up enough to buy more block. These block houses are the best that many of the Mexican people can hope for. |
| Otherwise they live in houses like this: |
| An entire family may live in a shack like this. It is made up of mostly cardboard (some wood), covered in tar paper that is held on by nails sticking through bottle caps. The roof is just thin pieces of tin held on by a concrete block. These thin building materials are all that shield the families from the extreme heat in the summer and the cold winter nights. |
| Our construction projects included: putting a roof on a parsonage, building walls and a baptistry in a church, digging and pouring a footer for a parsonage (like the one shown), and various plumbing and building projects at the camp where we stayed. |
| Pictured are Layne Wagner, Curtis Brown, Willie Martin, and Jim Anderson. They are mixing and pouring concrete for the footer that was dug that week. All of the digging, mixing, and pouring we done by hand. The water for the mix was from a town watering hole and was brought to us by a man who lives in the village. |
| The picture below is a church, with a parsonage above it for the preacher. This one was started a few years ago and was finished within the year before we went down. |
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| While in Sombrete, improvements were started at the mission camp. Pictured above is Bill Kissick beginning work on the new bathrooms. |