Open Doors of Faith

Open Doors of Faith Orphanage is a Christian organization that I had the privilege of visiting last weekend. The facility was nice and the staff was awesome. I can see that these children have been well cared for through the children of my Heavenly Father.

I was blessed to play with the kids: futbol, catch, mary-go-round, swings, arts & crafts, and side walk chalk doodling.

I was blessed to make breakfast at a church near a dump site to a community of kids that live there. The ministry seeks to share meals with these kids everyday before they go to school. Parents are welcome to come with their kids too.

I was blessed to wrap gifts and make food bags for families in a nearby poor community of green house workers. I was blessed to hear the gospel preached to them and to hold one of the mother's precious baby girls during the outreach event. I was blessed to paint the kids faces and to see the staff let the kids paint their faces as well. I was blessed to see this boy who was about eleven years old be so excited to have received his very own soccer ball. It was a blessing to be there in a warehouse barn in the middle of the fields they labor on day in and day out with all of them enjoying a meal. Being there made me desire to know Spanish fluently all the more. My communication with them through words was so little, but I wanted to know what a day of life was like for them, what are there needs, what do they believe about God...

There were other adventures on the trip: rain, double rainbows, hiking paths, ocean views from the top, The Cross, wild horses, sheep, geese, rooster cocka-doddle-doo's in the morning, finding a frog in my cabin, lack of rain boots equaling mud from knee to toe (the kids called me "cochina"), playing basketball in the pouring rain beacause it was fun, but also so all the mud would wash off, driving through thick puddles, getting stuck in puddles and trying to figure out how to get out. Driving home in a mud covered car, driving through the border with the mud covered car, and seeing the vendors at the border avoid our car, because they could not see inside brought for much laughter. This car was COVERED in mud.

I really loved being in Mexico. I loved this quaint community near the ocean away from the city. I loved being with the kids at the orphanage and the fellowship with the staff. I enjoyed the restaurants and The Panaderia. I enjoyed trying to form sentences in Spanish and learning new words. I loved going to church there and hearing the simple message from the pastor: Make sure you are building your life on a firm and strong foundation, spend time with God, and share Him with others.

I hope I get to go back there one day.

Thinking about the trip as a whole... I want to spend my life doing that kind of work, His work! There is much joy found in doing His work!