2010 Trip approaching fast

Oh man, I am BEHIND on updating this blog, huh??

After quite a few additions and sadly a few deletions, our team for the January 2010 trip has been formed. Once I get photos for the prayer cards, I will post pictures of the team members so you can be praying by face as well as name.

We are excited about this trip. We have 19 members, some return members, some new members, all hand picked by God members :-) We will be sponsoring the construction of 2 homes and 2 greenhouses on site. The greenhouses are a new project Carlos has developed. Families from surrounding villages move into the homes that will be also be built on site, they will work for the mission, the kids will go to school in the village and will help the mother tend to the crops in the greenhouses. They should be able to get about 3 harvests per year. They will split the profit 50/50 with the mission. This is a great way to make money for the family while teaching the kids a skill they can use as adults to feed and support their own families. I think it's a great project and I'm excited to see it grow over the next few months and years.

We already have our plane tickets and are now fundraising for the rest of our individual trip costs. Josh is doing a great job of leading the fundraising crew through quite a few chicken bbq's at local events. He is also working on another fundraiser at SoBo's restaurant. The people that own SoBo's also own a restaurant in Antigua and apparantly have adopted a child from Guatemala so they definitely have a heart for that country and have been very supportive of our teams.

Be praying that God would supply funds for the team members and be praying for our hearts to be opened to everything that we will see and experience and for the people we will encounter.