Getting ready to head to the mission field.

This coming Friday morning, I board a plane headed to San Diego, CA, along with seven other fellow K S B J coworkers. From there we will take a bus South, across the Mexican border to the city of Tijuana. For the next five days I will be producing video of the staff working alongside the Newsboys, the local missions staff of  Global Expeditions team that we partnered with, and a bunch of the station's listeners. This is the first missions trip I've ever gone on, so I'm nervous about what to expect, but I'm leaving it all in God's hands. Originally, we had tried to get Belinda to come, and were able to secure some discounted rates and what not, but then found out that there were too many of her coworkers on vacation at the time, which meant she had to stay. By no means will this be a vacation for me since I'm just doing audio/video. My days will be probably 15-16 hr days from what I've put together, so I'm sure I will sleep hard each night.

The purpose of the trip is to help spread the word about the poverty in this region of the world, and how we can all help. The area is beautiful, that's for sure, but the poverty level is some of the worst in Mexico. People living in cardboard houses, no clean water, no electricity, and daily just trying to find food to eat. As well as trying to help spread the word about how to help these people, we will also assist in building houses, running some VBS classes for local children, and just showing them the love of Jesus. I hope I can capture this well enough in video.

I also plan to record some personal video blogs if I can find enough time, and post them back here! Internet access is very limited, so I'll most likely only be able to upload video early in the morning or late at night.  We'll have to see. I'll be gone from July 23rd, through the 27th, so five days. I know I'll miss Belinda and the kids terribly. Please feel free to pray as you feel led, but also please pray for safety for me, and for nothing to happen to any of us or my family while we're on the trip. From what I hear it's a pretty dangerous area of Mexico, but the group we're going with has been in the area for close to 25 years and haven't had any issues ever. Nice to know!

Below is a video the Newsboys put together late last year when they were in Baja (the area we'll be working), with footage from when they were working, as well as using clips from their new hit single "Born Again" (which I recommend you pickup from iTunes!).  The video shows probably only a small taste of what I'll see.  Regardless, the video is powerful, and the song is a perfect match.  Enjoy...