By Hannah Poon

Before going on the short term missions trip to Mexicali, I had not spiritually prepared and I set a limit for God. I had gone the year before so I basically expected what happened last year to happen again this year. However, God showed me that He can do the impossible and He humbled me.

On the first day, we did homeless outreach, and I was so nervous to talk to the homeless. However, as I approached the first person, a sense of peace and love filled me and I wasn’t afraid anymore. During Vacation Bible School (VBS), I was scared to communicate because of the language barrier, so I tried to stay in my comfort zone. Despite my unpreparedness and fear, God revealed to me during the coming week that He had other plans for me. Read more →

By Nicholas Ngai

For those of you reading this who don’t know me, I’m a recently graduated Youth from Valley Christian High School and am going off to University of California, Berkeley, this upcoming Fall. Over the summer between high school and college, I went on a short term missions trip (STM) to Mexicali, Mexico, over a period of one week, and while it wasn’t a super long period of time, I was still awed by the amount that God worked both in the lives of the people of Mexicali as well as our own lives.

When we arrived to the C&MA Mexicali Missions Base on Monday, I did carry with me some fears about the ministries we would be doing throughout the week. The largest of these was that the language barrier was going to be pretty high this year. Unlike the last couple years, we didn’t have any team members who were very proficient in Spanish. I still had faith that God was definitely going to work through the team, but I had my doubts on how much God would work through me, specifically, having taken four years of French, rather than Spanish. Read more →