A group from Trinity Church, including five members with disabilities from their Light & Power ministry, traveled to Ensenada, Mexico to build a loft house for a single mother and her son. Over the course of their trip, the group worked together to complete construction despite differences in abilities, strengthening their own community and building relationships with their hosts through service.

1. In December 2013, a group of 30 from Trinity Church headed south of the border to
Ensenada, Mexico to build a loft‐house for a single mom and her son. Included in the group
were five members of Light & Power, a ministry of Trinity that includes adults with
disabilities. The group gathers in a circle for prayer before they begin.

2. This was the second time that David & Toni have helped build a
loft‐house in Mexico. Every night for two years they prayed that the
Lord would provide an opportunity to serve internationally.

3. Kathi and Kathy take a break from painting.
Looks can be deceiving. Sometimes, you can’t tell at
a glance if someone has a disability.

4. Messy paint, messy lives.
It’s all part of God’s design!
(Photo by Lindsey H)

5. Kellee gets some one‐on‐one instruction from the team captain.
We learn a valuable lesson in patience when interacting with
others whose abilities are different than our own.

6. There is an unexpected beauty in having
the whole body of Christ working together.

7. Churches need to recognize that participation by all
will require sacrifice and service by some.

8. What most people would
consider “scrap” has value
and is worth saving.

9. Various ages and abilities gather to paint the table
that will hold a gas powered cooking stove.

10. A person with disabilities experiences incredible vulnerability in
letting strangers help them with their most personal needs. This is a
powerful demonstration of humility to the rest of the team.
(Photo by Lindsey H)

11. David demonstrates there
is joy in serving others.

12. Everyone wins when we work as a team!

13. Dulce, the recipient of the loft‐house, and Toni work to prepare
the curtains for hanging. Despite differences in ability and a
language, serving together breaks down barriers.

14. When the least of these helps the least of these,
be prepared to see something beautiful!

15. We came to Mexico thinking we were going to build a house.
We discovered that we really came to build the body.
(Photo by Lindsey H)

16. 1 Corinthians 12:12‐26 (ESV)
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members
of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit
we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and
all were made to drink of one Spirit.

17. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am
not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the
ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less
a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing?
If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?

18. But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he
chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are
many parts, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of
you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” (Photo by Lindsey H)

19. On the contrary, the parts of
the body that seem to be
weaker are indispensable,
and on those parts of the
body that we think less
honorable we bestow the
greater honor, and our
unpresentable parts are
treated with greater modesty,
which our more presentable
parts do not require.

20. But God has so composed the
body, giving greater honor to
the part that lacked it, that
there may be no division in
the body, but that the
members may have the same
care for one another. If one
member suffers, all suffer
together; if one member is
honored, all rejoice together.
(Photo by Lindsey H)

21. Kellee gets a big hug after she gives Dulce a Spanish Bible.

22. As the rain gets ready to fall and the vans get ready
to drive off, Kellee is the last to leave…
saying one last goodbye to her new “amiga” (friend).