Christopher Schweickert

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Team Position: Team Leader
Scheduled Travels Include: Chiapas Jungle Team 2012, Chiapas Medical Team
Home State: California
Family Facts: Second of four children. Siblings work in music, photography, medicine, and politics.

About Christopher:
I am an attorney in Northern California. I help people with everyday legal problems. Outside of law, I love skiing, mountain biking, trail running, backpacking, ballet, Tough Mudders, Krav Maga, choral music, cello, and beekeeping. I’ve been to most of the 50 States and about 15 countries, mostly in Europe. I’ve also traveled to South America and Chiapas for short-term mission work.

Christopher’s Perspective on International Ministry:
Jesus came that we might have life, and might have it more abundantly. I enjoy sharing a bit of that life across cultural lines, especially in Mexico and South America where the people are warm and always seem to have time to talk. I don’t so much view visiting them as a chance to show them something as a moment for mutual exchange and edification.

Foreign missions can jar you loose from your normal supports. That tends to reduce life to fundamental needs, fewer assumptions, and more questions. In that unfamiliar state, life regains some of that childlike wonder and simplicity that Jesus holds up as the key to how we enter His kingdom. Nothing compares to the fun of playing soccer with kids in a third-world country, taking a sunrise run down a totally unfamiliar jungle trail, going to a church service where you don’t know what’s going on, trying new food you had no idea existed (or old food you wished didn’t), or being a guest at the home of someone whose language you don’t know.

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