Lush lake vistas, heartfelt hospitality, bedbugs and bumpy rides, and serious conversations about building a partnership between Crescent Hill church and the Estoreño Izabal presbytery of eastern Guatemala await half a dozen or so Crescent Hill folks early this spring. A small Crescent Hill group will travel by plane, bus, and pickup truck to El Estor, where they will worship with Estoreño presbytery congregations, stay with families, and try to draft a partnership covenant between Crescent Hill and Estoreño.
The group will spend 2 ½ days in El Estor and then 1 ½ days visiting cultural sites in Guatemala City. Lodging in Guatemala City will include a chance to visit with Soila, a Honduran missionary to us at Crescent Hill in 2003-2004.
The Guatemala mission trip planning group hopes the small group will include a mix of adults and youth (16 years old or older), women and men, Spanish speakers and non-Spanish speakers, and Guatemala mission trip veterans and newcomers. The group will travel during Jefferson County Public Schools spring break, the week before Holy Week. They will fly out of Cincinnati on Friday, March 27, and return on Thursday, April 2. The cost will probably be between $900 and $1,200 per person. Some scholarship funds will be available.
Participants may need to make some health preparations and must have a passport valid at least through summer 2009.
In order to obtain affordable plane tickets, the planning group asks that interested Crescent Hill folks sign up and provide the first installment payment of $400 by Sunday, January 18. Additional payments will be due later. Folks who fail to provide that January 18 installment payment may still be able to go. However, they will buy tickets on the flights we're taking themselves, perhaps for substantially higher fares.
The group will spend 2 ½ days in El Estor and then 1 ½ days visiting cultural sites in Guatemala City. Lodging in Guatemala City will include a chance to visit with Soila, a Honduran missionary to us at Crescent Hill in 2003-2004.
The Guatemala mission trip planning group hopes the small group will include a mix of adults and youth (16 years old or older), women and men, Spanish speakers and non-Spanish speakers, and Guatemala mission trip veterans and newcomers. The group will travel during Jefferson County Public Schools spring break, the week before Holy Week. They will fly out of Cincinnati on Friday, March 27, and return on Thursday, April 2. The cost will probably be between $900 and $1,200 per person. Some scholarship funds will be available.
Participants may need to make some health preparations and must have a passport valid at least through summer 2009.
In order to obtain affordable plane tickets, the planning group asks that interested Crescent Hill folks sign up and provide the first installment payment of $400 by Sunday, January 18. Additional payments will be due later. Folks who fail to provide that January 18 installment payment may still be able to go. However, they will buy tickets on the flights we're taking themselves, perhaps for substantially higher fares.
To find out more about the trip, talk with Stephanie after church this Sunday or contact Ben. For information about scholarships, please contact Pastor Jane.
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