2/10/19 Honduras Team Meeting

Sunday, February 10, 2019

 

Schedule:

  • Official trip dates are Friday, July 26-Saturday, August 3
  • Will likely leave evening of Thursday, July 25 and return late evening of Saturday, August 3 or morning of Sunday, August 4
  • Orphan Outreach is starting to look at possible flight details, may look at flying into San Pedro Sula instead of Tegucigalpa if it will maybe save funds
  • Most seem to want to take red eye flight down, but some have offered to go early if others are not able to take the red eye flight
  • Both Tam & Erik will be travelling with the team from PDX this year!  😊

 

Itinerary:

  • Still early for details - will get more information in upcoming month or so
  • Be flexible to change schedule and plans as God directs
  • Plan is to stay at Ena’s house in La Paz
  • Will likely work with NiCo program, kindergarten, public school
  • Hope to possibly be able to do a staff appreciation or activity with NiCo staff at some point
  • Would love to be able to again have a parent/kid event at NiCo like last year. 

 

Funding deadlines:

  • Deposit already past
  • Airfare balance (estimated to be $950 less the $250 deposit) due March 15
  • Trip balance ($1200) due June 15

 

Fundraisers:

Indoor Rummage Sale – Saturday, March 2 8:00am-3:00pm
     Marie is point person
     Will look at starting to set up tables on Sunday, February 24 and work on setting up rummage sale throughout the week
     Morning of – we’ll hope to be able to be closer to 6:00 am with the set up during the week
     Will create both a Facebook post that can be shared and put on the website to advertise.
Honduras Banquet – tentative date – Friday, May 17
     Checking into if Austin may be able to come up to be a part of the banquet
     Possible hold at a larger site – maybe a location that Amy & Cadence know of?  Amy will check on the availability.
     Looking at around 80 guests
Paint Nights
     Will do 2 paint nights.  Suggested to have registration available to pre-pay to “reserve” space
     Paint night #1:  Friday, March 15 – maybe a “special” paint night project and bump price to $30. 
     Paint night #2:  Friday, May 31
    Advertise at rummage sale, Festival of Flowers, Honduras banquet
Festival of Flowers
     Saturday, May 4
     Do smaller easy to buy, low cost items
     Maybe face painting? Cotton candy?
     Great way to get into community to share what we are doing
     Flyers for Honduras banquet & May paint night
Yard Sale
     Saturday, June 29
     May not be 100% Honduras fundraising since after final deadline; see what we still need and perhaps bless other ministries
Pop canning
     Will plan on pop canning after team meetings
     Anytime someone else would like to go, send out a text to see if anyone would like to join
     Be sure to have flyers available to share about other upcoming event – paint nights, rummage sale, yard sale, banquet


Upcoming team meetings:

  • Sunday, March 10 @ 12:30
  • Sunday, April 7 @ 12:30
  • Sunday, May 5 @ 12:30
  • Sunday, June 9 @ 12:30
  • Sunday, July 14 @ 5 pm