Experience of a Lifetime
53 people from Elk Creek Baptist Church of McCall, Idaho, traveled to Chalco, a heavily populated suburb of Mexico City, Mexico to spend the first week of August investing their time in the lives of a less fortunate people.
The missions team from Elk Creek built classrooms, hosted a vacation Bible school for children, renovated a feeding station, gathered and distributed clothing to the children of a squatter community known as “Tent City” and granted scholarships for the high school education of three teenagers.
The construction division of the missions team poured concrete non-stop for 5 straight days wheelbarrow load by wheelbarrow load, finally completing 6 classroom floors and the exterior sidewalk at Gethsemane Baptist Church. Others on the construction team, transported 800 cinder blocks from the ground floor to the second floor of the building, stuccoed 10 walls, compacted the surrounding landscape and moved 2 one thousand gallon water tanks. Needless to say, the construction team was extremely “cansado” (tired) at the close of each day, but many of the team lamented that they could not accomplish more in their time.
At Bethel Baptist Church, also in Chalco, the vacation Bible school (VBS) team spent their mornings, teaching the children of the community and distributing the clothing they had gathered from the community of McCall. In the afternoon, the VBS team renovated the Manna Feeding Station that Elk Creek solely supports in order to feed 200 needy children every day of the week year round.