{"id":850,"date":"2013-05-09T17:15:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T22:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynavigatornews.com\/?p=850"},"modified":"2017-11-15T02:26:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T07:26:33","slug":"tamut-student-heads-church-mission-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eagleeyemedia.org\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"TAMUT Student Heads on Church Mission to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meagan Garrison<\/strong><\/p>\n

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On June 30, 2013 Texas A&M-Texarkana student, Kendal Barajas will be heading for a life changing experience.\u00a0 In order to participate, she will start with rounds of yellow fever shots and malaria medications.\u00a0 She willalso have to endure a 24 hour plane ride, 18 hour car ride and a 3 hour canoe ride.<\/p>\n

Barajas will be serving a church mission to the Island of Indego, which is just off the coast of Mozambique, Africa. In this church mission, Barajas along with 9 other members from different churches will be constructing a multipurpose building that will serve as a church and a school that teaches reading and writing to the locals.\u00a0 With only the foundation laid for them, the team will be bringing their own duffle bag of tools and will be making the cinderblocks for the building by hand.\u00a0 The cost of this building will be $30,000 and is being sponsored by The Church on the Rock of Texarkana, TX.<\/p>\n

During Barajas\u2019 stay, she and the other 9 team members will not be getting the most adequate accommodations.\u00a0 Their sleeping arrangements are under mango trees in mosquito nets.\u00a0 Their meals will consist of only beans and rice and water from the river.\u00a0 The only shower that will be available to them will be the local river.<\/p>\n

But Barajas doesn\u2019t see these hardships as many in her position would.\u00a0 All she can do is look forward to the adventure to come.\u00a0 \u201cI am most excited about the services that will be held and getting to spend time with the kids on the island,\u201d Barajas said.<\/p>\n

When asked why going through all of this is worth it,\u00a0 Barajas said without hesitation, \u201cBecause it\u2019s what I\u2019m called to do and is what I want to do for the rest of my life.\u00a0 If I could, I would live in Africa for longer than a month and to help the people that are less fortunate than me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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