News Update of March 2012 Mission Trip
“It is not about the projects we do; it is about the people.” By caring and loving people, God can use acts of kindness to transform people’s hearts. I have a lot of exciting information about what has been going on in the VG community. I hope with the news it will inspire you to take action within your own community.
On March 8th we had a missions group come to VG for a couple of days. There were about 26 people who attended the week mission trip. It was great to meet everyone who came on the trip. Most of them had been coming to VG for years. It was great to spend time sharing stories and laughing together. I was super excited to see my mom, Selena Fetherman who came on the trip. The trip to VG was her first mission trip and it was awesome to be able to share that experience with her.
The group had many different task planned for the week for the neighborhood around the church and Oasis building. They gave out food bags to families, helped repair a leaky roof, and made a nice dinner one night. They also showed two movies, on separate nights, at the church that focused on how to be a better father and family.
There were so many projects that were going on throughout the week it was hard to be able to do all of them. I had spent most of my time helping plan, set-up, and build a new home for Oscar. Most of you know who Oscar is by now but if you don’t, Oscar is a great kid who I have become very close with. Oscar, if I had to choose whom my most favorite student is, then it would be him.
Before the group came on March 8th, Karly and me spent a bunch of time organizing, preparing, and looking for projects that the group could do. One of the projects we had planned was to repair two roofs. One of those roofs was Oscars house. On March 8th the day the group was arriving Oscar had told Karly that they were being evicted from their house and had to get out by Saturday. They only had two days to pack up all their things and get off the property. The issue was that they had nowhere to go. They were going to be homeless.
On Friday morning a few members of the American group went to start planning to build them a new house. Even though before the group went to get supplies there were a few problems that went back and fourth but they got resolved. Within two extremely long days the group had battled the curse of hunger but they had finally finished. Rafa, Oscars’ dad, was so thankful for what everyone had done for his family. The good news of this story is that Rafa’s family has decided to start going to church.
The trip overall was a great success. Many people who donated clothes, shoes, bath supplies, and many more things to oasis and the church from the states; I would like to say thank you and the donations will help a lot.
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