A group of 23 recently traveled to the Boca Costa de Solola region of
southwestern Guatemala to provide medical services to villagers. Group
members ranged in age from 19 to 70-something, and all but two attend
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Conway. This was the first mission trip
to Guatemala for St. Peter’s.
Steve Stephens, pastor of Southside Baptist Church in Damascus, said
while he wouldn’t want to go through it again, disaster turned into a
blessing as the church family rebuilt after a May 2008 tornado.
“We lost everything, even our new addition,” he said. “It took 13 months
to rebuild, and we met at the auditorium at Southside High School.”
Since 2005, Four Winds Church in Conway has been making an annual summer
mission trip to the Matamoros Children’s Home in Matamoros, Mexico. In
2009, the church added a men’s spring mission trip to devote extra time
to construction-type projects.
But who says you have to go home to go home?
For many people, moving to a new city can be stressful, particularly
when looking for a new church. New Life Church is giving its members and
the world the opportunity to attend services from anywhere – by
streaming services online at an Internet Campus.
Like most Americans, we had seen the startling images of
earthquake-ravaged Haiti in the news and watched almost daily during
those first few weeks. We realized the urgent need for medical aid.
Most, if not all of our medical mission team, immediately felt a sense
that Port-au-Prince was where we needed to be.
