BVS Church performs acts of charity in Mexico
BVS Church performs acts of charity in Mexico
By: Kari Sanders
Description: Bear Valley Springs Community Church
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Posted by editor Tue Nov 30, 1999 00:00:00 PST
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0 responses 0 comments When it comes to helping others, kids are always trying to help each other — whether it be giving their piggy bank to a charity or giving away some of their old clothes during Christmas. But for a group of kids and their parents from Bear Valley Springs Community Church, giving away their stuff was not enough; they wanted to dig in and actually use their hands and time to help out.
On April 27 through 30, about 35 people caravanned down to Ensenada, Mexico to help out at a battered women’s shelter called Casa Esperanza, House of Hope.
While there, the group helped with a vacation Bible school that Casa Esperanza held for the children of the women living there as well as women and children from a local Mexteco village.
The BVSC group also handed out some instruments and stuffed animals that the Tehachapi kids got out of their own closet and donated to the Mexican children.
“It was great to see the kids we see every day at church interacting with the Mexican kids. Even though they didn’t speak the same language, they loved playing with each other,” said Lisa Papac.
Not only did the group hand out toys and join in on a VBS, they also painted buildings, cooked with the women at Casa Esperanza and continued to work on the bathroom that the Bear Valley Springs Community Church Youth Group had built two weeks prior.
“It was really awesome seeing how others in our church, even the little kids, helped to finish what our youth group had started,” said Lauryn Stone, a senior at Tehachapi High School.
“Faith is not worth spit without a little bit of hard work,” stated Pastor Eric Mock, the leader behind the family trip.
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