Wow!
This is an excellent look at what a mission trip is and what it does, not only to the people those going have gone to help, but to the people traveling to a different context than their own.
In my experience, going on a mission trip is one of humility. It's not "Here I am to help you," but a realization that we, too, will be changed. We also realize that we carry the light of Christ to others, and they give it right back to us.
This video is creatively edited with music, scripture, and excellent footage of the trip. It can be a background introduction for those who have never been on a trip or are planning to go on a mission trip, or for those specifically traveling to Mexico. This video can be used for any mission trip, whether cross-cultural or not, because it emphasizes how similar we are.
There are a number of interviews after the trip given by those who went. I found myself hoping to see an interview from an English speaker from the town this group traveled to (or one translated into English). There wasn't one, but I discovered that that was OK because, like the illustration one woman gave of an old woman putting her hands on the woman's face and both of them crying as the old woman spoke words the American woman couldn't understand, that words aren't as important as what we see and feel. We can read the faces of the people through the video. We realize that, although we may seem to be worlds apart, we are a world together.
This is what mission trips are about. It's sharing what we've been given by God, but also being given so much more by God through the people we help, and taking so much more home than we ever dreamed possible.

Wow!
This is an excellent look at what a mission trip is and what it does, not only to the people those going have gone to help, but to the people traveling to a different context than their own.
In my experience, going on a mission trip is one of humility. It's not "Here I am to help you," but a realization that we, too, will be changed. We also realize that we carry the light of Christ to others, and they give it right back to us.
This video is creatively edited with music, scripture, and excellent footage of the trip. It can be a background introduction for those who have never been on a trip or are planning to go on a mission trip, or for those specifically traveling to Mexico. This video can be used for any mission trip, whether cross-cultural or not, because it emphasizes how similar we are.
There are a number of interviews after the trip given by those who went. I found myself hoping to see an interview from an English speaker from the town this group traveled to (or one translated into English). There wasn't one, but I discovered that that was OK because, like the illustration one woman gave of an old woman putting her hands on the woman's face and both of them crying as the old woman spoke words the American woman couldn't understand, that words aren't as important as what we see and feel. We can read the faces of the people through the video. We realize that, although we may seem to be worlds apart, we are a world together.
This is what mission trips are about. It's sharing what we've been given by God, but also being given so much more by God through the people we help, and taking so much more home than we ever dreamed possible.

Wow!
This is an excellent look at what a mission trip is and what it does, not only to the people those going have gone to help, but to the people traveling to a different context than their own.
In my experience, going on a mission trip is one of humility. It's not "Here I am to help you," but a realization that we, too, will be changed. We also realize that we carry the light of Christ to others, and they give it right back to us.
This video is creatively edited with music, scripture, and excellent footage of the trip. It can be a background introduction for those who have never been on a trip or are planning to go on a mission trip, or for those specifically traveling to Mexico. This video can be used for any mission trip, whether cross-cultural or not, because it emphasizes how similar we are.
There are a number of interviews after the trip given by those who went. I found myself hoping to see an interview from an English speaker from the town this group traveled to (or one translated into English). There wasn't one, but I discovered that that was OK because, like the illustration one woman gave of an old woman putting her hands on the woman's face and both of them crying as the old woman spoke words the American woman couldn't understand, that words aren't as important as what we see and feel. We can read the faces of the people through the video. We realize that, although we may seem to be worlds apart, we are a world together.
This is what mission trips are about. It's sharing what we've been given by God, but also being given so much more by God through the people we help, and taking so much more home than we ever dreamed possible.