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Matthew McNutt 
I never enter contests, but this caught my eye & wanted to share my 16 yr old sons story from his mission trip last summer:
My husband & son built a home for a family in Mexico last summer & went back to a family they'd helped several yrs previously. They found the family's youngest son was Very ill & quite possibly dying from a tumor of sort in his tummy. The team took them back to the orphanage where they were based & a canadian Dr just 'happened' to be there & knew what to do immediately. They rushed him into a little rm & removed a huge growth that had been making this little boy so ill. My son Caleb,(now a soph) stayed w/the boy thru most of the surgery(GOT A LIL SICK & LEFT for a few min) From his continuing Spanish in HS he was able to comfort the boy somewhat & be used in this families life. They learned that maybe they needed to check back in (if possible) with past relationships/families, to see how they are, because you never know how God might use you. This boy & his family are healing & surviving a poverty life but are full of Christs love & blessings. My son was a bit freaked lol but also incredibly blessed to have been a part of all this & glad he listened to God impressing on his heart to go back & visit this family.
It was nice telling this story for him,
Dawnie
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