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