First Team Meeting

Last Sunday I attended the first team meeting for my trip in December. One of the things that I have appreciated about previous trips are the meetings that we have prior to departing for Honduras. We will meet 4 times prior to the trip & during this time Pastor Jim presents the group with information about what we should expect, what to take & how to prepare for our upcoming adventure in Honduras.

Even after attending these meetings for three previous trip I find it very encouraging & exciting & also challenging. It allows me the opportunity to get to meet the folks that you will be spending 7 days in a foreign country with. We get to know each other, find out what concerns, fears, and everyone's needs are & ways that we can pray for each other.

This year our team is made up of a mom & two daughters, a mom & her college aged son (who I have gone with before) a mom of two small children who is a high school teacher (we were on the April 2010 together) two high school students, a father of two young children & college adviser (who I have traveled with twice before), Pastor Jim & is daughter as well a couple of others that were unable to be at the meeting.

Each of us come from different walks of life, we all have different challenges & bring different gifts to the team but, as we are reminded by Phillipians 2 we are going with the same purpose and sharing the same love for Christ.

Philippians 2

¹ Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, ² then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. ³ Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, ⁴ not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

⁵ In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

⁶ Who, being in very nature^[a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
⁷ rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature^[b] of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
⁸ And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!

⁹ Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
¹¹ and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.

¹² Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, ¹³ for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. ¹⁴ Do everything without grumbling or arguing, ¹⁵ so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.”^[c] Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky ¹⁶ as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain. ¹⁷ But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. ¹⁸ So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.

HELP.....Underewear, Bras & Sandles Needed

There is a small team that will be traveling to Honduras the later part of October.

We are currently collecting bras, underwear & sandles for the girls of Hogar de NiÑas,

The girls ages are 2-18. Various sizes are needed. If you would like to donate these items you can drop them by the office of Grace Community Church or contact me for pick up.

Deadline for collection is October 18th