Final Thoughts

It's been a great experience for our family to spend the holiday in service.

Would we do it again? Absolutely! We encourage everyone to consider taking a Maranatha Trip, whether over the holidays or at another time during the year. The impact you can have on the local congragation receiving the church--as well as on the people of the surrounding community--will change you.

Thanks again to all the people who have prayed for us. If you'd like to see some better pictures than ours, go to the Maranatha Volunteers link on the side bar and look for the Christmas Family Project blog that Dick Duerksen started while on the trip. You'll have to install Microsoft Silverlight to view his (amazing) pictures.

Many of you have asked if there will be a Maranatha Mission Stories episode about our trip. I have no doubt that there will, so we'll try to let you know when it's running so you can watch it on 3ABN or online at the Maranatha website. I encourage you to watch a few episodes of Maranatha Mission Stories on their site. They will inspire you as they did us with a desire to get involved.

Congratulations! You made it all the way to the end. I hope that you enjoyed out blog.

May God bless you in this new year as you find new way to serve Him!

The Rogers family

Special Thanks!!! to Maranatha for taking such good care of all of us, from meeting us at the airport in Santiago, seeing to our every need, great meals, wonderful excursions, and getting us safely off to home.  I doubt there is any missions ministry out there that is so conciensious about making sure a mission trip is a possitive experience all the way around.