Tuesday, January 31, 2012

June Team 2012! Won't you join us?


***Pictured: June Team from 2011***
Hosetta School for Children with mental and mild physical disabilities will be our focus again for June 2012! Needs include construction and continuing teacher training for the staff. More details on the way!

Monday, January 3, 2011

2011 Mission Trip Information!

2011 Sierra Leone Mission Trips!

Trip # 1
May 2 – May 14

Trip #2
June 20 – July 2

Preliminary thoughts:

• Do you have a Passport?
• Passport must be valid through July 2012
• You will need a Yellow Fever immunization to enter the country (local health department)
• Suggested immunizations: Typhoid, Polio, updated Tetnus, etc… (your primary care physician may provide these, or there are travel clinics available in most large cities)
• Malaria Prevention: there will be several options prescribed by your primary care physician
• VISAs will be required from the Sierra Leone Embassy in Washington DC

Opportunities:

• Construction project
• Curriculum development and teacher training for Special Needs Students
• Orphan care
• Food distribution
• Skills development
• Nursing
• Physical therapy
• Dental assistant
• Agricultural work

Who to contact:

• Tom and Becky Brockelman beckbrock@yahoo.com
• Mark and Brooke Phillips
• David and Tabi Dossey

Airfare:

• This runs in the neighborhood of $2000

VISA:

• Applications will be mailed by team leaders, several documents required, cost is $131 for the VISA and $36.50 priority postage fees

Ground expenses for 10 days/nights in Sierra Leone:

• Room accommodation plus breakfast - $25 per day
• Two additional meals each day - $20
• Transportation to ministry site - $10 per day
• Short term missions medical/evacuation insurance - $5 per day
• Water Taxi from airport to Freetown - $40 each way

Construction project:

• Team members are encouraged to work together to raise funds toward projects

Total projected expenses including VISA/postage, but excluding Passport, Malaria meds and immunizations - $2850.00.

LET’S TRUST THE LORD TO KEEP COSTS DOWN. THESE ARE HIS RESOURCES! AND REMEMBER…

“COUNT ON IT! GOD’S WILL, DONE GOD’S WAY, NEVER LACKS FOR HIS SUPPLY.” (J. HUDSON TAYLOR)

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Coming Soon!

Details for 2011 Mission Teams to Sierra Leone, West Africa will be coming soon!

Projected Needs:
construction
curriculum development
teacher training
orphan care
agricultural

Sierra Leone Team - May/June 2010


Phase 1 construction project for Hosetta School for Children with Mental Challenges

Sierra Leone Team - May 2009



May 2009

We served:

• Hastings Ladies w/Polio, Men’s Polio Brotherhood, Leonard Cheshire School for Children w/Polio
• City of Rest - civil war victims, drug addictions, mental disorders
• King George Compound for the elderly
• St George Refuge for street kids – www.adecentlife.org
• Hosetta Day School for kids with special needs
• Melrose Home for children with multiple physical disorders

Working alongside the locals - 2008