IT...IS...FINISHED!!!!    What's finished you ask??!!?  The first step...maybe the most difficult step...the "responding to God's call on your life step".  Both exhilarating and agonizing to watch, once again this year God has had His way with hundreds of men, women, students and children across America and reaching all the way to Northern Ireland.  God calls...we wrestle with it...He wins.  This past few months that was repeated exactly 290 times.  290...that is the total number of men, women, students and adults who will make up our version of Mexico '08(along with a couple of waiting lists).  Here's how the teams break down...

HIGH SCHOOL TEAM...120 people total...35 from Richmond...11 from Northern Ireland...74 from Jersey.  Total teams and total houses - 7.  One Vacation Bible School.  Total vehicles in caravan going into Mexico-15.  Total number of tacos eaten whin in Mexico....who knows?!!?  Total lives changed...more than we'll ever know.

FAMILY TEAM...170 people total...15 from New York...50 from Boston area...5 from Northern Ireland...80 from Jersey.  Total teams and total houses-10.  One Vacation Bible School.  Total vehicles in caravan traveling back to USA...18.  Total late night trips to the banos...way too many!!!  Kingdom-advancing moments in people's lives....too numerous to count!

Bottom line...God has assembled the largest number of Mexico house building Gospel sharing servants ever!  We are going to Mexico to do...but even more importantly...we are going to Mexico to be!  Be servants...be available...be present...be learners...be Jesus' hands and feet...just be.  It's easy to do.  It's difficult to be, but it's in our being that we become all God wants for us!

Ephesians 2:22

And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.