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It looks like there will be a group of about 4 guys from the HonorBoundMinistry at Valley GospelChapel in Anza, California. The church there will be raising the fundsto send the team, which includes a block mason and a labor instructor whoare able to speak some Spanish. These men will work hand-in-hand with themen at the camp and other Nicaraguan laborers to start putting up the walls(a local group will already have the foundation poured). The local crews will continue the building until the January team arrives.At that point, the first large work group will head down, led by eitherPastor Darrell Yarbrough of LaPalmaChristian Center, or Pastor Jeff Campbell of HaciendaHeights Assembly of God. Pastor Phil Owens of NewLife Assembly of God in California City is looking at bringing a teamfrom the Mojave Section in March 2000. With the small start-up team andtwo or three large follow up teams, the school should be looking greatby the end of the school year! What's Needed: The greatest needright now is for $10,000 to buy the materials to start construction andto get the foundation poured. Pastor Wayne Karr of Valley Gospel Chapelwill be making a special appeal to the churches in the Desert Section.Most of the HonorBound sectional representatives are appealing to theirsections in early September as well. Pastor Yarbrough's church has alreadycommitted to a large amount for the startup costs. A fund has been setup with Latin America ChildCare(the agency that will be running the school) to handle the funds. TheLACC project number is 8039. It is known as the San Jones project,because this is the name of the area. In addition to these funds, there is an opportunity to purchase an additional6.8 acre parcel next to the current work site for $4,000. It is an opportunitythat we should not miss. Some of our churches have expressed interest inhelping with this purchase. Gifts for this property can be send to thesame LACC account listed above. These two needs combine to leave us needing a total of $14,000 raisedby the middle of September in order for the first team to get this allstarted! Please consider giving to this most worthy cause. Informationon how to send contributions is listed below... Information on How to SendContributions Send a letter explaining what your donationis for, in order to be sure it gets to the right account. Send it to: Latin America ChildCare San Jones Projectc/o The Assemblies of God, 1445 Boonville Avenue, Springfield, MO 65802-1894. Link to Main Page and Sponsoring Organizations So Cal HonorBound Nicaragua Project Scrapbook Page: http://geocities.datacellar.net/Nicaragua_Aid/scrapbook.html Latin America ChildCare: http://www.lachildcare.org The General Council of the Assemblies of God: http://www.ag.org> From: BONNIE CARLYON, local coordinating A/G missionary.
> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 16:55:16 -0800
> To: "'So Cal Honorbound Refugio Betesda Project'"
>
> HI Friends,
>
> Hope all is well with each of you. We are doing well here.As far as the
> Bethesda project, it is going well. The project continuesforward in the
> school. I believe they are planning on starting classesthe 7th of Feb. I
> just talked with Pastor Antonio today. As far as the advancementof the
> building it is going well. The welders are busy do the prepwork for the
> roof. They are presently putting in the floors, and doingthe finishing
> concrete work on the walls. It is looking good. Theywill be starting
> from 1st grade to 5th grade. There is already 120 kids signedup for
> classes. Praise God! So you see my brothers your dreamhas become a
> reality!
>
> I think I shared with you that we had someone donate $15,000.00This is
> helping us out as well. There is still more classrooms tobuild and of
> course the church as funds permit.
>
> As far as team in March, the only dates available here are fromMarch
> 13-31.
>
> I also wanted to share with you that the Nueva Vida project thatwe prayed
> for that day is also becoming a reality. School will bestarting on March
> 1. We already have reregistered over 200 kids. Weended up getting
> another piece of property instead of the one you prayed for butthis to has
> been a reality. We are excited here about what God is doing.
>
> Blessings and much thanks,
>
> Bonnie
>
> P.S. If this project gets finished before the next teamgets organized
> there are still many more projects waiting to be started!What's Happening: Building is Underway! Firstteam from Valley Gospel Chapel got the first block put in and, along withthe local crew from the camp, saw the new school building begin comingtogether as the old tent is falling apart!
What's Happening: When we first returned from Nicaraguait seemed like all this would go down with just a snap. Since then, we'veseen it's a little more difficult to organize missions trips than it firstseems. Originally three return trips were planned: one in August, one inlate September/early October, and a final one in late January. The firsttwo trips just couldn't get off the ground in time, but January still looksgood for a big work group.
In the meantime, God has been impressing upon us to get down there to getthings going. Schools start up in February in Nicaragua, so it would bea shame to only have half a month's construction done before then. A smallteam has just been formed to head down on October 24th for a one week trip.They will be going down mostly for morale and goodwill, but also to seta deadline for getting startup funds ready for the construction and tohelp get the foundation and walls underway. Hopefully this team will beable to get things rolling well enough that the team in January will beable to do the finishing touches so school can open on schedule.
Make checks payable to: "The General Council of theAssemblies of God" or "General Council A/G."
So Cal HonorBound Nicaragua Project Homepage: http://geocities.datacellar.net/Nicaragua_Aid/