Immanuel Presbyterian Church

Ronnie and Adam arrived in Ensenada yesterday where we met with our host church, Pastor Luis Ochoa, and had set-up meetings. Later on Thursday night we met with our church partners and had an opportunity to review all of our plans as well pray together for the week to come. This meeting was full of joy and laughter as everyone gets to know one another. 

Also last night Ronnie and I got to meet three new staff members that will be serving alongside us this week as assistant trip leaders: Joe, Adriana, and Luisa. 

The churches in Ensenada are very excited to receive our teams and can't wait to meet them on Saturday night. 

We got tucked in at our host location and the trip officially got underway at about 11:00 pm last night. Yesterday we overcame flight delays, some major traffic crossing the border, skipped a stop because of a bull fight, and suffered a bus break down that took 3 hours to replace. All the while our church partners patiently waited, prayed for us, and kept dinner warm to greet us. 6 hours late and all smiles. Welcome to PPM Baja! Viva!

We woke up excited to meet our local Pastor and drove about  30 minutes to the church.The Pastor welcomed us to his church and shared about his ministry and vision. We felt very happy to hear his story.

Our team enjoyed the good and delicious Mexican food from the cooks. 

 In the afternoon, we went to do food distribution, we divided our team into three groups and they had a good experience praying and hearing the needs of the family we visited .

Finally, we were able to do art and crafts with the kids, we created a super hero mask, and the kids loved it. Also, we had a good time worshiping God with the children, we interacted with them and played some games. Now, we can say that we went back being more blessed than the children, thanks God!! 

Today, the whole group woke up with a lot of energy for our third day of ministry.The team decided to do a project to build a restroom for the church. First, we arrived with pastor Palacios and prayed, and we were ready to be a bless for the people.

Our pastor host surprise our team with a birthday cake and a pinata because Madelyn Wanzung will soon have her birthday. Sam had a lot of fun.

Today, was our last day serving the community and we are so grateful that we did our best and everyone enjoyed it! First, we started pouring the cement for the new restroom, which was a lot of work, but everyone did their best and we could finally made it

Team work, make a dream work.