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Crossing national, cultural and personal borders with the Good News of Jesus Christ"
Camp Dates for 2009
Monday, June 22 - Sunday, June 28, 2009
"Important! To travel into Mexico you must now have a passport or passport card. See details under the Travel link" |
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Safety concerns?? See updated info under the FAQ link
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Crossing Borders With God's Love
For the third summer, Crossing Borders mission camp brought a variety of people (ages 13 to 68 this time) together to share God’s love with people in another nation and of another culture. Twenty-five missionaries-in-training came to the Texas/Mexico border June 23-29 from six different U.S. states to participate in a week of reaching into Mexico with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Proving to be a truly “family camp,” we not only had some spouses and siblings sharing the experience, but we had three generations of one family sharing missionary work together—Wow!
Crossing Borders Mission Results For 2008
Crossing Borders is a “sampler camp” of hands-on missionary work, with attendees immersed into a wide variety of endeavors. This year we performed songs, dramas and puppet skits in churches and public parks; we helped distribute bulk food to forty pastors to take back to their needy churches; visited two children’s homes: played, sang, taught Bible lessons and gave each child much-needed personal attention; shared in a meal, musical worship and testimonials with 50 pastors, wives and ministry leaders; painted a room for an “adopt-a-family” who lives in unbelievable poverty; heard amazing stories of sacrifice from two families who serve as full-time missionaries deep in Mexico; helped install electrical wiring in a church so they can have services at night (they use a portable generator in a neighborhood with no electricity); distributed over 1,000 gospel tracts in parks and along streets, often being asked questions about Jesus—who is not well-known in that culture; visited a Bible college where new pastors are trained, helping to install new sewer lines; had times of worship, teaching and personal testimony at our base camp. Each day was long, hot and dirty—but transformational.
Crossing Borders’ slogan is “Crossing national, cultural and personal borders with the Good News of Jesus Christ.” It is truly shocking to cross the national border into Mexico and see the dramatic drop in economic levels overall. Differences between U.S. and Hispanic culture are also enlightening. But being hit with spiritual heart-change as personal borders are crossed may be the most lasting effect of the camp experience. While it is our goal to give of ourselves wholeheartedly and to bring about as much positive change as possible in the lives of those we came to serve, each year finds our camp attendees gaining more than we give—in a fresh understanding of the love of God for all His children.
If you’re looking for new challenges to stimulate growth in your Christian walk, if you’re ready to reach outside yourself and invest in the lives of others, if you can accept the challenge of operating in a different culture, and if you want to share your heart and testimony with others who need to know Jesus, this camp may be just right for you.
For more information or to apply, click on the links on the webpage.
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