Aaron and I have made our decision to go to San Salvador, El Salvador for our 12 year old trip this smmer. Amy has begged to come along, so if she can raise the funds, she will go too. Its hard to tell a 13 year old, no , to a mission trip. I think it will help Aaron too. He is our homebody and is not too excited about the trip yet. We have meetings coming up and hopefully they will get him more on board with all of it.
These are pictures of El Salvador, they look very similar to Costa Rica. Very poor, but very beautiful.
We will be staying in San Salvador, the capitol city of El Salvador. San Salvador is the largest city inthe country and is located on the slope of a volcano. It's population is 1.5 million people. The surge in population has severely strained their already weak ecomony.
People are hungry, children are abandoned.
Here is where we step in. We will be helping with the Exodo Orphanage. Teaching VBS, playing with the kids, and tiling some rooms for them. We are going with a froup from our church. There are more people going, more kids too. It should be a great, eye opening trip. We pray it molds our kids view of poverty and orphans, and softens their heart to the things God loves and cares about.
We have faith that God with provide the $4800. needed for the 3 of us to go. Letters are being sent out this week, a garage sale is planned and we made over $500. baking this Christmas.
I will have our numbers up to the side of the blog to let people know how close we are.
" Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." James 1:27
More to come.....
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