Video - Child of the streets

On the last evening we were there, the children and the staff gave us an evening of testimonies and dances, which was great. One of them was called "Child of the streets" and you can see a version of it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNoAmi_Bgi0

Photos - the clinic building at Manuelito Project

Here are some photos of the new building (to house a clinic) at the Manuelito Project, which was helped to be built by members of the St Peter's team on their first visit here in 2011!

It's not complete, due to some delays, but we hope it will be soon.

The building from the outside

A space (to be partitioned) which may be for the Clinic

A toilet and shower

A room which may be used as a dormitory for visiting teams

Another room

Photos - something to start you off

Thanks for popping back, and here are some photos from the trip, with more to added soon.

Ellie from the team has also created a great video which we hope to link/ add to soon.

Enjoy.

Our trusty steed for the time we were out there, driven by the capable Carlos

Getting ready for our Pirates Holiday Club

 A very British evening (complete with music and Beef stew w/ dumplings)

Blocks of Sugar, made from sugar cane sap

Day 12 - back home in the UK

Well, the team has made it back safe and sound to the UK, apart from the planned trip of two members to Mexico.

It was a long flight back from Houston, and I think we could all do with some sleep, though we were been advised to eat some food and not sleep (too much) until the evening.

I think we had all been misisng some things while in Honduras, and the following has been a great help for some of us in overcoming the jetlag

yes, that is tea made in the british tea ceremony of kettle -> teapot -> in cup with milk.

I am sure there will be more added here, and you may have already seen some photos posted on facebook and our twitter account as well.

Hope to see some of you on sunday morning (10.30am @ St Peter's) for our Honduras-themed service, where the team will be talking about their experiences and showing a video put together by one of the team.

Day 1 - Travel and Texas

We are here, all safe and sound, well fed, and in a surprisingly comfortable hotel!

We took off from Heathrow at 11.46 (that's right! A massive 6 minutes late thanks to business class not having the correct TV headsets) and embarked on a tedious 10 hour journey to Houston. Lucky for us, we were able to watch a selection of films and TV that repeated themselves every couple of hours, including a documentary about ancient  Polynesians and Rise of the Guardians. After a very smooth flight we hit a pocket of heavy turbulence as we came to land and my picturesque vision of sun, cowboy hats and tumbleweed was shattered as we were met by rain. Lots and lots of rain.

We arrived at the hotel as the sun decided to pop out again with only one thing on our mind. FOOD! We booked in and were immediately told that our options were limited as due to it being easter Sunday, everywhere was closed. Having said this the receptionist handed us some takeaway menus which we piled into. Half an hour later, thanks to some excellent order taking by Lois we were ready! Unfortunately the takeaway place wasn't and upon calling them we discovered that they were closed.
Take two, we opt for pizza. Another half hour of deliberating and we pick up the phone...closed!

Hungry, and on the verge of giving up, Charlotte discovered that just across the road was a 24 hour diner! We scuttled across the road (at the designated crossing to avoid Jaywalking) and into the neon glow of Hot Biscuit: 24 hour Restaurant.

I'm now writing this blog post with a full belly of deep fried fish, deep fried crab, deep fried shrimp, deep fried corn stuff (hushpuppies) and of course, deep fried French fries.

We are up early tomorrow morning and will post the next blog from Honduras. The Twitter page is also much more regularly updated (and you don't need an account yourself to view it).

Please pray for our travel tomorrow, as well as for energy for all of us and thank God for how good this hotel is and how safe he has been keeping us!

Honduras team - Prayed for

During an exciting morning service (started by the members of Xplode and ID doing a prayer slm dunk), most of the team going to Honduras were able to come along and be prayed together by everyone present at the service, and then sent off (commissioned) to visit our friends at the manuelito Home in Honduras on behalf of the church.

You can see us in our T-shirts in the photo below

Fund Run - we did it!

We have had a good fun run, with two teams of six running round the track this afternoon. Well done teams, especially with Jason cheering us along.

Our teams' completed 126 laps of the circuit between them, which has been worked out to being just over a half marathon, done in 55 minutes.

Running were: Howard, Christine, Alan, Andy, Sam, Dylan, Lois, Ellie, Evey, Maisy, Jenny, Ben and Beth.