Church members make memories on mission trip

A mission trip to Mexico gave Tim Howard a chance to see how a local church is making a difference.

While in Mexico, Howard met a family who shared their story: The couple had marriage problems and one of their sons was getting beat up daily in the public school. The family was on the verge of imploding.

Life began to change, however, through the dads interaction with Fremonter Darrol Prusia, who began working in Puebla, Mexico, as a missionary for Camino Global in 2010.

Within a short time, the Mexican man and his wife became Christians. Their marriage began to heal. The son transferred to a Christian school, where hes making academic progress.

Its really cool, Howard said. You see the real-life impact of what the Prusias are doing down there you see the real human face of what our missions are accomplishing.

Howard was just one of seven members of Fremont Alliance Church who recently went to Mexico, where they did various jobs from assembling and distributing wheelchairs to working on church buildings. Yet more than working on structures, team members were building and strengthening relationships with the people they helped, and each other.

The group spent time in two different cities visiting and helping missionaries who call Fremont Alliance their home church: Tina Barham and the Prusia family.

Deb Mellema, FACs adult ministry assistant, organized the wintertime trip. Church members making the journey were Randy Brand, Ken Meier, Tim Howard, Willie Jamison and Jo Preitauer of Fremont and Dan Ruwe and James Newkirk of Arlington.

Ruwe had long wanted to make such a trip.

Darrol Prusia is my friend and we were in a small group together for quite a while and he always said, When are you coming down for a mission trip?

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