We are home! 

Thank you so much to everyone who supported us financially and through prayer. Our team of 13 arrived in Latvia safely and with all of our luggage, and after a bit of rest was ready to get to work!  

Over our 11 days there, team members led a VBS, helped facilitate a Family Day event, participated in a soccer outreach, worked at a church, spent time with residents at a Crisis Center, hosted a youth group, painted an office, completed a construction project, and led worship. Our goal was to support the long-term missionaries at the YWAM base, and from their feedback, it was apparent that God helped us accomplish that. The nine kids on our team were quick to adapt to the culture and learned to be very flexible.

The Manzo boys are excellent travelers, and I was so pleased with their willing hearts. They each bonded with different staff members and were eager to help in whatever ways they could. My prayer was that God would use each of them according to their own skills and talents, and it was amazing to watch that happen.  

We had a wonderful time connecting with the missionaries on base as well as the Latvian people we worked with and ministered to. Thank you again so very much for helping make this life-changing trip possible. 

A huge and heartfelt thank you to everyone who has reached out to support us as we prepare for our mission trip to Latvia!  

Many of you gave through other avenues, and combined with those gifts and our various personal fundraising efforts, as of last night, we reached our goal!  Matt and I are overwhelmed and humbled, and cannot thank you all enough.  

I want to close out the monetary part of this campaign but still ask for your continued prayers.  We have a number of people who have committed to pray for us and I ask that you would consider joining that effort.  We have seen God move in amazing ways and are trusting Him to continue to lead us in every aspect of this trip.  

Thank you again so much.  We are overwhelmed by the generosity of our friends and family, and do not know how to adequately express our gratitude ❤️

Matt, Melissa, Elias, Asher, and Isaiah

A HUGE thank you to everyone who has given so far! Many of you have given outside of this campaign, so the actual numbers are a bit higher than what is posted here. We are excited to say that we are halfway toward our goal! Thank you to those of you who have shared this page and continue to pray for us. We are so humbled and grateful!