Crossroads' 1st Mission Trip, Day minus 1

One more day and off we go! The boarding passes are all printed. The bags are all packed (well, almost). The only thing left to do now is get to sleep early. Anyone want to come send us off at the airport? We meet at the Delta ticket counter in PHL at 4:30 AM. No? I don't blame you. My ride is just going to stay up tonight. I guess for him staying up until 4:30 is easier than waking up at 3:30.

This is so exciting for me. When we started Crossroads we began with a heart for serving those outside our church walls. (That's not hard for us since we don't even have walls!) We call it our value of Redemptive Action. Now we are just over a year old and we are off onto our first foreign mission trip. Prior to this there has been an exciting times serving locally with Urban Promise, Habitat for Humanity, Sunday Breakfast Mission, a local ESL group, and a food bank in Elsmere. In addition we have hosted block parties for local communities during the summer.

I'm so glad that serving in this way has been a part of the habits of our young church from the beginning. Whether its your kids, your dog, or your church, the habits you learn early are the ones easiest to stick with. (Remember old dogs and new tricks?) With that in mind we have tried to organize service project for our church community every month since we started. In fact the first official act of Crossroads Church was to help a women who was in challenging situation move out of her house and into an apartment. Now we're off to Mexico to provide clean drinking water for the village of San Antonio Juarez. 

I hope I don't sound like I'm bragging. I don't mean to. I'm just excited. 

I've been told that there are signs on the frozen, barely maintained dirt roads of northern Canada that say, "Pick your rut well. You'll be in it for a long time." I don't know if there are really signs that say that, but I get the point.

I like our rut.