Preparations Before Crossing the Border
 

114 Degrees

Saturday, July 7th - We left bright and early and made it to San Diego in 15 hours (which included one hour in So. California traffic. Hot spot of the day? Baker, Nevada - gateway to Death Valley. We ate lunch at a park and it was 115 degrees. On the good side, the hot temperatures made us less eager to stop for breaks. We were already bonding on the road trip and made it to Point Loma Nazarene University, moved into our dorm rooms and grabbed a bite to eat at In-And-Out Burgers. Thank you for your prayers for our safe travel. We are excited to see what tomorrow holds.

Sunday, July 8th - We had a great breakfast in the cafeteria and got a great ocean view while we had a brief time of worship. We committed to fasting from all of the devices we surround ourselves with on a regular basis (cell phones and Ipods) to keep our eyes and ears open for what God wanted to show us and say to us. Our border crossing went well and we arrived at our camp on the cool coast of Baja, Mexico. Plenty of room to set up our tents and cooking-kitchen station and campfire area. Primitive outhouses and places to hang our shower bags in walled off and graveled bathhouses rounded out all of the amenities that our AMOR campsite provides. We met our AMOR building assistant, Chrissy. She just graduated from college and has committed the next 15 months of her life to this ministry. During our campfire, Sean reminded us from 1 Peter 2 that we are also building ourselves up as a spiritual household for God. We went to bed before 10 pm and were eager to meet our family. We will be building for a single mother (Angela) of five kids who range in age from 20 to 10 (two girls and three boys). The family is about a 30 minute drive from our campsite. Please pray for us as we meet them and get to work tomorrow.

You can see the team bonding together already. They worked hard setting up the camp and getting dinner ready. By the way, John Young has planned some incredible meals for us. Your continued prayers that we represent Christ and FPC well are much appreciated.

─Tom