Hola!

We wanted to take a moment before entering the last portion of the trip to update you on what we’ll be doing. One thing that we have wanted to do for several years is to serve on an international mission trip. When planning this sabbatical a mission trip was top on our list to include.

Our mission trip runs from Oct 6-12, and we will have no Internet access most of this time. We have scheduled our last blog posts from Easter Island and Chile to post over this time for your reading enjoyment. 🙂 We will blog on the Bolivia work once we have Internet again.

What is Samaritan’s Purse?
Samaritan’s Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. The organization serves many missions, including medical missions, water/hygiene improvement, disaster relief, and church constructions.

We have been blessed to be a part of Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Program for several years. As part of this program, individuals from all over the world pack shoeboxes full of small toys, school supplies, and hygiene products that are dispersed with Christian literature. This work is near and dear to my heart so I really wanted to volunteer internationally with this fantastic organization!

Bolivia Water Well Project!
We were very excited when we learned that there was a mission trip to Bolivia over a time that could work. For this particular mission, we will be helping to install a water well in the Bolivian mountains at about 15,000 feet.

This work is important because many here suffer and die from contaminated water that could be fixed with a clean drinking source. Learn more about this work here from a recent trip and a short video:

A Well of Love

http://video.samaritanspurse.org/player/?vid=k2f4w3y2&c=16&title=give-clean-water

Meeting the Team
We’re very excited to meet the rest of the mission team! We will be serving with 4 others from a church in the US. We’ve been exchanging emails and had a phone call, but meeting at the hotel in Bolivia will be our first in person introduction.

Help Needed
We certainly feel blessed to be able to serve and are excited to see what God will do over the next week. We appreciate any prayers for our work and the people with whom we will interact.

If you’d like to learn more about Samaritan’s Purse or to volunteer, check out their website at: http://www.samaritanspurse.org/

Interested in putting together a shoebox? Let me know. I absolutely love putting the boxes together and could help you still do one this year!