We are all packed up and, sort of like D-Day, are prepared to improvise since. . .as has been said. . ."life is what happens to you when you are busy making plans"!
The generosity shown by everyone in supporting preparations for this trip have been remarkable and motiviating. First Church is enabling us to finish the 2-room school building in Chiraque, and outfitting the classroom with its first Internet-capable Chromebook and a mini-projector so the teachers might share what's on the screen with the whole classroom. We'll also be fitting water cisterns to flush toilets already installed at the church in Chiraque and the Good Sam assisted living facility in Jeremie. And the children and young adults in Chiraque will be sporting lovely dresses, skirts, athletic shorts and T-shirts made possible by FUMC's secret weapon, its capable and eager seamstresses, and the incredible work of the 15-year-old daughter of a family friend who put the arm on her classmates for over 400 items of apparel. . .and who also MADE 120 bracelets!
There are more to thank, including complete strangers who stepped up. . .just because!
We're off at the usual dark-thirty tomorrow morning and will post nightly.
John and Nancy
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