Mexico Trip Meeting

The BCC September Mexico mission’s trip team is now forming. Please contact Jim Spitnale at jspitnale@bex.net or 419-478-4047 to be a part of this exciting trip.

May Haiti Trip - Please Pray

Please pray for our team going to Haiti May 14 - May 20 - Tony Eddinger, Chris Rettenberger, Tom Scribner, Billy & Karen Worland, John Mazur and John Berns.

This team will be putting a roof on the storage warehouse that will hold food to feed thousands of hungry children every day. They are also hoping to be able to roof the first of many quadplexes that will house 240 orphans once complete.

Haiti Trip Testimony from Dustin Reed

The thought of visiting a third world country for me was filled with nerves and excitement, I honestly did not truly know what to expect. My only perspective of third world countries was from a cruise I went on about four years ago. In my mind I was preparing myself to be awakened however I never could have guessed what was going to happen inside of my heart.

The first day we arrived to Haiti, we drove through Port-au-Prince, the city was filled will people who had needs beyond anything I could ever imagine. Children hugging fences pleading with us to help them by giving them money. Children climbing up our bus trying to get inside and convince us to give them money. These children where in need, you could see it in their faces and the stomaches that where very empty.

We often forget how much we have in America, the clothes and the roofs on our houses. In Haiti there was something that was very common, buildings and houses that never were completed, most of them were without roofs. This was a reality that I understood the most when John Mazur, Mike Keane, Jim Spitnale and I put a roof on a young man's house. This young man and his younger brothers lived in a house with a tarp for a roof and with rainy season currently going on it was not a good combination. The thing that I found most rewarding was seeing the thankfulness in his face, he came up to all of us and gave us the biggest hug and was beyond thankful.

My favorite aspect of the trip was traveling to villages, I enjoyed the VBS we would put on, but I thoroughly enjoyed talking to young adult's of the villages. I sensed a connection with many of them, I was greatly moved by the thankfulness that they had for the little things. They would show us their houses, wives and children and the light of God would reign from their face. Haitian Christian's showed a level of love and contentness that if we had in our lives I believe things would be different. I'm beyond thankful I was able to go on this trip and be changed forever.

WOTC Prayer Need

I was down last weekend on a visit to Way of The Cross and their camps at Harlingen Texas, Padilla and Aldama Mexico in preparations for the BCC September mission’s trip. The people at WOTC have a burning desire to preach the Gospel and raising up others to share Jesus. I wanted to pass on a prayer need for some new friends of ours. A van from WOTC was in a very bad accident yesterday down in Mexico. They were hit head-on by a car that blew a tire while coming the opposite way. Tony Miller (far right in picture) and several others are badly hurt and one young lady named Andrea was killed. I can still see Andrea dancing and singing at a meeting that we had last Monday in Harlingen. I believe that she’s dancing and singing with the Lord now. Please pray for those that were hurt as well as the WOTC ministry. They are hosting a big pastor’s conference in Aldama this week with over 1,000 pastors from across Mexico coming.