This is La Casa de Cristo’s fourth mission trip to Rock Point,, AZ, and the Navajo Lutheran mission. What began in 2010 with a few people has blossomed into a trip with 49 people ranging from those ten and below to those into their sixties and seventies! Wow, what a great team!

As you may have read in the other blog postings, the week ranged from well over 100 kids in VBS to an intense and challenging work project in building a ramada to an adult ministry that reached almost 30 elderly Navajo women! We have been putting in very long days…from 5 am to midnight in some cases…and the results show!

A team was built this week, not to play sports or perform a business model , but a team to serve Jesus Christ. We serve because of Him who died and rose for us..and because HE called us to serve the least, the last, and the lost. 

The Navajo taught us a lot. We learned a lot. We always come here thinking we are serving, which we are, but we also receive so much..the satisfaction of building a project that was an emp;ty concrete slab; the smile of a Navajo mother; the hug of a child who is happy even though their hogan has no running water or electricity.

This trip is not for everyone .  It is not a vacation. It is very hard and tough. But boy, is it satisfying. It is not about us, but the One who sent us. I have seen so much growth here..from a handful of folks to having barely enough places to sleep 50! From one ministry project to three major ones! Thanks to my co-leader David Ulibarri, and see you all next year!

 

In Christ

Pastor Jeff