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Hello,
My name is Abraham Kim and recently I went to a short
mission trip to Tijuana Mexico and Ensenada, Mexico. I spent only about two
days at the Love Mexico Mission Center located in Ensenada with the mission
team from Na Sung church. As my dad, Sung Kim, asked me to go on a short
mission trip to Mexico, I first didn’t know what to expect and felt a bit
uncomfortable. Knowing that I would be the only teenager and I would be using
my time in a place that had bad memories for me, I knew it would be rough.
Knowing this would be a mission trip, I was also uneasy as my four years of
learning Spanish left me with nothing but with a severely broken Spanish. I did not like where I was going and even forgot
the mighty God that I work for.
Upon arrival, the mission center was surprisingly clean and
tidy, but I couldn’t really use the water there and I just felt filthy
throughout just the two days I was there. This was my mindset, just full of
complaints. When the elders and I went to give food and clothes to the people
known as the Campos, people that didn’t even speak Spanish but a native
language, I just wasn’t so called “feeling” the work of God in me. I knew I was
being very selfish on the first day just wanting to go back. However, that
heart was broken severely the second day of the trip.
Early morning the next day, we set off to go to Tijuana and
meet with other people. As we first set foot to a shelter full of old prisoners
I was uneasy. However, the hearts they had and the light I saw in them almost
reminded me of Apostle Paul. Apostle Paul was a broken sinner and Christ took
him out and made him into one of the most respected saints in the Bible. I just
saw Christ among them, as most of them were proclaiming the love of God to me.
I just couldn’t stop thinking about that during our car rides afterward. Our
next stop was meeting with a Mexican family where a pastor was the head of the
family. We were now starting the event that would completely break the
selfishness I was holding unto.
First the pastor started with a prayer in Spanish. I
understood only parts of it with my small education in Spanish, but
surprisingly it was probably the most beautiful prayer I heard in a while. It
just proved to me how majestic and all knowing God was and also that he is with
his servants around the world. As we were going to a homeless area near the
border I knew that the trip was almost over, but as we approached the place it
was a devastating sight to see. There were more then ninety people in the place
living in holes in the ground and just hungry for anything. My heart couldn’t
take this sight, however; God wasn’t done with just that sight but what hurt me
the most was seeing those ninety people waiting in a long line for thirty
minutes just to taste a nasty broth made of meat and ramen that we the team was
making for them. I thought, “how hungry can these people be for just a small
portion of food that seemed gross to me.
I then started to talk to two guys there named Andreas and
Tom. Before I approached them I half-heartedly prayed to the Lord to just guide
me in the conversation. Luckily they spoke English so I thankfully didn’t have
to use my terrible Spanish. I started talking about the Gospel to them and
surprisingly they understood it as they proclaimed to be believers. However,
they seemed to have no hope in their lives as they both were complaining how
hard their lives were. I surprisingly knew what to say at that point. I talked
about Job and Paul and how God works through even tough times in peoples’
lives. We just then just talked and built a relationship among each other. I
have to say that meeting them is definitely an eye opener for me in my life.
There were no words to portray the blessed event I just experienced as they
both left saying that they will read the Word as much as they could. At that
moment I just couldn’t believe that God used a selfish guy like me to do some
of His will.
From start to finish God wanted to do something with me
during this trip. Not only was my eye opened in how the world needs Hope and
that I have it easy compared to them, I also realized how God can use people
like me to do some of His Kingdom Work. I was so unworthy to experience this
trip and God just lovingly used me. I am so thankful for the mission team, my
dad, and my true Father for the people of Mexico and to give me a heart to “Love
Mexico”.