{"id":7638,"date":"2026-10-31T16:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handsofaid.com\/?p=7638"},"modified":"2026-10-31T16:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:08:19","slug":"why-we-keep-coming-back-to-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handsofaid.com\/?p=7638","title":{"rendered":"Why We Keep Coming Back to Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Every time we return to Mexico and walk through the streets, handing out invitations and sharing the message of God\u2019s love, I experience something deeply personal.<br>One of the hardest moments comes when we hand out our last invitations. I realize there are still people we haven&#8217;t reached. Some of them may never receive another invitation or have the opportunity to hear about God. And that thought weighs heavily on my heart.<br>We cannot reach everyone or make sure that every person hears the Good News. But I believe God will continue His work through others, reaching people in ways we may never see.<br>Whenever we hand someone a simple invitation, we never truly know what happens next. We don&#8217;t know how God might use that small piece of paper to touch someone&#8217;s heart or change the direction of their life.<br>Perhaps one day, when we are in heaven, someone will come up to us and say:<br>\u201cDo you remember? One day, you handed me a little piece of paper with an invitation.\u201d<br>And in that moment, we may finally understand how something so small could make an eternal difference.<br>That is why we keep coming back to Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4M3q7Ol_5Uo?is=jLjQaLy_cM6lkJml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why We Keep Coming Back to Mexico<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time we return to Mexico and walk through the streets, handing out invitations and sharing the message of God\u2019s love, I experience something deeply personal.One of the hardest moments comes when we hand out our last invitations. I realize there are still people we haven&#8217;t reached. Some of them may never receive another invitation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/handsofaid.com\/?p=7638\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","nodate","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jLEk-1Zc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsofaid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsofaid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsofaid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsofaid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsofaid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/handsofaid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7639,"href":"https:\/\/handsofaid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7638\/revisions\/7639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsofaid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsofaid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsofaid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}