You can listen to updates about the WFC Lenexa high school mission trip to Mexico at 913.890.4268.
March 25, 2008
Click on the link below to view the pictures from Westside’s March 2008 South Africa trip!
http://www.flickr.com/groups/wfcsa08m/
March 8, 2008
Westside is off to South Africa again!
Please visit the link below to follow our team in South Africa, March 12-24. Check for updates, picture and videos from the first ever J. Bay Indaba Camp for One Life Child Sponsorship kids in South Africa as well as updates from the rest of the team’s experience.
November 6, 2007
Here are the pictures from the October 2007 South Africa trip!
http://www.flickr.com/groups/575299@N23/
October 8, 2007
View pictures from the trip at http://www.flickr.com/groups/wfcthailand.
September 25, 2007
Second (and last) update from Thailand
Posted by rvaughn under Thailand, Thailand 2007Leave a Comment
Wow, this has been an incredible trip. There is no way I could possibly describe all that has occurred during our time in Thailand…. I’ll try. We joined our partner church in Pua, Thailand in hosting a camp for about 50 youth. The camp was called Joshua Camp. Our team led much of the teaching for three days of amazing fellowship, worship, play, campfire and teaching. The culmination of the camp was exciting as several kids made the decision to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. This was followed by 15 baptisms in a pond. Amazing, amazing, amazing. (more…)
September 20, 2007
Well we have made it safely to Thailand and are currently staying at AbbaHouse in Chiangmai. Amazing experience. 33 girls, all in danger of the sex slave industry…mostly orphans. beautiful girls and so much fun. We have been teaching them conversational english, but actually they are teaching us so much more. It has been exciting to travel around ChiangMai, but also sad to see middle aged european or american men with young Thai girls…young prostitutes. Thank God for ministries like AbbaHouse. (more…)
August 22, 2007
If you’d like to view pictures from the August 2007 India trip, you can go to wfcindiaaug2007.snapfish.com/comcast2
August 19, 2007
What does sacrificial love look like? This is one of the journal entries we were asked to write about while on the trip. My response:” Sacrificial love is loving of others before yourself. Demonstrating compassion in all that you do and everyone you touch. It is embracing the poorest of the poor, the dirtiest of the dirty and the richest of the rich. Sacrificial love allows a great inner peace, a peacefulness that radiates itself from the inner soul to the outward body. Others around you can feel and see the lovely energy that protects you and comforts them. The sacrifice of oneself brings about the highest reward – peace and knowledge with thyself to serve others.”
Theresa Cummings.
August 14, 2007
Internet access was very difficult to get, even in Tuni, where it has been reliable in the past. The team has arrived safely in Kansas City, but not without some excitement. We almost missed our flight from Delhi to the USA. Nearly missing flights became a theme for the trip. In India, they were kind enough to hold the plane for us. America is a different story. Once on the plane in Delhi we waited nearly 3 hours for departure clearance. Our original route included Pakistan airspace, which happened to be closed for the day due to their independence day celebrations. Eventually an alternative route was found, with fifteen minutes to spare. Had it been approved 15 minutes later the flight would have been cancelled because the crew would have exceeded their flying time. This team was used to cutting it close on time. We did, however, miss the flight from Chicago to KC. Due to the delay in Delhi we were landing as it was taking off, there was no way we could make it in time, especially since we still had to get through customs. (more…)
