Just like a child starts getting all tingly inside around the beginning of December, Spring stirs up some giddy feelings in me. When Spring arrives, my heart knows that Spring Break and Summer Mission trips are just around the corner. Sure we have done Christmas Break Mission Trips, but I’m in survival mode preparing for those trips. Our heads are so preoccupied with the new school year that it is a scramble to make those happen. The Spring is a different story. Just after the Christmas rush, visions of conversations about Christ on South Padre Island, begin dancing in my head. Memories of being whipped in soccer (futbol) by 10 year old El Salvadorian kids, get stirred up in my heart. Graphic pictures of unjust walls in Jerusalem flash in my mind. Spring is a time of preparing – Wesley Mission Trips are near! Those of you who participated in a Wesley Mission trip can relate. Many Wesley students have discovered their life’s purpose on one of our trips. Shannon Duelm Goran discovered her heart for international missions from our time in Matamoros, San Salvador. Now, she and her husband, David, are the directors of the Wesley Foundation in Kiev Ukraine. Elizabeth Hightower got a taste of sacrificial giving and love in the heart of Pasadena, California. Now she is training missionaries through Youth With A Mission. Michael McDaniel went on every Wesley trip that was offered him. Now, he is training people to plant churches among unreached people groups. These are just a few stories of how Wesley students have been radical transformed through their Wesley missional experiences. This year is no different as we continue to invite students to participate in projects that take them out of their comfort zone. Projects that teach them how to share their faith, serve those in need, and develop a prayer life that will significantly impact the lives of those they are serving. We desire to be the hands, heart, and feet of Christ to those we are serving, so they can experience more of the life that God intended for them. We also hope this develops in our students a heart of missions that will become a driving force in their lives, regardless of what they do after graduation. Please check out our website that shows the former students who are serving in missions, ministry, and in seminary preparing for ministry
www.texaswesley.com/who-we-are/alumni /
Please send us stories of your experiences with Wesley missions trips (or other trips you have experienced), and the impact that it has played on your faith and life. Please be in prayer for our upcoming Mission trips. Oh, and as always, if you as alumni or friends of the Wesley would like to join us on the Hurricane Relief Trip this summer, we’d love to have you. Let me know, I’ll sign you up for serving, and get ready for another life impacting experience!
Merry Mission Trip Season!