I haven't updated anyone in many weeks regarding my trip to Mexico. We are finally on the week of the trip and I can't wait to get there. We have a total of 700 teenagers from all over the United States coming with us on our trip and we are all so excited. Our primary mission is to go there to live out our faith by building homes, doing VBS for the kids, and to help the community with the assistance of the local church.

Please keep us in your prayers during next week while we are building these homes. We are planning on building upwards of 100 prefab homes during this time. Many of the people who are getting homes are completely homeless and have been squatting on these plots of land for months waiting for us to come.

There are also many of these families that are in so much financial strife that they are forced to live and eat out of the local garbage dumps just to feed their families. These are 3rd world conditions in a community not 100 miles away from downtown San Diego. These families deserve a fighting chance at life and to have their own homes, and for that reason we go.

I would ask that you pray that while we are there we are effective in showing the people of Mexico that we truly love them and care for their situations. It is my own personal prayer that the American teens that go gain a heart of true compassion and love for the needy people of this world and that it changes them forever.

10 Years ago this month I went on my first trip out of the country to South Africa. It was there that my life was changed by the experiences I had. One of the most incredible things I experienced was a true understanding of what it meant to appreciate the gifts and blessings of God. I walked away from that experience with a renewed and revived Faith in God and have never been the same since.

My hope is that the youth on this trip have the same experience and that when they return that they are never the same again. Your prayers are worth more than gold to me and I cherish them. Thank to each and every one of you for your messages, emails and kind words. I look forward to sharing our success and pictures upon our return. May the Lord bless you all!