Borders and Beyond Ministries

MISSION TRIP DEC 26-JAN 2ND

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We are taking a trip to Acuna in December. If you would like to join us, contact me at lindeman@kcu.edu. The cost is $395 plus food down and back. This price includes transportation, camp stay, meals there and project money. There will be groups from at least 3 or 4 different Churches going. Our projects will be, fixing up a Sunday school classroom at the downtown Church, visiting an orphanage and having Christmas with the children. If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of, contact me. The end of the month will be the deadline for joining. A deposit of $100 and an application is required.

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making tortillas!

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Art Museum in Piedras

The Mexican/American border

Art Sculptures in Piedras

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Working on the classroom at the downtown church in Acuna, Mexico

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Team Work

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Prepping the classroom floor for tile.

Justin being silly as usual!

We always sign a tile when we finish.

The finished product!

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We celebrated Brandi's birthday with a pinata!

the children listening intently to Justin's lesson

Justin teaching while David "sneaks" his snacks. The lesson was on temptation.

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playing dodge ball

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Eating at George's in Texas

stopped by to see an old school friend of Ron's in Waco, Texas

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More pictures from the United Church Service March 2011 in Acuna, Mexico

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Boys being boys

First wall going up

David working?

Scraping and painting

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Fellowship time @ mama's house

Stephanie joining in

Replacing and adding more lights in the Sanctuary

Aldo always a clown!

Preparing for VBS

Downtown Church singing a special @ the
United Church Service

The youth in the Downtown Acuna Church

Our team

At Amistad Dam

Pizza @ Domino's downtown Acuna

Antonio's family

Mission Trip to Mexico

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We are counting down the days! We will be headed to Acuna on March 12th. There is a group of 6 from the Westwood Christian Church going and 11 from Grayson going on this trip. I am excited about the group from Westwood going because it will be their first time and I know the Lord will bless their work and their witness there in Acuna. Please keep us in your prayers, for safety in our travels and for the Lord to be glorified in our attitudes, our actions and our work. We will be working on the downtown Church building and doing a VBS at the San Antonio Church.

VANDALS HIT AGAIN

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The San Antonio Church has been vandalized again. They tood the front and back doors and the toilet from inside. We are currrently looking for someone to stay at the Church to keep an eye on it and take care of the property. It is sad that this happens to a Church, but it does. I have been in contact with the President of Colegio Biblico to see there is a student who would like to stay here and help out Antonio. He is supposed to contact me. Please pray for this situation. If something isn't done about it soon, I am afraid that they will burn it down.

Our Brochure

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Borders and Beyond Ministries

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VBS @ San Antonio Church July 2009

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VBS @ Fundadores July 2009

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Mission Trip

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What are you willing to spend to change your life? People will spend thousands of dollars to look better or get skinny or have a makeover or see places they have never seen before. Well, we are offering you an opportunity for a life-changing makeover for $500. COME TO THE BORDER WITH US! We are in the planning stages for our next trip! If you have a desire to step out our your comfort zone and be challenged by God, then you need to take a trip with us to the Border. It is a life-changing experience. You will fall in love with God all over again. You will make new friends that will be friends for life. It is a chance of a lifetime and the price is right. You won't be disappointed. Missions; it is about Going, so, are you ready to GO?!

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More pics of the Spring trip to Acuna

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Spring Trip to Acuna, Mexico

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Sorry it has been awhile since I updated our blog. It was a very busy summer. Pictures of our 2 trips are added. The first trip we took was in April 09. We worked on a roof for the back side of the Fundadores Church of Christ and held two 2-day VBS programs, one at Fundadores and one at San Antonio Church of Christ. We had an awesome time and an awesome group that went. It was the first trip we ever took children and they did great. Everyone in Mexico was excited that we brought them. The language barrier wasn't a problem either! They had a wonderful time and made some new friends. We stayed at the American Campgrounds in cabins in Del Rio, Texas and drove back and forth each morning and night, which is only 5 minutes from Acuna.

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AVAILABLE FOR SPEAKING OR A WEEK OF CAMP

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Ron and I will be available to speak at a Church or work a week of camp. If you need a mission speaker for camp! Call us, we would be glad to talk and share about our work in Mexico and along the border.

PLANNING ANOTHER TRIP

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We are planning a Spring Break trip to Acuna. We will leave on April 3rd and return April 11th. We will be working on the Downtown Acuna Church and the Fundadores Church as well as doing a VBS program. We would love to have more workers! It is a life changing experience!!

