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reflect on life together It’s been our desire to take our girls on a mission trip for some time. We have both been on Vine Missions Trips, even before we married, and have always found them eye-opening and impactful to our lives. Hong Kong is a place of extreme paradox – it looks and feels very wealthy and prosperous, but the reality is that there are far more people living on the opposite end of the spectrum. Mission Trips have encouraged us to keep that Kingdom perspective of love and compassion for the poor and needy and to use what God has blessed us with to be a blessing to others. This is the reason we wanted to teach our daughters through missions. Since we were struggling to align our schedules with Vine-organised mission trips, we decided to contact YWAM in Cebu, Philippines ourselves to see if we could volunteer over Christmas. They graciously accepted and arranged for us
