Mission Trip Overview:

I know this is a little late but I have been enjoying my relaxing summer so I am sorry.

This year the CBC youth group went to the Apache reservation in Arizona to build homes for the families living there. The over all theme that week in my opinion was its not wrong its just different. This idea was drilled into the group from the start. We were told that the Apache were shy and that we shouldn't expect much of a welcoming from the families of the homes we were working on. the next day we started work and just like they said we didn't see any of the apache's other than the ones who were working with Amor and helping us out on the sites making sure that we did everything the correct way.

The homes that we were building were very different from the ones in Mexico considering the fact that we had to go by USA building codes. Which resulted in the first day being quite a bit of trial and error. The next day we went back to our sites finished up the foundation then returned to camp to start building the walls which would then be taken back to the sites to be put up. While half the group was building walls the other half was in a riverbed digging out rocks for a different project the owners were trying to complete. the third day one of our sites went back to put up the walls that had been built on the second day while the rest finished making more walls and moving rocks. On the fourth day the site that had been building walls for the last two days went back to their site and put up the walls while the other site started on the roof.