Trip rescheduled

2009-01-09T12:50:00.001-08:00

We had a trip scheduled to go to Acuna and work on the Church @ Fundadores, but plans changed and we had to cancel. We were loading the van to go and we got a call from Ron's sister that his mom had a heart attack on Christmas night and she was in the hospital and not doing very well. Well, it brought back some bad memories for me because 2 years ago when we were in Mexico, my mom went into the hospital with chest pains and so we decided to cancel the trip and go on to Ohio that night. We had a couple good days with Ron's mom and she passed away on Tuesday. The Lord knows best and is in control. We originally were planning on leaving Friday @ 3:00 pm. We would have been on the road Friday night, but we changed the time to Sat. I had been struggling with this trip from the beginning and it just wasn't coming together. Now I know why. We weren't supposed to go. I am working on our next trips though. We are taking one in April 6 to work on the downtown Church. We will be putting a 2nd story on it. They are out of room. Then later in the summer we will be planning a trip to Eagle Pass, Texas to help the Church there work on their building. If you are interested in either of these trips, contact us. Or, if you would like to help coordinate and help with a trip, let us know. I could use some help and expertise. I am trying to be more organized and prepared. We will start meeting about the April trip this month. Will keep you posted. God Bless and thanks for everyone's prayers and support.

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Ron

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Lanette, Kollette and Anita

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Jake and Molly

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Justin and Kyle

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Antonio and family @ Camp Gethsemani

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VBS Children @ the Church downtown Acuna

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VBS @ Fundadores

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VBS children @ Fundadores

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STATEMENT OF FAITH

Believe - We believe that Jesus Christ is God's Son and that He died on the cross and rose from the grave to save you from your sins and give you the gift of eternal life.
Repent -We believe you need to repent and sincerely desire to turn away from anything that displeases God and live
according to His word and His will.
Confess - We believe in Confession to openly declare your faith in Jesus Christ.
Baptise -We believe Baptism is an essential part of your salvation.
Identify yourself with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus by being baptized in His name.

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Stephanie

An adventure

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You know everytime we take a trip to Mexico it is a new and exciting adventure. Each trip is different because of the different people going and different personalities, but I don't recall ever having a "bad" trip. Some of them have been more emotional then others, but they have all been very rewarding. I can recall several specific incidences of each trip that stick out in my mind and make me smile. We have been very blessed and I am so thankful that God brought us here to Kentucky Christian University where we have met some wonderful people. If it not for Bill Leamon and Anita Pacheco, we would not be involved in mission work. It is because they first took us and introduced us to a world outside our own, that we have come to love the work and the people along the Mexican border. They have become family to us.
We just got completed 2 trips, one in March to Eagle Pass and one in June to Acuna, Mexico. We worked with the Loma Bonita Church of Christ in Eagle Pass, Texas and put ceramic tile in their sanctuary. We had a wonderful time meeting new people and making new friends. In June we traveled to Acuna, Mexico and worked putting ceramic tile in 2 classrooms on the downtown Church and did a 3 day VBS downtown and a 2 day VBS at Fundadores. We had 3 new people on that trip and we enjoyed working with them and seeing them interact and fall in love with the people there.
We are excited and looking forward to more trips, more stories, more friends and new adventures to the "Borders and Beyond."
Our next scheduled trip will be in December 2008. We will be working at the Fundadores Church of Christ building a porch on the back of their very small building so they can meet and have Church outside out of the sun.
Interested in going, contact us.

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The sun god at Amistad dam.

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The men at Amistad dam.

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The women at Amistad dam

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Our group and Antonio's family at Domino's Pizza, downtown Acuna, Mexico

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Jesus and family

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Kollette as a cocoon??!!

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Erich being oh so "cute"!!

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Antonio acting silly!!! Love the glasses!!

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This how Ron slept when we went to Mexico in December, but he was sick and there was no heat. We are spoiled!!

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Eating at Antonio's home.

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Kollette's triangle tortilla!!!

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Kollette and Chago's wife making tortillas.

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Our group and Antonio's family at Amistad Dam.

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This is the group that went to Mexico in December to take down blankets, clothes and Bibles for the families. You can tell, it was very cold. Left to right: Kollette, Anita, Abby, Erich, and Ron.

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Chago with new soccer jersey on and the new guitar.

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Children posing for pictures.

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Erich and Aldo playing soccer.

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Kollette, Natalie and Abby

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San Antonio Church

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This is a store downtown in Piedras we discovered when we were shopping.

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Antonio's family

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Antonio portraying one of the devils traps of suicide.

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Sorting clothes and blankets to give to the families at the Church downtown Acuna, Mexico

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children's program

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Program put on by the downtown Acuna Church.

Ernesto portraying Christ taking on all of our sins.

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Antonio's oldest son looking at the new soccer jersey's that came from KCU.

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Abby and the children from the Church downtown.

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2 Sisters in Christ; Rosa Baker and Me (Anita)

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Texas Sunset

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More pictures of our group giving out presents.

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This is some of our group giving out blankets, clothes and Bibles to the families at Iglesia de Cristo Central.