A college student in our church, Brittany Fowler, is going on a mission trip with her school in January. She will be serving some of the poorest in the Amazon, and living out her faith in Christ! Keep Brittany in prayer! To give to her financially, go to: https://gofundme/smcdirtbrittany. Below is a description of her trip: Though the area along the Amazon River is one of the most beautiful regions in the Americas, it is also among the poorest. Our group will affiliate with two local social service agencies in Santarém, Brazil, one called Aguas and the other called Saude e Alegría (Health and Happiness). Aguas helps to teach young children about the value and vulnerability of the Amazon River and rain forest, while also providing educational, recreational, health, and nutrition programs. Saude e Alegría works on public health and quality of life in communities in the Amazon basin. Our time in the Amazon will involve great personal challenges, as we will endure extreme heat and humidity, intense manual labor, frustrating language barriers, and minor physical ailments throughout our stay there. We will be largely removed from the technological landscape that surrounds us in the U.S., though we will be participating in multimedia work as we produce course projects along with our service work. While in Brazil we will work almost every day on community development projects, language instruction, recreational programs for youth, ecological work, artistic endeavors, and some building and construction. The course itself will involve production of multimedia presentations about the people we encounter and about our own learning experiences as we travel and work. We will present some of these projects to the campus and surrounding community in the spring semester.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:46:55 +0000
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