Becca Bentley (this past summer's intern) is heading this project up for us. We have asked Becca to collect 40-50 new to slightly used backpacks with some basic school supplies. The new school year for the Guatemalan children starts the second week in January. Becca will be bringing these backpacks to Guatemala with her and the Fairview team the end of December. They will be giving these out to a group of very needy children in the mountain colonial village of San Cristobal El Bajo. Depending on how this project works out, we may be putting this on the calendar as an annual project.
Youth Camp
Our church here in Guatemala, Iglesia Vid Verdadera, is hosting a youth camp December 2-4 for the teenagers of the church and outreach to teenagers in the church community. The cost of the camp is $30. These teenagers are not able to come up with that much money. The expressions on their faces when we shared it with them said it all. It would be like asking our teens in the States to pay $300 for a 3 day camp. Kim and I talked with the church and agreed that our ministry would pay half for every teen that would go. We would like to pay all for every teen, but that would do more damage than good. We need to have the teens that want to go work for it as well. We are putting together a few fundraisers to help them as well. I asked the Facebook community to help with paying the $15 (half of the total for one teen to go), and got a wonderful response. We need to pay half for about 50 teenagers. In two days on Facebook we were able to get commitments of the $15 each for 44 teenagers to go to camp! Thank you friends for helping a teen go to camp this December! Their lives will be changed forever for going to this Christian Youth Camp!
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