Mexico - Vamos a Santiago Tianguistenco!

It is so hard to believe that we will be en route to Mexico in less than 30 hours! 16 Taylor students, 3 Taylor leaders, and 7 Lions Club members (including our fearless leaders John and Arlene Clester) will be spending our Spring Break in Santiago Tianguistenco, Mexico providing eyeglasses to people who need them. The plan is to set up shop on Sunday, and bright and early Monday morning, the people will be lining up to receive their glasses. Members of our team will be running auto refractors (machines that test eyes...they look kind of like some sort of weird video game), picking glasses with the correct prescription, and fitting the glasses on the people. Ideally, we are going to put glasses on over 5000 people while we are down there. Wow!

5000 people...I guess that kind of puts things in perspective. Lately I've been feeling kind of apprehensive about this whole trip, being a little worried that I'm really going to mess something up or that maybe I shouldn't even be going on this trip. But when I think of basically giving sight to over 5000 people...well, that certainly seems important. I think it is going to be really awesome to be able to see such tangible results of our work.

We would love it if all of you would really keep us in your prayers from now until we get back. Please pray for wisdom as we pack, for safety and health in our travels, for team unity, and for the people we will minister to down in Mexico. Also, please pray for peace for all of us. I guess I'm speaking for myself, but I'm betting that a lot of the team is kind of nervous/apprehensive about the whole trip. Your prayers will be so greatly appreciated!

Stay tuned for more updates...

- Emily Fox