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Miracle!

1/24/2011

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In a few weeks, Alex and Simon are joining me on a grand adventure.  We'll be heading to Honduras for 5 days (including two full days of brutal travel arrangements involving early mornings and midnights, two planes each way, layovers and 2-hour truck rides through
bumpy mountain roads!) to deliver professional learning (me) to a group of teachers in a school there and to visit a children's home/orphanage (the boys) and deliver hope, joy and some more "practical" items. In return, we hope to get new insights, new friends and new perspectives on familiar themes.

It will be a short and intense mission trip, designed not only to serve, but also to learn.  It is the first time I have done something like this, and I am very excited.

Part of embarking on adventures like this is the collection of funds -- largely the donations of others who believe on what you are doing -- to finance the practical aspects of the work: Flight tickets, food in transit, supplies for the workshop and gifts for the hosts (we'll be staying with a teacher from the school while there).

Until last week, the accruement of these funds seemed a near impossibility.  Who wants to donate right after Christmas?!  And I hate asking for money, especially for something like this -- It seems everyone who hears "Honduras" thinks "holiday -- someplace warm", rather than "poverty -- opportunity for service".  It has been a discouraging process in many ways.

And yet, this morning I am told that we are suddenly past the halfway mark to our target budget.  I do not know all the donors by name, as our coordinator of donations just gave me a number, and also, some of the donors are anonymous.  Nevertheless, it is so encouraging that people believe in what I am trying to do. 

God is good!
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stacey gareau
2/5/2011 10:03:42 am

hey girlfriend ur braver than i.....i would never attempt to take 2 kids on that long of a journey....goin to brampton an 1 and ahalf away by transit...is long enough with me and my 2 girlz.......wish u allllllllll the best......

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    After writing for several teacher and multiple birth publications, including ETFO's Voice Magazine, Multiple Moments, and the Bulletwin, Vera turned her written attention to prolific blogging for some years, including BiB,  "Learn to Fly with Vera!"  and SMARTbansho .  Homeschooling 4 was her travel blog in Argentina.  She now spends more time on her Instagram (@schalgzeug_usw)  than her blog (pictures are worth a thousand words?!) 
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