Belize Mission Trip Secrets

Thinking about joining us for a real adventure next summer?  Here are a few things you might enjoy seeing as you prepare to serve the people of Belize.

Here's the secret.  Are you ready?  We love to serve with love, sweat and tears.  But then, we like to have fun.  Is that right up your alley?  Then you need to join us next summer.
June 22nd - June 30th or June 29th - July 7th

At the moment, we have spots on both trips available but they are filling quickly.

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Here's what you need to do.
1)  Email conniea@highlandcorp.com to let Connie know you plan to attend
2)  Fill out the trip application http://www.dream514.com/site/trips/trips.html
3)  Send it to Connie Adcox, 622 Darbytown Road, Hohenwald, TN  38462 with a $100 deposit to secure your spot.

If you want either the 1st week or 2nd week, please indicate this on your application in the trip dates.

Barefoot in Belize

Have you ever thought about your shoes?  What difference do they make in your everyday life?  Personally, I hate walking without shoes.  As soon as I wake up in the morning my flip flops are on the floor beside the bed, exactly where I left them as I crawled into my comfy bed.  A simple pair of shoes makes my life more complete.  I wear them to run.  I wear them to drive.  I wear them to go to the mailbox.  I even wear them to shower if I am somewhere with less than adequate shower facilities.  I don't know about you, but my shoe supply is overflowing from my closet and working into the floor of my bathroom.

How would I feel without a pair of shoes as I walked into the school with all my friends?  Many of the Belize students walk into school with the most torn and tattered shoes you have ever seen in your life.  Have you ever tried to walk successfully in a pair of cheap flip flops in the rain and mud?  Here's what I would do - I would take the shoes off and walk in the mud barefoot.  What's in all of that mud anyway?  In a country where a decent bathroom is not the norm, you must wonder...

That is what some of our Belize friends experience daily.   This is why we work so hard to help them get the things they need for their simple health.

Walking barefoot in the U.S. is sometime a pleasure.  Walking barefoot in a Third-World Country is a health hazard.

Jenny