Friday, July 9, 2010

Mission Trip - Farmington, New Mexico

On Friday, June 25, Rebecca, Abigail and I jumped onto vans and buses with approximately 120 other teenagers and adults and headed to New Mexico. Our destination was Farmington, which we landed in on Saturday evening after a stop and first concert in Amarillo, three malls to eat, and the Motel 6 in Tucumcari, which is very interesting, by the way.

We spent the week housed at the TraveLodge in Farmington and Crestview Church was our central station for meetings and eating. It's a long drive to New Mexico and the views are pretty much rocks, and rock formations, and a few tumbleweeds. I didn't really care for the dust storms and cottonweed blowing around, but LOVED the low/no humidity and great hair days. (if I had felt like fixing my hair on four hours sleep per night)



This was the view from the Shiprock Pentecostal Church parking lot,
located on a Navajo reservation.

I hope there's a better band picture than this,
but this is me and the guys. Love them all
and they are so talented.

The view from the Crestview Church -- amazing!

Our concert was about an hour or so long, with many different varieties of performances:

We STOMPED...
(Abigail is in the center, 2nd row with camo shirt)

...and BANGED on trashcans...

...and performed awesome DRAMAS...

...and led basketball CAMPS...

...and SANG lots of great music...
This is a Youth Camp in Hesperus, Colorado.

Me caught digging in my purse, probably
looking for eye drops or Altoids!

We POSED for pics...

...and threw CHAIRS...

And Melissa was there, so that was really great!
Don't we look "peachy" in the light of the fading sun?

And the following Friday, we loaded up at 6 a.m. and drove and drove and drove....stopping for bathroom breaks A LOT, and finally landed in Fort Worth on Friday night around 10:30. It was soooo good to be home, except for the 1,000% humidity which immediately sent us all into groans of "Let's go back to New Mexico! Wait....not really. Home to bed!"


My favorite picture that I took...the glory of God revealed in nature.

Our Home Concert will be this Sunday, July 11 at 6:00 p.m. Ya'll come!

1 comment:

Barb said...

Fabulous sunset pic! I can't wait for the concert. Hopefully you've caught up on your sleep, finally.