Pease notes how it was a wonderful opportunity for the combined cabinet of the New Mexico Conference and Northwest Texas Conference to get together and be physical workers and servers. So often their work is tremendously serious, but on this trip they laughed, kidded, fellowshipped, bonded with each other, and just had a grand time serving others. We made it across without having to unload all our gear. We were blessed with safe travel and no incidents, except whatever one catches in Mexico that upsets the stomach. We traveled to a place the government had provided over a landfill where more than 2,000 people, miles away from stores, shopping and transportation, lived in hovels with no utilities.
Children go to school two hours a day, studying on the sand out in the open air.
And the Mexico Methodist Church trying to help work with the teachers to provide some sense of God's love and a future to prepare the gifts and graces to hundreds of little children. The land for their hovels of pallets and cardboard cost 8,000 pesos, a lifetime of savings. We built a home for a widow and her children. The restroom was seven feet from the edge of the building, and it had a blanket for a door. Families and workers used those facilities.