For those of you interested. Here's our very flexible itinerary while we are here in El Salvador (BTW, the weather is beautiful here. It's sunny and about 70 degrees right now!):
Sunday- We will be at the airport to pick you up. Return to hotel (about 45 min. from airport)
Monday - ( Breakfast buffet is 6:00-10:30-eat at your leisure). We will meet about 9:30am for an Orientation and time of spiritual preparation to begin the week.
Lunch- We will go to a local mall for lunch (this will give you an idea of where we could eat with a team)
After lunch we will begin the visits to projects and this will continue through Tuesday and Wednesday. Projects that we have planned are:
Visit to Exodo Orphange - this will include a presentation by the Director (sharing vision, goals of the home, structure, etc...time in the individual houses with children and their house parents...I have already spoken to her about the possibility of doing a sort of VBS or children's outreach..she would be very excited about that! The children would love for you to visit their school...where your group in the future (should you decide to take this step) could make a presentation in the school (perhaps drama, mimes, music, puppets...this is a public school, which we hopefully will visit during your time here.
Visit to Orphange San Vicente De Paul - Our team did a project there this week. The children are beautiful and adoptions are available from their home. They currently have a nursery with approximate 30 babies waiting and about 250 other children. Our project this week further confirmed my thoughts that this home probably would not be a good project for a long term commitment...other than visits, perhaps presentations by teams with drama etc and of course the adoption piece would be something worthy of exploration.
Visit to the School where the orphans from Exodo attend exploring options for a future team.
Visit to a small home for girls who are expecting and are all victims of incest. This is the project where you are bringing the cosmetic bags for gifts. This ministry connects us with another organization that makes babies available for adoption. We will need to go together to visit this project...not sure all that's involved or how Grace might connect.
Visit to a worship service inside the prison (Mariona/5,000 inmates) - I think this is an awesome experience and will war m your hearts. While this is not a project connected with orphanges..I would recommend this visit because of the spiritual impact it will have on each of the team. It's truly incredible!
We also have some tour/sightseeing opportunities. Mick is going on one of the tours today with 4 others on our team so he will have a first hand report of all the details.
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