Showing Love and Having Fun

Showing Love and Having Fun
Showing God's love to all and having fun while doing it...its soooo easy.

Looking up to Him

Looking up to Him
Looking up to Him...The team relaxes after a long hard day working with the kids at Sarteneja RC School

Our Team

Our Team
We celebrated with Dinner at RDs

Three Days...Three Villages

Three Days...Three Villages
Friendships created

Knowledge is the key to Changing the World

Knowledge is the key to Changing the World
Paul Hare our lead Computer Consultant led the installation of 30 Dell laptops

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Day 4: Long travel but definately worth the effort

Today we travelled over 2 hours to cover less than 50 miles to get to Sarteneja village...I hope you get the picture that the roads and the two ferry made our travel a bit challenging.  We spent the day in Sarteneja. a small fishing village (1500 people) located along the Caribbean sea.  The name Sarteneja means "water between the rocks," referring to a massive piece of stone within the village that provides natural water through a well.  Many amazing things happened today but the one that most of us will remember is our lunch with the families.  As we approached lunch time we were told that we would each individually go have lunch with a local family in their home.  This is somewhat different from what we typically experience which is to have lunch catered in.  19 little boys and girls lined up with excitement  and they each took one of us home....it was amazing to watch everyone walking home with a school kid.  We had a chance to meet and interact with a family.  Everyone had a slightly different experience...what a powerful way to have an impact... because together we can change the world.
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Speak from Your Heart


Let me tell you short story from last year's trip to Belize…on our first day we visited the village of Concepcion in the Corozal District. The schools we visit always have a special welcome ceremony which usually includes assembling the entire school for a formal welcome program and gifts for our mission team. It is customary for the leader of the group to give a welcome speech so I was asked to address the Concepcion primary school students and teachers. As part of my brief speech, I introduced the team. I was especially proud to introduce Davin, my daughter, who was on her first mission trip with me. As I completed my brief talk the school Principal and master of ceremonies took the microphone and handed it to my daughter and asked her to also briefly address the school. As you can imagine, Davin who is 12 year old, was quite intimidated and scared to be standing in front of the entire school in a place that was not at all familiar to her. She responded shyly that she did not know what to say. The master of ceremonies very politely said to her…”That is okay…just speak from your heart”. Davin then proceeded to share some brief comments in front of the entire school. I was so proud of my daughter that day. The reason I share this story is because when we speak from the heart it travels far and touches deeply. So always speak from your heart.