Puerto Rico Mission Trip Teaches Monterey Bay Academy Students to Give Back to Their Community
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onterey Bay Academy sent 21 students and five faculty and volunteers on a mission trip to Puerto Rico in February to share God and, as a result, learn more about God. The students and staff spent over a week cleaning up beaches, leading out in worship, and spending time with the people they had just met. “The time that we visited Puerto Rico was just after their hurricane season. There was plenty of organic matter like seaweed, twigs, and leaves that washed up on the shores of the beaches. So, we did trash cleanup as well as organic matter cleanup,” explained Elizabeth Mendoza, Spanish and physical education teacher at Monterey Bay Academy, who organized the mission trip. “We also did some ministry work. We put on a Sabbath School and main service for the local church.” The school volunteered alongside a mission group called Changing People’s Lives International Ministries. The group’s founder, Marcos Perez, grew up in Puerto Rico, and he is connected to the ministry there. Perez helped lead the mission trip, making it easier for the volunteers to connect with the local community and reach more people safely.
26 Pacific Union Recorder
Central California Conference
