Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Old Mexico received one of the benches the mission group built for them. Nancy and David Hilley of Mallorysville Baptist Church; James Prince and Judi of Beulah Baptist Church, have just returned from a mission trip to Old Mexico.

They joined the group from South Georgia led by Rev. Ben Glosson. The group stayed at Valley Baptist Mission Retreat in Mission, Texas. The retreat hosts groups there while they work across the border of Old Mexico. They also have campsites for people who come for the warmer climate from up North for the winter. While they are there, they do mission work.

The guide for going across the border to Old Mexico was David Lewis, a friend of the group since 1997. He felt the call to missions and now lives and works at Valley Baptist Missions Retreat. A trailer loaded with supplies was carried to help those in need in Mexico.

The group built benches for the Mt. Olive Baptist Church. The congregation has about 30 children to attend in addition to the adults. They purchased cabinets for another church in the colonial. Bibles and gospel tracts were given out to the pastors and people. Treats were carried to the children.

They assisted with stuffing Christmas stockings each containing a Spanish tract with the story of Jesus. They volunteered to bag beans, work in the clothes room, sewing room, and stuffing Christmas stockings and bag oranges.

An on-going project at the Mission is to make quilts of all sizes. These quilts may be used as a bed, a door to a house or to go across an open roof. They have made over 200 quilts and their goal is to make 400. These supplies are sent across the border to help all those people in need.

The majority of the people in the colonial have no heat, no utilities, no running water, no floors and no way to stay warm in the winter in their makeshift houses made of pallets and what materials they can salvage out of the dump.

They do take pride in keeping their children clean and caring for their children. Nancy Hilley says no one can imagine people living as they do. This group looks forward to going again and with hopes that others would join in the effort.