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Honduras Mission Trip 2010

Tomorrow morning at 5:20 a.m., 18 students and 3 adults will meet at the airport to embark on the LCCS 2010 Mission Trip! We will be working with Alejandro and Amanda Alvey Machado of Elevate Ministries. Amanda is a graduate of LCCS (class of 2004). She and Alejandro live in Talanga (a small town about an hour outside of the capital city of Tegucigalpa).

Our primary work will be with 3 orphanages in the area...Helping Hands, Manuelita, and New Life (New Life is the orphanage that LCCS served at on our mission trip in March 2008). Our focus comes out of the LCCS scripture for the year, Romans 12:9-10...to love others with genuine affection. Our desire is that God will use us as vessels to pour out His love on the children--a total of almost 100 kids, the next generation to impact the world! We will also do an Easter egg hunt at two of the orphanages as we use this as an opportunity to teach the story of the Passion Week and the power of the resurrection of Jesus!!!

Please pray for protection as we travel and move about in Honduras. The political and civil unrest is all but gone; however, we will be in a foregin country!
Please pray for good health for us!
Please pray for open hearts, open eyes, and open ears that we would see, hear, and experience all that God has for us on this trip.
Please pray for discernment and wisdom for myself and the other two leaders.
Please pray that God would move in mighty ways that change us eternally--that we would never be the same...I am not interested in creating a mission trip "spiritual high" in these kids, but in seeing a desire to serve others develop and that our hearts are changed by the power of the Holy Spirit.

I look forward to sharing all of the amazing things that God does in us and through us!

For the nations,
Kristen Whitbeck