The First of Many

My name is Spencer Smith and I am the Youth Pastor at McDougal Chapel in Sundre, AB, Canada. We have started this blog to keep you up to date with our missions initiatives both locally in our home town and abroad. Our main focus right now is a Mexico trip coming up in July from the 5th - 17th. 

The purpose of this site it to keep our supporters and those interested in our trip up to date as to our progress in fundraising, training and all things missions trip.

So what exactly are we doing in Mexico this year?

Well I am delighted that you have asked. We are going to Mexico to spread the Gospel of Christ to the children of Hermosillo and area. We plan on accomplishing this through partnering with Arbol de Vida the local church in their Vacation Bible School. A VBS is where we welcome local children from the community and we get to play games, work on crafts and tell bible stories to the children. We will be participating in the VBS every morning from the Monday to Friday. In the afternoons we have two different activities we will be apart of. We get to go play with, serve, and love the children of the Casa Hogar, a children s home where Pedro and Zoila are caring for over 20 children. When we are not at the children's home we will be out in San Pedro (small town just outside of Hermosillo) doing a soccer ministry in the slums. We get to play some Futbol with the children as well as use special color coded soccer balls to tell them about the Gospel.

Those activities will take up most of our time. However we will get to be apart of Arbol De Vida's Soup Kitchen on Saturday, Youth Saturday night and church on Sunday. We are excited to go on this trip and to love the children of Mexico through VBS, Futbol (soccer) and just playing with them, all the while proclaiming the Gospel of Christ.

Stay tuned for Mexico updates. Our next post will be up next week and will give highlights from our fundraising and training so far with some pictures. Also we will feature interviews with each person of the team as time progresses so that we can get to know each team member and what they hope to accomplish on this trip.