What is going on in Mexico?!

Hello to all of you wonderful and beautiful people who support me! Me and the crew have all been reunited back together in Chiapas, Mexico! Training camp for semester 2 was a full week, and on top of that we have had a packed schedule, so it has been hard getting the time to write this current update.

We are staying at an orphanage here, with over a hundred beautiful kids that we get to minister to every single day, and touch up on our Spanish skills too!

Our days currently look like breakfast and team time: worship and Bible study in the mornings before school time. After that we go over life skills, learning about whatever our leaders have for us that day, and then a couple hours of dedicated school time before lunch. After lunch we clean things up and get ready for ministry, where we are broken up into groups.

Some of us are helping create a huge sustainable garden for the folks here, and we have raised money for it to get all of the supplies and equipment to get the project started. The garden has made quite a bit of progress since we have been here, but there’s still so much to go. Another group of us is teaching the kids music, where a lot of the kids here have really picked up quick on the guitar, which has been fun to watch. Another group of us is helping teach the kids English, reading books to them and teaching them stories, or drawing up pictures and naming them with the kids. Their goal is to teach them English in an engaging way. The other group I primarily help in is the sports group. Every day the kids all do English and sports, and we get to be a part of it, teaching them new games and trying to teach them a little English along the way.

On the side, as a part of my ministry, I am working with Broken Rib Coffee through their coffee college program, where they are teaching us how to create lasting change in the world that helps people through business. Ministry through business is what we call it.

So after our ministry we eat dinner, and then have a few hours before bed of free time, where most of us spend it with the kids here in their free time as well.

On Sundays we are leading church services, either doing a little skit for the kids or a small sermon for them. We have all been connecting so much better this semester, all so excited to be here.

I will try my best to update you more often. Next time I want to give you maybe a couple lessons I have learned recently, but here is one that has been on my mind already.

A lesson I’ve been learning recently

I’ve been thinking about how we try to build our houses without our foundation.

We all want to build a meaningful life. We want direction, purpose, and impact. But you can’t build your house without your foundation. Slow your role. If the foundation isn’t sound, everything you build on top of it eventually cracks when pressure hits.

Being here has reminded me that foundation-building is usually the “mundane” stuff: showing up when you’re tired, being consistent, serving with joy even when it’s not convenient, choosing humility, choosing love, and doing the next right thing. Then to support the roof you need pillars or support beams, community, discipline, and people who keep you grounded.

That’s what I’m trying to focus on this semester: not rushing ahead, but building something real and solid that can actually hold what God wants to do in and through me.

If you think about it, I’d really appreciate prayer for energy and consistency, patience and joy with the kids, and for our team to keep serving with humility and unity.

If you’d like to help support me financially

Thank you to everyone who has already partnered with me, your support genuinely makes this possible. If you feel led to donate toward my funding, it directly helps cover my living and ministry costs here (housing/food, program and travel expenses, and resources that support what we’re doing).

You can give at the button on this site!

Thank you again for being a part of this with me.