Our hearts go with you

LeAnn and I didn't go on the trip this year because of Andrew. But, mission trip has gotten into our blood and so all day yesterday we were visualizing where they must be on the journey down to Los Fresnos. I saw the McDonald's near Ardmore where they ate breakfast. I anticipated the traffic in Ft. Worth, saw the lunch exits in Round Rock, and felt the urge to sing rude songs while traveling past the UT campus.
Those familiar sights are all part of transporting our minds and spirits back to Matamoros. Each one we pass takes us deeper into our mission minds so that when they walk into church on Sunday morning it will be almost like they were there just last week.
The rituals that we participate in each Sunday do the same thing. They take us back into a place where our world is filled with songs of praise and the tang of the communion cup, almost as if we had never left and gone back home during the week.
The mission team carries our spirits with them even as they are the Holy Spirit for each other and for those whom they serve.

-Aaron Sapp