Potential 2nd trip to Curacao this summer by church in NC

Interrupting our normal reports to include this info for a trip that may be taking shape for sometime in the next 6 weeks. Days 1 & 2 from our current trip are below with more coming. dg

This is my email to them today:

Caroline, Cesar, Faris & Herman,

What a neat opportunity is falling into your laps!

I just finished talking to a good friend Kurt Wright. Long story short, a youth mission trip planned for Honduras has likely fallen through due to the political unrest there. Because of the great amount of time and money already spent, they are looking for an alternate site to serve.

It's a youth mission team of around 10. Curacao came up because a sister of one of the youth (Nancy Wright, currently in Curacao with our mission team at Cesar & Emma's) knew about our work there and thought it would be a good destination.

So my question to all receiving this in Curacao is: Are there projects in Curacao that this group could come work this summer over about a week that you all already know about? In other words, do you think you could pull together enough local ministry work to justify this team coming there?

Caroline, I'm looking to you to coordinate this from down there and see what potential there is. This would need to happen quickly as once summer is over here these youth will have to go back to school and the window of opportunity will close.

Cesar & Emma, will there be some follow-up work after this week that you need help with?

Herman, do you have projects that this team could help you with? They can work with children or they can paint or do manual labor.

Calvin, I know you're coming this way, but you know what's going on down there. What can you suggest? Can they help your church do some local outreach in the coming weeks? We could coordinate a face to face for you and their youth pastor to plan out a trip while you are here in SC next week (Jul 11-20). They could even come down and participate with you group next week in our local missions effort here to help them get to know you all. Give this some thought.

Faris, what projects do you know about?

Allan, you being there now should be able to shed some light on this once you're back (Jul 11) in the states.

I mentioned Siloam children's hospice, Awana club at Eman's (Cesar and Emma) on Sun., Siloam kid's ministry on Wed. to Kurt. There are other opportunities there as well.

Contacts:

Caroline van Romondt caro_JC@scarlet.an

Local missionary gifted and ready to host mission teams

Calvin Varlack sentrograsia@onenet.an

Pastor of Iglesia Gracia Abundante. He and 6 youth will be in Summerville, SC Jul 11-20 helping us with Mission: Charleston.

Herman Gijsbers siloam@cura.net

Director of Siloam and many other ministries on the island

Faris & Marilyn Weber

Local pastor of Curacao Christian Fellowship

Allan Murphey pastor@northshelbybaptist.org

Alabama pastor who's spent considerable time in Curacao full & part-time. He has a team in Curacao this week working with our team.

Kurt Wright kurtdwright@earthlink.net

Current contact for the mission team looking to go to Curacao

Most of us already have an interest in seeing God work through the Body of Christ working together to bless the people of Curacao. Here is just another example of God orchestrating something special. My prayer is that each of you will be open to the Holy Spirit's leading on this cooperate with Him accordingly.

Feel free to contact me if I can help but I see this as something that will have to come together down your way. I'm praying for just that!

In Christ, we're better together!

Darien