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Apr 11

Mill Creek 2010 Missions Trip list

Mill Creek is hosting the following missions trips outside the country in 2010. You can register to be on one of these teams via Churchlink.

Update: Cachi trip! Our team just returned from Cachi (in northern Argentina) where they worked hard building a house for the Brondo family. This project is in coordination with Centro Crecer in Cordoba, Argentina. It was a great trip and the house for the Brondos is now well on the way!

Nicaragua: July 15-23.This is a youth trip our students will be taking with DeSoto Youth Ministries. The mission team will be visiting many poor and neglected areas, bringing the gospel by way of music, drama and message. The gospel message will be shared in schools, in parks, on street corners, in churches and in the villages. The team will travel to Managua, Nicaragua, July 15-23, carrying with them musical instruments, sound equipment and a heart to share Christ iwith the people of Nicaragua. This mission team desires to bring hope to thousands in just one week. Contact Neil Bilyeu for an informational packet. Space is limited.

Honduras: October 23-30. This trip will be a combined medical missions trip and evangelism/service projects trip. The purpose of the trip is to provide an organized first time experience in missions. Cost will be $1300-1400 (includes air fare).

For local service opportunities see the Churchlink service opportunities list here.

Mar 24

Cachi...final post.

Posted by Gary Pauley in Missions Trips

It’s Saturday morning as I write this, sorry I couldn’t get a post out last night.

Yesterday was our last day of work; we were all burnt out and ready to get it overwith. Despite our lack of enthusiasm, we finished strong by completing two more walls and starting a couple more. Now part of the structure almost kind of looks like a house! I think I’m going to miss carrying 30-pound bricks and buckets of concrete, the rickety mixer vomiting up piles of mortar, Justin Hamilton barking “Mud!!” every 2 minutes, and the dust and sweat covering me from head to toe. JUST KIDDING! I’m not going to miss any of that in the least.

We had an asado last night with some of the local construction workers that were helping us build. We had a great time, ate way too much meat, and enjoyed Hugo’s guitar playing. Then we went to bed and slept very well since the rooster, recently christened “Diablo” by Scott Spandet, also slept in.

So the plan is to go back to Salta at 5pm this afternoon, stay there for one night, fly into Buenos Aires, endure a 9-hour layover, suffer an 11-hour flight back to Atlanta, then arrive in Kansas City at 9am Monday morning. Man I’m so glad we’re getting back in the morning. I can’t wait to see all my friends, listen to some techno music, take a real shower, and generally get back into a normal routine. This is almost certainly my last post, so I now say goodbye to you and hope you will be praying for the Brondos and the work they are doing here. These people have great spiritual need and the Brondos and those working with them all have a great desire to bring God into the lives of those living here. I was very blessed to be a part of this trip and hope for nothing but success in Cachi.

~ Justin Stout

Mar 24

Cachi, Day 7

Posted by Gary Pauley in Missions Trips

This morning Mr. Scott Spandet informed us that prior to this trip, he felt he would make a good contestant on Survivor. Now, he says, he no longer holds that position.

It seems, as Jerry Steele put it, we are running out of gas. Everybody is getting worn down and tired and the not-removed-after-all rooster is in all probability the devil. The good news is we are still able to make considerable building progress. We finished two walls, one of which had windows and took a long time to build, and almost finished a whole new wall. Tonight we worked till about 8:10, at least an hour later than we had worked on the previous days. It also got rather hot today.

We’re meeting a lot of great people down here, like Marcelo Vera; he speaks a little English and he’s fun to talk to and tell new English words to. We’ve met Sasha’s wife Chechu., and a single mother named Gabriela who comes to church at the Brondos. We’ve also met Hugo, the cool guy that makes our asados. We invited the locals we’re building with to our Friday night asado; it’s really neat building a relationship with them, the first day they didn’t even pay attention to us, this morning they greeted us with a smile on their faces.

For lunch today, we had goat cheese pizza and empanadas. It was sooooo good. Like best American food (pizza) + best Argentine food (empanadas) = awesomesauce. The meals have been pretty much fantastic here.

Oh, correction to earlier post: The 21,000-foot-high mountains northwest of the town are in fact called “Las Nevadas De Cachi” meaning “The Snowy Peaks of Cachi”.

You know, today I realized: I’ve done something real. I’ve made a difference. If someone asks me what I’ve done that’s real, I can point to that house and say: “I did that”, and I can think of no better place to do something like this than here. There is a lot of work that is being done, physically and spiritually, and I am a part of it, and when I see the need of those living in Cachi, I can’t help but give my full support to this project. I pray for only the best for the Brondos and all the people involved in this mission.

Even though great things are happening here, I’m missing my friends and family, and I’m ready to head home soon. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to come back here, though, and finish what we have begun.

~ Justin Stout

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