Mexico Mission

We had a very special opportunity, to build a loft house in Mexico. Our Church has been involved in the Mexico loft house build mission for several years now, and have built many many homes for people without a home in Mexico.......our church is not the only church that is involved....many churches and organizations have been doing this through an organization called"Hands of Mercy".

We started out building the houses in the parking lot at the church , one week prior to traveling to Mexico.......after the panels are built in the parking lot , they are loaded onto utility trailers and then are ready to travel to their building site....this trip we took six house in all......we hauled one of them behind our truck.

The family that we built the house for , had six kids and the mother was about 8 months pregnant with # 7 ! The family was staying with another family in a small building and they have no electricity, no running water, not much of anything at all. The kids are so sweet, I wish we could have taken them home with us......the loft houses aren't very big and they are bare basics.....but the people are very thankful and excited to have a place of their own. It really is amazing that so many people have to live with so little in this day and age.

Doug , Julia and I are so blessed to be able to have had this experience and we want to go back the next trip. Thanksgiving is starting early this year..............we are so blessed to live in this country and have the things that we have.